iplant - Plant Identification

#16 of 48 in Plant and animal identification

48 of 100 · reviews
4.1of 5 · store
7,051ratings on the App Store
477reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A 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.

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What people use it for

Students and anyone wanting free plant ID who can tolerate ads in exchange for no subscription

What reviews praise

Free and no subscription, a stable repeatable result earns trust, handy in class, simple ID from a photo

What reviews complain about

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

What users experience

2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Tried several apps and they gave me a different ID on one plant every time I submitted a photo. This app comes up with the same result every time so I trust the results more.

I expected a bit more info on tree I'd than "maple" Absolutely worthless. I took a picture of a maple tree sapling 6" high. The iplant I'd?: Tree