iplant - Plant Identification
authentic ratingA free crowd-sourced identifier with no subscription, which people love and use in school classes, and the consistency of its result earns trust unlike its rivals. But you pay with attention: ads on open, before submitting a photo, layered over another ad, and because of them the shot gets lost and you have to retake it several times. Accuracy is middling, it sometimes returns just tree instead of a maple species, and descriptions occasionally come in Chinese rather than English.
Store 4.1 and text 3.87 nearly match, and 58 percent five-stars among texted reviews are backed by specifics (it gives the same result every time so I trust it more). Complaints are also concrete, about a flood of ads and Chinese descriptions, and align with the score, the organic signal is clear.
What users love
- Free and no subscription
- A stable repeatable result earns trust
- Handy in class
- Simple ID from a photo
What users hate
- A flood of ads on every action
- The photo gets lost to ads and needs retaking
- Descriptions sometimes in Chinese
- Results too generic like just tree
Who it is for
Students and anyone wanting free plant ID who can tolerate ads in exchange for no subscription
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