WildVisor
Citizen science · Nature

Watch, identify, protect.

WildVisor identifies animals and plants from a photo, warns you when dangerous species have been reported nearby, and turns every sighting into useful citizen-science data.

Free, in 7 languages. Available for Android.

What it does

Four things, all built to make a day outdoors safer — and to teach you something along the way.

Identify from a photo

Take the photo and WildVisor returns up to five candidate species with common and scientific names, a danger level and a full profile. Identification runs on our servers, so it needs a connection.

Map with parks and sightings

A map that opens framing the nearest national park, showing the community's sightings. Locations of threatened species are shown blurred.

Dangerous-species alerts

Tiered warnings when risky sightings have been verified near you, with concrete instructions on what to do — and what not to.

Emergency button

Dials the emergency number of the country you are in and can text your approximate location. Includes poison-control centres for twenty countries.

Safety first, with no exceptions

A nature app can push people to get closer to an animal for the shot. WildVisor is built to do the opposite.

No known risk Caution Danger

Photos with people next to wildlife are rejected

Not a warning — a filter that blocks publication. Keeping your distance protects the animal and the photographer.

AI alone never raises a red alert

Top-risk alerts require verification by the community or by an expert before they go out.

Identifying a dangerous species is always free

If the system detects risk, the full identification is shown even if you have run out of daily identifications. Safety is not billed.

Privacy, said plainly

We would rather explain exactly what happens to your data than promise more than we deliver.

Your photos are sent to our server to be identified

The AI that recognises the species does not run on your phone: the photo is downscaled and sent encrypted to our server, which analyses it and returns the result. Without a connection there is no identification.

Before it leaves the phone, the app strips the location data from the image (the EXIF metadata holding the coordinates). The sighting's location is stored separately and handled carefully.

You can use it without an account

The app opens straight away. Creating an account is optional and only needed to publish sightings and join the community.

Threatened species are blurred

Exact coordinates of vulnerable or endangered species are never published: they are rounded to roughly 11 km so nobody can go looking for them.

No ads, no data selling

WildVisor carries no advertising and does not share your data with advertisers. Full details are in the privacy policy.

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