Hi, I remember that I’ve seen this feature in the Google Group but I don’t think it’s been posted here. I’d like to have an option to apply basic image editing before or after uploading a picture. Most basic edits would be cropping or rotating a picture.

Any plans on adding the basic editing tools to the browser/desktop version?

I believe so, but it would be fairly low priority as there’s plenty of free software available for basic image editing on computers. With mobile apps, you’re (oftentimes) taking a photo within the iNat app, so there’s a greater need for these tools in the mobile apps.

Thanks for the mention of Firefox add-on. Now to find a way to automate cropping of my moth photos. I experimented with changing the crop on my camera, but ironically, taking pictures in square crop mode gives less wiggle room to rotate & crop later. And cuts out the possibility of “finding” little…

I just discovered we can at least rotate images in the website application. Under the Photo, Click View Original Click Rotate Right (or Left) [image] [image] So, there is that.

[Screenshot_20210829-195050] I can do all that on my Android version of the app - attached is a screenshot. Crop, Bright, Contrast etc. I use it frequently. [Screenshot_20210829-195050~2] [Screenshot_20210829-195708~2] [Screenshot_20210829-195716~2]

Same, but the feature request is for multiple platforms, and while I’ve had this functionality in Android (as Kueda mentioned in the Jan 2020 post), it’s still not in iOS, and the website only has the rotation, I think.

Is there any news on adding a cropping function to the ios app? That would be really good to have.

I guess both apps are frozen… But I have good news. If you want to have a cropping fucntion in the app you can buy an Android phone. Works fine with one exception …

No, we wom’t be adding it to the current app, as we’re only working on bug fixes for it at the moment. See https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-mobile-app-development-news/27157

Incorporate basic image editing tools (crop, rotate)

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mattf1996 December 28, 2025, 3:08pm 57

hi @tiwane
For adding this to the website, would you accept a community pull request to add this feature.

I am not sure how the team handles these sorts of PR’s (I don’t want to annoy the team haha!)

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