AI Species Identification

Not sure what you just saw? Ask the camera.

Snap a photo, crop in on the animal, and opspoor’s on-device AI suggests the species by name with a match confidence — right there in the field, no signal needed. Confirm it and you’re straight into logging the sighting with the species already filled in.

Built for the moment you’re staring at something in the bush with no idea what it’s called — not for replacing a field guide, for getting you logging faster than flipping through one.

opspoor's AI species identification suggesting a Black-backed Jackal with a 93% match confidence, with Confirm and Not This options

From photo to logged sighting

Four taps, no field guide required.

  • Take a photo, or pick one from your gallery

    Start from "What did you see?" when logging a sighting and tap Scan a Photo — camera or gallery, your choice.

  • Crop in on the animal

    Frame the subject for a cleaner read, or skip straight to identifying the full photo.

Only on opspoor

The identification runs on your phone, not in the cloud.

Most parks are exactly where signal disappears. opspoor’s model lives on your device, so identification works the same deep in the bush with zero bars as it does at the gate — in keeping with everything else opspoor does offline: log sightings, browse the feed, check the map, all without a connection, then sync once you’re back in range.

Zero signal required, start to finish.

Inside AI Species ID

A closer look

  • Scan a Photo — Tap the AI shortcut from species search
  • Camera or Gallery — Shoot fresh, or pick an existing photo
  • Frame the Animal — Crop in for a cleaner read
  • One Confident Match — Species name, with its match %
  • Confirmed & Filled In — Straight into Add Sighting

Under the hood

204 species, and it knows when it’s not sure.

opspoor’s model currently recognises 204 species and only surfaces a suggestion once it clears a minimum confidence bar — below that, it says so and guides you to a better-lit or closer photo instead of guessing. It also knows which species actually occur in the park you’re in, and weighs its answer accordingly. It’s a second opinion to speed up logging, not a replacement for your own eyes.

Stop wondering what you just saw.

opspoor is live now on Google Play — free to download, with on-device AI species identification built in. iOS is coming soon.

On iPhone? Get notified the moment opspoor launches on the App Store.