Sites like iNaturalist

01 · Entity

About iNaturalist

iNaturalist inaturalist.org

A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist

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

Top 10K · #4,716 English 6 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

A nonprofit citizen science website and mobile app where users record photos and sounds of plants, animals and fungi, get automated and community species identifications, and contribute observations as open biodiversity data for researchers.

Who it’s for

Naturalists, nature enthusiasts, students and biodiversity researchers

Business model

Nonprofit, donations and grants

• citizen science biodiversity
• species identification app
• wildlife observation logging
• plant identification
• biodiversity data
• community species identification
• bioblitz projects
• Seek app for kids
• nature photography records

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to iNaturalist’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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   Smithsonian Institution si.edu Top 10K English

   Smithsonian request verification

   group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government

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2. 02
   National Geographic nationalgeographic.com Top 10K English

   National Geographic

   Explore National Geographic. A world leader in geography, cartography and exploration.

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   Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

   Our World in Data

   Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

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4. 04
   ResearchGate researchgate.net Top 1K English

   ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

   commercial scientific social network

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5. 05
   Live Science livescience.com Top 10K English

   Live Science | Latest science news and articles for those with curious minds

   Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists.

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6. 06
   OSF osf.io Top 10K English

   OSF

   tools that make open science practice easier

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7. 07
   Fur Affinity furaffinity.net Top 10K English

   Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net

   Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!

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8. 08
   Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

   Wikimedia Error

   global social movement for free educational knowledge

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   National Academies nationalacademies.org Top 10K English

   National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

   Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.

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10. 10
    code.org Top 10K English

    Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency | CodeAI

    Bring computer science and AI education to your classroom with CodeAI’s free K–12 curriculum, hands-on projects, and teacher professional development—no prior experience needed.

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11. 11
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

    Home Page

    API endpoint

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12. 12
    ScienceAlert sciencealert.com Top 10K English

    ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs

    The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.

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13. 13
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

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14. 14
    AllTrails alltrails.com Top 10K English

    AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running | AllTrails

    Explore the outdoors with AllTrails, the best app for hiking, biking, and running. Discover curated guides, trail maps, photos, and reviews for over 500,000 trails worldwide.

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15. 15
    Pew Research Center pewresearch.org Top 10K English

    Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-driven social science research

    Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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    CNRS cnrs.fr Top 10K English

    Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

    Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique est le plus grand organisme public français de recherche scientifique. Il exerce son activité dans

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    Instructables instructables.com Top 10K English

    Yours for the making

    Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us!

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    Nature nature.com Top 1K English

    Nature

    First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.

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    Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org Top 10K English

    Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

    Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

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    ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com Top 10K English

    ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news

    Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.

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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to inaturalist.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones iNaturalist uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What iNaturalist is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.