Aotearoa Species Classifier
Aotearoa Species Classifier Summary
Aotearoa Species Classifier is a mobile Android app in Education by Waikato Uni ML Group. Released in Sep 2025 (7 months ago). It has about 2.4K+ installs Based on AppGoblin estimates, it reaches roughly 188 monthly active users . Store metadata: updated Sep 4, 2025.
Recent activity: 78 installs this week (357 over 4 weeks) showing steady growth View trends →
Store info: Last updated on Google Play on Sep 4, 2025 .
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App Description
An app built to identify species that occur in New Zealand.
This app applies a neural network model to identify species present in photos. The neural network has been trained on images collected in New Zealand via iNaturalist. Classification of species is performed on-device.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This app cannot reliably identify invasive species that were not included in its training data — for example, the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina). If such a species is submitted, the app may either:
- Refuse classification with a message like “Confidence too low”
- Misclassify the specimen as a similar-looking species with low or moderate confidence
For instance, an Asian hornet may be incorrectly identified as a Common European Yellowjacket (Vespula vulgaris), German Yellowjacket (Vespula germanica), or Australian Paper Wasp (Polistes humilis), with a confidence score between 40% and 80%.
Training Data Cutoff:
No observations uploaded to iNaturalist after 30 August 2023 were used to train the model.