Creek Critters

This app has gone through many iterations over the years in response to user feedback. It’s great for groups, individuals, and families (including families looking for exercise and time in nature while “social/physically distancing” from others during the Covid-19 pandemic) to learn how to identify the critters that live in streams. All instructions are included in the app and materials needed are very simple. Walks you through ID intuitively and rewardingly. You can stop at the easier level or go deeper and learn more specifics about what you’ve found.

New version has many more options and is very user friendly! In this new era I think you should only collect TEN critters at a time to be safe! What a great activity to do with your kids right now.

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I really wanted to like this app as I do stream monitoring and I can see that this app has the potential to help volunteers go through the procedures and do identification. But it doesn’t work well. Navigating through the app is too annoying; requires too much guesswork. Example: Some things that look like arrows are active but some are not so you wonder if you just have to press more accurately, harder, etc. Until you finally give up. Similarly, some pics are active, some aren’t. And so on. Obviously written by someone with little experience with UI design.

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Great app. Will use to encourage youth participation in the outdoors!!