#seekapp — Public Fediverse posts
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My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2025 Year in Review:
* 101 new species observed (down from 141 last year)
Top three kinds:
* 64 new plants (down from 79)
* 14 new insects (down from 20)
* 8 new fungi
* 4 new challenge badges earned (down from 56)
July, June, February were the months I observed the most new species.
Last year: June, March, July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
As noted last year: https://tantek.com/2025/020/t1/seek-2024-year-in-review
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works:
1. works without creating an account
2. works completely offline to identify species
3. adds new species to your local collection on your device
Those first two capabilities (no login wall, offline first) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2026/002/t1/find-export-strava-year-in-sport
→ https://tantek.com/2026/004/t1/year-in-sport
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2024 Year in Review:
* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds:
* 79 plants
* 20 insects
* 16 fungi
* 56 challenge badges earned
June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
Rather than posting screenshots of the Year in Review that Seek provided me in the app, I am posting the relevant content here in a post on my personal site, which I know I’ll be able to search and look up in the future.
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works without creating an account, and is able to work completely offline to identify species out in the wild (and add them to your local collection).
Seek awards you Species Badges when you discover a number of species of a particular grouping, as well as Challenge Badges when you complete one or more of their monthly challenges that they post.
In some ways it’s like Pokemon Go, except based on finding and collecting observations of real living things.
I have found it quite useful especially when traveling, and wondering is that plant (or animal) the same as one I’ve seen elsewhere, perhaps around home, or is it a slightly different species?
I also really like the good example that Seek provides for how an app can be immediately useful without requiring extra labor (like creating an account, or logging on) on behalf of the person using it.
Lastly, Seek is an excellent example of a truly offline capable app where nearly all of its functionality works just fine without a network connection.
Both of these capabilities (offline first, no login wall) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2024 Year in Review:
* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds:
* 79 plants
* 20 insects
* 16 fungi
* 56 challenge badges earned
June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
Rather than posting screenshots of the Year in Review that Seek provided me in the app, I am posting the relevant content here in a post on my personal site, which I know I’ll be able to search and look up in the future.
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works without creating an account, and is able to work completely offline to identify species out in the wild (and add them to your local collection).
Seek awards you Species Badges when you discover a number of species of a particular grouping, as well as Challenge Badges when you complete one or more of their monthly challenges that they post.
In some ways it’s like Pokemon Go, except based on finding and collecting observations of real living things.
I have found it quite useful especially when traveling, and wondering is that plant (or animal) the same as one I’ve seen elsewhere, perhaps around home, or is it a slightly different species?
I also really like the good example that Seek provides for how an app can be immediately useful without requiring extra labor (like creating an account, or logging on) on behalf of the person using it.
Lastly, Seek is an excellent example of a truly offline capable app where nearly all of its functionality works just fine without a network connection.
Both of these capabilities (offline first, no login wall) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2024 Year in Review:
* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds:
* 79 plants
* 20 insects
* 16 fungi
* 56 challenge badges earned
June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
Rather than posting screenshots of the Year in Review that Seek provided me in the app, I am posting the relevant content here in a post on my personal site, which I know I’ll be able to search and look up in the future.
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works without creating an account, and is able to work completely offline to identify species out in the wild (and add them to your local collection).
Seek awards you Species Badges when you discover a number of species of a particular grouping, as well as Challenge Badges when you complete one or more of their monthly challenges that they post.
In some ways it’s like Pokemon Go, except based on finding and collecting observations of real living things.
I have found it quite useful especially when traveling, and wondering is that plant (or animal) the same as one I’ve seen elsewhere, perhaps around home, or is it a slightly different species?
I also really like the good example that Seek provides for how an app can be immediately useful without requiring extra labor (like creating an account, or logging on) on behalf of the person using it.
Lastly, Seek is an excellent example of a truly offline capable app where nearly all of its functionality works just fine without a network connection.
Both of these capabilities (offline first, no login wall) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2024 Year in Review:
* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds:
* 79 plants
* 20 insects
* 16 fungi
* 56 challenge badges earned
June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
Rather than posting screenshots of the Year in Review that Seek provided me in the app, I am posting the relevant content here in a post on my personal site, which I know I’ll be able to search and look up in the future.
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works without creating an account, and is able to work completely offline to identify species out in the wild (and add them to your local collection).
Seek awards you Species Badges when you discover a number of species of a particular grouping, as well as Challenge Badges when you complete one or more of their monthly challenges that they post.
In some ways it’s like Pokemon Go, except based on finding and collecting observations of real living things.
I have found it quite useful especially when traveling, and wondering is that plant (or animal) the same as one I’ve seen elsewhere, perhaps around home, or is it a slightly different species?
I also really like the good example that Seek provides for how an app can be immediately useful without requiring extra labor (like creating an account, or logging on) on behalf of the person using it.
Lastly, Seek is an excellent example of a truly offline capable app where nearly all of its functionality works just fine without a network connection.
Both of these capabilities (offline first, no login wall) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
My Seek 2024 Year in Review:
* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds:
* 79 plants
* 20 insects
* 16 fungi
* 56 challenge badges earned
June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
Rather than posting screenshots of the Year in Review that Seek provided me in the app, I am posting the relevant content here in a post on my personal site, which I know I’ll be able to search and look up in the future.
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works without creating an account, and is able to work completely offline to identify species out in the wild (and add them to your local collection).
Seek awards you Species Badges when you discover a number of species of a particular grouping, as well as Challenge Badges when you complete one or more of their monthly challenges that they post.
In some ways it’s like Pokemon Go, except based on finding and collecting observations of real living things.
I have found it quite useful especially when traveling, and wondering is that plant (or animal) the same as one I’ve seen elsewhere, perhaps around home, or is it a slightly different species?
I also really like the good example that Seek provides for how an app can be immediately useful without requiring extra labor (like creating an account, or logging on) on behalf of the person using it.
Lastly, Seek is an excellent example of a truly offline capable app where nearly all of its functionality works just fine without a network connection.
Both of these capabilities (offline first, no login wall) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ https://tantek.com/2025/055/t1/three-steps-indieweb-cybersecurity
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first -
So I just saw this beetle for the first time ever and learned via #SeekApp that it is called a Rustic Sailor Beetle and I just may have never been so charmed in my whole bug watching life. #beetles #insects #bugstodon #PNW #OlympiaWA #nature #photography #NaturePhotography
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So I just saw this beetle for the first time ever and learned via #SeekApp that it is called a Rustic Sailor Beetle and I just may have never been so charmed in my whole bug watching life. #beetles #insects #bugstodon #PNW #OlympiaWA #nature #photography #NaturePhotography
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So I just saw this beetle for the first time ever and learned via #SeekApp that it is called a Rustic Sailor Beetle and I just may have never been so charmed in my whole bug watching life. #beetles #insects #bugstodon #PNW #OlympiaWA #nature #photography #NaturePhotography
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So I just saw this beetle for the first time ever and learned via #SeekApp that it is called a Rustic Sailor Beetle and I just may have never been so charmed in my whole bug watching life. #beetles #insects #bugstodon #PNW #OlympiaWA #nature #photography #NaturePhotography
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So I just saw this beetle for the first time ever and learned via #SeekApp that it is called a Rustic Sailor Beetle and I just may have never been so charmed in my whole bug watching life. #beetles #insects #bugstodon #PNW #OlympiaWA #nature #photography #NaturePhotography
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My brother asked me to identify these plants at his new home. After scanning them with Seek and verifying the results I think I accurately ID’ed them as native plants. Then he informed me that he was planning on ripping them all up and paying $3500 to plant a monoculture lawn😫. It’s like asking me to name chickens and then cooking them for dinner! I almost dug them up to bring home but I was afraid they wouldn’t survive the drive.
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My brother asked me to identify these plants at his new home. After scanning them with Seek and verifying the results I think I accurately ID’ed them as native plants. Then he informed me that he was planning on ripping them all up and paying $3500 to plant a monoculture lawn😫. It’s like asking me to name chickens and then cooking them for dinner! I almost dug them up to bring home but I was afraid they wouldn’t survive the drive.
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My brother asked me to identify these plants at his new home. After scanning them with Seek and verifying the results I think I accurately ID’ed them as native plants. Then he informed me that he was planning on ripping them all up and paying $3500 to plant a monoculture lawn😫. It’s like asking me to name chickens and then cooking them for dinner! I almost dug them up to bring home but I was afraid they wouldn’t survive the drive.
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My brother asked me to identify these plants at his new home. After scanning them with Seek and verifying the results I think I accurately ID’ed them as native plants. Then he informed me that he was planning on ripping them all up and paying $3500 to plant a monoculture lawn😫. It’s like asking me to name chickens and then cooking them for dinner! I almost dug them up to bring home but I was afraid they wouldn’t survive the drive.
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We were walking in the woods yesterday, and trying to capture a bird on Merlin.
Turns out it was a tree frog. Neat! Also, #SeekApp needs to add audio ID!
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We were walking in the woods yesterday, and trying to capture a bird on Merlin.
Turns out it was a tree frog. Neat! Also, #SeekApp needs to add audio ID!
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We were walking in the woods yesterday, and trying to capture a bird on Merlin.
Turns out it was a tree frog. Neat! Also, #SeekApp needs to add audio ID!
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We were walking in the woods yesterday, and trying to capture a bird on Merlin.
Turns out it was a tree frog. Neat! Also, #SeekApp needs to add audio ID!
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I had forgotten about this #beetle that we spotted on that hike years ago now in #Colorado . I did a search for it using the #SeekApp and it identified it as a Tricrania stansburyi beetle. ~ http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkeS2kGjW-A/TZayBiT2m4I/AAAAAAAACFk/YRxuDT7RYhk/s1600/DSCF3871.JPG?mibextid=Zxz2cZ ~ #Insects #Coleoptera #Tricraniastansburyi #beetles #Colorado #SkunkTracksBlog
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I had forgotten about this #beetle that we spotted on that hike years ago now in #Colorado . I did a search for it using the #SeekApp and it identified it as a Tricrania stansburyi beetle. ~ http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkeS2kGjW-A/TZayBiT2m4I/AAAAAAAACFk/YRxuDT7RYhk/s1600/DSCF3871.JPG?mibextid=Zxz2cZ ~ #Insects #Coleoptera #Tricraniastansburyi #beetles #Colorado #SkunkTracksBlog
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I had forgotten about this #beetle that we spotted on that hike years ago now in #Colorado . I did a search for it using the #SeekApp and it identified it as a Tricrania stansburyi beetle. ~ http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkeS2kGjW-A/TZayBiT2m4I/AAAAAAAACFk/YRxuDT7RYhk/s1600/DSCF3871.JPG?mibextid=Zxz2cZ ~ #Insects #Coleoptera #Tricraniastansburyi #beetles #Colorado #SkunkTracksBlog
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I had forgotten about this #beetle that we spotted on that hike years ago now in #Colorado . I did a search for it using the #SeekApp and it identified it as a Tricrania stansburyi beetle. ~ http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkeS2kGjW-A/TZayBiT2m4I/AAAAAAAACFk/YRxuDT7RYhk/s1600/DSCF3871.JPG?mibextid=Zxz2cZ ~ #Insects #Coleoptera #Tricraniastansburyi #beetles #Colorado #SkunkTracksBlog
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#Mosstodon, Stairstep #moss in Girly Bog Co Meath #Ireland. https://bit.ly/3XxCcEV (The actual Irish language name is Portach Na Greallaí. Portach (bog)and Greallaí (mire, puddly ground) #SeekApp
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#Mosstodon, Stairstep #moss in Girly Bog Co Meath #Ireland. https://bit.ly/3XxCcEV (The actual Irish language name is Portach Na Greallaí. Portach (bog)and Greallaí (mire, puddly ground) #SeekApp