The Tick App v5.0.8

University of Wisconsin-Madison Shared Apps

About this app

Developer Description

Tick Safety and Prevention

Help prevent tick encounters and tick-borne diseases. By sharing when and where you encounter ticks you will help researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University to better prevent tick-borne diseases. The Tick App also provides information on tick identification, tick removal and other prevention ideas. You can also submit ticks for identification by university staff.

The Tick App was developed as part of a collaborative research study between the Midwest and Northeast Centers of Excellence in Vector-borne Disease.

What's New

Minor bug fixes and system improvements

Version Information

Version: 5.0.8
Downloads: 10K+
Updated on: Oct 7, 2025
Released: May 11, 2018
Requires: Android 6.0

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The Tick App users say on Google Play

★★★★★

Marion

Cool citizen science ap with useful safety and prevention info. I helped a friend get appropriate medical attention for a bite because of what I learned from the ap. Have contacted the scientific team using this and found them very helpful.

★★★★

Mike Angstadt

Updated: App developer responded promptly. Issue was resolved Can't even create an account, so app is useless. Just get a generic "there was a problem, please try again."

★★★

Drew Knobloch

Latest update has created a persistent notification which is annoying. It's also broken the update daily log functionality. Now when you create a daily log it's locked and permanent, no updating if you find another tick later. Otherwise it's a useful tool if you live in the survey area.

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Dave McGraw

Runs in background. Frequent crashes.

★

Roger Rittenhouse

Don't bother until they get the app working better. They ask you to sign up and then require you to answer screen after screen of questions. After minutes of doing this it flipped back to the first page and none of my inputs were saved. 10 minutes of work for nothing.