Feature Requests

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Feature Requests category - please read before posting! Use this category to post new feature requests for iNaturalist, and to vote for existing feature requests. Requests To make a feature request, start a new topic with the request as the topic’s title. Please take a minu…	3	8021	August 23, 2019
Add curatorial buttons to more pages web	2	71	January 12, 2026
Change Identify Modal mini-map display for large accuracies	26	1510	January 12, 2026
Provide a list of things researcher should think about when downloading iNaturalist data	37	389	January 12, 2026
Remove all curators and start from scratch web , under-review	58	6460	January 11, 2026
Add option to include captive observations in seasonality charts	7	936	January 10, 2026
Add feeds showing when new species are observed web , under-review	9	591	January 9, 2026
Option to use OpenStreetMap in the app android-app , mobile-app	5	365	January 7, 2026
Allow the "id" parameter in journal posts	2	72	January 7, 2026
Make captive/cultivated not automatically "no ID needed"	177	10893	January 6, 2026
Allow geographically obscured observations to be masked in map displays, so that accurate maps of explored regions can be generated,	6	207	January 7, 2026
Don't let an observation attain Research Grade if its location is very imprecise	142	7401	January 5, 2026
Implement Standard Marine Places for the world's oceans under-review	30	4464	January 3, 2026
Enter GPS coordinates mobile-app	14	3022	January 2, 2026
Force computer vision to back off on the specificity of suggested IDs in regions with cryptic or hard-to-identify species identification , computer-vision	53	1379	December 31, 2025
More Sort Features When Browsing Projects projects	1	70	December 31, 2025
Show by-month observations by clicking on seasonality graph points	0	52	December 31, 2025
add project_id to identifications API endpoint	0	63	December 30, 2025
Sync observations across devices in Seek seek	19	6384	December 30, 2025
Use computer vision to annotate observations	59	8430	December 28, 2025
Incorporate basic image editing tools (crop, rotate) web , android-app , mobile-app	49	6411	December 28, 2025
Paginate the Photo Browser view (vs. endless scrolling)	27	539	December 24, 2025
Use computer vision on each photo in an observation web , under-review	49	3188	December 23, 2025
Make clicking on observation date in Identify modal lead to that day's observations web , identify	10	321	December 21, 2025
Top identifiers should be for species level (at least for plants in my experience) web	16	565	December 19, 2025
Add +/- buttons or text input to the "offset time" paramater	3	79	December 14, 2025
Expanded identify functionality in app android-app , mobile-app	7	1580	December 11, 2025
Increase max image size (from 2048 x 2048 pixels) under-review	53	6737	December 9, 2025
Wikipedia Observation Image Use Tab on the Yearly Stats Page	1	96	December 8, 2025
Prioritize scientific name over synonym and names in other languages in species search issue-made	11	1820	December 8, 2025

About the Feature Requests category - please read before posting!

Use this category to post new feature requests for iNaturalist, and to vote for existing feature requests. Requests To make a feature request, start a new topic with the request as the topic’s title. Please take a minu…