Plant App: Plant Identifier Reviews

It. Only woworks on common plants
It’s terrible

PlantApp doesn’t even deserve a single star, and I’d give it a negative 5 if I could.

I tried PlantApp for a couple of days then tried to cancel it, but there was literally no option for that! Followed the link for “cancel at anytime” and it only allows you to renew. It says you can’t cancel a current subscription, but then says you have to cancel more than 24hrs before renewal to stop it renewing - in other words - you need to cancel future subscriptions during the time of your current subscription…which it says you can’t do. Yes, it’s as much of a runaround as it sounds. I got a refund and cancellation through iTunes, but as a warning to anyone else who thinks of trying PlantApp: DON’T do the free trial.

It’s also terrible at identifying plants, misidentified numerous times, and once said a clearly focused macro shot of a flower, “didn’t contain a flower.”

This is as of June 2023. I downloaded this Apple recommended app to identify some vines and flowers in my yard. I took a grand total of 4 pictures before I was locked out of PlantApp . There is no warning on PlantApp that free users only get a certain amount of pictures and there are very annoying pop ups throughout PlantApp for their subscription. For the record a weekly subscription is $7 and a “lifetime” one is $150 or $50 depending on if there is a “sale”. All I wanted was a free app to identify plants. Instead I got frustration and far more information than I needed besides a simple identification. I hate apps like this that waste my time and memory space on my phone. Less than 24 hours later and instantly deleted.

I love being able to take a picture of my plants, at anytime, and find the correct means of care! And so far, I’ve had no other ads pop up!

I have tried multiple apps and they all ended in failure. This one was so helpful and informing. I only with that it could have a feature to tell what diseases your plants have. Other wise I am very satisfied with PlantApp. It also has a 12 photo per like 24 hours, or you need to pay. Which is a little annoying, but I have a small plant collection. I enjoy PlantApp a lot and am happy with the results. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy.

I took three pictures of the same tree, and every time the result came back with something different, but it was inn accurate every time. granted, I did the three day free trial, which turns out it’s only a three picture limit trial because once you photograph three plants it will not let you continue unless you pay for it so they can’t actually call that a three day free trial. PlantApp needs a lot of work and it’s not worth paying for in its current state.

Downloaded app today. Was only able to take 2 pictures before it shut me out for 12 hours. 1st photo was of one branch of a Very large Douglas Fir tree, PlantApp gave me the correct answer. The 2nd photo was of the entire tree from a little further away. PlantApp told me it was a Serbian Spruce, which it isn’t. The developers need to allow increased opportunity to test PlantApp without waiting 12 hours before I would want to purchase it.

Do NOT waste your money or time on PlantApp! I purchased it to help me identify the different varietals of basil coming up in my garden as I have volunteers from seasons past. It could not even identify a basil as a basil let alone the different varietals. I tested it out on some of my other garden plants and again the generalization of PlantApp is so broad that it could not properly identify the plants. Seems they have a very long way to go before they can market themselves as a true plant identifier app!!!

Helps me understand what plants I have in my house because some I brought because they are pretty but can be toxic to my dogs. Now that I know this I can handle them properly.

This is so helpful when learning to take care of your plants and salvage ones that are not doing well.

You can grow anything if you research the plant with PlantApp!
I’m no plant EXPERT but they are!
HIGHLY Recommend it & the friends I have told about it that use it rave about it too!

So far seems to be accurate, usually go straight to google after

PlantApp has been very helpful identifying plants that I’ve had for years, but did not know the name or origin of

We’ll I just downloaded PlantApp it said it was free although PlantApp talks about free 3 day trial then it is $6.99 a week… not into that. From what I saw it looks like a good app but still seems deceptive?
I’ll be deleting PlantApp

I could find this info on Google without paying a high fee! I wish I had not gotten this and gone with another. I am contacting my bank with the original Ad in hopes of getting a refund! Nothing at all like you stated! False advertising! Is not helping me with my plants at all! Google yourselves and save your $!!!

I’m loving PlantApp as it’s been giving me the names of plants that I wasn’t sure what they were.

I tried this on a dwarf key lime which it repeatedly incorrectly identified. I was trying to get a diagnosis and that can’t happen if it cannot ID the tree. There is no option to correct it. It repeatedly wants you to upgrade to the paid premium version. Hard to consider an upgrade when it cannot ID a common plant.

App consistently (from three different camera angle) misidentified snaps of a tropical tree as a “black cherry” which used up all my free snaps. Does not give an option for other trees it could be, or for feedback to be submitted indicating that the snap ID was wrong. Nice interface, but… it needs to work to be worth a download.

Just finding out what I bought and what window they are going to near

I was charged for a whole week during second day of free trial. Which was unexpected and unpleasant. The info about plant problems is not personalized to certain plants, just general guidance. PlantApp does not have much info, some of my home plants were not recognized correctly.

And free to scan your plant unlike other apps

As a new pet owner being able to use PlantApp to identify plants for toxic to animals

My hubby was using this to help me identify a lot of fruit trees that I wasn’t sure what kind of fruit they were. And what can I say; it GREW on me… teehee😁🥰 so I have downloaded it for myself and I’m gonna put it to the test. I’m excited and will let ya know the ins and out, and maybe what would be nice to have!👍🏻

Neat for identification (could just be using the free version) but all it gives me, for multiple plants, is abiotic disease. Underneath it gives multiple examples but only pictures for maybe one of them. Maybe put in pictures for all of them or add in a user forum for community help.

Thank you for helping me destroying my wife’s plants. I now know what to do in caring for her “Babies”. I can go out and buy plants with more confidence. Thank you sooooo much.

I didn’t have a good experience with PlantApp. It kept insisting I had a certain flower.

However… this is a great concept, intuitive design, I can’t wait when the AI is a bit more trained.

Try PlantApp out and see if it works for you!

I purchased app , it did perform all its functions. Emailed app they gave some guidance. Did what they requested and no luck still did work. Emailed them again and they have yet to respond it’s over week. I provided them proof that I did purchase PlantApp . Hopping Apple will direct them to refund my money!

I have a friend I met in grammar school 60~some years ago. She and her mother are both plant people. In the early days there was entirely too much information. When I got PlantApp I told my friend about it and let her know that she was replaced by my phone app. At least I can turn my phone off when I want.

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Worked to scan maybe 3 plants before locking me out to pay. Search feature to add known plants to “My garden” didn’t work. Ie scanned a zinnia and it IDd correctly but claimed zinnias didn’t exist when I searched for them. I tried different capitals, number of characters, still couldn’t get any plants to pull up in the search. There should also be an option to add plants to garden from a scam, which currently does not seem to be an option

It asks you to rate PlantApp as soon as you open it for the first time. So I closed out PlantApp because how can I rate PlantApp if I haven’t used it yet. When I opened it again it wanted me to rate PlantApp and could not pass the screen until I did. I would give it no star because I can’t even use PlantApp before rating. It’s like asking for a tip before you get your order or any type of service.

School is not working properly properly

If you have a plant that isn’t in their database yet, guess what? YOU CAN’T ADD IT. I have a tradescantia albiflora and cannot add it. The only plant that came close to it is another variety of white inch that has a very different scientific name. Poorly thought-out UX/UI that doesn’t allow the addition of plants. And poorly thought-out UX that also doesn’t allow for personal plant names. You can edit the common name but you can’t add the personal names you’ve given your plants. I have 40-odd plants, and each and every one has a name aside from their scientific names and common names.

I’m paid for PlantApp and gave it a go … first plant I tried it identified wrong (very wrong) twice and then it got it . Second plant I tried it never found the plant or even got close and even some suggestions where just comical …

Basically you take a pic and it try’s to show you similar looking plants pictures from its archive to identify it..

Definitely still needs a lot of work but would be really cool if it started working

I have a dracena plant that has not been doing well, so I thought I’d try PlantApp to properly diagnosis it since my methods weren’t working. After taking photos of my plant, PlantApp came back with 4-5 potential causes that I’d already determined via google. I, naively, thought that it would be able to give a more definitive answer than a google search. I canceled my free trial immediately via PlantApp Store.

I’m not sure if any of the plant apps provide more detailed diagnoses, but a quick google search gave me the same potential diagnoses for free.

I had the identify a hibiscus plant. It identified it as something that looks more like a snake plant.
I had PlantApp diagnose the spots on another plant and arrived at “Fungi.” Yes, I know it is fungi but I expected to get the type of fungi. It had 3 good samples.
On the Papaya, it identified it and diagnosed it correctly.
Conclusion: I don't expect for it to be infallible, but these are not rare plants. I’ll try it at another time but for now I’ll continue the time consuming effort of diagnosis through research.

PlantApp does not work at all. It has been wrong 100% of the time on every plant I’ve tried, whether it be indoor our outdoor. They also offer a “lifetime” price or their monthly subscription, but they charge you both and do not respond to any emails. Every positive review on here is fake. These people are using investor money for marketing and selling a fake product that is nothing more than a concept idea at the moment, and then stealing money from people hoping for PlantApp to work as advertised. These are criminals not developers.

My favorite app! This supplies the information I need that used to take
a very long time to find. Because of Blossom, I have saved every plant I searched for on PlantApp! THANKS BLOSSOM!

I saw this on Instagram and though I use the Picture PlantApp, I thought I would give this new one a try. PlantApp is very confusing when you download it… wanting you to rate it and pay for it without any chance to look it over- very aggressive. This should have been enough to make me delete it but I really wanted to try it out. The ID part of PlantApp was fine but the diagnosing was useless. Telling me there is insect damage and no specifics or type of treatment is ridiculous. Also the English wording is very hard to understand…since this is sold as an English app, proper vocabulary and grammar should be a must.
I canceled my 3 day free trial.

I scanned 2 plants - the first one they got it right but the second one they got it wrong so I scanned again and they still did the wrong plant.
I think the issue is they don’t have all the plants in their app that are actually in the world.
Like Cuban oregano..

It would be cool to be able to submit requests directly within PlantApp that upload the photos of the plant with its species name so it can be added to the plant directory for other users