PictureThis - Plant Identifier Reviews

I recently found myself with some time on my hands to hike the trails of Balboa Park in San Diego. I practiced herbal medicine for many years under my acupuncture license in several states, but it's been a long time since I identified and collected plants in the wild. So, I thought it would be fun if I could identify some of the local plants. Spoiler alert: most of them do not appear to be of any medicinal value, but they're still fun to look at. This is the second or third app of this sort that I have tested, and it is infinitely better than any of the others.

When you first open PictureThis , it looks like you need to buy a subscription to use it, but that is not the case. You can dismiss the subscription prompt and open the camera to snap a pic. I'm not sure exactly what you get with the subscription, but it looks like it would be useful for a serious hobbyist and awesome for serious home gardening enthusiasts and organic farmers. In fact, an organic farmer friend of mine says that he regularly uses it to identify weeds in his crops. The only thing I've run across so far that I can't do with the free version is save the photos. There may also be a limit to the total number of pictures per day, but I am not sure and definitely have yet to max out on one of my hikes.

Enthusiastically recommended with no conflict of interest.

Overall, I like PictureThis . I didn’t have time to try the ‘diagnostic’ part of PictureThis . I used it to identify some trees, flowers, bushes and vegetables in my yard and my neighbors’ yards. It did pretty well, identifying about 80% accuracy. It had difficulty identifying the pine trees and it never got the Crab Apple correct (which is small right now, and has no flowers). It identified Rose of Sharon plant, but could not tell me which color flowers were on each plant. Similarly, it got the Garden Dahlia correct, but could not further differentiate the type of flowers on the plant. The nice part is that you could send instant feedback if it identifies a plant incorrectly, and you know what the plant should be! If you don’t know, you can still send feedback easily. I couldn’t find a way to categorize my plants into Trees, bushes, flowers or vegetable garden plants. That improvement would be awesome! I could not create a separate tab for another person’s yard plants. That would make it better for people who might want to use it for their gardening business. PictureThis shows promise, but I don’t want to pay $30 a year for PictureThis . Nice App, but needs better plant differentiation and customization into Trees, bushes, vegetables, etc… I like that they have some gardening books in PictureThis , but you can’t download them and read in another reader App. You must read them in PictureThis .

I love PictureThis It’s so easy to just whip out PictureThis anywhere and snap a pic of any plant and get almost instant results with nice information to annoy your family with! There is only two problems I have encountered. The most pressing problem is that if no WiFi is available you obviously must use data to get results. This isn’t much of a problem as everyone now a days has data or some form of connection. I have a solution for this but first I will say the second problem I have with PictureThis is that it’s constantly pushing you to purchase the subscription. You can easily press the x at the top right corner but I think it’s very easy to accidentally buy it. Now back to my solution for the data thing. I suggest that PictureThis devs make an option to download the entire database on your phone. This would obviously take up some space on your phone but I think it’s worth it. Also I feel that this feature should only be available for subscribed members. Don’t raise the price or anything because I think it’s quite pricey as is. Other than that PictureThis is great! I’ve seen a few apps like this where you take a picture and it takes like 12 hours for results. I think that’s ridiculous. PictureThis is instant. 10/5

I manage an academic greenhouse and PictureThis has actually helped me to narrow down the taxonomy for a few specimen that have been left unidentified or completely misidentified for years. The newer feature that identifies plant stress has also been an extremely useful teaching tool in helping my students understand the signs and symptoms of plant pest and pathogen infestations. The invasives warning has been especially useful for my students to understand and identify invasives on the campus ecological preserve too. I will be downloading PictureThis on all devices for students in ecology to use this upcoming semester. Love it and frequently recommend to everyone even off campus.

It’s obviously not perfect (not sure why some would think a plant ID app would work on mushrooms haha) but it is accurate in providing the correct genera or at least family which can then be used in conjunction with a field guide. As someone who has built multiple phone applications myself and lives a life centered around botany and computer science, I honestly am beyond impressed. I just hope most of the features remain free (if that changes possibly provide a university bundle subscription?) :)

**note: I have not tried PictureThis on unidentified specimen in the herbarium yet but am very curious

Recently, there has been some sort of fake strawberry in our backyard. We knew it wasn’t a real strawberry since it wouldn’t produce flowers and fruit. So I installed picture this and made some experiments. I realized that picture this could not only identify a plant from its flower - it could also do the same from a photo with leaves! When I took A picture of a tomato, picture of this immediately identified that it was a tomato. When I took a picture of what I need to be a real strawberry’s leaf, Picture this accurately identified it as well. Then, came the real experiment. I took a picture of the fake strawberry, Picture this was able to accurately tell me that the fake strawberry was what it said to be a tall buttercup, which is different from a normal buttercup since it’s leaves are bigger. And that was very correct. About why I said that the tall buttercup didn’t produce flowers, I was wrong. Later, small yellow flowers grew. But that didn’t matter. I just pulled the fake strawberries or tall buttercups out and away. All thanks to the amazing Picture This, and rate it 5 stars for its incredible accuracy and help. So, thank you Picture This. I strongly recommend PictureThis to you. Enjoy!

PictureThis does wonders. I may not use it all that often but it is great when I do. The only downside, like a couple other posts, I thought they changed it to where you had to pay to use it. They have it to where the subscription comes up right away and it looks like the only way to do anything is by purchasing the subscription. There a “restore” in the top left and a “cancel” in the top right. The issue with those, they are grayed out so much that they aren’t the easiest to see. I saw the restore one first and it still took quite a while to see the cancel. Where most may not have an issue with finding the cancel so you can advance without purchasing the subscription, some may have a harder time locating the “cancel” and just delete PictureThis and give a bad review. I had this downloaded for quite a long time and have used it before and don’t ever remember the subscription thing being there when you first open. I noticed it months ago and figured it was because I was using iOS 15 beta. Clearly that’s not the case anymore but I didn’t notice the “cancel” in the top right. I would suggest not having it grayed out but making both of those completely white if you’re going to have them so small. 5 star app aside from that issue.

So I tried PictureThis, and some things weren’t correct. I took a picture of some lichen and needed some help identifying what type of lichen it was. I found PictureThis and I thought “huh I’ll give it a spin”, and used the picture of the lichen. It said that the lichen, though completely covering the stick, was a Black Cherry Tree. I thought, “well, this isn’t right.” So then I was skeptical so I tried a picture of some Star Moss I had found to see if it could be trusted,(I’m a huge moss lover!). So I entered in the picture of the Star Moss and it said Moss Campion. So not 100% reliable, but it did say that the Star Moss was moss, but it wasn’t the right type. I entered in another picture of a mushroom I had found. It said it was a type of tree that stood about 98 feet tall, A MUSHROOM!
So I wouldn’t try it. I also saw that the ad was showing the wrong plants for poison oak and ivy and the other plant, but I know poisonous and dangerous things when I see it, and those weren’t dangerous on the ad they were showing. I live in the middle of the country out in Ohio, and I go into our woods a lot. So I know most plant species, like say an oak tree for example, a sycamore, different types of moss like badge moss and star moss and fern moss, etc. I am pretty skilled at it except for the lichens, and fungi, and epiphytes. So I do NOT recommend PictureThis. Consult an expert for how to tell what type of plant it is, not this lying piece of garbage.

A plant identification app has one primary purpose: to accurately identify plants. This one doesn’t. I live with a plant professional with over 35 years of experience. I purchased PictureThis two days ago and since then have taken 48 photos of plants in our yard. Of these, Plant Identifier has accurately identified 20 of them. I took photos a second and third time at different angles and distances. In several cases, PictureThis would come up with a different identification of the plant in the photo each time the photo was taken, but with another wrong identification. In some, the IDs were not even close to the correct name of the plant.

Not only that, but few of the plants I’ve photographed have been identified by variety—the most important way to compare plants within a particular genus or species. But with Plant Identifier, every snake plant is identified as just that, “snake plant,” no matter how different the many different varieties look from each other.

For those of you who thought you were purchasing a great plant identifier app, think again. Many of the plants you have identified using Plant Identifier have been misidentified, if my average so far of less than 50% accuracy has any merit at all. Unless you are fortunate enough to have a professional who knows the plants you are adding to your collection, as I have, I am sorry to have to tell you that you have purchased a bum steer.

Latest update: after reading countless other reviews, this has happened to SO MANY people who have downloaded PictureThis. Whoever writes the “developer response” doesn’t seem to care. I have already emailed support with no response. This company is a scam. I have tried every way possible to end my subscription but any way I access my subscriptions, it does not allow me to cancel or end this membership. At this point I am forced to work with my bank about removing the charge. I just wish more would be done so that this can stop happening to other people in the future. I guess that’s how this company makes their money....

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I have been attempting to end my membership for a week now after accidentally signing up for a premium membership. Seemed like I just picked up my phone and suddenly it was signing up for a subscription I didn’t want. I believe PictureThis made it too easy for that to happen. I immediately attempted to end my membership and after checking my email - it forces me to manage the membership through iTunes. In order to do this properly, I’ve had to remove iTunes and re download it on my computer just to even get to the page they are trying to open from the link in the email. Overall, what I am trying to say is PictureThis is NOT user friendly and I strongly believe they designed it in a way to take money from their customers and make it difficult to get it back.

Update: Not sure what’s going on since the recent update but I’m getting no internet errors when I try to complete the tasks. Everything else works as normal. But now I have overdue care tasks on all my plants. I’ve reached out to for help and it has not been fixed. Very disappointing. I paid for a full year so I’ve been trying to stick it out but I’m having to use other apps to track the care of my plants. I’ll most likely cancel my subscription and subscribe to the premium version of one of those instead.
Original: Its the best app I’ve found for identification and tracking but it’s far from great. It’s ID’d almost all of my plants as Jade Plants at some point and none of them are Jade. And most of the information provided is the same but has whatever plant you’re looking at inserted. So once you’ve read it a few times you’ll recognize it immediately on each new plant. That wouldn’t be terrible but the same pictures are used for every plant so they’re not really helpful at all. If I’m looking for propagation instructions for an aloe plant, why would I want to see pictures of the process for a crassula? Would also be helpful if you could combine results. I have some that were ID’d as one thing when I first got them but found out they were actually something else recently. It would be nice to combine those results to have an accurate record of those plants.

I did the free week trial of premium access, and loved the plant identification part. I loved that part so much i subscibed to the yearly. And canceled the next day. The problem, is that the premium is supposed to give unlimited plant identification. But the free week has only has three or so free, before you have to buy another by watching an ad or sharing it on face book or something. Even though i bought a subscription, i still could not access the ident, because my subscription didnt start until the free week ended. And the “free week” forced me to watch ads to get idents. This was yesterday, so i sent them an email about the problem. Today, i still hadnt received a reply. So Today i had to earn an ident. I hate ads, so i tried sharing to fb. i tried sharing to earn a free ident, but it couldnt connect. It asked if i wanted to automatically connect when available, i said yes. Then the screen went dark and i could get back to other features of PictureThis . 45 minutes later, it was still dark. Total bs. I canceled, since they didnt even bother to reply to my email. Wish i could give it a 5 star, but the bugs and bad customer service forces me to give only a fair rating.

I’ve tried several plant ID apps and Picture This is by far the best. It’s easy to use and I often get a match for the plant I am trying to ID. I like that the common and Latin name are often both provided. It’s very helpful that there are pics in the database of plants at different stages of growth—some flowers look very different as they move through the stages, which can make identifying them difficult. It works best for me if I take pics of plants and then go in the house and have my laptop handy as I use PictureThis to ID them. I can see everything better and if I am unsure of the ID provided I can hop on the computer to do a search. One frustration: once you add a pic, if you can’t ID it right away but figure it out later, you cannot update the listing—you can only add a comment, so it always shows as unidentified. I also wish there was a way to sort the listings in your collection rather only having them listed in reverse chronological order. If there can only be one sort order, I would prefer alphabetical so I could easily see and delete duplicates and have pics of the same plant at different stages grouped by together. I love being able to see pics from gardeners all over the place and make comments and read the comments of others.

Such an amazing app. Learning the trees around me from the roof top. cant wait to get a leaf sample to far and label. This is making learning fun. Being a student means having a question about something and learning about it to satisfy the thirst of learning . This is what I try to inspire and em ole in my students. This is why I opened a virtual school so students can have fun learning again, online. Things they are interested about, exposing your self to new knowledge and information. Let me show you how I think.

Every-time I come from the roof I start sneezing a lot. I know I have allergies from an allergy test, but couldn’t remember the name of the tree pollen. So I googled pollen index in my neighborhood. Then I realized apples weather app wasn’t proving me the information I needed. And I need to outsource. Downloaded a reputable app that gives me daily allergy notifications about the pollen count and learned the 3 types of pollen and how to reduce sneezing. Then I used PictureThis to go a step further to figure out what trees surround me as they are the culprits of my allergy. Haven’t done the analysis but I will .

All and all, we like PictureThis!

PictureThis is amazing! You can easily take pictures of any plant or tree, and it will give you the closest plants to it. I think it gets it correct 95% of the time! It isn’t absolutely perfect, but this is probably as close as it gets! It has a super useful Diagnosing option, that can let you figure out what is wrong with a plant, and describes in detail how to fix it, wether it is bugs, sunlight, water, or pests. Now that we are quarantined at home, I have been spending a lot of time in my garden, and PictureThis is teaching me so much that I didn’t know. The only complaints that I have are the expenses of the premium level. I understand that PictureThis designers have to make money somehow, but it is still too much for me. I am not a serious gardener, I just do it for fun. Maybe they could have different levels of premium, like a level for gardeners who are just curious, for gardeners who are very serious, and for garden professors, or photographers who need to learn about plants for their job. Anyways, I love PictureThis a lot, and would totally recommend it for anyone who loves to grow plants. While it has some flaws, it is better than anything else out there.

I’m an environmental consultant with a wildlife ecology background, but in the last year have been finding myself in more of a botanist role. It’s been an interesting (frustrating) transition, there are literally thousands of plant species in California alone, and learning lesser-known family characteristics has been challenging...gotta love asters and poaceae...but it’s so gratifying when I can finally ID a plant that’s been bugging me.

I only just discovered PictureThis about two months ago, on the recommendation of a fellow professional biologist, and it performs way above what I thought it would. I thought maybe it would identify common horticultural plants like tulips or almond trees. I’m sure it can, but it’s also very good at identifying naturalized plant species. The suggested species identifications are usually in the correct family and sometimes genus, and after checking afterward I usually agree.

Plant keying is still very important in order to determine species and subspecies when rare and endangered [sub]species are being considered. A qualified botanist should conduct surveys during the appropriate survey periods.

Update: I’m THRILLED to see the integration of the ability to add progress photos!! Thank you, developers!!! 😁

PictureThis is exactly what I was looking for in being able to take a picture of my plants, and keep library that could help me remember watering schedules and also provide useful information when my plants look unhealthy. One thing I really wish I had the option for is adding progress photos of my plants without having to add an entire new entry to my garden. I hope to see an “album” feature with each garden entry. Even now I can’t see the full photo of my own plant without pulling the screen down, and once I let go, it goes back to the half photo at the top of the page. I’d even pay to have such a feature, lol. If I see this integrated in a future update, I’d instantly change to 5 stars. Other than that, great job in design and ease of use! I don’t leave reviews often, but I love PictureThis enough to hope that this review might be seen and taken into consideration with future updates. 😁

PictureThis works extremely well at not only identifying the plants you find (even in low light) but also gives you very detailed information on the plant. I’ve found that after a few months of regular use, PictureThis has been correct 99% of the time. If you don’t have LTE while hiking, etc, you can take a photo and upload later for identification. PictureThis will save all of the plants you upload and you can either leave them on your main list, add them to “your garden” or delete them.
If you’re a nature lover and find new plants often, I highly recommend paying for premium as well. So much extra information and even some poetry.
On a personal note, we can also thank PictureThis for solving a skin problem mystery. My husband had unknowingly weed whacked some poison ivy on our new property (not far from woods and a river). The doctor misdiagnosed him. We downloaded PictureThis and identified that we did in fact have poison ivy on a the property and he was able to get the correct treatment.

I was a Biology major in college ( Vert Zoo ) graduated with a BS degree in 1976. I took a couple of Botany courses to round out the the Bio Degree, and one was
“Local Flora”. The class consisted of lab work and a ton of field work. Quizzes and major tests were in the field and the professor would pick out a particular plant and ask you to identify it , by head knowledge of Common Name and Genus and species. If you did not recognize the plant , you could use the book Key to Vascular Plants of N. Am. And you had a standard allotment of time to accurately key out the unknown plant. The “ Picture This “ App would have been a very useful tool in identifying and learning all the required information to hopefully get an A in the Class. My Biology days are long gone, but I still have a very keen interest in identifying and knowing what is out in our local environment, in both Zoology and Botany. If everyone had PictureThis, then there would be no excuse for anyone not recognizing Toxicodendron radicans “Poison Ivy”in the field.
Sincerely, JST

This is EXCELLENT for identifying plants, but their instructions are WRONG & INCONSISTENT! I have a brown thumb so I spent the extra money for premium and almost killed all my plants with their instructions!!!
Sunlight & water are practically the two most important instructions for plants and their sunlight is TOTALLY OFF & water is often wrong!!
For example:
When the plant first pops up listing the care in a graph form, every single one of my 15 plants says something like FULL SHADE and it’s not until you click deeply into the professionals care tab that is a written booklet form that you get the correct care like BRIGHT INDIRECT LIGHT. Every single one of my plants is off!! One says BRIGHT LIGHT then the pro page says PARTIAL SHADE. Not one single plant is correct and even watering care is often wrong!!! I was caring for my plants by the initial & secondary page coming up and almost killed all my plants I got from my mother's funeral…which have so much meaning and sentiment to me. I want to keep these in her memory because she was a beautiful Gardner. I would give 0 stars for their inaccuracy on care but it definitely deserves the 3 stars for identification.

PictureThis is wonderful. I have the annual membership because I bought a new home a year ago and there were many things planted already that I had no idea what they were. I use PictureThis all the time just to see what kind of weeds I have too, it helps me identify the nasty ones before they go to seed and spread. Some plants that are similar like peaches and nectarines may show up as the same plant but they’re in the same family so that doesn’t bother me and I guess I’ll know which one it is when they give me fruit! I will probably be a lifetime subscriber to PictureThis as I find uses for it everywhere. Oh, even in stores and at plant nurseries I use this if something doesn’t seem right, just to confirm it looks like what the tag says. A great tool! If I had one suggestion it would be specifically for grapes, to be able to tell the different types apart, but this is a tough one you can’t find many resources on this anywhere, so I can’t take away points for that, it’s just perfect !

PictureThis has been the best app I have ever used! PictureThis has made my job 100x easier 😁
I work for a construction company that does property remodeling. I’m a permit runner, this means that I’m the one who goes to the city and gets the permit to do the work on the property. Some cities have a thing about trees; I have to go to a customer’s property and take a picture of every tree within the area of work. After I have gotten all the pictures using PictureThis, I have to print up all the pictures and I have to mark trees on the survey showing where they are located based on the pictures.
Since I have been using PictureThis it’s made processing permits a little easier because now I go in advance to the customer’s home before a city will ask me to do so. Also, I have been showing PictureThis to everyone in the cities I go to and they are amazed. I really am so happy that I found PictureThis and I’m continuing to use it!

Keep a history of the photos I take like a scrap book. That’s what I want for PictureThis to do for me also... I take pictures and I like knowing where I take them that way I can go back and find them again with the info about the plant under my picture I have taken, maybe with some other example pictures from app sources. Then all the plant info so I don’t have to look them up again and have PictureThis re-identity the plant I’ve already looked up once. I also want a map of only my plants, not just the ones that other people and I have loaded onto your public map. Maybe I just haven’t found some of these features that I have described yet, I’m not saying some of them don’t exist within PictureThis , but I would like to see it do more personalized things too, other than just five different frame styles. PictureThis DOES EXACTLY WHAT I EXPECTED FROM IT AND WAS SURPRISED AT HOW WELL IT WORKED IN THE AREA OF IDENTIFYING PLANTS.

I rarely leave feedback or a review, but PictureThis is one that everyone should have on their device. I do a lot of nature photography and am constantly coming across unknown flowers. When I post them they have to of course have an informative description along with tags. This process was very time consuming as I would have to research every individual flower from that day, sometimes having twenty plus. I’m now able to take a quick photo of the flower with my phone which gives me all of the information at my fingertips. No more spending hours searching! I’m now able to spend more time out in the field thanks to PictureThis. If only they’d come up with something similar for birds and other wildlife and insects :) PictureThis definitely deserves a ten star rating! A huge THANK YOU to the makers of PictureThis!!! You nailed it!!

I used PictureThis for some succulents and cacti and it was mostly good. It could not differentiate between different echeveria types, which was disappointing. It also has blurry pictures for some of its plants which makes it hard to tell if I’ve got the right ID. It did well with a cactus and another succulent, though. Many people have been upset about the free trial thing. It is very misleading unless you read prior reviews. When you first open PictureThis it will ask if you want to sign up for premium or use it for free. One would think that using it for free just means using it for free, but that actually starts a free trial which apparently is a pain to get out of. If you really want to use the free version you have to click the X in the top right of the screen. You will not have to enter any information and you will have 6 free IDs. I used those up and don’t need more, so I will be deleting PictureThis . I’ll figure out my echeverias on my own.

As a plant enthusiast, PictureThis has helped me identify a number of mystery plants own or have seen. It’s fun to scroll through and help others identify their unknown plants too. However, I’ve come across a number of identifications that are suggested incorrectly (wildly incorrect!) and even some “accepted” identifications that are incorrect (you can add your identified plant to the gallery - however there’s nothing stopping you from adding your misidentified plant to the compilation of existing images). there are also a number duplicate identification options, since you can add your own if you don’t find your plant but know what it is (misspelling or an added space won’t bring up the existing entry, so some people add their own).
I think PictureThis has tons of potential and appears to be one of the more accurate and user friendly apps for this niche. I’d love to see community moderators (think stack exchange) and some work preventing dups and inaccurate information.

I am very pleased with PictureThis. I used 3 others before breaking down to use the this app app and I have to say it is a lot more convenient and accommodating than the others. I don’t need my plant, flower, or leaf on a plain white background, other users can help identify a plant PictureThis itself cannot recognize, and even if you take a poor picture of your plant it gives you subcategories to choose from with several pictures to scroll through in order to properly identify your plant down to its subspecies. Another wonderful feature is how there is a Wiki link attached under the name so you can get the low-down on what the plant care is. I love PictureThis and have been recommending it to my plant friends non-stop! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 All this is the reason I give it a 5 Star Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I was also excited about PictureThis when I found it. I’m just a homeowner that has been looking for native Californian drought tolerant plants/succulents. I don’t know much about them, so PictureThis seemed like an awesome opportunity to go out and find some in the wild. Although i only tried to identify a handful of plants in the beginning, I didn’t have much success, but it was still fun to use. When I downloaded it in November, I don’t remember having to pay a monthly subscription. Upon opening PictureThis today, because I was given a cactus and the name of it was not written well on the pot, I noticed that I only have so many identifications left before I have to pay a subscription. Since it was only able to identify 1 plant correctly, I do not think I can justify paying for this every month. I still have 8 or so left, but I think it’s time to delete PictureThis and find something else. I wouldn’t mind paying a 1 time fee, but a subscription... even if it did identify correctly at a higher percentage, I don’t think I would be paying monthly for it.

Ok, I’m impressed. I was a little skeptical before I downloaded PictureThis but it works great and it’s a lot of fun. I read a lot of the reviews and I’m also very impressed that the developers respond to any problems that people have. I’ve been using it around the yard and I feel like I’m in Star Trek using a Tricorder. It even correctly identified the sassafras in my yard even though my leaves are not shaped the way most ID photos show them. By the way, sassafras leaves vary a little in shape but you usually only see the one traditional shape in books. It also correctly identified sugar maple, red maple and silver maple. Not tricked by the similar shape. If you don’t get a clear match on the first try focus on a single leaf. I’m going to be using this a lot. Very nice!

I have had PictureThis for well more than a year, maybe more than two. I don’t use it very often, maybe a few identifications one day and then I may not use it for three months. When I first started using it, I could try to identify multiple plants at a time. Then I noticed about 4 months ago that it allowed me to ID two or three and asked for money. Now they just want money. I like PictureThis, it was accurate about 65-70% of the time and it was interesting to learn about a plant I might come across. But it was just for my curiosity and I have no need to pay for this when there are other options. I get that people want to make money, but I don’t like the practice of being listed as free and then all of a sudden, there is a fee to use it when I have been using for so long. I even told a few friends about it and they were using it intermittently like I was. So I will be deleting it.

I’ve downloaded because I love flowers and gardening and it’s sounded like a cool and helpful app. It help identify a plant I didn’t know about of it’s use, it gave me some info however not much. But at least now I know it’s name and I can make my research.

Nice work, good app, good results so far. I was able to look up about 6 plants before it stopped me and ask for money. I didn’t even know it’s cost money until then and that was the most disappointing thing: the subscription! The fact that PictureThis have a monthly fee. I was hoping that the developers would’ve make this for a one time fee or a free app like in Europe most of developers building apps not for money. I understand that they made PictureThis to ale money but at least they would’ve have people purchased not make them constantly pay for it. Especially if anyone can edit and add information to PictureThis , not the developer or hired professionals would’ve done that.

Honestly, PictureThis has really helped me learn about all the native and nonnative plants in Florida. PictureThis tells you how to care for plants, if they are toxic, even their natural grow zone. I sometimes take it on nature walks when I’m curious about something and want to learn it’s name. There are very few plants that it gets wrong/are not on the database. For those, I can submit it to be reviewed by the knowledgeable plant community and they help me identify and learn. PictureThis is fairly cheap for all it has done for me and all the other people I’ve been able to help. It’s great for when you’re with kids and wanting to spark their curiosity for nature. I’ve used it for months and experienced no bugs or anything. If you’re on the fence, give it a shot!

A colleague in my office recommended this. It’s worked fairly well so far. Couple of things people might want to consider...for some plants it will only bring up the Latin name, not the colloquial one (e.g. dandelion only came up under its Latin name). Also, the key photos sometimes do not look like the original, and you’ll need to scroll over to see other examples that match (again, dandelion). Some plants have links to outside material, others do not.

Taking a good photo of the leaf structure is also important. A far away or blurry shot reduces relevant matching. PictureThis appears to rely on user input to verify matches in a sort of user support learning in PictureThis , so I guess that will either help or hurt in the long run. All in all a fun app to try if you’re puzzled by a plant in your yard or office.

I'm getting rid of PictureThis for a couple of reasons. First, it showed in PictureThis Store as free. Then I find out I have to sign up for a "free trial" (of only 7 days), after which you will start charging me $20/month. It took 3 tries before PictureThis correctly identified my plant, giving me sunflowers and then begonias at first. Further, what I have is an invasion of Quaking Aspen shoots (how do you confuse Aspen with sunflowers and begonias???) that I need to control or remove. But PictureThis only gives me advice on how to care for them, NOT on how to get rid of them! I will NOT continue spending $20/month on an UN-helpful app. If I can, I will submit this review without any stars because there isn't a way to give it less than zero stars.

Hi all, so I’m a newbie to this app and I downloaded PictureThis simply to identify plants I have in my own garden and backyard. However, the second picture I took I saw a problem. I have a potted Physalis alkekengi (or Chinese Lantern) and when I took a picture it came up with a Physalis lagascea (a totally different looking plant) yet all the pictures and id’s were all of the alkekengi. It was like thousands of people had taken pictures of this plant but never stopped to double check if the info was correct. Anyhow, I wanted to edit the page to correct the information but it wouldn’t allow me to press the “Edit” button. This seems like a really fun and informative app but if the information isn’t consistently updated, it can put peoples plants at risk. No bueno.