| iNaturalist (app and website) | Seek (app) |
|---|---|
| iNaturalist is an online community that allows you to publicly share and discuss observations from nature in order to identify organisms and create research-quality data for science and conservation. | Seek allows curious naturalists of all ages to privately earn badges and participate in challenges to observe organisms with instant, AI-assisted identifications based on data from iNaturalist. |
| Best choice if you want to connect with others, share data, and are interested in natural history and contributing to citizen science | Best choice if you do not want to create an account or share data, or are just getting started exploring nature |
| Users must be at least 13 years old to make an account | No account required, designed to be safe for children. Users aged 13+ or with parental permission can optionally log in with their iNaturalist account and post observations to iNaturalist through Seek |
| iNaturalist’s identification model provides initial suggestions, but other people in the iNaturalist community help you identify and confirm your observations | Seek’s identification model provides an identification in real-time on screen |
| Records observations as publicly-available biodiversity data that contribute to citizen science | The data you record does not leave your device and the app does not require an internet connection to work |
| Photo, location, and time are recorded with each of your observations in the iNaturalist database | No personally-identifiable information is collected from users who do not log in with their iNaturalist account |
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