Seek v.2.3.2

iNaturalist

723 Ratings Category: Education Free
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  • Pegi : PEGI 3
  • Publish Date : Jan 18, 2019
  • Update Date : September 25, 2019
  • File Size : 34M
  • Version : 2.3.2
  • Installs : 100,000+
  • Op. System : 6.0 and up
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  • Email Address : help+seek@inaturalist.org
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  • Updated : 2019.10.15
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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 birds, amphibians, plants, and fungi and participate in monthly observation challenges with Our Planet on Netflix.

• Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things

• Identify wildlife and plants you see and take pictures to earn badges

• Learn fun facts about the organisms all around you

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.

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

Seek is presented by Our Planet and WWF and 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.

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What’s New

- Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and stability updates
- Clarify what logging into iNaturalist means on login welcome screen
- Turkish language support

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Customer Reviews
  • 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!
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cant seem to identify anything I ask.
  • 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.
  • Very quick and accurate but made my battery run down EXTREMELY quickly. This was after it had forced my phone to restart.
  • Pain to use. Failed on all the plants and I tried
  • I love this app, I really do! it has made me feel more inclined to nature. plus I've shown so many people this app and they love it! my ONLY complaint is that it doesnt use flash :( I really wish it did. Only because some shady areas in my garden (or where the bugs/fungus are) dont have enough light to recognize the photo. :(
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  • Rubbish app is the positive comment, complete and utter waste of space on my phone is another. Every plant that I have taken picture of is the same "dicot" that's roses, ragwort ; daisies and ferns. Going in the bin with all the other trash apps that are in google play store.
  • Very useful app, but I fail to understand how the offline part can correctly identify a species whereas the online, photo recognition, part then fails to find a match. In fact the photo recognition part can fail to recoggnise a photo that it correctly identified earlier.
  • Having some issues with the camera bending the image, and being too slow to snap the correct label for the plant
  • Average,occasionally identifys correctly a plant but more often than not i get Dicot.
  • I love this application it is amazing I for example really like the location setting 12/10 recommend very much
  • Could've been cool, seems though that its a game for social media rather than an actual tool. Identified any plant with smooth leaves as Dicots. Too much nonsense ruined this app.
  • thought my cat was a domestic dog lol
  • It's requires a bit patience for getting the perfect angle for the identification to work, but it's very cool when it does
  • The main problem is if your hand moves even a fraction of an inch what the app saw as a very clear chipmunk suddenly becomes that might be a rabbit and it seems to depend entirely on arbitrary factors. If you want this for plants and fungi then it kind of still works but if you're trying to get a picture of a possibly poisonous snake, you better hope that snake is a runway model and knows how to pose just right for the camera to be able to figure it out. Also you can't zoom in app.
  • I am loving this app. I have walked around and learned a lot. The only downfall is, I don't have the full capability of my phone's camera.
  • The text in the app sometimes overlaps the next row of text making it hard to read.
  • fun app but please fix the in app camera! it keeps identifying the species in the preview then downgrading to dicot once you take the photo, so you can't record your finds
  • absolutely mindblowing! super cool! one flaw is that often you have to move the camera about to get it to identify the organism. but overall excellent app
  • Brilliant
  • This project is great and I love the app, but please put a fix on the battery drain issue. It starts to overheat instantly and in 15 min my galaxy s8 is unusable :(
  • This is an optimistic 5 stars! I really hope this becomes a thing. Have you considered allowing users to confirm that your guess is correct? I just wanted to check if the app recognizes a bird from the photo I took earlier today (prior to downloading) and it says: "we believe this is a member of typical magpies" - and it is. I think it would be more useful if I could just say yes it is than to post it to inaturalist.
  • The idea behind the this app is amazing and I hope it time it improves. App is very laggy and takes a long while to load most things. I used several photos of insects, flowers and birds that were up close and of good quality and it couldn't identify anything so I've given up. I had Mayfly, Spoon-bill and Daisies but nothing was identified.
  • like the idea of this app, but I've tried it twice now and both times my phone froze and turned off. I thought it was bricked the first time and couldn't get it to turn back on. but managed to get my phone working again thank God.
  • I am trying to install it and it won't install
  • Was good to use but since last update it won't work, stops every time. Tried reinstalling and restarting with no joy. Update, the problem is now fixed and the app works well, at least for my locale!
  • I don't do a lot of reviewing. But I have loved this app. It's like having my own personal plant identification assistant
  • Fun to play with. Very rewarding.
  • i love this app really but recently it wont open its frustrating as i like using it so much ive learn't lots from it please fix it when is the update due????
  • Terrible at plant identification. Buggy coding. Two stars for pity points. I uninstalled this app less than 10mins after downloading it. It could not identify basic container plants in my garden. The location settings are buggy (constantly asking me to allow location though it is already enabled). If there were a feature where I could ID the plant myself, I might still be interested. Yet another plant-id app in the trash bin. This is a great idea, but a nice UI can't hide a bad app.
  • The photo selection interface is limited and hard to use. It also doesn't access Google Photos, so one must download each photo to the device manually. Analysing photos requires selecting & running each one by one.
  • amazing app!
  • About as accurate as a magic 8 ball. Camera has trouble focusing.
  • thinks every plant is a dicot.
  • installs ok. then just keep crashing. now deleted
  • good
  • Mixed feelings when the app works (it now constantly crashes on my S9) it works well besides not allowing for cameras to zoom, can also struggle to focus
  • This app opens a whole new world to your casual hiker (or anybody with a backyard, really). I've had this app installed for a day and I've already developed a deeper appreciation for the huuuge variety of planta and animals that make up the ecosystem that we walk through each day. Get this app! A gripe: the identification system is hit and miss. You might need a bit of time to find an angle for a photo good enough to identify something. That's okay with plants, problematic with animals.
  • I'm very curious about the app but I can't even open it! Just downloaded it, and whenever I try to open it just says "Seek has stopped".
  • Awesome!
  • I downloaded this app in April it was amazing but since the latest update it wont open. I had to reinstall it and lost everything. Now it still wont open. I'm really gutted about it. They need to fix this.
  • keeps stopping
  • downloaded. installed. wont even load... was looking forward to showing my son this
  • what have you done, Huawei P10 it no longer loads the app. shame it was vgood
  • I couldn't even open the app as it crashed straight away. I tried multiple times, deleted, reinstalled, restarted my phone but no success. Such a shame!
  • good app, but it either takes forever for it to focus and be able to read what you are looking at.
  • good app. Could allow for full camera functions to zoom in or focus better. Also the inaturalist account should connect with your seek app to include all your community identified species. sometimes the app is clearly wrong woth indentification but it is good a majority of the time.
  • I like the app, can you please put in google photos search and detach the camera from the photos please?
  • missed nearly all ID, not good
  • The very worth app when you are in the mountains. Can find out all plants and flowers. Very useful.
  • Great app. Started using inaturalist because of it. However, I observed a type of mold that doesn't show up under my observations.
  • buggy. this app takes a long time to scan, when it does it's often wrong and it'll close out or lag when you go to take a photo.
  • Une bonne appli pour les amateurs curieux de la nature. Ne conviens pas à un usage professionel. La reconnaissance a encore des progres a faire. Avec le mode hors ligne, je suis parvenue a identifier 4 plantes sur 20. Pouvoir changer la langue serait appreciable, l'appli prenant celle du telephone par defaut.
  • does not understand anything it says no internet connection when I have internet connection also wants to identify me my photo do not trust this program
  • super cool idea. needs a massive amount of work. hasnt been able to fully/accurately identify any plant yet. misidentified certain plants completely
  • Really good app, identifies most flowers/plants but sometimes struggles with moving insects. Needs to automatically take a pic once the species has been identified. knocked one star off as it seems to use a lot of battery when in the app (each minute takes about 1 percent of my battery) on Samsung note 9. Would highly recommend and good fun for kids as well
  • excellent
  • Have had a few successful photos identified but some photos are not recognised even though they are clear. Also I cannot find how to delete any unwanted photos which is not helpful.
  • Very impressive, helpful, and engaging.
  • It does not work and deleted my progress.
  • Haven't used the app yet. Went to sign up with iNaturalist and found it needed my birthday. There is no way to type the date. You have to manually scroll back A MONTH AT A TIME!!! I was born in July of 1953. That's just shy of 800 presses of the little back arrow. Ridiculous!!
  • At this moment, I am incredibly frustrated with Seek! You keep asking me to share my location in the settings. That's all fine and good but, when I press the menu, there is no option for settings! WTH! I would like to share my location, if only you could present a way for me to do so. I'm currently at a loss. I can't properly use your app without a way to share my location so, with much sadness, I guess I will have to delete your app. It's such a shame. Your app could be so helpful to the world.
  • continue to make this app better. this is by far the most amazing app I've used to date.
  • my main problem with the app is that they dont let you use your gallery to find images and it doesnt allow you to share images from your gallery or google photos either. this would be less of an issue if the app wasnt EXTREMELY LAGGY when you scrolled through your gallery and if it at least catergorised my pictures by album instead of throwing it all together. the detection can be pretty terrible at times too, but the app says its learning so hopefully it will get better.
  • Very impressed. Correctly identified all plants in my yard, and my cat. Totally recommending this!
  • 🐼🐼🐼 super cool app to identify nacher
  • started a butterfly and moth collection finally, I love love love this app as I now know what kinds all of them are!
  • Good for nature study. Needs a way to change location and date on uploaded photos.
  • Although results may vary, Seek identifies flora and fauna with great accuracy, making it the perfect companion for the casual biologist, or meandering hiker.
  • app is slow to find pictures on camera roll and sometimes shuts down or freezes.
  • super neat. I do wish it would tell you wat plants are edible though...
  • This app really works, unlike some others I've tried.
  • Not great. Tried it on a few well known birds and insects, it only identified half. Deleted app. No good to me
  • Used app forvthe 1st time, today. Worked fine twice, now says that it can't score my photos and wants me to check my internet connection. I can see my ohoto pop up and then disappear. i just updayed to no avail.
  • So far, i am enjoying the app, despite making my phone runs slower. I wish there was a setting to access more storage on the memory card or apps like Google Photos. I have tons of pics, but I have to download them back on my phone to have them recognised. Very tiring exercise
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