iNaturalist Android App Review
iNaturalist for Android is a nature app that helps you identify plants and animals. If you are a wild life observer and often venture into the wilderness, thus app will come in handy. You will come across a lot of flowers, trees, birds and even animals and you want more facts about them. iNaturalist will help you with just that. It is not limited to one species, but encompasses all the flora and fauna and animals around you.
Get close to nature, observe all that you want
iNaturalist for Android is quite simple and easy to use. Features are plenty to satisfy a natural wanderer. The app allows you to record observations and that includes photos and GPS locations, view locations near your neighbourhood and follow people on iNaturalist.org and keep track of updates. Maintained by iNaturalist.org and its community, it has over 400,000 scientists and naturalists. Being a part of iNaturalist, you will be recording observations which in turn become a quality research data for scientists who help understand and protect nature better. As you record observations, you can also share it with community, enabling healthy discussion of what you observed. You can participate and give suggestions to what you have seen and help others identify what they have observed. Not just people, you can also follow projects of small communities and become a citizen scientist of a particular species. Due to this strong foundation of database the app is extremely good at identifying any species.
As you click or upload photos, the app tries to identify most if the species through image recognition. iNaturalist android app mostly succeeds in accurate recognition of birds, flowers, trees, animals, any species you name it. The app also allows you to observe and record species around you or search for photos by location. The app grades each observation as either casual, needs, or research based in the input you have given.
Conclusion
Being one of world’s most popular nature apps, iNaturalist for Android is a wildlife enthusiast’s paradise. It will turn even a casual observe into a hard-core expert in all things wild. An app targeted for beginners who are learning stuffs, it offers so much more than what you would expect. The app is completely free to download with no in-app purchases or ads.
Category: Free Android Apps
