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Learn the species you see
Quick flashcard rounds built from real nature photos — birds, plants, insects, fungi and more
Every card is a real observation, with five believable options drawn from genuine look-alikes — so you learn the difference, not just the answer.
An accuracy line that climbs as you play, counted card by card so a one-card round can’t flatter it — and, right below it, the exact species pairs you keep mixing up, spotted from your own answers.
Turn your weak spots into practice. gote drills the species you keep confusing two-up — one photo, two names — until you can call them apart. And once you know a species cold, it can swap in a fresh official photo, so you’re learning the species itself, not memorising one picture.
See exactly which ones you’ve nailed and which keep tripping you up — every right and wrong answer, ranked by how reliably you know each, so a species you’ve met once can’t claim the top spot.
Drop a pin and study the species most commonly seen there — drawn from every iNaturalist observer around that spot, not just your own records.
Play it your way — Smart play mixes picking the name, picking the photo, look-alike pairs and typing it from memory; or go for speedrun, nearby species or flash cards. All from your own iNaturalist observations, or from what’s commonly seen around any spot on the map.
Play a quick round on your wrist, and keep your lifetime accuracy and streak right on your watch face.
A few features we’re planning — not in the app yet.
Build your own set — a local patch, a field trip, a class syllabus — and share it with anyone through a single link.
Smarter practice that resurfaces each species right before you’d forget it, so the names stick for good.
Rounds that quietly lean into your weak spots and ease off on the ones you’ve already mastered.
The birders, the plant people, and anyone who’s ever crouched over something small and wondered what on earth it was.
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