Plantion - Plant Identifier
- 30 of 100 · reviews
- 4.3of 5 · store
- 9,663ratings on the App Store
- 352reviews read
An editorial reading of the saved reviews
The app's core flaw is well-documented in reviews: diagnosis almost always returns healthy even for plants that are visibly dying or already dead. Identification only handles broad families, not specific species.
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What people use it for
Someone who already knows their plant and just wants to confirm the name
What reviews praise
Quickly names a plant family from a good photo.
What reviews complain about
Disease diagnosis is functionally broken: returns healthy regardless of the plant's actual condition.
What users experience
4 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.
The app said it will help identify and help my plant may or may not need and every picture says healthy. But I put a picture of a dead plant and it said healthy. A waste of money.
Kept seeing the ad for the app, scanning grass in the yard and identifying issues. Set up the trial, took several pictures of my dying struggling lawn that the lawn guys haven't fixed yet. Close up, far away, etc. Every picture says it's healthy.
I don't have very much success identifying problems with my plants. I take a good photo, but most of the time the diagnosis says that the plant is 'healthy'. I need a better way to identify the disease on my plants before it's too late.
I've purchased the subscription based on an advert I saw on Instagram. It was quite straightforward video how this app would recognize the plant and would give very specific advice. Instead it gave very generic advice like 'it's either overwatering or under watering' without any real specific input.
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