Join the NASA team by helping us classify coral reefs! Travel the world, make friends with ocean wildlife, and classify real coral by painting in 3D. The classifications you create go directly to NASA and help protect the oceans!
* 3D PAINTING - Relax and fingerpaint, or use an Apple Pencil, to express yourself and help the environment
* UNDERWATER WORLDS - Explore the open ocean meeting clownfish, sea turtles, whale shark and more
* LEARN AS YOU GO - Learn about the oceans and how to classify coral as you go, no prior knowledge needed
* PLAY IN AR - View the world’s corals in your own house on any augmented reality enabled device
Awesome app! It’s very straightforward to use for anybody, and you get to learn about marine coral and more by using; and simultaneously helping NASA to better map and evaluate the health of our Coral reefs. You get to paint color coding overlays onto detailed 3D coral plots of real coral, which is satisfying to do by itself, but also feels really good because the 3D data you are analyzing is real mapped coral and your submissions get sent to a real super computer which helps compile data and improve its AI through public inputs. All in all: a great resource to have fun and learn while literally helping improve data to help save the planet!
-Thanks to the team at NASA working on saving our reefs, and the people who made this app!
(I end up using this app for periods of 30 minutes or more because it’s so satisfying and borderline addictive to submit your work because you know it has a real impact. For most people, it’s seemly small actions that will contribute large scale globally: in the case of saving our reefs, which are being harmed by human impacts, everything little change or effort you make, contributes to a larger effort. SO PLAY YOUR PART AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE by just downloading this app!
Marts6509,
Game with purpose
I love everything about this application. It’s a game where you can learn, enjoy and help save the planet even if it’s in a small proportion. The application does a great job at making you feeling significant in the journey to environmental appreciation and salvation. As a biologist, I am learning even more about coral reefs and hopefully with the data sent we can make even bigger discoveries! I even feel honored to be a part of such an important study.
FictionalMern,
Need more info for Tumon Bay
So I have been using this app for months. Not to be rude but this is a citizen science app not a coloring page for your toddler! If you cannot read or just don’t want to, please don’t think this app is for you! I keep reviewing transects for Tumon Bay. I don’t know why but I feel like a lot of the pictures are getting misidentified by users. There are some new classifications used in the Tumon Bay area that I feel people are misunderstanding. I had to go online to figure out what a fire coral looks like and I’m not sure everyone knows the difference between beach sand and underwater sand. when there’s an anthropogenic object I think that may need defined. It would be nice if NASA uploaded definitions for the new classifications specific to Tumon Bay. That way everyone using the app is on the same page!
DJ Kenneth A,
Great concept
This is a great idea for a “game”. Help researchers identify coral, learn among the way, level up etc. the 3D models are very nice and the music is very fitting. There are some technical issues it seems though. Downloading data and loading data is not consistent and sometimes just straight up doesn’t happen. (It makes doing things like reviewing very difficult to accomplish). If those small things can get ironed out this would be an amazing seamless experience
Todd the builder,
Fun !
This is really fun! I don’t usually play games on my phone but this ones going to give me a crick in the neck for sure. It’s addictive, but instead of spending time wasting time like most games, I’m spending that time exploring the oceans for REAL ! I could see kids spending hrs on this thing without so much as peep, much less a “Mommy” and they are learning too?! It’s too good! 👍👍 I only wish it worked on my old iPad, can’t win them all I suppose .
Petey7789,
Loving the reef!
I’m a novice reef tank hobbyist. While searching for coral guide apps I came across this app. Really happy that one of NASA’s focuses is reef preservation across the globe. Corals are such amazing animals and true treasures on this planet. This app is in fact very educational and I really enjoy reading about facts of each coral type. Really happy to see many people who are passionate about ocean conservation joining this community.
🔑✉️📫📈📒,
Great Game!!
Easy to use, fun to play ,and educational all at the same time. I love that while it’s super entertaining, it also contributes to science and helps others to better understand our oceans and learn more about fish, and coral. It feels nice to know you are helping change our Earth for the better while also being able to have fun. :)
ivan hitman,
Incredible
This is an incredible tool to help actually improve the world in which we live in. Training Nasa’s ai to be able to classify these reefs is such a valuable tool to understanding our surroundings and be able to assess the damage we’ve cause and hel us learn what we can do to reverse the damage before its too late
pplunkett44,
Love this game but could use some improvements
I absolutely LOVE this game. But there are some minor improvements I would like to see: the ability to make all colors except the current color invisible/more transparent, and secondly a meter to show what % of the coral patch you have covered with paint so you don’t miss anything. Overall I love this game and I love the feeling of doing something easy to help out our oceans!
Johnsene,
LOVE IT
This app is amazing!! As a marine biologist I can’t think of a better excuse to glue myself to my phone. However, I’m experiencing issues when downloading coral. It says to be patient, but I literally was waiting 10 minutes for it to load, and it still hasn’t loaded. I’m trying to classify satellite data, but it just won’t load or progress further. Help?