I’m curious to learn why people use iNat over Seek, or for people who use Seek, why upload their Seek observations to iNat? I imagine it is, for some, about wanting to potentially contribute to science, but are there other reasons? Do people feel more certain about the ID if the algorithm suggestion…

iNat is a global platfrom, seek is a more gamified personal app that on default just stores the data on your phone (focused on minors, people concerned about their privacy or more casual use of cv), there’re built in activities in it, so some people stick to it while also contributing those observat…

marina_gorbunovaorbunova-Yolkina: Seek has the same cv as iNat This may be the case now (unsure), but as of March this year [image] Workings of iNat Artificial Intelligence (AI) aka Computer Vision (CV) Yeah, Seek doens’t use the current model that’s available on the website and the iNat…

Then I remember older @tiwane comments about it, that it was updated to current one, but with a delay. Even though for most species there’s no difference, it’s one more reason to use iNat. To add for social aspect, seeing others’ observations or visiting places with no observations, it’s impossible…

I work in a California State Park, and iNaturalist is tremendously useful in a wide variety of ways. We encourage volunteers and visitors to take observations, and now have almost 30K observations of 1900 species in the park. If an invasive plant shows up in the park, I can see an iNat observation o…

I was introduced to iNat through a biologist that I was working with for a short period of time. I enjoy the social media aspect of it. The ability to be corrected or affirmed by people who are much more qualified than me, or to encourage people who are less qualified is nice. Seek’s gamification an…

From my viewpoint, the question would be: “Why use Seek instead of iNaturalist?” I’m sure there’s a user group or context in which Seek would seem to be the natural default and iNaturalist an alternative, but if so I’m not sure what that context is. I’m only dimly aware of Seek as “iNaturalist with…

no internet connection required for the ID suggestions to work, badges + challenges for those who prefer a more gamified experience, and great for kids (<13) since no login or account required, no personal info is collected, everything remains completely anonymous

In terms of casual user experience, Seek is nicer, more modern and much more guided. I almost exclusively use the iNat site on PC, since I need to convert photos from RAW on my computer anyway, but both the app and the site feel, well, functional. I’ve bored my parents to tears… I mean talked to th…

[image] thebeachcomber: no internet connection required for the ID suggestions to work I thought Seek required an active internet connection?

I’ve never used it, but the help page suggests it doesn’t need one

Why use iNat over, or in addition to, Seek?

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thebeachcomber November 3, 2022, 4:12am 3

This may be the case now (unsure), but as of March this year

Topic		Replies	Views
Seek - new functionality lets users post to iNaturalist News and Updates seek	19	8960	October 29, 2019
Real-time Computer Vision predictions in Seek by iNaturalist 2.0 News and Updates seek	34	7847	July 1, 2020
Seek app - Add ability to OPT IN to iNaturalist sync Feature Requests seek	4	1537	May 2, 2023
What is iNat's wish list for observations? General question	37	2105	March 28, 2022
Paper about inaturalist The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier General	67	3974	January 8, 2023

Why use iNat over, or in addition to, Seek?

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