About
An identification you can actually trust.
Most photo identifiers hand you a name and a percentage, with no way to tell whether to believe it. SpecieSense is built around the opposite idea: a verdict is only as good as the evidence and reasoning behind it, so we show you both.
Grounded in real-world observations
Behind every determination is a large body of real-world observation records: where a species has actually been seen, what it looks like across its range, and which look-alikes share its habitat. The match is weighed against that evidence, not pattern-matched in isolation.
It shows its work
As it thinks, you watch it study the photo, raise candidates, compare close look-alikes and rule them out. The final field note explains the distinctive features that settled it, the way a careful naturalist would talk you through a specimen.
Honest about what it can't tell
A single photo often can't settle a species with certainty. SpecieSense says so, giving a confidence level, naming what remains ambiguous, and suggesting exactly what to photograph next. It would rather be honestly uncertain than confidently wrong.
See it reason for yourself.
Your first identification is free. Photograph anything alive and watch how it reaches a verdict.
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