Animal Identifier App

It has the eye.
You have the photos.

Specio automatically identifies the animal species in your photos turning a lifetime of wildlife observations into a searchable species archive.

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No Subscriptions No Cloud Keywords Synced Non-Destructive
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Trusted by wildlife lovers worldwide
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450 000+
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supports Specio
17M+
photos analyzed
100%
local analysis — zero cloud
How it works

Three steps, zero migration

Specio works hand in hand with the apps you already use. You keep your catalogs, your habits, your originals.

01SOURCES

Specio looks

Connect your photo sources to Specio for analysis—from Lightroom, Apple Photos, Google Photos, or any folder—without ever altering your original files.

02AI ANALYSIS

The beast thinks

Using your machine’s neural engine, Specio detects every animal in your photos, highlights it, and suggests the most likely species.

03REVIEW

You decide

Confirm the identification, and Specio writes the species name and full taxonomy as keywords back to your photo app.

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Supported by
Specio is backed by the

The project is supported by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, through its fund for innovation in visual content.

Integrations

One eye on all your photo apps

Specio never asks you to move a file. It plugs into the libraries you already use, looks at the photos, and writes the species back as keywords.

Lightroom Classic
Plug-in — keywords sync to the catalog
Adobe Bridge & Photoshop
Keywords written back to the file
Folders
Keywords written back to the file
Peakto Coming soon
Native integration — by Cyme too
Apple Photos
Keywords written back to the app
Google Photos Coming soon
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Detects, identifies, and classifies—while your photos stay entirely on your machine.
Species exploration Photo tagging Synchronization
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Exploration mode

Your wild kingdom, finally mapped

Your latest discoveries, a globe of your wildlife hotspots, and a card per group — birds, mammals, reptiles, under the sea, insects.

  • Search by species, genus or family — common or Latin names
  • Filter by rating, color, place, gear and date
  • Cover photos picked automatically by quality
Specio Explore screen
Specio identification studio
Animal identification

Decide case by case, hands on the keyboard

The queue on the left, the photo and its boxes in the center, the candidates on the right. Enter confirms, the arrows move on — a whole photo gets confirmed without touching the mouse.

  • Batch-confirm high-confidence detections, adjustable threshold
  • Draw a box by hand, Specio identifies it instantly
  • Undo / redo — keywords always follow
Tree of life

From kingdom to species, your whole catalog unfolded

Classes, orders, families, species: your collection arranged across the classification, with thumbnails per branch and CSV export.

  • 3,417 species, 1,294 families, 313 orders, 75 classes
  • Filter by group, status and confidence level
  • One click on a thumbnail opens the identification studio
Specio tree of life

Five kingdoms sleep
in your catalog

Birds, mammals, reptiles, marine life, insects — Specio counts your species by group and shows you how much you've discovered.

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Specio in the wild

Made by 500+ explorers

Shaped by feedback from wildlife lovers worldwide, Specio keeps growing smarter and more useful for everyone.

500+ Specio users around the world
+500 early testers · 68 countries
Privacy by design

It looks at your photos. Nobody else does.

Everything happens inside your computer — detection, identification, keywords. No account, no upload, no photo sitting on somebody else's server. Specio works the same on a plane as it does at home.

Your machine
Your library
Lightroom, Apple Photos, folders — originals untouched
Specio
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Neural engine on Mac, GPU on Windows
Keywords back
Only what you confirm, written where the photo lives
No cloud
not a single photo uploaded
You stay in control

Specio suggests, you confirm. 

Works offline

In the field, on a plane, on a NAS with no internet at all.

Non-destructive

Keywords only — never your pixels, edits or originals.

The team behind Specio

Made by Cyme, the team behind Peakto

For years we have built tools for creatives. Peakto, our AI-powered media manager, won a NAB Show Product of the Year 2025 award. Specio is what happens when that same team points its attention at wildlife.

Award
NAB Show Product of the Year 2025
Won by Peakto, our media manager
7 yrs
Building solutions for creatives
2 apps
Peakto and Specio, one shared craft
Software built to last — you own your license, your files and your data
FAQ

Questions we get asked

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