iNaturalist
Discover nature around you
Only for iPhone
Free
Point the camera at plants, animals, & fungi to see species suggestions while you’re outside, or import photos from your library. iNaturalist helps millions of people like you learn more about nature using AI suggestions backed up by a global community of knowledgeable nature lovers.
iNaturalist goes far beyond AI identifications—your observations are reviewed by real people and shared for science to help protect species.
KEY FEATURES
Identify species from anywhere in the world
Keep a record of species you see
Contribute to science by sharing your observations
Explore and protect biodiversity
Connect with and learn from other nature enthusiasts
iNaturalist’s nonprofit mission is to connect people to nature and advance science and conservation. iNaturalist is freely available thanks to generous support from our community of donors.
Explore and learn even more at https://www.inaturalist.org.
more Try the iNaturalist app!
Quick identification: Point your camera at a plant, animal, or other organism to get an instant identification.
More ways to observe: Press and hold the camera button for more observation options, like recording sounds and adding multiple photos.
Keep up with other naturalists: Check your notifications to see when other people in the iNaturalist community add identifications or ask questions about your observations.
Set your preferences: If you're a longtime user and want your app experience to feel more like earlier versions of iNaturalist, you can! Go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select "Edit Observation" in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.19 7 Apr
Try the iNaturalist app!
Quick identification: Point your camera at a plant, animal, or other organism to get an instant identification.
More ways to observe: Press and hold the camera button for more observation options, like recording sounds and adding multiple photos.
Keep up with other naturalists: Check your notifications to see when other people in the iNaturalist community add identifications or ask questions about your observations.
Set your preferences: If you're a longtime user and want your app experience to feel more like earlier versions of iNaturalist, you can! Go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select "Edit Observation" in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.18 25 Mar
Try the iNaturalist app!
Quick identification: Point your camera at a plant, animal, or other organism to get an instant identification.
More ways to observe: Press and hold the camera button for more observation options, like recording sounds and adding multiple photos.
Keep up with other naturalists: Check your notifications to see when other people in the iNaturalist community add identifications or ask questions about your observations.
Set your preferences: If you're a longtime user and want your app experience to feel more like earlier versions of iNaturalist, you can! Go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select "Edit Observation" in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.17 11 Mar
Try the iNaturalist app!
Quick identification: Point your camera at a plant, animal, or other organism to get an instant identification.
More ways to observe: Press and hold the camera button for more observation options, like recording sounds and adding multiple photos.
Keep up with other naturalists: Check your notifications to see when other people in the iNaturalist community add identifications or ask questions about your observations.
Set your preferences: If you're a longtime user and want your app experience to feel more like earlier versions of iNaturalist, you can! Go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select "Edit Observation" in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.16 25 Feb
Try the iNaturalist app!
Quick identification: Point your camera at a plant, animal, or other organism to get an instant identification.
More ways to observe: Press and hold the camera button for more observation options, like recording sounds and adding multiple photos.
Keep up with other naturalists: Check your notifications to see when other people in the iNaturalist community add identifications or ask questions about your observations.
Set your preferences: If you're a longtime user and want your app experience to feel more like earlier versions of iNaturalist, you can! Go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select "Edit Observation" in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.15 11 Feb
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.14 27 Jan
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.13 14 Jan
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.12 17/12/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.11 19/11/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
This update contains bug fixes and improvements. Specifically, it improves the reliability of fetching locations when creating observations.
1.0.10 01/10/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
This update contains bug fixes and improvements. Specifically, it improves the reliability of fetching locations when creating observations.
1.0.9 23/08/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.8 13/08/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.7 30/07/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.6 23/07/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.5 02/07/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.4 10/06/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.3 21/05/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.2 07/05/2025
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
1.0.0 15/04/2025
Several bug fixes, along with the changes from our recent big update:
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select "Edit Observation" in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
0.59.13 04/04/2025
This update makes our new simpler interface the default.
• Press and hold on the AI Camera button to access more ways to create an observation.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
• Additional Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements throughout.
You can switch back to the previous interface anytime by going into Settings and toggling Show Advanced Settings on.
0.59.12 01/04/2025
We’ve packed a lot into this update, and here are the highlights:
• New Simpler Mode: Try our new streamlined interface by going into Settings and toggling off Advanced Mode.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
• Additional Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements throughout.
Thanks for using iNaturalist!
What's new in 0.59.4? Fixes for a few minor bugs we found after the last update.
0.59.4 10/03/2025
We’ve packed a lot into this update, and here are the highlights:
• New Simpler Mode: Try our new streamlined interface by going into Settings and toggling off Advanced Mode.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
• Additional Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancements throughout.
Thanks for using iNaturalist!
0.59.2 06/03/2025
NEW
* Collection projects support
* Offline taxon search
* Notifications from other observations
* Pull-to-refresh on My Obs, Explore, Notifications
UPDATED
* Better camera performance
* Bigger font on some screens
* New translations
* Upload or save directly for batch observation
FIXED
* Explore map jitter in Android (@joergmlpts)
* Photo count not readable at large font size (@israr002)
* Location not always saved to photo metadata
* Inconsistent use of user language preference
0.55.3 11/12/2024
NEW
* Onboarding slides for new users
UPDATED
* Use system language or user preferred language
* Many layout improvements for large font sizes
* Show obs marker on taxon detail map
* Link to profile from username on My Obs
FIXED
* Repeat scrolling to activity item from Notifications
* Not updating profile pic immediately after changing
* Common name capitalization problems
* Un-uploaded sounds disappearing after a day
And lots more!
0.54.1 20/11/2024
Try the iNaturalist app!
Quick identification: Point your camera at a plant, animal, or other organism to get an instant identification.
More ways to observe: Press and hold the camera button for more observation options, like recording sounds and adding multiple photos.
Keep up with other naturalists: Check your notifications to see when other people in the iNaturalist community add identifications or ask questions about your observations.
Set your preferences: If you're a longtime user and want your app experience to feel more like earlier versions of iNaturalist, you can! Go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select "Edit Observation" in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
more Version 1.0.19 7 Apr
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