United StatesUse 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.
Can’t ID a chicken?
I was having trouble identifying my Apple tree so to check how well it worked. I pointed my camera at a chicken and it said it was “red jungle fowl” hahaha! How good is the app if it can’t even recognize a chicken?
United StatesUtterly addicting, but not perfect
This app is often pretty helpful at identifying plants and animals, and is similar to Pokémon Go, except that it’s actually practical and teaches you stuff. That being said, there are a few issues. I’ve noticed that sometimes the app has a very hard time identifying particular species, including pine trees, bears, and crows, and is very ineffective at identifying deep sea creatures. Often it will misidentify things (leading to some pretty hilarious misidentifications, such as confusing a pheasant for a siamese fighting fish, a cougar for a dromedary camel, a clouded leopard for a leopard shark, and a kodiak bear for a domestic dog). Other times however, it can be pretty good at identifying some rather obscure organisms as well, so plusses and minuses. Currently my biggest issue with the app though (which is what prompted me to write this review) is the recent update. Before, it seemed as if it was easier to identify things through saved photographs than it was at identifying photos actually taken by the app’s camera. However, with one of the recent updates, the identifying previously saved photos on your device feature seems to have taken a serious downgrade, and now actually seems to do an even worse job than the actual in app seek camera. Could you guys at iNaturalist please fix this issue? Also, could you allow SeekApp to recognize and better identify certain plants and animals, particularly domestic pigs and deep sea creatures (I’m surprised the app doesn’t know what a pig is!)? Thank you!
United StatesID needs to be improved
I’ve used this app for a few years and always loved it. Recently the ID has been useless. I’ve used the highest quality pics just for it to not be able to ID.
United StatesWorked fine until latest update
When trying to use the camera, I get an error that says “Sorry, the device you are using is not supported. Device/invalid-device.” This started with the latest app update. According to the App Store it should be compatible with my phone and camera. iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 17.4.1
United StatesDownhill slide
Please fix this app! It used to be so good and I loved using it. Now it cannot identify anything…
United StatesWon’t Function Properly
I used to use this app all the time. Now it won’t open my photo library and often won’t identify using the camera function. I wish someone would give it a good update!
United StatesI want to love this app but
ID part is horrible at best. Perfectly good clear photos of something that google or apple app can identify in 2 seconds takes forever or even worse never recognizes it. I think it’s actually gotten worse over the last several updates. It makes me not want to use it. Camera functionality ain’t that great either, it takes zero advantage of the phones cameras within the app.
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