I.D. Wood App Reviews

Not a snap pic & identify wood app. Shucks... paid for this app hoping to snap a pic of wood & it would tell me what type of wood it is... not so.

Terrible app. Thought the app would allow me to ID a piece of wood. A list of all the wood types does nothing for me.

Disappointed. I was hoping that it would have a camera ability to take a picture of your wood and it would identify it. This is useless unless your just curious about a certain species of wood. I have bubinga and it looks nothing like the picture on this app. None of my woods match the pictures on this app. What a waste of money!

Tons of very useful info & tools. All the data compiled about the wood is great. Although agree with many folks, seems as though the developer is slow to include more species. However, I find the app very easy to navigate, especially given the amount of data and reference material provided. I look forward to seeing more updates.

Not What You Think. Very dissatisfied and disappointed. I thought this app would identify wood with a photo or similar but no such thing. It’s another useless app that is not worth the purchase.

Not what I expected. Like other reviews, we’d much prefer to take a pic of a piece of wood and have the app tell us rather than determine the type from searching a database with 100’s of possible choices? Waste of $5

App Name is Scam. You don’t realize that this app does not identify your wood until after they charge you $10USD. You have to search their database for wood information. What a scam this is! RUN AWAY NOW!

Completely Useless App. I assumed this app would allow me to identify the wood grain of furniture or flooring using the camera. I’m not sure what it is supposed to do. It seems to serve no purpose whatsoever and costs $4.99

Great app for people who already know what they’re looking for. You may as well just google based on what you see, this app does not “identify woods”, it shows you pictures of known woods for you to compare to. Absolute waste of money.

OK as a very basic reference. If you want a list of a bunch of different kinds of woods with a picture or two, then this reference is fine. However, if you are really trying to identify a type of wood, you'll come up short with this app as I did. There are not enough pictures or detailed descriptions of the wood to really tell because the photos shown look very similar for varieties. For example, by looking at the pictures I really couldn't differentiate between, say, black walnut from cherry. I was trying to identify the wood on pocket doors in an old Victorian house and this was no help. To do an adequate job identifying wood, you need some close-up shots, some pics of a large piece to show variation, some with different finishes, some quarter-sawn, etc. Different pieces will have a different look, and one or two small sample shots really won't do the trick. I ended up just doing a Google search for images and found a plethora of examples for free. I was disappointed I spent money for such a limited view here. Somehow I thought the description said you could take a picture of wood and it would help you identify it. That was why I bought the app. If really this is a feature somewhere, I have yet to find it.

Not what I thought it was. I got this app to help me identify the wood in some antiques that I found in EU. I thought it was an AI scan type app but it just has pictures. That might be helpful if there were more pictures with different finishes, but it just has a small piece showing a small part if the grain- pretty useless. Iit is also kind of clumsy. I don’t recommend this one.

Don’t waste $10. I thought it would help identify wood trough my camera lens. I didn’t know i would have to go through pictures of every single species in the world and compare it to the piece i am looking at.

Overpriced and incomplete. A very abridged and and lightweight compendium of wood species. Not much specific information over species. It's more of a "common wood at a glance" than a complete ID tool. Many species left out or lumped into groups even when they are distinct woods. Photos are often not representative or are difficult to identify even with common woods like Douglas fir. More complete info available online wood ID sites and in books. Probably an ok app for the occasional woodworker or curious. Pretty disappointed as a professional. As it stands this is a $1 app, not $5. Save your money and get a book.

Not I.D.. Doesn’t help identify the wood , you basically have to know what the wood is and then it tells what kind it is…. Duh…

Miss-named App. I’m greatly disappointed. I wanted a tool that could help me ID a piece of wood in hand. If this app isn’t worthless from a practical use standpoint, then it deserves the low rating simply on poor instruction and functionality. For example, I performed a search and got 75 hits, but the app only lets me see 50 of them. Way too many, but still, why can’t I see them all? And why can’t I narrow my search further? If you are looking for a simple wood ID tool, this isn’t it.

The only one of its kind...just what i was looking for. Man, it is about time someone made an app like this. I am starting into lutherie, and know little about wood identification. However, this app is exactly what i was looking for, and more! The pictures are clear, and the added descriptions are excellent. If i could make a suggestion, its that you should provide alternate photos of wood because every piece is unique in appearance. A single photo could be misleading for identifying an unusual piece of wood. Looking forward to updates with more types! Awesome app!

Handyman. Great product❗️ Tons of reliable info in 1 (1️⃣) Place 👏. Great Pix of wood (Very Necessary for Wood ID). If only 1 critisim it would be, no easy way when looking at wood sample to get back to list, & ability to 'order' wood differently, Otherwise Great ‼️ This App by far is one of the Best on wood identification & usage currently available on iOS devices, AND especially on Retna available devices like iPhones 11 & 12, as well as the Pad Mini❗️👏 Best Pix 🙏

Trash. This app is absolute trash. I don’t ever leave reviews…but do not spend the money on this. It doesn’t help to identify wood at all.

Incomplete and misrepresentative. Endgrain pictures are missing for many species and are generally too low quality for identification anyway.

Original and helpful app. Would love to see the browsing mechanism change though--not a fan at all. I don't need to go through three pages of descriptions just to look at the next wood grain image in the database. Please change it so you can flip through the images only and pull up the info window only when interested in that particular grain.

Misrepresentation. This App does not identify a piece of wood. Need to be able to take a picture and then ID what you are looking at. Highly disappointed.

What’s the use of having an app with limited space information. I assumed this app would work like picture this. Take a photo and get suggested wood species. Seems like I have to thumb through all the limited information to make a deduction of what it might be.

4 Stars. Great app. Just wish it was easier to use.

Very Poorly Designed App. Very difficult to use. There is no back button. Impossible to find a species of wood unless you know what you are looking for but then why do you need the app. I would like a refund.

Terrible. If you like just looking at pics of wood - get it. If you want a real tool to identify wood - this is not it. Waste of time & money

Mis named app. I should have read reviews. I want my money back. I’m looking for an app that will identify a piece of wood in my hand.

Well it does not help you Id a species of wood. This app is about as useless as can be when you say ID wood I would expect it to help you figure out what kind of wood your working with. If you u already know what you have then it will tell you about it. Otherwise it’s a useless app.

Not worth the money. Shame on me, should have read the reviews before purchase. Not what it seems.

Bob villa screwed me again. This app is terrible. I wish I could kick the guy who made this app square in the D1ck. (Or in the case that a woman created the app... then kick her square in the taco)

Lacking as a Reference. The very first wood I searched, a domestic hardwood, Alder & Red Alder were no where to be found in this app. Navigating the app also has a lot to be desired. Makes you wonder since this app hasn’t been updated in 2 years that it even works at all. Better to save your money and search the Internet for wood identification instead.

Limited. Not all woods are there. Hard to identify one by one. Navigation is hard. Very simple app. Just look it up on google.

Not useful. I have wood, I need to identify what kind it is. From the images it looks like you can put a camera up & it will tell you like other apps. Waste of my

Doesn’t match actual hardwoods I have. Bad app!! Refund please!!!!

Not What I Thought. I thought that this app was much like other identification apps where I could take a picture of the specific type of wood and it would identify it. Instead you have to scroll through a hundred different types to find one that might look similar

Good Info / Not Intuitive. I'm trying to find a good guide for wood identification without carrying a book around. This app has good info but it's not functional enough. You can add woods to your favorites but then when you go to scroll from one to the next it's back in the main list mixed with African woods for example. It seems like it's just a database packaged nicely. Needs a back function, etc. I'd like to have a list of common American hardwoods I can quickly browse through. Disappointed I spent $5, right now this app is worth $1 or free until it has more function.

Limited. Not what was expected from description. Has a use but not extensive.

Very Useful App, but.... Maybe I’m missing it, but I don’t see a back button. Navigation could be better, but content is extensive and rich.

Great Tool. I love all the additional woods added this was a great update. If you need to show your customers what choices to use for cabinets or flooring and fill them in on info of each woods characteristics this is the perfect app to use. All in all I think a great job, thanks for the update and keep up the good work.

Hard to use app. No back up button and app is hard to use

Disappointed. I purchased this because I need a tool to identify common native American woods. It is mediocre at that task. The resolution is good but not excellent. There isn't much narrative that helps identify wood species, for example the size of the rays can help you distinguish between whit oak and red oak. The image in the app store show an end grain image, but I didn't find any end grain images in all the woods I looked at. The app has several tools that are probably useful, but they aren't useful to me. It will probably be enhanced over time but for now it is too immature for my needs. Wish I could get my money back.

Great idea for an app.... This app is missing a way to get a listing of the images of wood to help ID a board in hand. There does not appear to be search by wood Characteristics like color or grain pattern. Ideally let me take a picture of the wood and show me images of the closest matches.

Good start and great idea. Very nicely executed application. However there this application is missing a lot of important content. For example: Spruce is only shown as "Spruce" when key variants such as Sitka and Adirondack are not included. The same with Rosewood where variants are key such as Brazilian, East Indian, and others have significant differnces in sustainability and application. In terms of grading exotics there is no discussion of AA, AAA, AAAA, and AAAAA which describes the quality/depth of figure in the woods. Add more detail and more comprehensive glossary and I will upgrade my rating.

Tree identification. It would be nice to show samples of the bark and leaf configuration, at least in some cases.

Wood identifier. Needs to have a scan function.

Good app if it be easy to use, very confusing and time consuming. Not easily navigated no back button got to go back to the list. Not recommended

Out of date. Does not include some common wood types and is woefully out of date with the website that this app sisters also lacks a lot of the wood detail pictures. Navigation within the app is sub par and tedious. Not worth 6 bucks, just use the website instead it’s easier to navigate and has more information.

I.D.WOOD. Cheesy app. There are free ones online!

Not worth 4 cents.. My own fault I should have read more reviews. I like most, who are I’m guessing, wanted an app where you take a picture of a piece of wood and the app through the pic of the grain wood tell you what it is. Waste of 5 bucks

Useless. Save your money with this app you can’t even view all the thumbnails at once making it painstaking and almost impossible to actually find out what kinda wood your liking at, for 10$ it’s a complete rip off

Very good...but. I bought the actual book many years ago, and I've had this app from the beginning. The app is easier to use than the book, and the selection is the same, or better. But a major problem is with the quality of the photos. Sometimes the photo is too close up to get a really good idea of the overall grain pattern. But worse, is that the colors are not corrected. On iPads, with their calibrated screens, this is disappointing. Too often, the color is nothing like the actual color of the wood. This color can significantly vary even among the same wood species when different examples are given. If they could correct the colors, that would go a long way towards making this app extremely useful in wood selection. Include two photos, one of a close-up, and one of a larger portion, and it would be about perfect.

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Very good. Very comprehensive,a bit american centric ,could use leaf and bark or picture of the tree to help identify timber

Argument solver!. This app has solved many arguments between my woodworking mates. What wood is that, used to be a common phrase. Now we just look it up on the database. For 5 stars it needs more Australian woods!

No Australian hardwood. Waste of money. No Australian hardwood. Waste of money

Not really for Australian timbers. As suspected, this is just a US app put on the Australian market, all the timbers are either American or perhaps English. The token Australian entry is "Eucalypt" which says that this specie has over 600 sub species and a very bland, generic description of it's working properties. Apart from that, nicely thought out and organized app with quite a lot of detail on the 50 timbers it covers. It would rate much higher if it was to be expanded to really include woods from outside the US. The pics are not really good for anything more than a guide to what the wood may look like. Not enough detail on how the woods in the pics have been finished, oil, shellac, waxed etc.

More woods needed from overseas. I.D. Wood works well but is lacking some of the commoner timbers used in Australia. One example is Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) is one of the most common species of Eucalyptus tree in the southwest of Western Australia, and is used extensivly throughout Australia due to its hardness, durability and red colour. Another would be Merbau (Intsia bijuga), this timber is used extensivly throughout Australia for decking and outdoor furniture.

Very helpfull. Can you tell me what the 3rd sample on your tittle page is thanks.

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Love this app. I have had this app for a day, but I absolutely love it. Money well spent

Disappointed. Extremely limited, does not cover many popular trees! Waste of my money $$$! I will stick to books instead of this!

Joinery instructor. Quick and easy reference

Great App. If you work in the millwork industry this is must have app.

Some bugs. Just loaded v3.01. Some serious bugs as crashes often, pages overwrite each other so cannot read, slow navigation and often returns to incorrect pages when using back arrow. Looks like has great information but unusable until bugs fixed which I trust will be soon.

Valuable resource. I work for a cabinet shop that builds and repairs furniture. This app is a very good reference and has settled many arguments about identification and usage of woods.

Très limité. Correct pour obtenir de l’information sur des espèces dont vous connaissez déjà le nom mais inutile pour essayer de découvrir un type de bois à partir d’images ou de coupe de bout. Pas recommandé malgré les témoignages mis de l’avant sur leur page d’information.

Great Resource. Excellent photos and descriptions. Looking forward to even more wood species being added!

Nice app but limited. All the most common species are there but it's quite a limited list. Tried looking up Mexican Parota because I am doing a project with it but it's not there. I'm also turning some pens with Camphor wood but that too isn't listed.

Great pocket reference. As a cabinetry student, this app is indispensable. It contains tons of wood species, pictures, and practical uses, as well as a reference guide to woodworking terms. Great to have around as a wood worker.

New Update. I loved this app before. Now I love it even more!! The ability to e-mail pages to customers and other trades is such a bonus!! Love it!!

Needs improvment. Good idea but needs more. There are a Lot of popular woods that are not included. Great idea will be better after an update!

Love it. I love it

A Good App. One of the first apps I bought - years ago. I don't use it every day; but, when I do, it is a great resource. Worth every penny.

I want my money back. Use google you’re better off I wish they had a minus one star

I D Wood. Very easy to use. A great sales tool when selling anything related to wood.

Needs upgrade.. As stated before, it needs a larger database & it also crashes everytime I try to access the bookmarks.

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Great app!. Helped me a lot!

Awesome. Tons of information

Needs update. I've had this app for over a year now. So far I'm pretty disappointed in the wood selection. As a luthier I would like to see different grades of tone wood. Maybe even the ability for users to upload project photos that used particular woods. The navigation in this app is completely abhorrent. Trying to navigate it makes me want to go out and just buy a book. Not enough woods in this.

Great App, great developers. I love the app and all of the features... The BF calculator is indispensable, the glossary is just what any craftsman needs. Developers are very responsive with any help or questions that may arise. Thanks!

Great pocket reference. Full of useful information. Would be nice to have pictures of actual tree to identify the lumber you could harvest.

Very helpful for me and my customers!. Great app! I am a professional carpenter and use this app to help customers pick out the type of wood for custom cabinets.

Great resource. Has an abundance of wood types and good descriptions, uses and wood properties with a simple interface.

Technician. Very limited data base. Only 1 sample pic per species. I work with a lot of exotics, and extremely limited there:•((

Perfect!. So many categories and ways to search with fantastic photos and extra tools

Not what I expected. I have a bunch of plant and garden identification apps.They all work the same way, basically you upload a photograph of the plant, weed, insect, flower, or treeYou are trying to identify and it gives you a list of suggestions of what it might be. Unfortunately that was what I thought this app might help me do.Basically if what you need is a master list of every wood and what it looks like and all of its characteristics, basically a reference, then this will be fine. But I was looking for some thing that could ID wood for me. Also the navigation on this is quite frustrating. When you hit the back button you have to go back to the master list and scroll all the way through the list again to get back to where you were. The back button function is not helpful. They need to rework that.

Has potential but needs work. This app has a lot of potential but it is not there yet. The domestic woods are limited. One glaring error I noticed is that Black Oak is listed as another name for White Oak. Black Oak is in the Red Oak family and marketed as Red Oak. Hopefully the app will continue to improve and become the killer app it could be.

Cabinet maker. Average info on basic woods. Doesn't cover enough.

Laborious. A lot of information, but without simple options to navigate the site it is tedious. You have to page through all of the indices sequentially - it is not possible to move directly to any of them.

Great App!!!!!. Really helpful. My clients love knowing about the kind of wood their project is made out of. I use it all the time.

Good app. Very thorough, great reference.

No cross referencing. Searches always lead to thumbnail with no cross reference to durability, sustainability etc. Must browse through long lists for this data. Info' button should show more info' on displayed species, not about product developer! Lame. What is source of sustainability data? Would be better if referenced actual FSC certification stat's. Sorry I paid 2.99 for this app'.

Excellent. Really good quick reference. Love the board/ft calculator.

Not a whole lot of info. It is what it is. Not alot of wood samples. Not even birds eye maple. Very few exotics. Fair - at best.

Great app at the lumber yard. I use this to explore alternatives to planned species for a project. I don't need the expertise of the salesman to confirm wood traits.

Great Program, Nice Interface. Played with this for awhile and find it to be very useful and thoughtout. Anyone that wants to know a spieces their using or looking at will find this to be helpful and imformative. Nice job!!

Informative. I'm a beginner wood worker and it had been a great tool for me. Lots of good information. Sometimes a little confusing to navigate around in. Would be nice to have more pictures of the wood samples. Maybe a a few different views of the grain.

i like its info. if I could change anything, I would have two images available for some of these woods. also, an increased library of woods would be wonderful. however, congrads, this is a helpful thing and great idea for an app!

Much Improved!. If you work with various woods this is a very useful app. Really user friendly. It has also just been updated and was greatly improved. If this type and quality of update keep coming this app will quickly become my favorite!

Architect. Ok for what it has but I was very dissaponted that the available choices are very limited at best. This site should be a resource for all woods. There are too many missing species to give this a high (professional) rating. I look forward to updates.

Marginally acceptable. No Alder? Can't believe this wood is missing. I was also expecting functionality to take picture of wood sample and have the ap provide possible matches. Should have researched more closely before I bought it

Totally useless. I thought this app identified woods from a photo taken with my phone. This is not the case and if you have no idea what type of wood you're looking at this app isn't going to help. Plus, there is a lot of searching and scrolling to find information. I'm annoyed I paid $5 and now I'm just going to delete it from my phone because I'll never use it.

ID Wood. Good app

Lacking. There seem to be more common North American woods missing from the database than in it. Box elder, hard pine varieties among many others. While potentially useful it's clumsy to navigate and is missing far too many common varieties to be of much help.

Moderately useful, but not $5 useful. It's a decent help, for a moderate amount of woods. The problems would largely be a lack of images for the woods. If anything, there might be an end grain picture, and one other image. The addition of a back function, a full list of thumbnails, without needing to select a letter category first. The last update being more than a year ago isn't confidence inspiring, either

No hard pines. This app does not include one of the most economically important species groups, hard pines: long leaf, slash, shortleaf, loblolly.

Love it!. I use alot of veneers and my clients really appreciate the photos and info on the different species. It does not replace a sample veneer catalogue,but to have this on hand,even in my phone, has been a great help.

Don't like. I don't like this app it only has 1/4 of the kind of woods out there it is not worth the money

Review. There is an extremely limited database. The application setup is not user friendly, and the app often crashes. Overall, for any serious woodworker it is a waste of money.

False addvertisment waste of memory. The wood samples are slow to navigate . After 2hours of trying to locate the calcular sample on the add I still can't find it . false advertising ??? If you want to calculate nails/lb as shown in add its not here

Good but!. The descriptions of wood listed is pretty good but many of the woods that I used for turning are not listed i.e. cocobolo, olive wood, etc. would like go see an update that would add many of these woods.

Woodturning. I like this app in helping me identify wood I am not yet used to. However, it needs updating as there is a lot of wood not yet in data base. Some woods used in turning really need included- different types of Olive, box elder, are just a couple.

I.D. Wood. The program does not work. It crashes after loading.

Good app but color off. Good app but color is not correct all the time. It will say white wood and show a grey sample.

Great!. Great info for everyday common woodworkers

RD Custom Carpentry. This is a great app. Great for helping clients to understand properties of the different species of wood.

Terrible gaps. No Lyptus? No Mesquite? No Padauk? These and other gaps really limit the usefulness of this app. If they keep expanding it, it has promise. But it's current limitations really hurt.

great app. the 5 stars is for the ipad it is hard to navigate the app on the iPhone

Super useful for new woodworkers. Lots of great information about hundreds of wood species. Only thing that occurs to me to improve is the search engine. The search function produces results do infrequently, I've learned NOT to use it, which makes finding info more challenging.

Nice!. A little short on some species...especially domestic. Navigation takes some getting used to. Overall, though, a handy pocket-sized tool. Good for showing a customer what wood choices actually look like.

great app. Great app. It would benefit from from a measure of the strength of woods.

Good, but room for improvement. There's a lot of great info, but the UI is frustrating (e.g., no back button), the organization isn't intuitive (e.g., the board foot calculator isn't on the calculator), and the glossary is incomplete (and some entries are rather brief). Not sad I bought it, but hopefully it improves. Another wish is to include info on woods used in instruments, but I can hardly offer that as criticism.