I was getting tired of the app that I was previously using to identify plants - that app started identifying everything as a dicot. I download it half a dozen plant identification apps. Some of them wanted me to sign up for a trial before they would let me try them out; I’m not partial to that. Others would freely let me try them out, and failed miserably on the various plants in my yard. This app correctly identified just about everything, and it didn’t asked me to sign up for anything in advance. The only thing I think that it did not get was a very tiny sprout it was barely above the dirt line. Even then, it gave a plausible guess. Another thing I like is that it lists possible plans in order with the percentage certainty that it estimates. I much appreciate that rather than just some wild random guess. Finally it has a pallet where you can tell it to identify either the plant or the bark or the fruit or the flower that happens to show in the photo being able to identify a plant for instance by its bark I think it’s great. I’ve only been using this app for an hour so there might be some nasty‘s in store but so far it’s a no-brainer I’m using this from now on.
I don’t ever write reviews for apps at all but I just had to for this one! I have been searching for an accurate informative plant id app recently and tried several different ones. I decided to test each app with plants I already own and know for sure what they are. One app after another ID’d every single plant wrongly, sometimes to a ridiculous level. I was gonna give up and then tried this one. Every single one of my known plants was identified correctly immediately! After so many failed apps I was so happily surprised with how accurate this one was and all the different information options there are available. Every single paid for app I tried was wrong but this free one managed to actually do its job and do it so well! I will always use this app going forward! Excellent job whoever created this app, it is so refreshing to have an advertised product actually do what it says it’s going to do without any lies, misrepresentations or manipulations in its advertising. Other app creators take notice, this is how you do it right and keep your customers very happy and dedicated to your product! Great Job!!
I’m a total novice so I can’t follow all the Family/ Genus stuff. It’s over my head. But the app lends itself to basic use too by listing the common names. My favorite part though is when you search a plant, the options offer pics of the flower, leaves, bark, etc.. There’s even a Wikipedia tab so you can read about the plant which can help in identification. Because it’s user driven, there’s good and bad. The good: TONS of submitted photos. The bad: Not all the submitted pics will be of the advertised plant (just means someone made a poor identification and “contributed” it to the database). This can fool you into thinking it’s something it’s not. It’s also up to the user network to “validate” everyone’s observations. Sadly there’s no flora-genius overseeing the thousands of contributions to determine the accuracy. That’s just wishful thinking. You’re relying on someone plant-savvy to stumble across your contribution and choose to validate you. Overall a kickass app. And it’s free! I’m learning slowly, but learning a lot.
Have tried a few of these plant identification apps over the past 6 or so years. Honestly I feel like they all use very similar photo recognition software, if not the exact same. So they all do a pretty swell job (including this app) at locating the correct plant species via a user uploaded photo. However, this app is free and takes donations to stay afloat, rather than subscriptions. This fact alone causes me to like this app way more than the rest. I like being given the option to support this app, when it is financially feasible for me and my budget. I think this method will bring grow the community within the app, and strengthen the membership as a whole. The one suggestion I have is to maybe clean up the interface. It’s a little clunky, and awkward. Not too user friendly in all aspects, although it is in a few. In some areas there are more options to choose from where there needs to be less, and in other areas there are less options to choose from where there needs to be more. There should be more regions to choose from when saving your identified plant photo & information. Otherwise it’s a solid app, and I am happy with my download... thank you! Cheers!
It is awesome to find an app free (as of today) of marketing and other nuisances with monetizing modern practices that -most of is I suppose- I so personally dislike. OK, leaving that statement behind. This site (both in the app and the web) offers a no brainer method to learn about plants (in all their splendor here, there, and everywhere) and share your local biodiversity with others which -it is earlier for me to assure but I trust is the goal- as sharing their photos and expertise help me to become more comfortable with learning about my local plant biology. I also need to thank modern smart phone cameras for allowing a user friendly way into making the transition from picture to app fluent without much steps (obviously this is not a feature of the app but of the smart phone) between snapping the picture and uploading it to my account. Keep it commercial free.
This is really the only app I use for Plant ID. I like the community effort that goes into the data, especially different photo inputs from people because it helps me compare and see slight differences for comparison. It’s the app I recommend to other plant enthusiasts. I prefer it because I like the layout, it’s usability, and it’s accessibility. Other apps are behind a paywall or require sign up with personal information; I never get far enough to use them - I delete those almost as soon as they are installed. One thing I dislike about this app is that while more information for the plants are available by clicking on the plant name after you ID your photo(s) is that there is no way to highlight the text to copy/paste OR share the findings with another. I have to manually look up the plant again in a search engine using the common name and then find the Wiki article again. I can’t memorize the scientific names, or type them all out when sharing on the go in a busy day.
This is a wonderful app for all types of flowers and foliage both for wildflowers and flowerbeds. For walking in the woods or just around the neighborhood, this is easy to use and filled with the information you’re looking for. Two years later I’m still very happy using this app for identifying plants, I’ve tried a few other apps and was absolutely amazed at how unsure and inaccurate they were at identifying the simplest of plants. There were also no other pictures from others to compare to or even anything other than one choice of what they thought it might be. Example: I took a picture of my 50+ yo variegated snake plant and got this with no picture. “Unsure 6% odds it may be a cactus.” No thanks , I’ll stick with what works, this app is GREAT!
I’ve always been in love with the natural world and this app has opened a whole new door to it for me. It’s only the 2nd app like this I’ve tried but Plantnet has exceeded my expectations. Only a couple small deviations I’ve found so far that if worked out could help take away one of the ?’s when trying to identify a plant and improve the over all quality When I search a identical picture of a plant from my LG phone and IPad I get two different results. For example, I had 5 results on the LG and 11 on the iPad. I believe the lesser number of results is always the same to the larger but why two different results? Also little more detail about the environment where they originated, uses, lifespan, are they threatened or endangered and a short summary how to care for would be amazing! It’s a great app though. Well done Plantnet! Can’t wait to continue growing my collection and discovering more of this near secret world of botany around us all.
This app is the only one I used when I was working in a commercial greenhouse. I’d have customers bring up plants to purchase and want to know their names. I have pretty extensive knowledge but there would always be a plant that I couldn’t remember or something new that I couldn’t identify. This app has given me correct answers when most others wouldn’t. The option to select what part of the plant the image is from is awesome for nature hikes as well. In early spring there aren’t always leaves on some trees in my area but it would narrow down the options. Thanks to the app developers for creating something so useful and intuitive.
Writing this to help development. I’ve used this app a few years but haven’t used in last 6 months months or so until recently. It used to be extremely accurate in id’ing my pics with a plant - I’m not looking up any unusual plants, I just forget the names of common plants. however the past few times ( in the last month or two), the app does not come close to identifying a match. It seems to be related to a change to this auto flora filter that wasn’t there before but I really don’t know. I’ve noticed when I expanded outside the US flora it found my plant last time. Which is odd considering I’m in the US! But in any case, something has changed that is impacting accuracy that I’ve not experienced in the past. Maybe it’s just dumb luck ( or unluck) but it may be worth the feedback.
The app is really a wonderful resource and is fairly accurate. The problem is the human error factor. It compiles positive identifications that people upload-but people sometimes don't look close enough and log a false positive- so a bunch of photos are associated with an Inaccurate id in perpetuity. Generally the app has the correct ID within its top five, and perhaps a double check online by users would make it perfectly accurate.... I do not hold my breath. The simple fact that it is free, gives it a pass, and with a little bit of diligence on our parts, it could be the greatest resource out there. Overall 5 stars, with a grain of salt as the idiom goes-lol.
During covid-19 sheltering and shutdowns, my plant love has rekindled ever brighter on my neighborhood walks. Of all the 4 plant apps i downloaded to help me identify the abundance of flaura here, PlantNet is my #1 go to. It makes me happy and is extremely user friendly to navigate. So much so, i want to interview these awesome developers to learn from their mastery and see if maybe there is a way to work with them develop an ocean app that keeps percolating for me. It involved coral reef restoration - art, sci, tech, international community involvement. I'm not an avid app user, yet this app inspires and delivers. I am an artist working with ecology; so grateful for PlantNet. Thanks for creating this wonderful world of fun and discovery to keep me engaged with beautiful aliveness during the pandemic.
It was difficult to set up and use. During set up, I got caught in a loop when I declined it to know my location. I had to uninstall and start over, but when I started over, my userid hadn’t been fully registered from the first try, I got weird errors (like, “invalid token”)so had to reset my pw before I could continue. Finally got it set up after several tries and took a picture of a house plant I wanted to identify. The app gave me several possibilities and I had to confirm which one I thought is was. There were several different options that looked like my plant, so I’m still not sure what plant it is. I confirmed 3 different options, and shared it. I guess I now have to wait for other people to “vote” on it I guess. Are the voters people that are as clueless as me? I can barely tell a cactus from an elm tree so I’m not confident in the process.
I came to this app about 6 months ago after using several other paid apps. PlantNet is an amazing app that provides the most accurate identification of plants of any I have tried. It is particularly good at recognizing the item in the foreground and identifying it. Really useful because there are often other plants in the background and it’s impossible to just only have the plant in question in the frame of the photo. Definitely recommend this.. this is the best of what’s available.
Sad love this app but now it wont access my photos i have on my phone
I use to love using this app when i would get home from walks in the parks. I snap a bunch of pics on my walks and save them on my iPhone. Later, when i had time i would use the app using the pics on my phone. Now it is saying i didn’t give it access to my photos. So i rechecked. It only gives two options. None or Add photos only. I have Add photos only checked. So i did give it access. Unless that means something else now. Checked for updates there was one so i updated it. Still not letting me use the pics. Turned phone off and on, didn’t fix it. I looked in settings on my phone in photos and there are no options there. What happened? How do i fix this?
I am a 59 y/o female and not the brightest cookie using the internet. But I tried everything I could do to figure out how to get back to the “groups” section, and felt like a complete idiot because I was unable to do so. On the day I signed up, I quickly went through them, but it’s like shopping, I like to see what all my options are first, then I go back and take my time with something I am interested in. Here, I do not have that option, and there was no warning sign letting a person know they would not be able to return after day one. If you are able, there is no one to ask how to return, I tried typing in the frequently asked questions and it was just blank. I couldn’t believe no one else has wanted to ask that question. It just left me feeling super old and stupid. Thanks
I am hoping this we’ll become very handy in identifying the many plants that grow around my new home. One question- it says you can edit your location, but I cannot how to figure out how to do that, the current location for my picture I took shows where I live, and I do not feel comfortable with that. If I write my general area instead, will that new information remove the GPS location that shows automatically, or is there another step I have to do? Thanks for the great app!
unlike most other apps like this in the app store, this is completely free. no in app purchases, not even any ads! i love how with non-native plants, if there is no native match, the search engine will suggest plants from other parts of the world, and that has really come in handy. it is also great in that with any picture, you can choose what part of the plant is in the picture/what you’d like to identify, and along with the closest match, it also gives other possibilities and relatives. great app, all i ask is that you don’t sell out and start making this cost money!
I use this app together with another app. This helps me narrow down or confirm this app’s identification. PlantNet seems to be right most of the time, which cannot be said for some other apps... I wish, however, that the app makers would amend a feature: under the information section that comes in the plant’s description, the “Uses” section would be more accurate and scientifically based. It is not valid to state that a plant is a “weed”, particularly if it is native to an area, possibly experiencing decline in numbers due to habitat destruction, and essential for ecosystem function. Even if a plant is successful and aggressive (sometimes obnoxiously so), it is not a weed if it is native.
I downloaded this app because the most recent reviews stated the camera icon is a rainbow color. How do I unlock the rainbow camera?? Mine is only green, I was so excited for the rainbow one!!! In all seriousness, this app has been great! It has correctly identified all of the many plants I have in my garden (which I started off with, to test the app) as well as the unknown plants I have surrounding my yard. I also loves that it tells you if a plant is poisonous or not- super helpful for us with animals that’ll eat anything!
I went into this app skeptical and I was completely shocked to find the first picture I uploaded showed me exactly what it was. This app is a perfect 5/5 for me, bravo to the developers. I hope it stays free and they can make money with ads or something *update* - just adding a quick update to my review because I’ve used it a few more times and I wish I could give this app more than five stars, it is absolutely amazing. It has worked for me 100% of the time, and is an invaluable tool.
I was looking for a truly free app. I installed several, but they all wanted my credit card for their “free” trial. PlantNet is truly free. Thank you. However, PlantNet offers several really attractive options to me, the % rankings and the ability to confirm others’ submissions in particular, hence training the machine learning. But beyond what I personally like, it’s convenient, intuitive, and good for identifying plants- which is why I got it in the first place. No problems with stability, even though I’m running on an older operating system.
This is the best app for plant ID I’ve used so far. It’s impossible to be 100% accurate from just a picture, given how many little subspecies there are for any given plant, but in the context that while this is not a replacement for scientifically keying something out, this does a fantastic job of giving you a reasonable range of options, usually getting pretty close the first time. It’s a good mix of machine ID, and supplementary crowd sourced info.
Highly accurate information and interactive as well. Positively identified plant life can be submitted to help others identify as well- to a degree anyway. This is the only app I went out of the way to see if there was a premium for, not because the app is bad but contrary, I wanted to see if it had even COOLER functions. I don’t think there is a premium. Which means all this is free and accessible for all. (As far as I can tell) So before you mistake an edible herb for a poisonous ☠️ herb, check this out.
Thank you for this App! I’ve always wanted to identify so many plants when I have traveled or been in nature. There are many local trees I didn’t know the name of and I can now take the time to identify them! I tried another App before using this one, and I am very pleased with how simple and easy it is to use this along with the extra knowledge I learn. Thank you for creating this splendid piece of information that’s easy to use! Angela in VA
I’ve tried many apps to identify plants. So far this one takes first place. The interface is easy to use. What i love the most is that it gives you various suggestions with percentages of how likely it is to be said plant. It also shows you many pictures of the plant shared by the community so you can scroll and compare. I love this app. The only suggestion I can add is to allow us to create a group of the plants we own.
This is one of the most accurate apps I have ever had in my life! I’ve been discovering what the weird wildflowers in my yard were and it’s all thanks to this app. Now, I know so much about flowers and plants and what they are! I love gardening and flowers so this app is majorly helping me. If anyone is an outdoor guy like me, this is THE APP!!! The best part is is that it’s FREE!!!!!!!!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩 Thank you for inventing such a nice app that’s helpful! I’m showing this to my family so they can experience the greatness of this app!
Incredible tool for plant ID. Not only does it tell you what the plant is, but allows you to drill down to learn detail. Once identified there is a row of icons that allow you to hyperlink into say the Wikipedia entry for it. Even better, the icon immediately to the left of the Wiki link is an ‘I’ link which allows deeper ‘drilling’ to include .edu articles on the species and thus articles on medicinal uses; herbal remedies; poison warnings; even recipes. This is what the web is really for y’all!
I don’t understand why people are complaining. There’s no ads, it has an awesome feed for your area, it gives you a percentage of accuracy and you can share with your community! Not only that it gives you links so you can research further. I was able to find so so many wild edibles on my property!! From walnut and mulberry trees, to lambs quarters and black raspberries and dames rocket and wild grapes!!! This is absolutely the best free app on the market!!!
Just as good as the better apps I've tried but no ads and no annoying reminders to upgrade. The other one I used for a while would ask you to upgrade all the time. As many as twice just in the process to identify one plant. This app is nearly identical in features. Very helpful in native woodland plant identification which I expected an app to have a harder time with.
I’m have a large flower garden and random things pop up all the time! Partly due to my mother planting perennials she found on sale (for next year) or those things that reseeded from who knows where! This app is perfect! I can see what flowers bloom at a certain time of year, what things do great (and not so great) in my space. It does a great job of identifying what I have. This app is going to do my flower garden planning for me! 🌺🌼🌸🌻
Non of the other apps that I was looking at were free we tried one and it was inaccurate, and totally different than the pictures now I now know that I have artichokes in my garden plus I can see what other people have. It’s like a plant Facebook; and I can see plants that grow on different country’s/states around the world. Love this app, it’s especially good for new gardeners! And plant lovers that’s why I gave it a 5/5 review
This is great for a plant lover to use for practical reasons, or just for enjoyment. Sometimes you go to a nursery, and you see a plant you like, but there is no tab on the plant to identify it. Or you take a walk and see something that you would like to add to your garden. This app is very helpful, and identifying plants properly is the first step to being able to research and take care of them. One of my favorite apps!
I decided to try this app today and when I opened it all I had to do was to snap a shot and it identified the plant very accurately. I was able to add all plants to My Plants section however, when I went to open it again later, the whole home page had changed and my list was gone and so was the My Plants section at the bottom. I tried taking a pic again and this time it became a four-step process having to pic Family or Genus etc. don’t know why it changed but I wouldn’t pass this app on to anyone based on my experience.
The only reason I selected “4” for the rating is due to the fact that the payable app (not same maker) and app is almost $40 per year! It will tell you what you need to use or do to your plant to revive it! I so wish the free version on this maker would be able to achieve the same thing and still keep it free. That would be majorly awesome! But I do love the app it does identify plants and I’ve been missing with Bondi so it really helps. Thank you so much.
I have tried a couple plant identification apps, including free trials from expensive apps. I had been trying to identify small plants from the sprinkling of wild flower seeds I had tossed last year. Most came back unknown from other apps, but this one identified very obscure plants. I am really impressed. I also love that it gives a percentage of what it might be and allows you to confirm if you know what it is. I will be enjoying this app for a long time!
What I love about this app is - that it is Free. But because of this - you get more user interaction. This very accurate app lets you upload image and choose how to identify - whether from flower or leaf and more. It the shows a list of possibilities with other user submitted images to compare. Users and yourself verify images. I’m quite the gardener myself - but not always up on all the names. This is a great tool to add to any gardeners toolbox
I’ve tried a few plant ID apps before, and they were all so bad that i assumed the technology just wasn’t there yet. Today I was taking a walk at a marsh, and I ran into another aspiring botanist/birder, and after half an hour of conversation she recommended this app to me. I’ve identified 3 plants so far, it works incredibly well, and the interface is so nice. thank you marsh lady!!
Just downloaded this app and have spent the morning identifying all the plants in my home; some I've had for almost a decade without knowing what they are called. I love the ease by which you can switch between local and global searches. The only downside is that now I have yet another motivation to buy more plants.
I have had no issues with PlantNet with ads, requests, privacy issues, etc. Several competing apps have crazy issues with ads everywhere including long, unskippable video ads. This PlantNet app has proven to be the most accurate app while also being the least annoying.
I am enthusiastic this app will continue to work well. Two plants we brought home from the store had identification included with the plant. After using this app we were able to validate the app was correctly identifying the flowing plant. Now we are going outside to identify some native plants in the Mt. Baker, Washington area. Review update pending results
There are a few plants I’ve found while riding my horse in the wilderness that no other app was able to identify. PlantNet was able to ID them! I only wish there was a way to save the info I’ve found without having to look up the plant again. Maybe there is and I have not yet found it…
For some reason the camera isn’t working. I’ve closed it out & I’ve power cycled my phone. I keep getting error message that an error occurred while loading flora. There’s an option to change flora but when you tap on it, nothing happens, all I can do is tap on back. PLEASE FIX!! My internet connection is strong so idk what else could be the problem. When app works, it’s great!!
We just moved to a new home and with it came all kinds of mature plants. With established landscaping created by someone else, it’s hard to tell what’s a weed and what’s a plant/flower. This stopped us from pulling so many things we thought might be weeds to give them a chance. Sure enough, they’d flower into exactly what this app indicated. 5 stars every day of the week!!!
It seems plant identification apps are a growing trend and so is the average $30 a year subscription fees that are cropping up. This app however is a free and extremely helpful database of plants full of information, and links to resources. Ten times more informational than other apps while functioning just as well. If you want to learn about the plants you’re identifying this is the perfect app.
Unless I don’t know where to look this app doesn’t offer care instructions but so far it’s extremely good at identifying plants - much, much better than the paid apps I’ve tried. It’s crowd-sources so I guess there’s a chance of something being misidentified but I’ve found it to be an extremely helpful app.
This app has been exactly what I need. My only quibble is that when I try to sign up, the button to “sign up” is covered by the keyboard that pops up to fill in your name, email, etc. and there’s no option for making the keyboard go away. I’m a bit frustrated that I can’t sign up and contribute - what am I doing wrong?
I love this app. It is a great app! I highly recommend this app for plant identification. But there are a few cons... I don’t love how you are not allowed to say you don’t know what category it is in. When the option is there?! But it is a great app. I also don’t like that even if you get a clear picture it says unidentifiable. I get you can get everything but say sorry the app does not know. If I could I would give this a 4 and a half. Overall great app
It’s amazing to watch the ID happen moments after uploading one pic. Other details of the app are not great. I kept trying to add a pic from my camera roll and then supplement w a newly taken photo of the same specimen. Not possible, plus renders the first set of pics unsubmittable. Also adding pics from camera roll causes them to be duplicated in the roll. Annoying. Barebones explanations generally. Not at all clear what the stars mean.
I don’t know whether to believe the results I’m getting from this app. I found pictures of my ice plant but they called it a Hottentot Fig! Figs, really? Then I found pictures of a cactus I have which it called Long Spine Cactus...but it has almost no spines, certainly not long ones. And mixed in with those photos was one of a prickly pear...a very different shape! So if the app allows users to misidentify a plant but still upload their photo (into the wrong place), isn’t that just going to cause chaos & confusion?
Pl@ntNet is an application that allows you to identify plants simply by photographing them with your smartphone. Very useful when you don't have a botanist on hand! Pl@ntNet is also a great citizen science project: all the plants you photograph are collected and analysed by scientists around the world to better understand the evolution of plant biodiversity and to better preserve it. Pl@ntNet allows you to identify and better understand all kinds of plants living in nature: flowering plants, trees, grasses, conifers, ferns, vines, wild salads, cacti (and many more). Pl@ntNet can also identify a large number of cultivated plants (in parks and gardens) but this is not its primary purpose. We especially need Pl@ntNet’s users to inventory the wild plants, those that you can observe in nature, but also those that grow on the sidewalks of cities or in the middle of your vegetable garden! The more visual information you give to Pl@ntNet about the plant you are observing, the more accurate the identification will be. There are indeed many plants that look alike from afar and it is sometimes small details that distinguish two species of the same genus. Flowers, fruits and leaves are the most characteristic organs of a species and it is them that should be photographed first. But any other detail can be useful, such as thorns, buds or hair on the stem. A photograph of the whole plant is also very useful information, but it is often not sufficient to allow a reliable identification. At present, Pl@ntNet makes it possible to recognize about 20,000 species. We are still a long way from the 360,000 species living on earth, but Pl@ntNet is getting richer every day thanks to the contributions of the most experienced users among you. Don't be afraid to contribute yourself! Your observation will be reviewed by the community and may one day join the photo gallery illustrating the species in the application. The new version of Pl@ntNet released in January 2019 includes many improvements and new features: -The ability to filter recognized species by genus or family. -The differentiated data revision that gives more weight to users who have demonstrated the most skills (in particular the number of species observed, validated by the community). -The re-identification of shared observations, whether yours or those of other users of the application. -The multi-flora identification that allows you to search for the photographed plant in all the flora of the application and not only in the one you have selected. Very useful when you are not sure what flora to look for. -The selection of your favorite floras to access them more quickly. -The navigation at different taxonomic levels in image galleries. -The mapping of your observations. -Links to many factsheets. The web version of the application is also available at the following address: https://identify.plantnet.org/
