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Learn the species you see

Real nature photos, with questions that adapt as you learn — birds, plants, insects, fungi and more

Download on the App Store Coming soon onGoogle Play
View the source on GitHub iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Android
The gote home screen — a strip of recent observations above the Smart play card, with its four question types and a round-length slider

Press start and gote picks the questions

Your newest sightings sit at the top. Hit start, and gote works out what to ask: the name while a species is new, its photo once that’s easy, then the look-alike it hides behind. Know it cold and you just type it.

A gote photo quiz — a bilberry shrub in fruit, with five look-alike species names to choose from

See an organism and name what you’re looking at

Every card is a real observation, with five believable options drawn from genuine look-alikes — so you learn the difference, not just the answer.

gote statistics — recent games and an accuracy trend line above a “Species you mix up” list of look-alike pairs

Feel yourself getting sharper

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.

gote duel drill — a wasp nest in a tree, with two look-alike yellowjacket names to choose between

Advanced learning features

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 slips that pair back into later rounds on its own until it sticks. 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.

gote per-species stats — each species with its correct and incorrect answer counts, ranked by how reliably you know it

Detailed analytics, species by species

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.

gote nearby-species setup — a map with a location pin and a search radius

Learn the local fauna and flora

Drop a pin and study the species most commonly seen there — drawn from every iNaturalist observer around that spot, not just your own records.

Or play another way — speedrun against three lives, nearby species from any spot on the map, or flash cards you grade yourself. All from your own iNaturalist observations, or from what’s commonly seen around that spot.

Also on Apple Watch.

Play a quick round on your wrist, and keep your lifetime accuracy and streak right on your watch face.

gote on Apple Watch — a real nature photo to identify
A photo on your wrist
gote Apple Watch complications — accuracy ring and streak on the watch face
Watch-face complications

On the horizon

A few features we’re planning — not in the app yet.

For the perpetually curious.

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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