UK Dragonflies

Gave up. I couldn't fathom it all

Not sure why this app asks you to input the vice county. Surely this can be worked out from the grid reference. Not as user-friendly as the iRecord Butterflies app.

Can't enlarge photos to help identify?

I use irecord for butterflies and ladybirds and both are very user friendly but this app seems to be overcomplicated to the point I couldn't make head nor tail of it. Don't want to have to have gps turned on the whole time whilst recording as it eats battery power which seems counter productive. If an app was created with the same user friendlyness as irecord I would definately use it but sadly I won't be using this one :(

As someone who records odonata at a 100 metre resolution on my local sites, this Android application is very useful indeed. It only allows you to start recording when it has a GPS location fix and then monitors this as you walk, creating a set of records - each species recorded in each 100 metre square with total adults and BDS banding for adults, cojoined pairs and ovipositing females. You can also record larval forms etc if you wish. Species selection for recording is based on a drill-down hierarchy, no species name typing required, and results are prepared in a format for emailing to the local recorder. Overall very good, quicker to use than combining a GPS and a notebook, but I'd like to see a link allowing record storage on iRecord.

Amazingly useful