iNaturalistAndroid

Android app for iNaturalist.org

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What it is

Android app for iNaturalist.org

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What Hacker News says

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calmingsolitude·Aug 6, 2026

Flora Incognita and PlantNet are not open source, so they cannot be published to F-Droid. However, iNaturalist is and the apk can be directly installed from the GitHub releases page. https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/releases

In Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

Evidlo·Sep 15, 2023

Seems like there are apks on the Github repo: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/releases

In iNaturalist strikes out on its own

geokon·Sep 15, 2023

In case anyone else is wondering why it's not on Fdroid: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/issues/654 (tldr: uses Google Maps and analytics)

In iNaturalist strikes out on its own

sphars·Sep 15, 2023

Old thread, but looks like due to non-FOSS dependencies, it's not likely to happen: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/issues/104...

In iNaturalist strikes out on its own

em-bee·May 25, 2023

it seems you can get iNaturalist also from github: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/releases i just checked my banks, they are on google play and on the huawei app store, the latter though is not really an alternative i would trust any more than google, and i didn't see if it allows download without an account, but fortunately for myself i don't want banking on my phone anyways, as the phone is the most likely device to break, lost or stolen, nor do i care about those others. but that's just me. i found apkmirror manageable, thanks to the adblocker i guess.

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