iNaturalist

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs iNaturalist

iNaturalist inaturalist.org

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

Wikidata: citizen science project and website

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What iNaturalist tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

17 of the 60 sites closest to iNaturalist match.

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   Observation.org observation.org English No trackers

   Checking if you are not a bot

   Biodiversity Citizen Science & Monitoring

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Brevo
   • Microsoft 365
   • nginx
   • Amazon Route 53

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   ebird.org English No trackers

   Making sure you're not a bot!

   eBird transforms your bird sightings into science and conservation. Plan trips, find birds, track your lists, explore range maps and bird migration—all free.

   • Microsoft 365

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   Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

   Privacy Guides

   Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Express
   • Ghost
   • jsDelivr

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   DataCite datacite.org English No trackers

   DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite

   international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation

   • Font Awesome
   • Google Search Console
   • Google Workspace
   • Bootstrap
   • cdnjs
   • Google Fonts

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   inria.fr Top 10K English No trackers

   Making sure you're not a bot!

   French research institution in computer science

   • Apple Business

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   Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

   Fight for the Future

   Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Adobe Fonts
   • Apple Business
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Fathom

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   Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

   Liberapay

   We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Bootstrap
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • jQuery

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   Grants.gov grants.gov English No trackers

   Home | Grants.gov

   USA federal website

   • Google Search Console
   • cdnjs
   • Amazon CloudFront
   • Microsoft 365
   • Nuxt
   • Vue.js

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   ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

   ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

   • Cloudflare
   • Google Search Console
   • Angular
   • AngularJS
   • Atlassian
   • Cloudflare Web Analytics

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    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Microsoft 365
    • Miro

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    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Atlassian
    • Microsoft 365
    • nginx
    • Salesforce

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    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Page

    API endpoint

    • Cloudflare
    • Font Awesome
    • Amazon SES
    • Bootstrap
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Amazon CloudFront

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    ORCID orcid.org Top 10K English No trackers

    ORCID

    non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers

    • Cloudflare
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Workspace
    • Apple Business
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Cloudflare DNS

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    Sierra Club sierraclub.org No trackers

    environmental nonprofit membership association based in the United States

    • Google Workspace
    • Amazon SES
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • GlobalSign
    • Imperva

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    CDC cdc.gov Top 1K English No trackers

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC

    United States government public health agency

    • Google Search Console
    • Adobe
    • Akamai Edge DNS
    • Apple Business
    • Atlassian
    • Azure Front Door

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    American Civil Liberties Union aclu.org Top 10K English No trackers

    American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

    The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

    • Google Search Console
    • Adobe
    • Apple Business
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • DocuSign
    • GlobalSign

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    ClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrials.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    ClinicalTrials.gov

    United States government registry of clinical trials

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Cloud
    • Google Cloud DNS
    • Google Fonts

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles iNaturalist’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones iNaturalist uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what iNaturalist adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.