Spidentify is Australia's digital guide to Australian spiders. This continent is home to a huge number of spiders. Spidentify will help you identify what you have encountered - no matter where you are!

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Spidentify is Australia’s digital guide to Australian spiders. This continent is home to a huge number of spiders. Spidentify will help you identify what you have encountered – no matter where you are!

Spidentify, Australia's spider ID app

Minibeast Wildlife’s Spidentify award-winning app – the pocket ID tool and field guide for all Australians.

Spiders are a fact of life for Australians. We share our homes with them, check our shoes for them, run away from them – and yet, we often know surprisingly little about them. When it comes to telling the potentially dangerous ones from the harmless, the web-spinners from the burrow-dwellers, the back end from the front – what do we really know?

Minibeast Wildlife’s innovative Spidentify app for Australian spiders puts the key to this complex and fascinating world of spiders in the palm of your hand. We guide you step-by-step through identifying each spider you find, using what you see to build a personalised list of the most likely suspects. Quickly access information out in the field, and leave the heavy reference books behind.

The ID tool asks you a series of basic questions about the spider you have found

It narrows down the species based on your answers

It provides the best match followed by other possible options

Spidentify takes into account where you are in Australia and doesn't give you overseas spiders in your results

You can also simply browse through the various families of spiders to learn more about them

Each spider has been carefully photographed live to clearly reveal its features

A colour code is used to show which species are potentially dangerous

Click on the spiders to see them up close...

Each spider has detailed information about it which helps to confirm the ID

Spidentify provides more specific information about each species than any Australian spider book

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Spider identification made easy!

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Detailed information on hundreds of Australian species with supplementary content explaining spider anatomy, dispelling myths, answering common questions, plus helpful pop-ups explaining technical words in simple language.

QUALITATIVE

High resolution photographs captured by Alan and Caitlin Henderson, professional macro photographers and spider specialists.

INTERACTIVE

Step-by-step questionnaire guiding the user through the process of identifying an unknown spider, providing with a list of species that best match the given description.

AFFORDABLE

$4.49 for a life-time of identifying spiders around your house, on holiday, on your travels in Australia. You can download the app data and access it wherever you are in Australia, even if you have no signal or WIFI!

Award winner app!

Spidentify has been recognised by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales at the Whitley Awards Ceremony. The annual Whitley Awards celebrate excellence in zoological publishing and it was an honour to be acknowledged along side many high quality publications. Spidentify was awarded a Certificate of Commendation for the Digital Field Guide category. We are extremely proud that it has been recognised in this way, and are thrilled to see it becoming extremely popular and helping people to identify and appreciate our Australia spider fauna.

What do our App users say?

'' Well made, with a clean, easy to use interface. I used the app to identify a couple of spiders that I had taken photos of recently in the garden. I was only doing it as a test because I already knew what species my photos were of. I answered all the ID questions based upon the details in my pics, and this app absolutely nailed it. I also love that the photos in the app are good quality, it makes getting a reliable ID a lot easier. Those who have ever resorted to a google image search for a spider will know how unreliable pictures on the internet can be. ''

'' Fabulous guide! It has helped me overcome my fear of spiders to a large degree. Being able to identify the type of spider, it's behaviour & bite toxicity has been a real help in overcoming my fear. I am now looking for spiders to id & photograph wherever I go. I am 60 & have been terrified of spiders. ''

" I use this app quite often when doing yard work to ID spiders I come across. I love knowing what I have in my yard and watching them go about their day :). "

" Very well thought-out app. Works very well the way it guides you through to an identification. It is also very good for general browsing to learn more about spider species, their behaviour, etc. "

'' I love this app so much and recommend it to every person I know the second spiders are mentioned! I can't wait to see this app expand and grow and I want to make sure I'm pushing people to support it so I can see that happen! The macro photography is just gorgeous and the information provided has been so helpful in dismantling myths and educating both myself and the people around me about our local arachnids. ''

'' Great to be able to find out what random spider I'm seeing at work or home and also being able to read about it. Saves me having to go through google for hours to find out about one random spider. ''

Want to learn more about Australian spiders?

More about Australian spiders, all spider families described and FAQ about the arachnid family on the Spidentify app website.

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