25
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Seek by iNaturalist | unitQ Score
The unitQ score is the fraction of public feedback data (iOS & Android) that mentions quality issues.
100 = No Issues. 50 = Some Issues. 0 = All Issues
100 = No Issues. 50 = Some Issues. 0 = All Issues
-12 Points Past 7 Days
Category: Education
30-Day Trend
Android unitQ Score
Android User Feedback
50%
Android
33 Reports
33 Reports
iOS unitQ Score
iOS User Feedback
50%
iOS
33 Reports
33 Reports
User Feedback
50%
iOS
33 Reports
33 Reports
50%
Android
33 Reports
33 Reports
Seek by iNaturalist - Latest Quality Issues
Android
May 5, 2024
Pretty accurate. Sometimes lacks precision or specificity.
iOS
May 5, 2024
Fun but glitchy
While super fun and informative, it is often wrong or can't get a read off a clear picture. I love running around and discovering new species but it has lost about 6 birds bc I wasn't able to get right up in their faces. It says my Bradford Pear tree is a mock orange plant. It struggles a lot with trees and animals but recognizes flowers pretty well. It would be nice if it would allow you to input your own when you know what something is.
iOS
May 6, 2024
Can get rid of
I have been firing a way to get rid of it but just can't find anyway. If you want to keep it and use it get it.
iOS
May 7, 2024
Nice app but bad syncro with INaturalist
The app is great is + user friendly than INaturalist but crashes on the identifications and impossible to correct as you can do on INaturalist... and when you use Seek to post on INaturalist, the photo doesn't track. In short, nice app in principle but syncro to be reviewed!
iOS
May 9, 2024
Can’t wait for this app to get good!
The concept and interface are pretty great. It just doesn't work that well yet. It's usually wrong about the species. If you wait until the app says it has identified a species and then take a photo, it can almost never identify the species in the photo because something changed. But if you change the settings to take a photo automatically when the species has been identified, then you almost always get a blurry photo and sometimes it's not even the thing you were trying to identify. Also, the app seems to assume you're in North America, and guesses the organism you're looking at is one that can be found there. Let it try to identify a native plant or animal in Central Europe and it will assume you're looking at an American relative. It's also really bad at identifying trees. That's a tough job because it's hard to get a clear shot of one tree without other things in the frame. You generally have to zoom in on a twig with leaf and flower to have any hope. With fungi, the best you can get is “yep, that's some kind of gilled mushroom”. I'm optimistic that, if the developers work hard and keep feeding their model with photos of accurately-identified organisms, it will eventually get better than the average person at identifying living organisms.
Android
May 9, 2024
Completely useless. Took forever to even figure out that the mule deer right in front of me was a mammal, never fir more specific. Couldn't tell that a lizard on a rock was even a reptile.
Android
May 10, 2024
Uses a black and white infrared camera, you can't change the camera, it doesn't recognize 48 megapixels from photos with a camera, it's not adapted for oukitel
Android
May 10, 2024
Hopeless every photo taken identified as the same species of plant (dicot) one was a strawberry plant the other was an orchid
Android
May 10, 2024
App is incompetent offline. It won't use GPS when offline, but if you upload the observation to iNaturalist the observation will have (made up) coordinates (often San Francisco).
Seek by iNaturalist - Product 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.
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