Seek by iNaturalist v.2.10.7

iNaturalist

2 760 Ratings Category: Education Free
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  • Pegi : PEGI 3
  • Publish Date : Jan 18, 2019
  • Update Date : December 16, 2020
  • File Size : 75M
  • Version : 2.10.7
  • Installs : 500,000+
  • Op. System : 6.0 and up
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  • Email Address : help+seek@inaturalist.org
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  • Updated : 2021.01.15
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Description

Use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Earn badges for seeing different types of plants, birds, fungi and more!

• Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things

• Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you

• Earn badges for observing different types of species and participating in challenges


OPEN THE CAMERA AND START SEEKING!

Found a mushroom, flower, or bug, and not sure what it is? Open up the Seek camera to see if it knows!

Drawing from millions of wildlife observations on iNaturalist, Seek shows you lists of commonly recorded insects, birds, plants, amphibians, and more in your area. Scan the environment with the Seek Camera to identify organisms using the tree of life. Add different species to your observations and learn all about them in the process! The more observations you make, the more badges you’ll earn!

This is a great app for families who want to spend more time exploring nature together, and for anyone who wants to learn more about the life all around them.

KID-SAFE

Seek does not require registration and does not collect any user data by default. Some user data will be collected if you choose to sign in with an iNaturalist account, but you must be over 13 or have your parents permission to do so.

Seek will ask permission to turn on location services, but your location is obscured to respect your privacy while still allowing species suggestions from your general area. Your precise location is never stored in the app or sent to iNaturalist unless you sign in to your iNaturalist account and submit your observations.

Our image recognition technology is based on observations submitted to iNaturalist.org and partner sites, and identified by the iNaturalist community.

Seek is created by the iNaturalist team. iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. Seek was originally created with support from HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and enhanced with support from Our Planet on Netflix and WWF.

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Seek by iNaturalist
Customer Reviews
  • I really like this app. It's great to be able to identify the wildlife I see when I am out and about. Since I first installed it several months ago, the app has been getting better and better with more features all the time which is really great. I enjoy the monthly challenges that try to encourage you to look for specific sets of wildlife. The main issue I find with the app, is that everything seems to be saved locally, even if you have signed in with iNaturalist. I would love to be able to be able to sign in on other devices and keep all my observations and achievements but at the moment, this doesn't seem to be possible. This also means that if you remove one of the observation photos from your phone, you can no longer see the thumbnail photo of the observation. It would be good if there was an option to add extra photos to observations for situations like these.
  • My favorite resource for identifying both flora and fauna. It's not always right, but it gets it probably 90% of the time, which is pretty impressive. I always do secondary research on the app's guesses just to verify. At the very least, it gives a good starting point and speeds up research immensely.
  • The app is a lot of fun, and it recently became more useful with the improved camera control. It would still benefit from implementing more functions, like being able to enlarge images from the species description tab.
  • Its a great app to identify things but most of the time I can't get the camera to focus properly. The biggest problem I have is the battery usage. I've seen it use 5 percent of my battery within a couple minutes of using the app. Any other app doesn't do this with my phone (Google Pixel 2 XL). If there is a fix for this issue, I would like to know.
  • A few improvements could be made. 1st if the app incorrectly identifies something it doesn't seem easy to remove it from your observations. 2nd it seems to place lots of the same photo in different places on your phone which all appear in Google Photos which is annoying. It would be good if you could do some photo management or pick where it loads photos.
  • the best app ive found for identifying bugs tbh. even if it cant get an exact species, it makes a guess close enough for me to find it on my own. its helped me a bunch. very rarely does it get something completely wrong, and when it does, its usually because i put in a blurry/unclear picture on accident. its not great for plants in my experience, but i imagine thats really hard. but for bugs and animals, its pretty dang good
  • Not sold on it. Some of the plants, it ID'd quickly, which was cool, but others it never did. A simple thing like a Cottonwood. While it thinks the phone battery goes down at an alarming rate. Also, there doesn't appear to be a way to enter something if you don't get a photo. A deer bounded away, I knew it was a mule deer, but because I didn't have time to snap a shot, it wasn't counted. It also crashed quite a few times. If I keep this app, it will just be for use as a plant field guide.
  • Slendid app for checking species! The camera focus is a little poor but it works well apart from that! Though I noticed that you only get a species picture to compare to after you've essentially confirmed it's that species. I'd like to be able to delete or edit observations incase they're incorrect first time :)
  • This app is a lot of fun. You can be the smartest grandpa and answer all the kid's questions with it. It helps knowing a little of how it compares what it sees to known images. It would really help if as the species is narrowed down it would give you helpful hints on what it needs to see to differentiate to the next level. For instance a tree, it's not going to get past dicots. But maybe it needs to see a perfect leaf and an acorn to decide between types of oak.
  • Not 100%... Camera won't focus either.
  • They have serious issues using the camera API, photos are blurry because the focus doesn't work. The rest of the app is awesome.
  • App worked fine initially, but now just closes when I point at a photo in my Gallery. Also when I use it to identify a photo, it will not allow the camera to focus.
  • Love this pretty spot-on would get 5 stars but the camera doesn't seem to want to focus
  • Not too bad an app, can identify most plants when pointed at, except not sure if it's correct or not. Camera also laggy and took a few secs to register after taking a shot.
  • Real life pokedex. You point it at living things and it tells you what they are. Works best for insects and plants. It has a hard time with mammals.
  • I spent the first two hours with it just wandering my neighborhood giggling to myself. What a wonderful, wonderful app. Thank you!!! I cant wait to get into the woods!
  • The idea is great, but there are problems with the in app camera. The minimum focus distance for seems to be about 1ft, any closer and the camera will not focus which is a huge problem when trying to identify something like an insect or other small organism as it's practically impossible. Tap to focus also does not help with this at all. The overall UI could also use some improvement as it feels a bit slow and buggy, even on a quite recent and powerful model smartphone (LG V40).
  • Amazing tool with minor fixable flaws 1. There should be an option to create a profile/attach it to an inaturalist account. 2. If I observe a species again, it should save that image with my other one for reference purposes. 3. It does not employ the zoom or focusing functions of my phone camera (Moto). 4. If I delete a picture from my phone, the app removes the image from my "Observed" folder, this is fine, however when I take another image of that same plant later on it still shows up blank.
  • pretty slow to load info on nearby species, might be caused by using full size pictures? I'd suggest thumbnail images for better load times, great app concept that i hope improves further!
  • generally works well. can't wait for it to feed in to inaturalist, that would make things much easier.
  • Can you optimize it for android 9.0
  • I love this app ❤❤❤❤
  • Truly amazing and useful app. I'm out identifying plants and other things in my yard and neighborhood I've seen for years but never looked up. But, there is room for improvement. The interface has a frustrating tendency to identify the species in the dynamic viewfinder only to lose that specific ID when I take the photo, even if I do so immediately and without moving the camera. Repeatedly. This and the high battery use are my main complaints. I expect to keep using it. Great when it behaves.
  • This is the best attempt at this kind of app that I've ever seen, particularly when recognizing the AI powering identification will only improve. Our family loves it despite technical difficulties. A few different features could absolutely improve our user experience: 1. Auto take picture once species is identified 2. Upload Photos (so we can zoom on our camera and not have to scare animals/bugs away) 3. Select photo focus 4. Backup data Thanks for inspiring our exploration!
  • Would be good for functionality to store your own photos which havent been identified. To add your own identification, to be stored locally (so doesnt mis identify others) then the option to post up ident for others to deny/confirm. Would be nice for a gallery funtion to show where you found unidentified organisms. Agree with others camera can be slow/crash. Is good for "flowering" plants
  • A bit of a let down - what i was sure was just a common house spider was being briefly ID'd as false black widow with the slight tilt of the Camera! Lag in the camera use us bad. Picture couldn't be clearer but can't ID? would be Better if app auto zoomed for best shot and took the photo on ID. Some plants have been great, no point trying to capture birds cause camera doesn't respond before they fly away. Im using Samsung S10 so pretty decent camera etc. App needs some tweaks for me to raise ⭐
  • Great for identifying plants, animals, insects, etc... as long as they are staying still. Zoom feature should be made less sensitive. Camera zooms in too fast compared to my phone's other camera apps.
  • love it, very useful
  • Brilliant app for identifying wild flowers etc, sometimes it can't find an item but most of the time it works well.
  • this app is awesome, its like having a Poke-dex but for real animals and plants! so much fun to use, and i finally get to know the names of the species in the area ive always seen, but never been able to identify.
  • it's good, and gets species about half the time, but it's a really big battery drain. this needs fixed as soon as possible.
  • Didn't identify the majority of plants. Google lens is much more accurate and can tell the difference between the Spanish bluebell and native bluebell unlike seek.
  • Great initiative! However accuracy is very bad, I have much better experience and more trust with PlantNet. But who knows how the models will be improved overtime...
  • when installing this app, be prepared for a lot of "we believe this is a member of dicots" and "we believe this is a member of animals" 3 stars because it atleast identified that a woodlouse was an isopod
  • takes a long times to identify species most of the time. camera software is slow, cannot zoom and doesn't autofocus properly. good idea for an app, just needs to be improved upon.
  • The concept of the app is great, but there are issues with execution. The camera loads very slowly and freezes when in use with the app. I instead tried to take a photo independently from the Seek app and upload the photo. I uploaded a photo of a deceased beetle, I was very close and made sure to capture the pattern on its back. Even with that, Seek was not able to recognize the animal. Improvement is needed.
  • Excellent app! Definitely the most accurate plant identifier I have ever used - it is pretty accurate to species level, and when it doesn't know the exact species it won't have a guess at a random plant, but instead gives the family, so still very helpful for identification. It also works for insects (if they hold still!). Only improvement is I would like it to show BOTH the scientific AND common names whilst on camera mode (as opposed to either or), as I know some plants by each type of name.
  • Incredible app. It's not great with non-local plants, garden stuff that doesn't grow naturally in the location. I assume that's because your geolocation is pretty important for the ID. I wish I could get some information about the plant's identifying attributes. What specific points can I use to visually identify this plant myself? Alternatively I could just carry a field guide. I want information about class/order/family/ genus on incomplete IDs.
  • This app seems very nice and we've tried to stump it on identifying stuff but it works amazingly.
  • Good idea for an app that gets you out and about searching for new species to photograph. Unfortunately, the camera in the app is pretty poor with no zoom setting, and it struggles to identify species from photos uploaded from the gallery, which can become frustrating. I think it needs more development to make it more user-friendly and accurate.
  • could name only my dog .. i tried with my plants at home.. none.. i tried with a rose.. couldn't identify
  • couldn't identify any plant other then bluebell! absolute rubbish. Said an allium, an astrantia, and a ranuculus was a didcot!! very poor. All were in flower as well. A pointless app.
  • The technology in this app is AMAZING. I have learned so much about the flora and fauna in my area because of it. The only thing that I would change is that the app tends to be slow to load, slow to pick up what you're trying to identify, and slow to snap the picture. I am sure there is a ton of information that goes into identifying an organism, and the app will get there in efficiency eventually.
  • cant seem to identify anything I ask.
  • Great for identifying plants but sometimes too laggy, the camera especially a drawback and particularly has trouble identifying birds and insects correctly. One example - what was obviously a crow was identified as a blue whistling thrush which isn't even native to the UK! I don't get why the phone's own camera can't be utilised. Good app but lots of room for improvement. The challenge badges feel devalued to my kids if identified a creature or plant incorrectly.
  • useless. can never tell the species of plant. failed with dog breed as well.
  • It crashes when I take photos and i cant make the cameras focus. When it identifies the right plant with the full meter it becomes three dots and identifies as dicot right after taking the photo.
  • I would give it a 5 but you can't zoom in with the Camera and I dont think you can save your data
  • Needs lot of work. Cannot recognize many species. I hope developers are adding more and more species and recognition everyday and this is not end of it. If so within a year or so this will be a great app. Many people will use it for their knowledge and fun too if this app becomes a masterpiece.
  • would be a really cool app if it worked right. it will not record my observations AT ALL. super annoying.
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