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iNaturalist: identify wildlife and log what you see
By Irfan Rosli
News editor
- Identify plants and animals around you
- Crowdsourced identifications for your sightings
- Record observations and share them with the community
- Discover species nearby and farther afield
- Follow projects focused on a place or species
What iNaturalist is for
iNaturalist is a nature app for identifying the plants and animals you encounter. Its developer describes a community of over 400,000 scientists and naturalists who answer questions about what you have seen and help you learn more about the natural world.
The developer also presents the app as a way to collect observations that feed into research. Each sighting you record and share is described as research-quality data that scientists can use to understand and protect nature.
Identifying plants and animals you find
The app's core use is working out what a plant or animal is. The listing says you receive suggestions and crowdsourced identifications for the things you have seen, so an identification comes from other users as well as from the app itself.
This works for a single sighting in a park or garden, and it is the same process whether the subject is a common local species or something unfamiliar.
Recording and sharing your sightings
You log your own observations in the app and share them with the community. Those records are what the developer refers to when it says sightings become research-quality data.
Because the same sightings are visible to other users, they can be checked and identified by people who know the species.
Discussing sightings with other naturalists
The app includes discussion of what people have seen. You can talk with other users about an observation and help them identify what they have found, so the identifying works in both directions.
This is the part of the app that connects you to the people behind the community, not just the species list.
Finding new species and joining projects
The listing says you can discover species new to you, both near where you are and farther away. Projects are smaller communities built around a particular place, a particular species, or both, and they bring together fellow citizen scientists.
Following a project lets you focus your browsing and sightings on one area or group of organisms.
What's new
About this APK
The build we hold is iNaturalist 1.38.2 (APKS split bundle) for Android 6.0 and up.
- Version
- 1.38.2
- 646
- Requires Android
- 6.0+
- Size
- 37 MB
- Package ID
- org.inaturalist.android
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Permissions
- 20 declared · 8 sensitive
- Approximate location
- Camera
- Find accounts on the device
- Microphone
- Precise location
- Read files on your device
- Read where your photos were taken
- Read your photos
- Signed by
- CN=Ken-ichi Ueda, O=iNaturalist.org
- Certificate SHA-256
- 88e47174324756e9ef2a7a804ee1b42c0b7e7954fb415772b13a72f76b6f4c2d
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