PlantSnap Pro: Identify Plants App Reviews

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Landscape architect here ... this is useless. Soooo I figured “this might help on hikes!” I look for a lot of native plants and enjoy learning more about the plants I don’t know yet... I did some control tests with this guy using a few of the plants in my own planting’s... first try: (remember I’m in ny) I take a photo of a hawthorn ... it recommends a banana tree. Ok that’s a tough one and it’s a bonsai so maybe it’s not perfect. Try 2: let’s try a yew that’s ok training it’s a really common plant that grows all over the world..... wait what is this... also a tropical plant!? Try 3: ok so this one is easy I mean super easy , only want it to get the try of plant right. I’m looking for a evergreen ID ... I take a photo of a larch (looks like a evergreen but isn’t) drum roll! It’s a cactus apparently! That’s right a 4ft tall weeping tree is a dwarf cactus.... this is useless , well for entertainment it has a use but save they money and buy a plant book.

Same old song. This was a very ambitious project that started with good intentions and unavailable promises of 90% accuracy. I applaud the developers for the effort but I I am fed up with there defensive attitude that it is always the users fault when it misidentifies a plant. Like many others... I have used this app for over a year. I am a very accomplished technical person who also has a lot of experience With photography including for technical purposes, proper composition is a must for an app like this to work so I have taken many photos of plants following their instructions. I have a lot of experience programming and many other technologies. I read all the instructions, watched the videos, contacted tech support many times and get the same old song. It’s all my fault their app cannot tell an acorn from a coconut! An oak tree from poison ivy, a sun flower from whatever. If you don’t already know what the plant is don’t count on this app to get it right. Save your money and after you finish reading this review you can read another Defensive bs answer from the developers that just can’t find within themselves enough humility to admit their app is unreliable. Save your money. I get much more reliable identifications using free internet search engines. Please plant snap, spare everybody the defensive answers you give and don’t respond to this review. Fed up with your “every one else’s fault” answers.

Incredible app and has great potential to improve. PLEASE READ and consider my suggestions I am a microbiologist and plant geneticist. Improvements: Disease identification: almost all plants at some point in their life will suffer from an infection. Your app could have the capabilities to identify these disease/sickness and provide solutions for the user. Identifying differences within the same species: identifying different gene expression/phenotype with a species by categorizing what the differences look like would be incredibly very valuable. Capability of Exporting lists: It would be beneficial if there was a capability to start projects/list for categorizing specific varieties of plants or regions of plants. To then export that list of varieties to an excel file would be fantastic. Imagine having a list titled with a gps location. You could designate the surrounding plants to this gps location due to the list title. This has great implications for your app. Species pronunciation: I am unfamiliar with a large amount of species I find in nature and I find their scientific names difficult to pronounce. Please install a pronunciation button for all species scientific names. Thank you for building this app. I hope you consider my suggestions. Please reach out if you are interested in more feedback or want to expand on any of these suggestions’ implications.

Dies NOT Work, Being Charged and Can’t Delete!. This app sounded like a great idea. I’ve been looking for something like this for years to identify plants in our horse pastures that might be unsafe. Too bad that when we tested this app it could not accurately identify one single known plant. I had plants with nursery tags still on them, including obvious fruit trees, that it consistently missed. Too bad I forgot to unsubscribe in time and they billed me. Fine, I’m stuck, but want to delete it now. Nope. It didn’t recognize my password so I asked to reset. The reset email never came. I went back to do a resend. Nope. No way to do it. It locks you out of the app with no password reset from the log in page. Now, when I put in my user ID, it asks me to create a whole new account. Now I’m having to sit on hold at Apple to get the billing stopped. How convenient for them. Save yourself!

Happy botanist. I am a Science Teacher with ecological publications and a thesis on an endangered plant. I spent years identifying plants and I am quite adept. I love this app. This app is not perfect - but until we have much better AI powering it - it cannot be. This app is a great and simple tool. You must be sure to take a good picture of the plant and you must observe the fine points of identifying the plant - reading the descriptions of the plants and making sure everything matches well. It would be ideal if the descriptions pointed out the key distinguishing features of each species. Sometimes the picture is a perfect match to the wrong species - but it would be difficult to figure that out from the limited descriptions. I still give the app 5 stars because perfection is a crazy expectation. The app works far better than one should expect. I do think it is getting better, and I hope they keep improving the descriptions with key identification features. It would also be ideal if you could add additional observation such as the habitat (disturbed ground, forest, field, wetland, etc), other neighboring species, and add specific features like stem shape, distinct smells, sap features, or other features generally not easily captured in a picture. Keep making it better! Thank you!

Needs work, but high potential. As this is the only (good) flower/plant search database of its kind, $3.99 is an investment I am willing to make. I would very much like at least one company or software to have an extremely detailed and thorough database of the world’s plants. Though it will take a while longer to get there. Things that need improvement: 1) instructions need to be less invasive, I understand the need but it ruins the experience. Many apps are able to get around this with good app development. 2) obvious - a better database. Some of the plants I have searched were highly common and very obvious as to what species they were - yet I only received a 53% hit. 3) better app platform. It’s a bit clunky and could use a nicer design. There seems to be some html errors scattered throughout too. 4) The ability to send in pictures that get no hits for very skewed results so that the problem can be rectified for future searches.

Outstanding!. This app is simply incredible and such in innovation in accurate plant identification. The plants that come out in the identification panel after you snap it can be narrowed down to the exact species instead of just a single genus. I have independently studied ethnobotany for the past 4 years and this app not only makes it easy, simple and fun to use just functionally, but also has a place to store your information in its own library on the plants you have snapped. And to the people that created this app, thank you so much for all the work that went into this masterpiece, 300,000 species and counting! (P.S. Poison Ivy ID just got a whole lot better!)

Poor customer support. Update: Thank you for responding and offering to look into this. Rather than listing my email here, I’ve just sent another email with my handle included in it that you can hopefully find. I have been happy with the overall app which has helped me identify numerous plants/trees. However the app advertises identification/botanist support if something is not able to be identified. In May 2019 a photo was submitted for such support through the app without a response. I didn’t bother with it until I tried again in September, again without a response. As suggested in many of these reviews I then recently reached out to support 4/19 via email and was happy to receive a response asking me to send photos back for help which I did the next day. Since then I have sent numerous emails including on 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, and recently 5/28, all without a response except for the automated one. It seems, by looking at the recent responses to these reviews, that there is plenty of time to write those, but not to reply to my request, even if to just say they can’t help me. I clearly know how to use the app given success otherwise, but am disappointed in not getting the support I purchased. Anything other than an apology and a promise to finally respond to my emails in the developer’s response here (I.e. if other excuses are given) will be further, but perhaps not unexpected, disappointment.

Does not work. I was excited to have this app. I started by testing it on some easy plants, like hosts and ferns. I tried 6 and it failed on all of them. I was careful to take a good picture and frame it well, but it did not help. Very disappointed as I could use the help. The staff contacted me immediately to try to help and I tried again. I followed directions as well as I could but most answers were wrong. I put the same picture in twice and got two different answers though I did nothing differently. I also sent 3 pictures that did not work to staff and they said two were too close or too far and one was too dark. My assessment is that if it is that fussy for a plant I am familiar with I would never trust it with an unknown one. Sadly I conclude that it is not ready for prime time. Hope it is one day.

Exotics Accurately Identified. Identifying a menu of plants, especially in the tropics where I live, takes years of acquired knowledge, so I don’t expect much from these apps. Watched the instructional video and went through my image gallery to get some exotics’ names I kept forgetting. The app correctly identified them and had an option to save them with their proper names. I will use this one a lot! Much better than others I’ve tried. UPDATE: The app even successfully identified a fungus for me! This is the BEST app! It identifies life from other kingdoms, lol! Maybe I’ll give it a try with animals!!! :)

It only guesses at the answer. Fair to poor performance, don’t waste your dollars. I love flowers, take many photo’s, aspecially close ups of single blooms. Even the best in my photo library only returns a 67% "probability". Then it’s asking you if you accept or reject their "guess" (and that’s all it is)! If I knew what it was, I wouldn’t need the app! The supposed point of this app is for IT to tell YOU what the plant/flower is, not the other way around, simply not ready for any App Store. They’re collecting your data and guesses to TRY to improve their app. Essentially you’re paying them to beta test their software. I said it before and I’ll repeat it now. This is a botanical version of Vivino. Why can that app use a photo of a wine bottle label taken in poor low light conditions and return correctly 99% of the time, yet this app can’t seem to rise above a 67% guess? Read all the other reviews, most people are having similar issues and problems. The responses from "customer support" for these other complaints is a repetitious, Steve Jobs sounding "you’re doing it wrong". It’s not rocket science, it’s just a poor app. Steer clear.

Amazing App for any plant lover!. I absolutely love this app and cannot say enough good things about it. I love walking through different botanical gardens, greenhouses, or even just hiking, and now when I’m curious about a plant, or just think it looks interesting I can use Plant Snap! Not only does this let me look back on the plant later, but I also learn a lot of information about it. However I do have one improvement that would make the app even better. Because I love plants so much, I own several and was so happy that I could organize them online on Plant Snap. However I wish there was a section that talked about plant care specifically for that pant you take a picture of. I know this is a monumentally huge task given how many plants are in the system, but my primary use for the app is for organizing plants I grow myself. It would be really beneficial to learn growing technics (how difficult, how much water/sunlight, etc) for the plants you snap. Often times I’ll snap a plant in the wild and want to buy it from a nursery but I’ll have to leave the app and google the information instead of it being presented within the app. Overall though this is an amazing app and I am very happy with my purchase! Thank you so much for creating this app and continue to release amazing updates 🌱

Flowers required?. I’ve sent multiple pictures to try out the app and the two that had flowers or berries came back with correct responses. When I sent pictures that just have leaves, the answers don’t seem close to the plants in my yard. BTW, I have no cannabis growing in my yard. I believe cannabis has 5 leaves on a stem not 1 leaf with 5 fingers. I can under stand if the picture wasn’t clear but if I send a picture of leave on a stem and the leaves alternate sides on the stem, the answer should never come back with plant that has leaves that don’t alternate. I know IDing a plant base on a grip of leaves is difficult, but make a suggestion on the picture not respond with an answer that can’t be correct. Thanks

Lovely!. What a wonderful app, and a wonderful concept! Its not 100% accurate 100% of the time, but you honestly can’t expect it to be with something as diverse as plants. So far almost all of the plants I’ve tried this out on have been accurate (and I’ve been doing it on plants that I already know) and most of the ones where the best guess wasn’t correct had the correct plant in the “if it’s not this, then it might be one of these” area at the bottom of the screen. For those of you that are salty about the app not being perfectly accurate every single time, you have to understand that with something like plants, many species are extremely similar to each other, and you can’t forget that these are living things with their own diversity amongst their own kind. You might have two red clovers side by side, but they’re not going to be *exactly* the same. The fact that this app is accurate more than 50% of the time is phenomenal, let alone the fact that probably 20 of the 30 something plants I’ve snapped have been correct. The more people that add photos and data to this app, the more accurate it will be! Do not expect perfection, but expect to be wowed at how wonderful it is. I highly recommend the tutorials on how to take the best photos for the app to best “read” the picture as well, they’re very helpful.

Works great, with a decent picture. I’ve been using this for about a week, and I absolutely love it. I’m usually pretty curious about plants, but since getting a new house, I’ve really had a need to identify a lot of unknown plants. Like the ones our contractor planted before we moved in— we had no idea what they were, and thus how to take care of them. This app helped me identify all those in my yard, but it had trouble with some weeds I took snaps of. No problem though— the app let me submit it for identification, and a few hours later I had my answer. We were also recently in Disney and I took pictures of a few plants I thought I might want to decorate with at home. I live in a completely different climate, so I had no idea what these were. Plant Snap wasn’t dead on all the time, but comparing the results from pictures of a few different angles got me the answers. Taking pictures of flowers and MATURE leaves is the key. On a plant, the lead shape can vary depending on how close it is to the ground or branch tips, so try to get ones in the middle. Also try identifying a few different snaps and seeing what results are in common. I’ve had great success with this so far.

Addicted to the glow; still wanna connect to nature?. So I’ll be the first to admit I spend days holed away indoors staring at the screen for work and also for “leisure.” Sure I’ve lived outside for extended periods of 2 months or more. Yes, I have done extensive hikes and paddles on some our nations most wonderful trails and waterways. Still, sometimes it’s nice to have the security blanket. A way to get back outside while still having that tether to the modern technological world. This app does just that and more. It’s addicting really. All the neat plants that I have been in cohabitation with for days, months and years now can have a name. The app goes on to, in some cases, give historical information and relevant known medicinal uses. If you’re looking for a way to start or continue your deepening relationship with the natural world, I highly recommend the app PlantSnap. Did I mention if the found match doesn’t seem correct you can send away and receive a informed identification from one of their teams expert botanists. That’s right access to bonafide scientists! How cool is that. Way cool, I know. Get it. Start looking around more and experience that childlike curiosity for the world around. Great gentle transition after days of GOT binging.

I’m a biologist that teaches field ecology.... I teach Field Ecology and literally plant identification and thought this might help my students supplement next semester so I’ve been trying it out this summer. It’s fine for weeds you find everywhere but that’s about it. I tried both parts of the plant and isolated leaves using the instructions for proper framing. It told me Southern Catalpa is probably willow and that my lupins were probably bananas. I’ve tried about 20 other species with similar results. It couldn’t even figure out common privet. One problem is probably the differentiation between compound and simple leaves, but I suppose this is what happens when computer scientists try to write an algorithm that can account for the myriad variation among and between plant species. In theory, if they use machine learning, it should become more accurate though.

Fun and informative!. I downloaded this app because I moved into a new house in a new area, and wondered what was in my yard! after a few mess ups, (I will admit I did not watch the tutorial, but I will), I got it right! and for all the people complaining, get over it, it says accept or decline so you can be sure it’s the right plant, as a ton of plants look alike! I especially liked where i could send in my photo to a botanist for identifying, that was an unexpected awesome thing! I’m definitely going to fully enjoy the next walk around my woods, so thank you, plantsnap, for taking the mystery out of my yard!

Nice app. I was sitting on my deck this morning looking at a couple of plants I have and said I wish there was an app to snap and identify a plant. Somehow this app popped up and I figured it’s worth a try after reading both good and bad reviews. So far it has properly identified both of the plants I snapped. I went into my garden and snapped a few more plants. Yes one time it couldn’t identify so I backed up a bit and it did work just fine. I’m sure there will be quirks from time to time (nothing is perfect) but it beats trying to search from pics online. Fast and accurate. I snapped a pic of my Virginia creeper and gave me several choices, one being poison ivy. The second choice was correct. I like that because so many plants have similar foliage. This app is awesome. I’m not sure why some people have had problems. I’m using an iPhone 7plus. Well worth the 4bucks $$

This app and support stink - save your money. I bought this app today. I followed the directions exactly as posted. Not a single photo I took of ANY plant/flower was identified by the app. NOT ONE. I contacted support, and after much back and forth, finally received an email that basically said, “it was the number one app in the App Store today” and that I should just wait because they’re going to release an update. So, just be quiet cuz it’s a great app - even though it didn’t work AT ALL, not one time. Of course, when this all began, they said if they couldn’t resolve the issue they would refund the $3.99 I paid for it. Guess what? The issue isn’t resolved and NO REFUND. What a surprise! Save your money. The App didn’t work at all and customer support was completely ineffective and didn’t follow through with what they said they would do. At the end of the email they did thank me for being “part of PlantSnapp!” Yeah. Great.

Needs some improvement.. It’s search feature needs improvement. It can only search one word terms. For instance if I type Lavandula it will find multiple with the same name, but if I type more specifically Lavandula Angustifolia, it gives no results/doesn’t search even if spelled exactly as it appears in the previous single term search results. Taking great pictures is accurately emphasized. However, some plants can not be identified because there are no pictures of late or early stages of some plants. My onions which I allowed to flower for instance could not be identified. I had to do it myself. In general though it does work well. Still needs some improvement.

All but useless. Terrible app. Disgusted that I paid for it. It only identifies correctly (or at all) half the time. I had submitted about 6 photos for ID by a professional when the app couldn’t figure it out based on photos. Weeks later I still had no response so I contacted the app developers. They asked me for copies of the photos but I STILL have no response about the plants or why I’m not getting any answers from anyone. I recently logged onto the app to discover that all my unidentified plant photos had been erased. They’re gone. So now I will never know the answers. It seems these people have no idea what they’re doing. I hate it. Just to clarify, I submitted the exact same photos to Reddit (/r/whatsthisplant) and they had zero issues identifying the plants. So that’s what I’ll be doing from now on. I hate when you ask for help and get ignored. EDIT: PlantSnap people I am appalled by your condescending and rude comments on other people’s reviews. Unbelievable. I better not get a sassy response from you saying how thousands of other users have had no issues. Because these issues aren’t me. It’s YOU that is not responding and erasing my photos from my app.

Super particular. This app sounds great - until you try it out. I had photos (cropped and zoomed per the demo) of 4 plants, out of which it properly identified only one - the pansy, because of its particular shape probably. The rest had more of the round traditional shape with lots of petals - and no matter how many angles I tried all I got was “rose”... in the case of kalanchoe, I sent in the photo of my plant to the customer support and they were able to get it identified - yet it took me 7 tries (!!!) of all different angles, zoomed in and out, foliage or not , to get to their result - and even then I had to take a pic of the EXACT same flower cluster at that same angle to do it. None other clusters seemed to be the same plant I guess?? Then they tell me it’s user error and it’s not eligible for refund - which at this point it’s not about the 4 bucks at all, it’s about the customer support and understanding. They were quick to get back to me, but the answers just were not helpful at all. Super frustrating.

Very weak. It’s not very good at identifying trees by leaf picture, it’s little better than a guess. This app could be improved by letting the user help narrow down what the picture is of. For instance, I can cut out a lot of guesswork if I could tell the app that this leaf isn’t a flower or a bush but a tree. Next, I could further refine by telling you what climate region(s) the results should be in. Additionally, when showing results, many of the trees don’t have detailed pictures - so it might say, we think this is some random elm species - and show you a wide-angle shot of the tree from about 50 yards away, with no close up pics of the leaf shape to compare your photo to. Some have that detail, many don’t. So it’s basically worthless for my purposes, but maybe works better with flowers.

So much fun!. Downloaded this today before we went for a walk. It’s fall here and most plants are barren of fruits, flowers or leaves. However we were still able to positively identify a bunch of different berry bushes and evergreen species. The app told us about whether they were edible or not, medicinal uses of the plant and specific features for positively identifying them. The experience sparked research and discussion among my family and a confidence in knowing what plants are growing all around us. I would highly recommend this to all of my friends. I like the features it has and look forward to further development and precision of the app.

Excellent.. I read all of the reviews that said it doesn’t work. I also noticed that there weren’t a lot of 3 star reviews. Only people who said that it worked perfectly and people that it didn’t work for. I took into account the number of Darwin Award candidates I meet daily and decided to give it ago. I took pictures of 4 semi rare plants that are in my yard that could easily be confused for other things. It got all 4 correct. It’s pretty simple. If you can follow the very simple directions it seems to work a strong majority of the time. If you can’t.....then you probably have bigger problems than identifying plants in the first place.

A few problems but really great. I love this app. As a plant person, I really appreciate the idea. Although it doesn’t always work, people have to understand that this is a new app and it will need time to grow and better itself. Every time you look up a plant and find correct matches, you are helping the system become familiar with more and more plants. I totally think it’s worth the money because they are doing something other apps haven’t done. I use this app every day and am excited to see how it “grows” haha ❤️🌱. One suggestion is to let users save plants they’ve manually searched. So far all I can save are the ones I’ve used the photo search.

Disappointing. A very cool idea for an app (and could possibly become something better) but for now I would pass on the purchase. Not accurate and the app doesn’t seem to recognize obvious and distinct features within different species. For example, I would enter a very clear picture of a rose, and a variety of succulent called aeonium would pop up, showing me that it is in the system. I then uploaded a picture of an actual aeonium which was very similar to the photo provided by the app (shown for the rose). The option for aeonium did not even pop up for the succulent I knew was in the system. The photo was unmistakable and clear. Hoping for improvements soon as I think this is a great idea, and an app I would potentially use a lot. Guess it’s back to the old fashion identification books!

Glad it was only $4.00. So I got taken, shame on me. I was so eager to start using this app until I realized it will name a plant whatever comes to mind. On the first few snaps I just thought maybe I was wrong just because I wasn’t sure if I knew the correct name of a particular plant. So I decided to snap pictures of plants that I’ve been growing for years and know for certain what they are. So I snapped the same plant in two different locations on my property and received two totally different answers...both of which were completely wrong. The actual plant is Wisteria, but it came back first as Eastern poison ivy then again from another location as an Ash Tree, REALLY? Maybe the developer can make a better app in the future, but for now this truly is a waste of time and money. Sorry for the bad review, but maybe it will help in the development of a better app in the future.

Don’t waste your time or money. I bought this app and downloaded hoping to identify some plants in my yard. I took good clear pictures of the plants and this app was only able to identify 2 out of 7 pictures. I contacted plant snap requesting a refund. They asked that I send some sample pictures which I did. I emailed them 4 pictures and they were only able to identify 2 out of the 4. Their botanists researched the other 2 pictures and were finally able to identify them. Plant snap said that if the plant is not in bloom then the app doesn’t always work......So this app can only identify blooming plants 50% of the time. Plant snap completely ignored the fact I requested a refund. In response to your response to my review, I did write to support at PlantSnap. If you read my review, it’s says I contacted them. I have requested a refund on 3 separate emails. I did follow the directions.

Bought this app yesterday ... I sent a picture in to be named by one of there Herbalist or whatever they call themselves aka not really herbalist is what it seems like to me.. there app was not identifying any plants of mine. So this is a cacti I wanted to test the knowledge and productivity of this app. It named one of my cactus species a completely wrong species. It went to call a Gynmnocalycium species a Echinocactus.. the picture I sent was very clear and they look nothing alike. And I did this for the purposes of testing out the app. Education psh.. educating the world on wrong information.. get some new herbalist. As a plant instagramer known for my plant ID’s I would be extremely ridiculed for even assuming that it is that kind of species. All you had to do was google a picture to easily see they looked NOTHING alike from the picture I sent them. Who is working for you???

App has potential. But it can be difficult to use.. Surprised to see that the app developers are pretty aggressive and unyielding to criticism based on the way they respond to unsatisfied customers here. This app has potential but it’s not very user friendly. If I want to identify something, it makes me redo the picture many times and I just end up getting frustrated. I understand the requirements for the picture. (To the app developers who will respond to my review, I don’t need a lesson on the rules of how the picture should look) You would think that it’d be easy to use but it’s really not. And a lot of the time, I just end up with very limited results. Again, that’s probably my fault for not taking the picture within the parameters that the app clearly explains. But I didn’t realize it would be so hard to master and that it would give such inconsistent results. I regret my purchase. It’s too late now. But hopefully the app will improve. For now, I find that I’m better off googling a description of what the plant looks like instead of using this app. Maybe that’s my fault but I can’t be that much different than the typical target consumer.

Great idea. Has never actually worked.. Super cool idea for an app. Saw the ad and took a chance. Basically shazaam for plants. I've got stuff in my garden in curious about. Unfortunately, I've never actually gotten it to correctly identify a plant. Not once. Most of the time you upload a picture and it spits back a bunch of pictures of plants that look nothing like what you've uploaded, and aren't even of the same classification. Like, it's waaaaaaay off. I'll snap a pic of an orange blossom and it will come back with a pine tree. Save your money and just do Google image search. I think they made the Google image upload search part of the standard Google search app. Can't be more inaccurate than this thing. Not super interested in their work really hard to prove that the app doesn't work to get a refund. It was $3. Just chalk that up to the price you pay to learn a lesson about sketchy apps that make big fake promises. BTW I love that every response from Dev is 'user error'. If all the users are experiencing the same error it actually means it's a software error. The pushy BS from the help team actually makes me like this a lot less. If you don't want to fight with them for a refund just protest the charge with your credit card. Much easier and faster resolution.

Wow. So I read the reviews and thought maybe this app would be a great idea but I take pictures of very simple common plants and the majority of the time it does not read it properly. I’ve had the app for 15 minutes now and I’m extremely annoyed I have to constantly take pictures over again because the app is not processing the plants and if it does process the picture it brings up plants that are not even in the same species. I shouldn’t have to take a picture of one plant five times to get the name it kind of feels like I just wasted my $20 purchasing this app. I’ve already had to send two plants to them to be identified because the app cannot identify the plant which to me is annoying this app is supposed to be a plant identification app it’s supposed to be as simple as snapping a picture of the plant and you being able to receive all the information your seeking on the plant it is your searching for but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I have over 150 indoor plants I’m not gonna sit here and take five pictures of each plant just to get the name I’m hoping the developers will read this and fix these issues.

Great reference app!. I was kinda skeptical at first... I got this app after a bad two weeks of poison ivy. The videos and tutorials have helped me make sure my success rate with the algorithm stays high- big thanks for that! As I continue to “collect” new flowers and plants that grow on my property, I’m really enjoying the fun info and feeling like I have a botanist in my pocket at all times. I would recommend for future updates: 1) mushroom and fungus descriptions to know if it’s safe for eating raw, cooking, is hallucinogenic, or deadly. The idea of knowing what’s edible out there from dandelions to whitecap mushrooms would be really cool to capture and enjoy. 2) augmented reality... live video collecting various plants and flowers, and the algorithm can be focused to know its a location based collection, so there’s no overseas plants, etc which could aid in faster live identification. This could also help see where poison ivy, poison oak, or various toxic plants are. I could see some sort of game of collecting or helping identify could help you collect points, and redeem them to have someone plant a tree... idk. Great app! Thanks!

Very disappointed. I read the reviews and all the information and was really thinking I was going to get a fantastic product. Most of the reviews were 5 stars so I jumped straight in and paid my money. How sorry I was when I went around trying to see what plants are going in my garden, when most of the time this app wants to take a single leaf. I found the if I picked the leaf off the plant and laid it on the ground it would perform a better job. This was in bright sunlight and it really struggled to take a photo. Often it would take just a portion of the leaf. If I took a photo of the leaf on the tree and then cut it off and laid it on the ground, then it told me it was a different tree. I found it unfriendly to use and inaccurate. I would really like to return this and get my money back.

DO NOT BUY!!!. I implore every person who is interested in this app not to purchase it. My disappointment is not just in the fact that this app can’t recognize even a simple house plant but rather the patronizing, rude correspondence with the so called support team. Many attempts were made following the exact instructions explained in their videos and written ‘how to’ literature, to no avail. If it can’t recognize a simple house plant I have no faith it will recognize anything more complex. The staff refused to give a refund after many attempts and continued to patronize me. I am sure this sort of AI has a bright future but this is nothing more than snake oil. I have asked for a refund multiple times after doing my best to learn this app. Please stick to your word and give me a refund. UPDATE!! PUBILC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Please do not be fooled into spending one sent on this app. These developers are crooks who claim they will refund your money if the app does not work. THEY WILL NOT!!! The app does not work and I have honestly followed their instructions to The letter, yet they still will not refund me. It is almost a joke and hard to believe they have one positive review. I am not usually particularly concerned about small capital purchases like this but honestly feel this company need to act in a more professional Transparent manner.

A little bit of patience is all you need!. This app is truly amazing, despite it not always providing an EXACT match every single time. No two plants look exactly the same, but this app provides more than one result, and from the other options, you can find other plants in the same family, look that up in the search icon, and you can narrow your results down quite easily and soon find your plant! It’s almost IMPOSSIBLE to get your exact match by just snapping a picture and that’s not the apps fault necessarily because the diversity in plants is just too wide for any database to pinpoint an exact match first time around, but it does give you many different approaches to finding your plant in the end. All it takes is a little patience:) As for a suggestion towards the future update to improve the app’s function, I wish that there was a way that you could add plants to your collection from what you search in the search bar. I would love to document all of my plants in my collection, even the ones that I already know the names of, but I have to go through the process of taking a picture, suggesting a name, and then finding my plant and adding it that way. It’s not the end of the world, but I would still love for that to be a new feature!

Not accurate so far. Disappointed. Started with plants I already know, and it didn’t even list them as suggestions! Had to manually enter the names for them to pop up. Will update if it gets better. **Edit to respond to below: I find the developer response extremely condescending. I watched all your tutorials, I framed the pictures properly ( you can even look at my account), I WANTED this to work! Of course I’m going to give the app the best shot at succeeding. It literally was inaccurate and I had to manually match the ones I already knew, hoping to help the app get more accurate for other people. So, you’re welcome for that. Maybe skip the assumptions that everyone who gets inaccurate reads is an idiot.

It’s a great start. I really enjoy this app. I have recently gotten interested in gardening and collecting houseplants, and have inherited several plants made from cuttings from family members, or bought discounted plants with no name from the hardware store. I’ve been trying to carefully choose appropriate plants for my home, and this app has helped me identify every no-name mystery plant I’ve stumbled upon. I will say the app has only worked on the first try maybe once or twice. When I’m trying to identify a plant, I usually have to try snapping a photo from a few different angles before eventually it gets me the correct suggestion. It also has rarely given me the right plant name as the “most likely” suggestion, but I usually find it by viewing the other possible plant types. I’m assuming that as more people use the app and the database grows, that the app will get smarter. At least I hope it will! Either way, it has been really useful for now and I’m happy to support the developer in the hopes that they will keep making the app better and smarter.

Inaccurate. After 15 tries on plants that were easy and good pictures I have decided that the system they use to filter the image is inaccurate and does not result in the correct plant, despite using their tips and advice. I would prefer to have a refund for my money After writing this review PlantSnap reached out to me and told me they have a “full refund policy.” So I followed their emails and requested the email. They began requesting proof of pictures and atttempts and trying to force me to follow the links and advice to better use the app. I informed them that I’ve already done this. And I would just like he refund please. The customer service sent me this in response: “If reporters from all around the world can make PlantSnap work perfectly for them, we have no doubt that you can do it, too. You would just have to set your ego and your BFA aside and read the directions. Whatever you decide, we wish you nothing but health, prosperity and happiness! Team PlantSnap” For those of you who don’t understand BFA that translates to “Big F@ck1ng Attitude” They still have refused my refund. And continue to act rudely. Their customer service team are highly unprofessional. Honestly it’s 3$ but now I want the money back because I’d rather donate it to a more professional agency. Nature is a gift and a beautiful treasure. I’d prefer it be managed and disclosed by kind professional people. Not those who yell like children at unsatisfied customers

I apologize. Sorry for previous bad review. It WAS the wrong app. I do not know how a plant identifier ap(garden questions) appeared when I specifically had tried to download PlantSnap because my husband read something about it and I am always looking for apps to identify plants I do not know. I tried it this morning with a picture already on my phone and I do like this app. It is very user friendly and I will add to my review on a day when it is not raining and I can play with it further. Again. My apologies. I am not sure how that other app got on my phone but PlantSnap was also on and this was the one I paid for. Other app must have spammed me somehow.

Savage!. The app works pretty great. A few misses but overall fascinating tech and totally worth the money. If I were being honest I would give this app a 4/5, but after reading some of these responses I can’t help but bump them up to perfection. You guys are SAVAGE when it comes to complaints without merit😂 it’s nice to see a company who stands by their product and will call people out when they refuse to follow protocol. Sooo many brown nosers these days offering copy/paste apologies. As someone in the service industry, I know first-hand that the customer is not always right. It takes courage/confidence to go against that principle. Respect!

A Delightful App. This app is absolutely phenomenal! I am currently working on my first year of plant studies in my high school botany-prep class, and this app works wonders! Yes, of course it is not 100% accurate, but then again, it removes all instances of human error, so the ONLY ways that it could mistake a plant would be that, for one, the photographer could be doing a not-so-great job at capturing the plant, or that the database has little instances of the plant. The only way to cure that? Continue to use the app! As thousands of people continuously take pictures of plants and post them here, looking for an answer to their questionable identification, the software will only get better! Practice makes perfect, of course, and no human botanist can start off naming every species of haworthia, so why expect that from a machine MADE by humans? Not everyone is perfect, nor is every software. No offense to the creator(s), of course, as I am sure they will agree. I am very grateful that this application was taken time on, perfected, and released in a finished state. Some apps of this nature cannot state the same, sadly. Again, thank you for spending the time to create this app, and, to all of you that doubt or slander this creation, give it a chance. It might just surprise you. 😉

It’s a waste of money.. I was constantly running into issues with PlantSnap. It didn’t matter how clear it was or what angle I got, it would miss diagnose every single plant - not even getting near the right plant family. If your dependent on survival and you have a water hemlock before you and PlantSnap shows you that you got a wild carrot, what’s the chance of you digging that root up an cooking it because PlantSnap says it’s a wild carrot? So if you’re a city guy looking to do country things, this app is not for you because if you don’t know the difference you can die. It’s dangerous because of how in accurate it is and it’s a waste of money.****************** To solve this issue get a book for wherever region you’re living in that has pictures and details about each plant you have in question. It needs to have all the stages of growth and a detailed use for each plant, with all the warnings and precautions including look-a-likes and certain smells and odors that comes from the edible version versus the non-edible highly toxic version and it’s characteristics. ************* Do your research, don’t trust some on the fly App!!!************************************

Completely inaccurate. I did some test runs of plants I know before using the app on plants I actually know. The app didn't come close to identifying the the known plants. I don't have the confidence to use this app to correctly identify plants that I don't know. The options don't even factor in the difference in the appearance of different varieties of the same plant. I followed the instructions to the letter and the app is inaccurate even when you help it along. Most of the guesses couldn't distinguish a vegetable from a fruit tree. The suggestions are not even commonly found in this country. I am a photographer, plant collector and amateur horticulturist. I don't think its fair to assume the user is inadequate when so many reviews including the 3-star rating found the app inadequate. This app may be able to identify the simplest of plants, but I can do that myself. I only gave my review after trying out the app many times using the best photographs I had.

I Live In The Ottawa National Forrest. 10 years ago my husband and I purchased 20+ acres with a house and several garages in Gogebic County in Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. We live in the Ottawa National Forrest. No way to really control the bug and pollen cycles. There are so many trees, plants, insects, and animals that visit us on their way to the creek behind us. The animals bring new plants with them all the time and when they start growing I want to know what everything is. Plant Snap is a great app to identify all the tree and plants. I also have an app to identify animal scat and another that ids animals.

Terrible APP. Building a database on your dollars. I have loved mother nature since I began camping at age one. I followed that tradition with my daughter, taking her camping at the same age. I have grown up identifying the natural world using nature books on every conceivable aspect of nature; animal tracks, bird books, mammal books, identifying rocks, identifying scat, identifying scat, and the list goes on. Despite being fairly knowledgeable on all subjects nature this looked like a fun addition to have handy as I strolled around my neighborhood or the woods. Since purchasing this app five days ago I have sent in six pictures, none of which are blurry, out of focus, have bad lighting, etc for their identification purposes, as per their own instructional video on how to present your pictures. Their identification of my snap pics have been something that has the same color or might be in the same family, leaving the identification up to the color or the leaf shape. Their response to me after failing to identify these six snaps is that I am doing it wrong, I am uploading my snap wrong. If you notice that’s the response to virtually everyone that has a bad review here. Don’t waste your money this app is being presented too early. Wait a year for them to build their database.

Before You Buy This App.... Know exactly what you want and WHAT YOU’RE GETTING. All the bad reviews are coming from people that didn’t understand and don’t like the mission of the app which appears to be to document all plants on Earth through collaborative effort of nature lovers. Keep in mind, I’ve had this app for 5 minutes. The app developers seem big on ONLY taking pictures of plants in their prime state of ‘ripeness.’ Which is not, honestly, terribly realistic in my opinion. Especially since the people using this app are people trying to identify plants not document plants. I, however, am happy to do both. I like that it’s realistic about the options of plants you might have on your hands. It does sometimes (usually from what I’m reading?) require your own extra research to confirm whether or not the identification is correct. That is just how these things work. There is no app that will tell you exactly what you have unless what you have is SUPER common AND distinct. In which case, you probably don’t need an app to identify it. Be aware. Be smart. Have fun!!

Largest data base?. Moved into a "developer's" neighborhood 2 years ago in upstate SC. The "landscaped" front yard came with a nice, fairly large tree. This fall, I noticed the bark peeling. Purchased this app to find out what type of tree it is to get proper care. Took 21 pictures and tried zooming at various lengths. Locked, crashed or failed to give more than a 16% "accuracy" answer (which was a tree indigenous to Madagascar:). Since this tree was planted by a builder in SC, I'm guessing it's cheap and common, not imported from an island off the coast of Africa. I have no other use for this app other than to save this tree and it's failed:(🌴🌳🌲 The worst part is they force registration, even though it's a paid app, so I'll have to tolerate all the incoming email from them and whomever the sell my info to, while sitting by my dead tree.

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Lucky to identify 1 in 5. This is good in theory but poor in reality. Most of my plants don't flower (my bad) and it struggles to identify leaves and shrubs. Its suggestions are such a wild variety of plants that may as well be cards thrown in the air. I've had the app 4-6 months and its slowly improving in interface. I had hoped it would improve recognition but alas no. Insultingly they suggest the error is in the user. I'm a pro photographer ffs! At least they have human identification as backup and that's 100% accurate. They need to be more upfront about framing all varieties (not just flowers) to help in IA matching, could be done via a wizard.

Love this app. I use this now every time that question is asked - what is that plant. So much easier now to find out.

Overall decent experience.. Armeria Maritima (Seapink). We’ve had these in a narrow strip of our garden for over 8 years. We’ve also had around a dozen queries as to what they are - and I now can confidently forward an answer thanks to this app. Initially, I followed the developer’s instructions to a T; framed the flower correctly, perfect focus, good natural light, but then... as I attempted to initiate the zoom function, it proceeded to crash. Not once, but EACH (and every) time. Still does. I’ve found if the original photo is of a good enough quality, PlantSnap functions at its claimed accuracy. I would recommend this app for the novice & seasoned gardeners alike; however, bear in mind the enormous database the algorithm must filter through (over half a million) to match to your photo, so prepare for a consistent 5-15 seconds prior to its result (& subsequent other suggestions). The ‘Rate Me’ pop-up was quite annoying as I’d liked to have test-drove it for an hour first without the constant annoyance. Overall, a 4-star rating until the zoom function is rectified.

Common names. Just as I expected and always wanted when I go to the JOrdanian nature. I do wish, however, if common and historical names are listed in Arabic language whenever possible,,

Just doesn’t work. They refuse to refund. I wish I read the reviews before buying. It’s a great idea, but as many others have pointed out, it just doesn’t identify the plants correctly. It recognised 1 out of the 8 plants I tried. It’s all well and good for the developers to say you have to take ‘better’ photos, but if you don’t know the plant, you wouldn’t know it’s picking it up incorrectly. So if you are trying to identify a plant you don’t know, it’s essentially useless. I’d love to see the data that supports the 92% accuracy rate. As other reviews confirm, it’s not from real life usage. I’ll be asking for a refund. Update: also, don’t bother asking for a refund. 3 emails sent, 3 standard responses basically saying it’s my fault and making the process as difficult as possible.

My greening thumb.. Very new to gardening. Always lived in cities and never thought I would have a garden to cultivate. I now do and have found this application to be fantastic for being able to see, snap and save the flowers, trees or plants that I have liked while about in the neighbourhood. It gives and saves the location of the photo should you ever want to reaffirm your lust for the plant as well vital information about growth habit, soils etc etc. Haven’t even moved into the new house and garden, but am loving the app for everything it is giving me to create something wonderful.

Nailed It!. Easily Five Stars. Excellent support. Full information of the explanation of what we needed. Our question was promptly acknowledged and we were told how many responses were made ahead of mine.

A must for beginner and advanced gardeners. I asked my husband to get a Cherimoya tree and he assured me that's what he got yet kept calling it a Soursop. I said it's not the same thing. After using your app I have now determined that he bought the wrong tree. Disappointed but now I know for sure. Your app is so fast and easy to use. Thanks a million!

Great help!. Worked on my first try, on a picture from my camera roll and I am thrilled! Looking forward to more info as I go.

Not very good. Really only works if you already know the name of the plant, as it throws up 6 or more plant names, if you know the name you can select it. But if you don’t, it’s just a random guess. A lot of the time when I used it, it didn’t even list the correct plant in the list. It’s ok for a $1 app I guess, but don’t expect to identify plants while going for walks in the bush, unfortunately. Edit: I don’t know why I’m being told I’m using it wrong, when you’re bragging it frames and does everything automatically (then how can I be using it wrong?) even in your App screenshots, it shows how it throws up a bunch of plant suggestions-if I don’t know the plants name, how am I suppose to know which out of the plants it’s listing is correct? Anyway, it’s a $1 app, I’ve moved on.

Not identifying plants. You kept prompting me to review the app even though I have had limited usage on it. I have now tried 6 plants in southern Australia, zero strike rate. I even tried a tomatoe plant and strawberry plant thinking it was a common plant and should easily identify it. Yes I have watched several of your videos and instruction tutorials. I have been aware of the need for a good picture. I will persist and if it improves I will write a review supporting the app.

Great App!!. Other plant identification apps search until they finally "time out" and fail. Every time I use PlantSnap I immediately get the answers I need.

A useful tool in the toolbox of identification.. No it is not perfect, but it still very helpful as yet another way to identify plants. I look forward to its ongoing development, as it will only get better. Well done developers. The first positive identification I made saved me the cost of the app in time.

Poor identifier. No matter how I try with many different angles excluding all else, this app rarely gets it right. Not just not getting it right but suggesting stuff that is way off. A free app I have mostly does get it right without the fiddle of trying different angles etc...so not sure what algorithm is being used here but it is surely lacking.

What a rip off, I want my money back.... Like that’s going to happen, there was no mention that I would have to give my email details away to use this app, before purchasing the app. There was mention of email use in companion app. However this is private data, I only give to the most trusted friends and entities. Yet still I have been hacked&phished repeatably. Recently this week, had my outlook account trashed accidentally by a Microsoft technician. There was no warning, nor an after event apology. So think again, I paid for this app in good faith, only to be let down by a personal data carnivorous corporation, whom I don’t know. So put my money back in my iTunes account. I will delete your savage app.

Love it. Would love the option to keep collections kind of like a Pinterest board - and the option to save other plants which are suggested which aren’t my given plant. Would also love the option to add notes to my photos for my own reference!

Ok for common plants. The app really struggles to correctly identify obscure plants, which is kind of the point of the app. Common plants work ok, however that’s not why I got the app. It may help if you could manually enter a known origin for the plant to help the search function narrow down. For instance, I was trying to identify a native Australian rainforest plant and the app kept telling me it was a mango (which it wasn’t)... entering known factors may help increase accuracy.

Recognised 80% plants in my Aussie backyard. Unfortunately it doesn’t work well with leaves in my experience - works best with flowers. I really wanted to identify two creepers that have just started growing - as yet there a no flowers so it doesn’t recognise them at all. But I’m sure it will continue to learn over time. This app will keep getting better as more people use it! Also they need to make it easier to zoom on the photos in the database so you can confirm a match easier! I had to do a google search for a few to get better comparison photos.

Mildly accurate but well made. I was hoping this app would surprise me with its accuracy, but it didn’t. On its first outing it was correct maybe 50% of the time and crashed twice. Apart from that its well made and easy to use. I enjoy the explore option and look forward to seeing other’s contributions in AR mode. Hopefully it improves over time. I would love to see it expand to include bark identification as it is not always possible to snap leaves of high trees.

"Ask for Help". For a predictive AI this feels pretty weak right now. It's a good concept though. It works about as well as a google reverse image lookup for me - the requirement for a 'perfect picture' is probably fine if you're in a backyard, but good luck if you're in wind, too much sun, too much shade, have an interesting/rare flower or the flowers and/or buds/leaves don't match the database yet, or god forbid you don't have the flower and have to go off leaves, buds and bark (get a proper field guide and ID it yourself). No, I haven't "reached out", and I don't want to. If I disagree with the app I teach it the right choice. In an online world, this is paying to beta test and train their product pure and simple, and I'm actually fine with that, but it's not a finished package. I want the app to work like a local plant specialist is looking over my shoulder, and this is *not* that, yet, although it or something like it will be one day.

Frustrating App.. I’ve updated to the latest version after having a problem with the App. crashing when processing every photo, before I get the chance to reframe the shot. Still the same pesky problem. I’ve freed up all the memory, in the hope that would help. It didn’t.

Are you serious!!!. I live in Australia and work as a gardener and arborist for council and thought that this app may well help with identifying the occasional tree and/or shrub that I haven’t previously encountered but boy was I mistaken.... Out of approximately 100 attempts at identifying local plants and trees this app correctly identified about 4 plants.... After multiple attempts I actually got sick of trying different photo angles and zoom.... Was quite enthused to show my work mates this app but was actually very embarrassed by its inadequacy..... The last straw was when I photographed my workmates thumbnail and the app identified it as a rose and when he photographed my my hair and the app identified it as bamboo!!!!! What an absolute waste of $5 and just want to warn people to steer clear of this useless app.... DO NOT BUY THIS APP..... TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY.... 😟

Fantastic! Australian natives identified.. Can’t believe how accurate this has been. I hesitated to purchase due to a few bad reviews about Aussie performance, but I’m convinced failures are due to not following instructions. It’s worked for me every time. Great work.

Excellent results. Finally a way to find plants without going thru thousands of pictures and scientific names to find what I'm looking for and someone to ask questions too. Such a time saver.

Fantastic Application. I loaded this app in Melbourne, Australia, without great expectations. While travelling in Bali, I thought to try it on the pretty flowers around me! Amazing - in two minutes I had complete details for 3 different plants! Now to return home and stretch my own knowledge...

No good ... unfortunately. If you want to look at standard things like roses it’s great (But the problem is you probably know what these are already)...,if you want to look at things like natives it is useless. After 5 weeks I’m still waiting On a response to my plant email query which is meant to be in a couple of days. Real shame as the concept is great but execution is very very poor

Extremely helpful. I found this app extremely helpful and write on the market every time I have used it. Recommend it to anyone.

Excellent and professionally useful. I’m a horticulturalist and landscape designer in Melbourne, Australia... I was dubious of this app as I had tried other similar apps. However this one has been nailing all the rare plants and natives I showed it, to this date it hasn’t got 1 wrong and I’ve used it at the plant fairs and collectors corner as well as in the field. 11 out of 10 if I could.

Very poor. I purchased this genuinely believing that the developers have had long enough to train the database by now. Regrettably, the App is useless at recognising plants! I did everything as instructed and took perfect pictures. In addition I tested the App head to head against another free App that I downloaded for comparison. I will not mention the name of the other App in case I get dismissed as having ulterior motives. I tested a variety of common plants found in most Australian gardens, including some herbs, fruit trees and ornamental trees. PlantSnap only recognised one correctly (common fig). It failed to identify all the others including parsley! It took a long time for PlantSnap to come up with the answers and all the choices were wildly wrong. The other free App was 100% accurate with a fraction of the speed to recognise the plants. I think my experience matches many other reviews. For every negative review, the developers give the same answer, cite 92% accuracy and frequently suggest that users have not followed instructions correctly. I did and I was regrettably very disappointed. The App keeps asking you to suggest the “right answer”. I was rather hoping it would educate me, not the other way round! Sorry to say that this product is very poor and I will be asking for a refund.

A waste of money and time. I purchased this app on the suggestion of a friend who saw an ad for it. I have used it for a week and it just doesn’t work accurately. I have tested it on flowers and plants that I know for sure what they are and the app returned an accuracy of about three in ten. I have read the replies the developer provides to reviews and they are virtually all identical which suggests to me they are computer generated depending on the user star rating. No good enough!

Excellent app for me!. A small mystery stalk appeared in my yard. It was so pretty, I let it grow. No one has had any idea what it is, but this app id'd it exactly. This is the first time I've used the app, but I'm astounded how quick, easy and accurate it is

Impressive. I’ve snapped half a dozen plants around the tropical garden in northern Australia. All identified in first or second pick. One was from just leaves and berries. Very impressive. Getting a good photo is key.

Thanks. I bought this app based on the feedback the developer provides to its customers. I am so tired of buying rubbish and misleading apps in the App Store - the support and feedback Plant Snap gives is refreshing. I have used the app and it gives me new knowledge - thanks to whoever makes it and provides the support.

A great asset on a bush walk. I love being able to identify the so many native shrubs, flowers, trees that I come across on my bush walks. I also appreciate being able to check the names and origin of introduced species. It is handy, quick and portable!

It’s guessing more than I am. Not very good. If you have multiple tries, reject the ones you know aren’t right, and have some idea already what the plant is, it might get close. If your plant has exactly the right features. Very expensive waste of money. As for the videos... they don’t help, and they are very repetitive, annoyingly voiced and assume the viewer is an idiot who can’t use their phone. Perhaps this app works better for Americans- I couldn’t get it to identify a gum tree! I’ve seen the response to other reviews. I don’t care what NBC said. It doesn’t work in Australia, so stop taking our money!

I love this app. Brilliant work from these developers. It is easy to use and the results are returned quickly. Very accurate info. Brilliant work!!!

Very Impressive!. I am cynical about most AI apps, and was hesitant to purchase this app. Most over promise and under deliver. However I work in IT and I was once a botany major... so the curiosity got the better of me. I have been testing this app on species I am familiar with and have been very impressed with the accuracy of the app. It suggests the correct genus 95% of the time! It will get the correct species about 60% of the time. Which is really high for such a complex task. For species I am unfamiliar with I can use the suggestions provided by the app and search online or reference a plant book to reach a conclusive identification. I am really impressed with this app. It is a really useful tool. It currently does not have the accuracy to solely rely on without other references, but with more people using this app the accuracy of the AI will only improve... then I will give it 5 stars. Even without 100% accuracy, it is a very valuable tool and has become one of my favourite apps!

Much better now.. Good AI is hard. I’m in Australia and in our gardens we have a variety of species along side the natives. I bought this app to teach me the name of shrubs I saw that interested me. In my previous review I found the app wanting. Now I want more :) - Now when I’m about to take a photo it recognizes whether it’s a flower before I take the picture - helping me position my pictures which is really important to help the AI along - which in turn improves my results. ... and the key thing... the matches are working. My Australian natives and other items are matching - and I’m learning... which is exactly what I wanted from this app. The next ‘feature’ would be to link me to nurseries that sell seeds or public gardens that might further specialize in the plants that I have an interest in... But knowing their names empowers me to start doing those things myself - thanks PlantSnap.

Just starting. Only just bought the app but it has identified some older pics and is easy to use

The smartest app in the world. I love knowing what the plants around me are - it means when I’m out & about & think ‘that would look nice in my garden’ I can point & click. Also, my insta mates think I’m the garden guru when they post a pic & say ‘I’m not sure what this beauty is’

Amazing!. Actually works I was sceptical but am now keen to try this on more varied plants in the field. I wish I had this app when I was at horticulture college for plant Ident class !

Hate it. I live in Australia Queensland, I brought plants from a common store called Bunnings. Bunnings sells the same plants across Queensland and mostly sells the most common plants in Queensland. This app couldn’t recognise 3 out of my 4 plants from Bunnings. Very disappointed, this should be a free app as it still has a lot of work todo and it’s not even worth $1.00 and I’m not happy I spend over $5.00 on this app.

It helps me a lot. Very handy for identifying unknown plants. Just whip out your phone anytime and flash flash, got the information you need after minutes. I just love the way this app works, that’s all. Got me curious every time

Lisa Marshall. Just starting using this app today, found it to be very accurate, loving it! Would highly recommend.

I like it.. Quite a few negative reviews here... but it works just fine. I can usually find what I’m after a few tries and you can always fire off a photo to an expert to learn what it is.

Bad ID. I have so far tried this App on 4 different plants and every ID given by this App is WRONG. That’s 100% Wrong so far. I did it to test the App, so I’d say it was useless. If it can’t identify the plants I know, I can say with all certainty that it will also give the wrong answer when I don’t know. The four I chose are very simple. They are, Rosemary, Oregano, Mint and a Crabapple. All wrong. $5.99 just wasted.

Too good to be true!. I was so excited to purchase this app but what a waste of money. If you have a general idea of what a plant may be, you may able to sift through options and choose what the plant is, but if you are interested in learning about new plants- don’t buy. It couldn’t recognize basic things like thyme, carrots, dandelion. It did recognize radish and an indoor cheese plant. The free apps do a better job. I wish I could get my money back.

New version a time waster for me. We live in a country area where internet wi-fi or mobile phone signals are not readily available outdoors or around the property and it seems like the PlantSnap application may now be reliant on such services in order to work. An older version worked okay; identifying the snap when connected to wifi. It’s frustrating because lots of time lost. As well, the augmented reality screen shows nothing but a black background and its bubble outlines. So if PlantSnap functionality is reliant on an internet connection when taking the snaps that’s a problem. Since the last update it hasn’t worked and the entire app jus freezes. When I am in a WiFi accessible zone - like in the house it eventually loads but I don’t have much growing inside 🤔. Okay, so I have just turned off the location access in iPad settings specifically for PlantSnap and I will see if I have any better luck. If I do I will write another review. BTW - I don’t usually take time for reviews unless I am amazed or totally disappointed 😞. Possibly the application could have a few settings added to cater for bad internet connection services.

So helpful. Just bought a few acres in Brisbane, Australia and the old bloke spent the last 40 years planting random plants everywhere. So far the app has nailed 5 out of the 5 flowering plants I’ve tried. Couldn’t identify a big-leafed plant but not too worried. This app will save me hours on the web trying to self identify. Would recommend!!

Glitchy. Unable to identify a range of plants at a time because the screen freezes after the first plant is identified. The “close” button is unresponsive. Doesn’t recognise Australian native plants particularly well. Will persevere and hope the problems can be remedied. I love the concept of this app but do have some regrets buying.

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Plant undetermined. App can’t recognize a perennial planted in my garden. Still waiting for botanist to evaluate and respond.

Waste Of Money. This app makes it sound very easy to use and that you can identify plants from your existing photo collection. We’ve travelled to Portugal this week and I really want to identify a number of plants. It says PlantSnap accepts photos taken from my gallery that is hot while offline but the app doesn’t show where or how you upload to identify them.

Terrible App and Bad Customer Support. Didn’t even want to give this 1 star. I have better results with Google image. This App is really inaccurate. The App owner refuses to refund my money and sent me a link to a YouTube video so I could “learn” how to use the app “correctly”. And asked me to send them my photographs so they could “see what I’m doing wrong” The video admits the app makes mistakes with non flowering plants and tells you to keep trying. I don’t think this is the right standard to set for knowledge-based products. Don’t waste your money.

Increasingly awful. Used to work somewhat however last few days I get zero results, even trying something I already know, a rose bush....I don’t buy many apps but would get my $ back if I could

Need to create an account destroys app. Bought the app but can’t use it as I have to additionally create an account or link social media account. No sign in with Apple option. Since I refuse to hand over my details I’m locked out of an app I purchased. Ridiculous.

Expensive and not worth it.. More sales and chat then information, and scanning technology. Very disappointed! With this price it should be the other way around!

Disappointed So Far. We live in the far north of Canada where wild flower time is short, abundant, and greatly varied. Over the years I have learned the names of many of these with the help of various flower books. This method is good, but not immediate. After researching this app, I excitedly downloaded and purchased a year subscription hoping I could take the app with me for quick identification on walks. The app tutorials are simple and complete, but the disappointing part is the app doesn't identify the wild flowers correctly and if so, very rarely. To its credit, the app identifies domestic flowers well, and has an abundance of information. I will continue to use the app for the year since it is paid for, with the hope that this review might prompt some work on our northern wild flower species.

Précision. La précision n’est pas bonne. L’étendue du territoire est trop grand pour le Québec.

No support. Very few plant photos I upload are identified correctly. Some are so obviously wrong. I uploaded several plant photos over a year ago for identification, but they are still waiting for identification. I emailed support on April 30\20 and still haven’t received a reply. I wish I could get a refund and try a different app.

Difficult to identify a maple tree…. This app seems to offer suggestions only. I have never had a definite identification, even a clear picture of a maple leaf results in suggestions that are way off with no correct answer.

Does not work. Very, very disappointed

Looks pretty and promises a lot, but..... it fails to come through. Minutes waiting for any response, either positive or negative leads me to believe that it can’t do even a minor piece of identification. Passing on this app should be a snap. Much later: I received a response from the developers... weeks after posting my review. I took their suggestions, uninstalled the app, rebooted my phone, and reinstalled the app. I had to re-install the app three times to get it to work. Finally, after much stress and deliberation, I finally got the app to start after waiting over a minute to get to the welcome screen. I can only surmise that since I don’t live in North America, I have no choice but to use a VPN to gain access to their service. Using a VPN was the only way I could get the app to open and give me the option to check the plants around my house. Slugs are a detriment to plants, and this app is far too sluggish for anything I would like to do. I am uninstalling the app and the company can keep my $1.39. I will take that financial bite as lesson learned. PlantSnap is no snap. PS - when I clicked on App Support on the PlantSnap page in the App Store, I was taken to a security warning that stated that the page was Not Secure and that it may compromise my data and security. I mention this in case PlantSnap says that I “didn’t reach out” to them before posting this updated review.

Annuler. Je veux annuler cet achatEt le remplacer par un autre outil car je ne peux pas prendre de notes sur l’avancement de mon jardin et il y a de la publicité même si j’ai payé je ne peux pas voir Amazon Veuillez effectuer un remboursement s’il vous plaît

Sick of having to sign in every update. Title says it all.

So inaccurate. This app has identified 2 of 30

Plant Chat. I like it a lot but wish it would access my photos.

Paid money ,not again. This is the worst , never again

This is a scam. Paid for the app and went to register for the account (note the app has limited and essentially useless functionality without an account). Tried registering via Google (gmail account) and Facebook. Couldn’t get an account using either. Tried registering online and via the app as well. Didn’t work. Essentially, there is no way to get an account so there is no way to get the app to function properly. Total scam. I want my money back.

Just flowers i guess. Not recognizing bonzai trees or coconuts

Pas facile d’identifier une plante. C’est la première fois sur une dizaine de tentatives que l’application réussit à identifier une plante. J’espère que son taux de réussite va augmenter.

Forced registration. I have had this app for awhile, now I can’t access it because of a forced registration screen that won’t let you continue unless you give your personal information. Unfortunately deleting it.

Don't waste your money. In the time I have had PlantSnap it has not positively identified a single plant that I have tried to identify. This app is inefficient and definitely not simple to use. Don't waste your money.

Wonderful companion for walking in nature or parks. Love it thank you

Useless. This is the most useless way to identify plants. Almost every plant I input is wrong. Don’t waste your time or money. When you need to identify a plant that is invasive or toxic, or one you want to use for medicinal purposes, this is not the app to use. I’m deleting it.

Useless. Cannot identify a single plant I have in my garden. You cannot trust this app to identify anything. Bizzare answers not even close to real plant, wrong region, wrong season. This app should be free, rip-off, do not spend money on this.

PlantSnap has gone downhill. I often use PlantSnap to confirm what I think a plant is. It has been 100% correct until the last update. Since then, it has been wrong about 60-70% of the time. So very frustrating. This evening I submitted a clear picture of a Himalayan Blue Poppy, and PlantSnap got the poppy right, but not the kind of poppy. How many poppies are blue? I have sent e-mails and received standard for replies. I hope they fix this soon. Now, PlantSnap is wrong 100% of the time.

No quick ID yet. So far, I haven’t received a quick answer for any of the 8 pictures I have taken, and one or two of them should have been easy. I have also sent a few for identification and have received a response for one or two. I had high hopes for this app, but it hasn’t met my expectations, unfortunately. Response to a support question was quick, but several plants remain unidentified. Also, there isn't always much information on the plants. I wish this app had had a trial period.

No login, please. Why the hell should I have to login to use this app?! Maybe to access a secret social network of plants? Makes no sense.

Great app. Only complaint is I get served ads even though I paid for the app. Not super happy with that, also the UI on the ads causes them to often cover up the plant description. Beyond those two issues, this is one of the most exciting apps and best purchases I have made on this phone

It is my memory. Nice job PlantSnap with various suggestions

Don’t bother. Probably the most useless app I’ve ever downloaded, certainly the most useless I’ve ever paid for. When it came up with strange answers for plants I was trying to identify I thought the answers were a bit odd like wrong geographical regions, etc. As a test I tried ten very common plants native to my area (Western North America) that I knew. Again bizarre answers. I tried submitting several photos and angles of the same plant in the hope that would help. No luck. Example: Rosemary still came up as foxglove first and was nowhere lower down on list. Waste of space, time, and money.

Lucien Gagnon. Le site c’est grandement amélioré.

Forced to log in. Very disappointed to update the app only to find out users are now being forced to log in.

Much better now !. I bought this app about three years ago. At the time, I thought that it was OK, but not great. So, I set it aside and didn’t use it much until recently. I was happily surprised that it has become very good, excellent in fact. I look forward to playing with it a lot more now😀

Dont waste your money. Useless app. Wish I had read the reviews before downloading. I watched the video and followed all the instructions and it could not identify my African Violet or the common Fir Tree in my backyard. Gave responses that were not even close. Yes developer, I have not reached out for support because you will just say I did not follow instructions and I have. You just have to be honest and admit you are. Eta testing a crappy app. Make it free until it works!

Mediocre but it works. This app does what it says it will, but not in a particularly user-friendly way. Taking a picture of something gives you something that looks like an incomplete Wikipedia page. It works but it's not flashy or fun really. They also just added a banner to the icon of the pro version which is obnoxious :P

Don’t waste your time. Pretty much the most useless app I’ve ever used. What a waste of time

I could make you app better. Lotsa room for improvement

Now I know!. Love being able to identify the world around me!

Carrot and potato. Can’t even identity carrot and potato plants.not right very often

Works. Works well and each update keeps getting better.

Excellente application. Bonne application

Pas precis. Pas précis même avec une excellente photo avec le fruit, les feuilles et la tige

Love this app! Used it a lot with plants I didn’t know. In Philadelphia...really enjoy it! Thanks

never got my confirmation email. bought the app and registered but i cant sign in because i never got an email from them

Pretty good. I have been using this app for a couple of years and generally speaking I am pretty satisfied with the plant identification. The wild plants are less identifiable but with each year the plants available for identification increases. If you are somebody like me who can’t remember plant names but always wants to know “What is that?” 75%of the time you will get your answer.

Always wrong results. It’s almost random with the plant identification.

Northern Gardener. As a person who spent most their life North If sixty on the north shore of Great Slave Lake coming from Ontario as a child I always loved gardening. One problem however I knew many plants but as the years went by I tried to grow many things but could not remember what they were called This app is wonderful And Not only do I learn their common names I’m Learning there official names as well! It’s a great resource

I want my money back. This is a waste of $ so far, I paid for the thing let me just use it easily and without extra registrations nor location tracking and full access to my photo gallery, way too invasive. It can’t just look at a photo in my library, I want my $ back.

Complete garbage. This app has never worked properly or provided legitimate insights into many of the plants I have in my home and garden and now I have to LOGIN or CREATE A LOGIN just to use an app that I paid money for. Hey plant snap people, how to I get my money back for this useless piece of trash?

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50/50. I know the feedback is that this app only works when the user is competent but I’ll point out that a lot of people take great pictures with cameras and have no idea about the theories behind photography. I went around my backyard with 10 known plants and this app got 5 out of ten right. I took several different shots with the “misses” and they never got identified correctly. Yesterday I Snapped wild Violets in the yard and got some obscure result. Save your money if you really need this for helping you identify plants and you intend to order $100s if plants online - because it’s just not that accurate. Buy it if you like testing the apps reliability with known plants.

Needs improvement. I have been using this app for a little over two months. I can understand some plant/flower images may be difficult to identify immediately which is why I can only assume the app has a feature to send identification to an expert if the results you see are incorrect. However, I have been waiting well over a month for an “expert” to identify multiple plants/flowers. My recommendation is buy a book!

If only I could give this a zero. The reviews overall were good on this app and I want the ability to identify more plants. The first plant it identified as sage, which was surprising to me as I had not planted sage, so I took a second scan and it told me blueberry, then a third scan said it was a hydrangea, these were scans of the same plant from the same angle. Then I said well I'll try a tree which it identified as the different trees and a grape vine. Frustrated I tested it with coming garden plants. I scanned a tomato plant and at least on the second scan it identified it as a tomato? Then I scanned cilantro which it identified as a Fern. I've only used this morning, but I would not spend $2.99 on this if I were you?

Awesome!. So far I’ve used four photos that I’d saved on my phone. It has worked admirably and with one error, although the true bush was in the other “possible” choices so I don’t really count that as an error at all. It got very close and when I compared the images they were nearly identical in nature except one form was a bush while the other a tree. I have a feeling I will come to love this app. I love plants but I never remember what they’re called, if I ever knew truly at all! This is excellent. And so far, worth the price too!

Looking for app just like this !. I actually like to plant many trees and flower and looking for some handy portable app that search name of flower and tree and just found it !! Plant snap works well with me , I also like the " Might also be " thing on the app , it identify well even with leaves shape of plants ! Waiting for more better UI with good search option to come on next update , Other than that Thanks for making this nice portable plant search app ! 🌲🙂

Not worth the money. I have never actually reviewed an app before, but felt compelled to on this one since I am so disappointed with it. I have tried several different plants, following the instructions exactly, and only once has the plant been properly identified. Most of the time, the highest percentage match (50-60%) isn’t even in the same plant family. Aside from identification, I assumed (or at least hoped) it would also provide care instructions. Needless to say, It does not, but I guess that doesn’t really matter since it can’t even advise to the plant type. Albeit only costs a few bucks, still not worth the price. Save your money and frustration!

Very poor app. Good idea; bad roll out. Definitely not ready for prime time. I took photos and tried to ID a bunch before giving up. Only 2 did they offer decent possibilities and they were the same plant, one pic a flower, the other a leaf. Most ofThe rest did not match any of the possibilities it offered. It could not even ID a Crabapple tree. They even had access to my location,Buffalo, and offered possibilities of plants found in the Middle East/Asia. WTH are they doing? Why aren’t reviews in chronological order? And if you ever get around to it, newest first is best. Very disappointed. Can I get a refund? $3.99 for very bad app. I’ve tried again May 2019 Utter fail.

A little disappointed.. App works on a lot of plants, unfortunately not the species I purchased it for. Love several of my plants but still don’t know what they are. Kind of disappointed as I, for some reason, have a green thumb. Would like to know the few “unusual” plants that I do have that are thriving, and how to replant to get more of them. Have never gotten a reply on photos of them sent as to their identification.

Unbelievable!. I spent almost exactly 1 year going through my yard, snapping photos and figuring out what the plant REALLY is because rarely did the 1st suggested return match what I photographed and now all the sudden “My Collection” is GONE! I had about 20 different things sorted out, saved and I frequently returned to “My Collection” to either remember the name of something or learn more about it and now it’s all gone....evidently because I updated my iPhone this was the cause because I did nothing differently except did a mandatory update to my phone.......so disenchanting...

Not great. I just splurged on the pro version of this app and am not impressed. If you open a pin in the “explore” map and you have an iPhone, it won’t close the pin but rather take you to your phone’s notifications center. So, you can never get back to the map to explore. There doesn’t seem to be any way to submit multiple photos of a plant to the identifier, which is often necessary for accuracy. I came up with bupkes on my very first id attempt. It would be nice if you could limit the searches to plants native to your area, but there’s no way to do that. You’re better off without this app and just a few library books.

Great program for the amateur botanist. I love this program! Real simple: just take a picture, frame it, and click Go, and in less than 30 seconds you find out what it is. I use it when I see a flower I want to add to my garden, or to ID trees on forest walks, etc. Rarely it will come up with a screwy suggestion, then I will take a second picture and it will get it right. And it saves all my pics in a “PlantSnap” album in my photos, so I can always go back.

Nice App. I wish there was an option to turn off the instruction box while taking a picture. The instructions are helpful when you’re first starting to use the app but become slightly annoying to see every time. I also wish there was more information about whether the plant is native or invasive in the area in question. For extremely rare plants the location of which the picture was taken I believe should be hidden to prevent people from digging up a rare and exotic species in the wild. Otherwise I think this is a wonderful app.

Horticulture degree in You Hand.... I love Horticulture & Entomology! So whenever I’m out hunting insects I have PlantSnap App in hand as well. Helping to document the plants I find insects on really helps me to I.D. many of those bugs much quicker. I’ve been raising Praying mantis from around the world for six years now. Taking them into schools to help teach kids about mantis and their part in nature. Now I’m using the PlantSnap App in me class demos, show kids, teacher & parents how easy it is to I.D. Plants anywhere they go... #PlantSnap_GardenOf_Eden

Won’t stop crashing. So far I can’t seem to identify anything, and if I try to identify the same plant twice it seems to crash. When I try to watch the help videos, it crashes. The app particularly won’t let me identify one of my house plants and for some odd reason has a personal vendetta against this plant and crashes every time I try to snap it’s flower lol.. meh... a friend really loved this app and said it works great for them so I’ll keep trying it out and then I can edit this review. But so far I’m not impressed :( once I can get it to stop crashing then maybe I can finally watch the help videos............

Sometimes works. I live in Florida and have a dozen or so citrus trees and many blueberry trees that the app was not even close to identifying. It could not identify pineapples either. I have some vines that it identified as sand grapes, and I suspected that was what they are, but I would never trust this app to consume any unknown fruit. I hope with time the developers are able to improve on it. I have had some fun going around the yard seeing what it comes up with, but it is often wrong, and yes of course I watched the tutorials and I am taking photos correctly.

Very good app. After reading some of the negative reviews, i wasn’t sure whether i should get this, and i expected that if i did, I’d have to take several pictures of each plant i wanted to identify. But, after going through my yard and taking careful pictures, this app identified 7 different plants all on the first picture. Not sure what kind of trouble other people have been having (maybe just less common plants), but this app has been super useful and i enjoy using it!!

I’ve been waiting for sooooooo long...... For someone to really develop some sort of way to help me figure out what tree, leaf or blossom I’m looking at. Here it is! This app is perfect for finding out what plant your looking at so you can know what species tree is in your back yard or what type of plants neighbor or friend has so you can plant it in your own yard. And the app gets better as more people use and submit picture for identification. Such a great app. You won’t be disdapointed!

Best Plant ID app!!!. i never review apps, but this one is just so helpful i wanted to recommend it. it identifies every single plant i ever get a photo of, and even if it doesn’t get it right on the first try, give it a couple different of photo angles and it’ll be able to find it for you. I can’t recommend this enough!! It has helped me in my gardening and foraging life so much, i can never go on my walks without my phone in case i find a cool plant to identify. 100% worth it!!

Works for me!. I was hesitant to buy this app because of the negative reviews. I am glad I did anyway, because the app certainly works for me. I followed the instructions and was able to identify many “test” plants correctly, often with the first trial. I think occasional odd result suggestions are most likely caused by less than optimal snaps, eg. with other plants in the picture. The app works equally well for garden plants and wild plants. I finally could identify the mystery plants growing in my backyard! Looking forward to using this app when hiking!

Pathetically Inaccurate at Plant ID. Cool app idea; atrociously bad at its very purpose. I snapped a pic of a type of walnut tree. At first it said it was a grass. Took another pic. This time it said it was a flowering shrub from New Caledonia. I’m in New Jersey: wrong hemisphere, wrong climate, wrong plant. Okay, maybe gave it some tough ID tasks. Let’s toss it some soft ones. According to the app, chrysanthemums are bee balm, zelkova trees are rhododendrons, and a red shrub rose (Scarlet Miedland) is the orange Tropicana tea rose. Moreover, the camera takes forever to frame the plant: I counted to 25 seconds while the app said “Detecting”. No response. You have to snap a pic with the camera, then load it into the app. Hardly convenient. Worst waste of a $4.99 app purchase ever.

Very accurate for ID. I've found this to be excellent for IDing plants; better than other plant ID apps. If possible I would deduct half a star because I think it could be improved in terms of encyclopedic info it provides. Sometimes the info is inconsistent, formatted oddly, and too "raw" in terms of editing, but I know that botany is a vast and inexact science. I use this app to catalog and ID plants, and then I do my own research online. For that it is really terrific. And I appreciate it for the accuracy.

Good for what it is. I have really grown to love this app for identifying plants. As long as you have service and can use the camera within the app, have decent photography skills, and can use some critical thinking, it will help you identify trees, shrubs, perennial and annual flowers. It doesn’t work at all (for me) to take a picture offline and later upload it. Best if you have flowers to capture, ok with leaves. I like the social interface to see other plants in the area. I think domestic works better than wild flora. 👍🏼

Fair job identifying of plants. This app has been hit or miss. There have been several common species (such as kale and plantain) that I have used clear images to test the app with, and it wasn’t able to identify them. On the other hand, it has identified 30% of the images I used that I didn’t know the name of. My biggest gripe about this app is that it saves a second copy of the image to my phone on iOS, I’m not sure if this is an app issue or just iOS but it’s definitely aggravating to go back and delete all the duplicates.

Yes!. About a month ago, we found an interesting flower in the natural area of our yard. We began a discussion with a local farmer regarding plant identification. His wife was able to identify our flower. I put the same picture into your app. Using the "deep learning aspect," I used Angela's identification of Bidens Aristosa. Your database came back with another picture that definitely confirms this is the correct plant. Oh, and a lot if information about this plant. I love your app!

Wonderful. I have only been using it 2 days now but I have hundreds of plants on my land that I in fact know what they are. I have been walking all over taking pics and using this app and it has been right almost every single time. When it wasn’t right the pic below the first one shown would have it listed. That only happen twice. I do like the app very much as I know while out looking for wild herbs and stuff it will help.

Loving this App!. I almost didn’t bother because of the bad reviews. So glad I did! This App is great! I’ve spent all morning going through my tree photos and IDing plants. Whilst the App didn’t know every single tree, it got a lot correct. It’s a work in progress and the more photos that get submitted, the better it should become. The photos need to be clear and close up. Preferably a flower or fruit. I’ve tried leaves as well. Some it got, some it didn’t, but I’m having a blast with it. For those of you who paid and are disappointed, try going to your local nursery to take some photos to see what works. It may just be that you are not getting enough of a close up. At least at a nursery the plants have labels so you can see if the App works. The App is fairly basic right now but I was told there will be updates to see what others around the world are IDing. Can’t wait for that. Anyway, I’m off to have fun at the garden department at Lowe’s!

Doh! Doh! Doh! Doh! Yay!. If you use this app to recognize a plant that is hard to identify you will have to take 4 or 5 photos. Each time it will recognize the plant incorrectly. Eventually it makes you shrug you shoulders and think to yourself, “I guess I really don’t want to know the name of that plant.” Then if you point the app at a plant that is easy to identify it will instantly recognize the plant. This app would be fun for people who don't know the names of any of the common garden plants. It fun to use, when it works. I gave it four stars because i think it is freaking amazing that it works at all.

NOT user friendly. This is easily the most frustrating app I have ever down-loaded. It is not easy to get good results. The name, ‘plant snap’ implies you just snap a picture and, poof, you find out what kind of plant it is. That is rarely true. The developers tell everyone with problems that they aren’t using it correctly and should contact the team for help. That is ridiculous! People acquire single-purpose apps for ease of use and do not want to spend a lot of time training on how to use them. Yes, I have followed their written instructions and still get very poor results. No, I will not spend more time by talking to them on the phone. Again, IOS single-purpose apps should not require training and hand-holding by a support team. If you, as a potential app user, are willing to go through training then it might be satisfactory. If you are like most people and expect it to just work, look elsewhere.

Very Disappointed!. As the other reviews indicate, I had a large percentage of my images misidentified. I started with things I knew the names of to try it out. After 8 different plants, with multiple attempts, were misidentified, it finally got one right. (not in the top 5 of their results, however) As indicated by others before me, I am following the instructions perfectly, so please don’t tell me to watch the tutorial or the videos you post of the app correctly identifying a plant. To those that are considering purchasing this app, I’d would not waste my money or my time. Perhaps sometime in the future the app will improve...hopefully it will improve!

Amazing! Just what I’ve wanted!. Been waiting for an easy accurate app that does this. Outstanding app. Accurate from the first. The two times I thought it was incorrect were both due to my lack of knowledge, not the app. For example, I snapped a plant I called one name but it showed up under another name. A google search showed me that the name plant goes by a variety of names. Fast accurate AMAZING app. Love this! And TY to my hubster for telling me about it after he saw it discussed online somewhere :)

Save your money. Attempted to identify 6 basic plants and flowers I purchased at Home Depot, but it was only able to identify one. Using the most current version of IOS. This app would be great if it worked. Update: Prior to posting the original review, we followed the instructions in the welcome email, watched the video, and even tried it on multiple devices. Maybe the developer should take the feedback as an opportunity to improve the app instead of becoming defensive. Clearly, with 3.5 stars and after reading the reviews, many people are having issues. So, if there are more secrets to getting the app to work, make the information public instead of asking people to privately email support.

Pretty Good. Takes a while for identification, likely because it’s searching such a huge database. Seems to drain battery a little fast. The camera icon at bottom of screen doesn’t work when you return to snap second photo and on. You have to tap camera at top, which seems redundant. It got a coupe of obvious plants wrong. I tried it in my greenhouse and it got tomato and cilantro wrong, nowhere near probability. Other than that, I think this is great and I’ve wanted something like this to come out for a while. Thank you and I’ll try to use often to help out with recognitions!

Fun but.... Only got 1 out of 3. The most hilarious was identifying a California Poppy as a tulip. You know I am using it properly I followed directions carefully or at least I believe I did. That being said the average is getting much much better. Also I can’t imagine just how difficult this must be when a simple change in ph can completely alter a bloom’s color. I’m having fun with it even when it makes a mistake and when it gets it (l check with more knowledgeable people if necessary) I learn something like a primrose can be a really ugly plant.

I Love being a stay at home Mom ....I MEAN A Botanist!!!. LOVE LOVE being able to see what I have growing !!! I love growing plants ... and have grown a ton with little money !! I get seeds or clippings from friends and family but sometimes get inpatient or decide to give them a better shot at growing in a different spot ... which has led me to be afraid im plucking a beautiful plant every time I pull a weed as I don’t know where I have moved everything ! Love being able to learn about what I have growing and it’s great to be able to see an overall description of my plants without having to fall in “ the google hole “ HUGE time saver !!! I am so excited to be able to educate myself about these amazing , and most of all beautiful treasures !!! This app is truly a gift that keeps giving !!!!

I want to love this app. This app could be great, but it misidentifies a large percentage of plants. I just attempted to scan my prayer plant and was told it’s a Darjeeling Banana. My basil plant identifies as a cayenne pepper. With this level of misidentification, I can’t say you should purchase this app until the AI improves. Re developer response: if your response consists of telling people they are not using the app properly, perhaps the app was not designed and coded properly. I will happily provide examples of the multiple photos I took while testing the app, and hope you would be willing to publish them alongside the results it provides for all to see. Ratings can be easily bought, so please don’t use your ratings as proof your app works well. I strongly suggest you listen to your reviewers instead of trying to blame them for your app’s issues. You have a great concept and I hope you improve the app so it works well on a regular basis. Removed an additional star due to “customer service’s” snarky attitude.

Overall great, a few complications. This app is great for identifying plants and such but one thing it needs to improve on is that in dark places it gives almost random results. When I bought the app to test it I got a moon cactus and took a picture of it where it resides. It happened to be dark out when I took the picture and it registered to be a desert tree. I took another picture of the cactus in the light and it classified as it was, a moon cactus. Great concept and execution, but just adjust the lighting for the camera and I will rate it five stars. Keep up the good work!

Expanding horizons. I used to work at a greenhouse so I’m pretty well versed on my flowers and plants. I received a flower arrangement that had some of the most unique flowers in it. I had never seen them before so I snapped each one and it provided a chance to expand my horizons while providing a chance for entertainment while being laid up and off my feet! I’m so glad I found this app! I can still keep in touch with a hobby I love.

Good, But Not Good Enough. I have been using this app. for a few years, now, and it does a fairly good job, but there are so many plants it just doesn’t or isn’t able to identify. Even the community hasn’t been able to identify almost a half dozen of the plants I submitted. Trying it on some plants I absolutely know what they are has also proved to be less than accurate. Today I found another app. that does a much better job and also identifies animals, fungi, and possibly even insects as well, so as much as I hate to, I am deleting it, now.

So fun! I love PlantSnap!. Sure, it isn’t perfect but think of the millions of plants that are out there. I am thrilled to have a resource that can at least narrow down the huge amount of weird plants I spot all over the Northwest. I’m giving it 5 stars for affordability, ambition, plant knowledge and ease of use. I bet that as more users feed in photos, it will get better and better. Hey—I bet if there was an option to select your geographic region, it would be useful too. Thanks!

Improving. I first played around with this app maybe a year ago, and it was useless as every plant it would give me the most vague random thing that kinda looked closeish Now it gives very clear instructions and does very well at quickly identifying the plants. I also use Seek, which isn't as good at figuring out what the plant is, but gives way more detail in a prettier format on each plant I hope to see the database improve, but love that it works well now

Reasonably accurate, but unstable. I found the app to work pretty well at identifying the wide variety of houseplants in my home. My only real complaint is that it is unstable on my iPhone 6 Plus. It consistently crashes to the home screen after 2-4 analysis cycles (take pic, identify, repeat). None of the other apps I use do this. Be that as it may, since I can work around the issue by simply re-launching the app, and since the app otherwise works quite well (especially for $1.99), I have given it four stars. Hopefully, stability will improve in the not-too-distant future.

Disappointed. VERY frustrating to use! I take lots of photos of flowers and plants — many of them quite common. But when I try to have them identified, the first suggestions are often for plants that don’t grow in this area. I would think it would make sense to at least have the option to start a search based on location. And as others have said, it looks easy in the animated tutorial to get the perfect shot, but out in the real world with wind and clouds and sketchy terrain, it doesn’t work out that way. Easier to look things up in a field guide.

Review on use of Plantsnap. I just started using Plantsnap today and found the three plants to be identified were identified correctly. I could not find the icon to pull pictures of plants which I took on our trip to Alaska this summer off my recorded pictures already on my phone. Should that icon be at the bottom line where it would be easily seen? I know this app will be very helpful in future use.

Not helpful. Was so hoping this would work...but so far seems to be way off...a small fern (pretty obvious) said it was red oak?- have tried several pictures of various things, and several pics of the same things, (less light, more light, different angles)-and doesn’t seem to recognize what any of them are- as someone said earlier, I’m finding it easier to just google a description. Would be helpful if you could add more info if the app is having difficulty identifying it (like size, geographical location, etc)- I never buy apps, but gave in to this one, and so disappointed it really doesn’t work

Need WiFi to use. I work as a park ranger and was excited to be able to look things up on my phone for campers when they had questions about plants and trees, unfortunately when hiking there is not much signal and usually no WiFi. The only way to use this is to take pictures of plants and try to look them up later when you are connected to WiFi. Everyone at my job experienced the same issue. I wish I could use this while I’m out hiking, It’s pretty accurate.

Worth It. I absolutely love this app so far! I’ve used it twice, and it was able to correctly identify a flower species and a type of bush. I clean the grounds before my shift at Buffalo Wild Wings, and I found a tiny patch of stray flowers underneath a bush, where I was picking up cigarette butts. I decided just to try the app out really quickly since my manager couldn’t see, and I was so excited to have it named for me, with multiple other pictures of the same flower as a confirmation. I told everyone at work about it. I love it. I say it’s just like real life Pokémon, gotta snap ‘em all!

Serious issues. They get 2 stars instead of one because I occasionally can make the app work. When it works, it works well. If you don’t give the app free reign to access any personal data it wants, it crashes. I sent the developer a crash log: they denied that there was a problem. After the latest update, it now demands a Facebook login. UPDATE: Months later I get a canned reply to this review noting that this isn’t a tech support contact. I am aware. I already tried contacting tech support and was told I was wrong and the app is fine. Thank you for confirming that a 2 star rating was well earned.

Professional. Going into the horticulture industry as a hobby and a profession, I wouldn’t even hesitate paying for this app. I have a bit of trouble identifying less sought after ‘weeds’, but like others have said the more the app is used (and I’m sure the developers are also adding information) the more accurate it will be in the future. Also, the option to have my photo looked at and personally identified by a botanist (for free mind you) is simply fantastic.

Amazing app, works well. I first posted around with this app maybe a year ago, and it was useless as every plant it would give me the most vague random thing that kinda looked closeish Now it gives very clear instructions and does very well at quickly identifying the plants. I also use Seek, which isn't as good at figuring out what the plant is, but gives way more detail in a prettier format on each plant I hope to see the database improve, but love that it works well now.

Inaccurate on over half of the plants. This app didn’t identify plants correctly more than half of the time! I’ve asked for a refund because this app simply doesn’t work a vast majority of the time. They are giving me a huge runaround about a refund, after offering a refund! I would give zero stars if I could. I suspect the good ratings with more than a couple stars are fake. *** update: now these people have the nerve to say that I got correct identification of plants and I am trying to scam them someway and get those identifications for free. What a joke. This is not what happened. This app simply doesn’t identify plants correctly the majority of the time.