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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Is Seek by iNaturalist free?
Yes, Seek by iNaturalist is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Seek by iNaturalist legit?
🤔 The Seek by iNaturalist app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
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User Rating
4.89 out of 5
9 ratings in Estonia
Ratings History
Seek by iNaturalist Reviews
Great but could be more
I love this app I’ve wanted it for a long time and now my camera works but the only things I’d like to see added is an animal call detector and identifier i think would be really cool also I would like a bit more information about the stuff i really wanna learn. Also Ive been having a hard time getting it to fully register what i show with the cameras. For instance Ive seen some cool spiders but they haven’t been able to give me anything outside from the fact that they’re in the jumping spider family, still really good app and i really enjoy it but it’s not quite perfect yet
Language issue
The In-app language would somehow automatically switch to English which is really annoying. I would like to check the details of the species in local language so please fix this.
Fishing for data
The app won’t work unless you allow them complete access to location (not just while using the app) and photo library (I selected add only so that they could add pics I submit but they want access to all photos.) Ultimately they couldn’t id a bird feather I submitted even though I found the app after searching feather identification
Great
I really like the amount of things you can identify. 90% of the time it will (most likely) get things right, but it can mess up sometimes. However, not everything is perfect, and I think with more time the app will eventually have a higher accuracy when identifying organisms. One thing I wish was better on the app is identifying trees, I think that that’s probably the hardest thing to identify on the whole app, because it’s difficult for me to understand how it’s going to identify a tree. I’m not sure if I need to go by leaves or by whatever “fruit” a tree will bear, or by the shape by standing away from the tree and taking a picture, but I just wish it was better at identifying trees. Overall a great app, and would definitely recommend.
Never can tell me what something is
I had high hopes for this app, but it can’t identify anything. It will say bird family bit can’t identify that it’s a hawk or it will say it’s a plant species but can’t identify that it’s a hibiscus. Totally worthless app
Bad
It’s just bad
Download when in naturalized areas
I tried the app, and it was exciting at first… but when I couldn’t find more species, I got bored, until I went hiking and there was a LOT more to scan, and then I loved the app again, so, please download this if you are just gonna take a vacation to the Galápagos Islands or smth.
Amazing app that struggles with large photo libraries
This is amazing app to have out in the woods with me, but when I am 100% out of cell range I often take photos with the Camera app instead of with the Seek app. Unfortunately the Seek app really struggles to open photos from my large (~100k) photo library, so I can never really figured what those “offline” plants were… :(
Maybe if it could default to just loading the “recent” photos it would be a bit more usable/responsive?
Can’t ID anything
No idea how this has any stars. It never ID’s anything or the rare occasion it does ID, it just calls everything a dicot. Why is this such trash?
Been using for many years. Need to resolve crash issue
This is a great app, but they need to fix the crash problem introduced a few months ago. Whenever I identify a species from a challenge, the app crashes. This happens on my wife’s iPhone as well since she upgraded to a newer iPhone. I keep hoping this will get fixed soon, but so far it hasn’t. This happens 100% of the time when I achieve a challenge objective.
