The Compare tool is a really quick and helpful way to see a ranked list of the most observed species in a family/genus/group that occur near an observation (among other features). It’s particularly helpful to me when reviewing observations I made while traveling to a new area where I’m not at all fa…

I have also wished I could access the Compare tool while uploading.

OK, so we talked about this and while we’re not totally opposed to the Compare tool being added to the uploader, the uploader’s not designed for detailed ID work - it’s for getting your photos/sounds into iNat. We’d rather not shoehorn the Compare tool into it as it is now and/or duplicate a lot of …

[image] tiwane: How about a “Submit observations and go to Identify” button? You could get the observations’ basic data in order then go through them with Identify after they’ve been uploaded. This sounds like it’s getting close to the draft mode we’ve been asking for.

[image] tiwane: then go through them with Identify after they’ve been uploaded will that be a draft mode? To avoid the people whose work flow is upset by Those People adding an ID before the observer gets around to it? (Not my work flow) Upload Identify Publish With a toggle for the defa…

[image] tiwane: How about a “Submit observations and go to Identify” button? You could get the observations’ basic data in order then go through them with Identify after they’ve been uploaded. My problem with this is that a lot of people (admittedly probably me included) would not fill in the…

I have to say, after recently adding lots of observations from an area I was unfamiliar with, I really wanted the compare tool on the uploader.

I would love to be able to use the Compare tool at uploading the observation. I can’t tell you how often I’ve thought how much easier it would make the tagging. Thank you.

Add Compare tool to the uploader

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Add Compare button to Identify and mobile app Feature Requests web , android-app , mobile-app	4	294	June 13, 2025
Compare Button is missing in Identify Bug Reports	4	132	June 10, 2025
Add the "compare to visually similar" functionality to the "Suggest an identification" tab on observation Feature Requests	5	661	February 5, 2021
Compare tool has no results sometimes General	5	692	June 16, 2020
Add subspecies to Compare/Suggestions tool Feature Requests	11	1390	November 6, 2024

Add Compare tool to the uploader

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