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iNaturalist

Who runs iNaturalist, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest citizen science biodiversity alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Observation.org

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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
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.

tracker that follows visitors

6 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to iNaturalist

Fewer trackers than iNaturalistNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to iNaturalist match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy 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.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 6 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,222
Vector
384-d
Query
35 ms

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Languages & backends
  • Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
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