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Seek by iNaturalist

Seek by iNaturalist

3.32
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V2.18.0
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1M+
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App Information

Category Education
Developer iNaturalist
Version 2.18.0
Content Rating Everyone
Price Free
Min Android 7.0
Updated Apr 9, 2026

Description

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.

Downloads

V2.18.0

Size: 170.9 MB

Updated: 2026-04-09

User Reviews

3.32
10K+ Reviews
5
37%
4
15%
3
13%
2
12%
1
23%
Brian Sebben
Jul 5, 2026

fun to use, sometimes freezes trying to save a picture. wish I could see a timeline of observations

Nancy Steffey
Jul 4, 2026

I have only used this once. I think it's a city app. I used to work in garden centers, and the app will not identify plants that are in the complex where I live. Can't even identify the Jasmine, or the Cedars! But it did tell me one plant was a lizard. Cool.

Tammie
Jul 3, 2026

Easy to use but it's not correct. I asked it to identify 4 things that I already know the identity to just to test it. It got 1 of the 4 right. I did simple things like lemon tree, citronella, tomato and elderberry (it did identify the elderberry correctly).

Julie Lewis
Jul 1, 2026

I mean... when I am using an app like this and trying to identify a plant, the first thing I want to know every time is if it is toxic, or not. I have to ask my browser nearly every time, after I use iSeek to tell me what it is, "is this toxic?". That in mind, I can only give 2 stars.

Grier Rouse
Jul 1, 2026

I'm not sure why this app is rated so poorly. It works pretty consistently. id say 90 to 95 percent of the time I get an ID and it's always satisfying when it adds my photo to the listing. It's like collecting trading cards or something. Love it!

Alex F
Jun 30, 2026

dont waste your time. the app doesn't work, plain and simple. tried multiple pictures of the same insect. trying to see if it was a tick. it was not, it took another app "picture insect" only one try to determine it was a spined soldier bug.

Devon Overley
Jun 30, 2026

worked great until they integrated AI, now literally every bug identification is wrong. used to be such a great app, too bad

Nicolette
Jun 29, 2026

LOVE with a BUT....I LOVE this app, BUT it has no Cloud saving. I know it connects to inaturalist but it's not the same. When you get a new phone you lose and you lose all of your achievements and pictures you've identified 😭 I had to lower my rating..

Joe Cagle
Jun 29, 2026

Too buggy (pun intended) When taking a picture it freezes up very often and you have to close the app. By then whatever you are trying to identify is gone. And considering you usually have to have your phone almost on top of whatever it is, it makes you miss quite a few things

Leslie Albert
Jun 29, 2026

often gets things wrong because it focuses on background images.