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 part of iNaturalist, a not-for-profit organization. Seek was made by the iNaturalist team with support from the California Academy of Sciences, the National Geographic Society, Our Planet on Netflix, WWF, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Visipedia.
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4.54 out of 5
289 ratings
in Australia
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Beautiful game and fun
There’s lots to talk about so there’s 3 thugs I going to talk about
1. I love the game it’s fun and there’s so much today about it’s good traits
2. They could fix this some plants and animals that just don’t get pictures it take sooooo much too get a plant or bug or animal sometimes
3. There’s a glitch we’re I got an axolotl when I took a pic of a elephant 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Doesn’t work to identify plants
Which I thought was the main purpose! I was hoping to use it as a plant ID app, knowing that it wouldn’t fair very well on Australian native plants due to it being an American app, however it says literally everything in my garden is a member of the Dicot family (even a common mulberry tree) and ‘can not identify the exact species’. Pretty useless for a garden/plant lover sadly and I will be deleting it.
Too damn addicting
This app is just too addicting. It’s like geocaching, except you’re trynna find little fuzzy or scaly dudes. And there’s no plastic waste. Maybe a better example is Pokémon Go, except the Pokémon are real. If you want to ID everything, this is the app for you.
Best app on the App Store
My positive reviews kept disappearing, so here are some negatives.
Please enable manual entry, tired of trying and trying for hours to identify things I already know.
I am in Australia, stop identifying Australian creatures as North American or European. Many of the things the App tells me do not exist here.
It’s good
The premise is good and the app works pretty well for the most part. Although it does crash on a very regular basis for no apparent reason. I use a phone that can very much handle the app so the crashing is entirely a problem within the app. The second issue is that the seek camera is extremely bad. It doesn’t recognise about 60% of the wildlife that I try to identify. No matter how clear the photos are. I think that you would be well served to add a manual log feature where as I can log the plant or animal manually so that I don’t have to rely 100% on the camera which doesn’t work so often. I know that this could open the doors to cheating but honestly the amount of times the seek camera misidentifies a plant or animal has already opened that door long ago.
The app is good. It just need a bit of polishing.
Amazing
The quality of the photos and the accuracy of the detection is awesome! Love going out and taking photos of the wildlife and plants and finding out what they are 🥰
Amazing app, but not transferrable to new devices
This is one of my favourite apps, so handy and educational. I really love being able to look through the plants and animals I’ve captured on it. I recently bought a new phone but am unable to transfer my observations onto it. I would really love if this was made possible as I’m going to lose years of observations. I tried making an inaturalist account to post them there, but you can only upload them right as you make a new observation. A bit disappointing but other than that it’s a wonderful app.
App is really good, but I can’t sign in with my google.
PLEASE fix this issue, I only put 2 stars because of this issue, otherwise 5 stars.