4.4
442 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Butterflies are in trouble. A third of UK species are threatened and three-quarters are in decline. Butterfly recording is the foundation for protecting these beautiful creatures. The iRecord Butterflies app has been developed by the charity Butterfly Conservation and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology to help you identify the butterflies that you see and to submit your sightings through iRecord so that they can be used to protect butterflies and the environment.

The app uses your location and the time of year to help with identification, presenting the butterflies that you are most likely to see at the top of the list. It has galleries of colour photographs showing all UK butterflies, at all stages of their life cycles, and tips to help with the identification of difficult species. You can use the app to record a single butterfly or create a list of different species seen during a visit to a site.

Over half a million sightings have already been submitted through the iRecord Butterflies app and are being used by scientists and conservationists to provide vital information about how the fortunes of UK butterflies have changed over the decades. Your sightings will be used to help understand the causes of decline and to inform conservation action on the ground to help threatened species.
Updated on
Sep 4, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info, and Photos and videos
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
442 reviews
Loz B
October 18, 2021
Oh dear. This app has 1 MAJOR flaw. And that is adding the location to your sighting/record. The system only works adequately if you record the sighting the moment you see it, then it will record the location for you. Otherwise it is EXTREMELY time consuming to record sightings when you get home on WiFi as you must navigate to it from a full UK satellite map. You CANNOT select a previous location you've been to either. Very frustrating and has stopped me using this as it's too time consuming.
36 people found this review helpful
david cahill
September 8, 2021
Read this carefully, twice if you're unsure. DO NOT DOWNLOAD BETA VERSION if you have an older version already. Several useful features have been deleted. Memory/records now automatically lost. No location finding. Almost impossible to use Aerial View and no map option. Someone at iRecord has not thought this through and no actual users were asks for their feedback.
19 people found this review helpful
ear wig
April 4, 2022
the only useful bit seems to be the butterfly ID guide. submitting records is fiddly and time consuming. sometimes crashes part way thru submission. doesn't fetch previously submitted records connected to account if eg. change phone. takes up quite abit of disk space, given its not very usefulness. great idea, but not so great reality. not had a good experience of any of this developers apps, which is a shame cos it is counterproductive to encouraging recording.
11 people found this review helpful