ObsIdentify v5.7

Observation International

About this app

Developer Description

Recognize nature in one click!

Recognize nature in one click! Take a photo in Europe or the Dutch Caribbean and find out which species it is. Collect all your wildlife observations in the app. You'll be rewarded with tips to find new species, earn badges, and be invited to join challenges. Create groups with colleagues, family or friends, to share your stunning nature observations. Your observations, and those of others, contribute to biological research and knowledge about nature. Every observation counts!

ObsIdentify only recognizes wild animals, plants and mushrooms in Europe and the Dutch Caribbean. Please do not use the app for selfies, people, pets, house or garden plants.

The image recognition in ObsIdentify is made possible by millions of observations from thousands of users of Waarneming.nl, Waarnemingen.be and Observation.org. ObsIdentify is a product of the Observation International Foundation, in collaboration with Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands) and Natuurpunt (Belgium).

What's New

- Added sounds to species information
- New species languages available
- Partner logos more prominently displayed

Version Information

Version: 5.7
Downloads: 1M+
Updated on: Jan 13, 2026
Released: Jan 9, 2023
Requires: Android 8.0

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#43 in Top Free Education in Netherlands

#42

Preply: Language Learning App

#43

ObsIdentify

#44

PlantNet Plant Identification

ObsIdentify users say on Google Play

★★★★★

Itsme

ProTip: turn location back on in the camera app settings every time you turn phone location on, otherwise you can't save ID. Took me way too long to figure that out. Best identification app I've seen yet (and I've tried many). Amazing at identifying. Gives info on the morphology, which is good when automatic ID is unclear. Gives information on the species. Absolutely love the app. Only downsides: - blurry pics when taken in-app - can't delete IDs, which is bad if you've wrongly ID'd something

★★★★

Corinne Duyvis

Awesome service. The app can be buggy but mostly works well, and I'm glad to have it. My top two requests: (1) more sort options for my observations: by location, animal type, etc. and maybe a way to combine duplicates so I can just see a list of local species I've identified, (2) a widget/shortcut directly to the camera feature, as when I see an insect I want to be able to take a picture before it leaves. (I prefer not to use the normal camera app for this, as I don't like to geotag my photos.)

★★★

Lois Clarke

Have found this a fairly useful app. However, although the app allows you to identify recently taken photos (I don't mean in-app ones) I am unable to upload any older photos from my phone or gallery folder. The app has all the required permissions turned on. Being unable to use Obsidentify on older photos is a significant disincentive to using the app in future.

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Stef van der Vleuten

Seems to work fine, but there is no option to manually select the language in the app. It will always use the default phone language. A simple settings toggle would be very useful. Now i only see the Latin names of plants and animals since my phone is set to English. I want to see the dutch names of these animals.

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Andrew McGleish

Looks good, but can't be trusted. It confidently identified one fly but didn't indicate that there is a confusion species which needs microscopic examination to separate. More worryingly I showed it Hemlock Water Dropwort, Britain's most poisonous plant, and it told me it was a European member of the same family which doesn't occur in Britain. No warning about risks of misidentifying toxic plants. Imagine if a novice forager had used this. Might be useful to get you to family but be wary.