iNaturalist

Name: iNaturalist
Rating: 3.7795277 (11596 reviews)
Author: iNaturalist

By: iNaturalist

Observe and identify plants and animals with your friends

Features & Capabilities

iNaturalist is a leading nature app designed to help you observe and identify plants and animals around you. By connecting with a vast community of over 400,000 scientists and naturalists, users can receive identification help, share their observations, and learn more about local and global biodiversity. The app encourages citizen science by allowing users to contribute research-quality data to support scientific efforts to understand and protect nature.

Key features include discovering new species, recording and sharing observations, crowdsourced identifications, community discussions, and participation in specialized projects focused on particular locations or species. iNaturalist fosters a collaborative environment where nature enthusiasts can grow their knowledge and contribute to conservation.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Education Community

By:

iNaturalist

Downloads:

6,693,172 5.99K

Rating:

3.78

(11,596) 19 new ratings

Version:

1.37.2 Last updated: 2026-03-30

Version code:

638

Creation date:

2011-12-30

Publisher country:

Permissions:

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.CAMERA Very high risk
android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS Very high risk
android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO Very high risk
android.permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION High risk
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk
android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES High risk
android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS High risk
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE Moderate risk

Size:

37.09MB

Email:

he*****@inaturalist.org

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-26

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 18,952 ▼ 19

Other rankings

#45 in Education (Free) ▲ 9#1 in nature keyword 16 #8 in reference keyword 32 #11 in identify keyword 19

Other platforms

iNaturalist (v1.0.23)

4.00

(552)

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

Contact the developer

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Developed by:

iNaturalist

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.android

Email:

he*****@inaturalist.org

Website:

http://www.inaturalist.org

User Reviews

iNaturalist is praised for being educational and helpful for discovering wildlife, and for its strong community and conservation utility. However, users repeatedly report slow performance and crashes, a tricky, non-intuitive UI, and recurring photo orientation bugs during uploads.

Pros

Educational and informative tool for learning about biodiversity; users find it highly educational and fun.
Useful for exploration and planning trips, and for conservation awareness—helps users discover species and track migratory/dormant patterns.
Strong, collaborative community with improving AI for species identification.

Cons

Very slow loading and frequent crashes/spinning; app can be unusable during use.
Difficult to use/not intuitive with a steep learning curve; users request onboarding or tutorials.
Photo upload/orientation issues where images are rotated (often 90 degrees) during upload or posting.

Recent reviews

I've been using this app for years, and love it. You need to be able to delete your ID when you withdraw it instead of just shading it.

Ki*****, 2026-06-20

Can upload, but viewing & identifying are almost completely nonfunctional! It freezes after trying to identify more than one or two observations. Why are the app versions both so bad? I used to do a lot of identification and I can't anymore. Not only that, but Explore is also buggy and slow! Even small searches load infinitely. I know it's a small team but it's like half the function of the app has just failed. Get it together.