PlantNet

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Failed to work. Failure to photo plant, no instruction on how to fix

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Garbage app. This app won’t even identify plants bought at Home Depot. So after the third try I waste no time rating the garbage app it is

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Very disappointed. This app is not what it’s advertised to be. It does not tell you what nutrients or changes your plants need. It barely is able to identify them. I’m very disappointed.

4. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Blocked?!?!?. It worked great until a few days ago when this message popped up and the app stopped working: “Pl@ntNet services are operating normally but your IP or your country has been blocked by our infrastructure provider. We are sorry for this. You may want to use a VPN or another network for a few days to use the app.”

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Blocked in certain parts of the world. Won’t work don’t download

6. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Not working. No longer works. Getting error pop up saying network error and to try vpn from another country etc. Disappointing because it previously worked well.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Can’t use due to country?!. Relied on this app for plant ID for a couple years, but now it doesn’t work. Says “country blocked” (am in USA) & should use a VPN. Very disappointed.

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   USA blocked from this app. Hi Danielle, this app or years and today all of a sudden the USA is blocked from using it

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Appears to just not work at all. Tried from a domestic wifi in EU and VPN to various countries, but all I got was internal server error or dome other non/descript error.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesn’t work anymore. No matter what I do the app doesn’t work anymore

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not helpful. This app does nothing but “Identify” plants by the user choosing the name of the plant. Has nothing to diagnose issues or care suggestions. Not worth the time it took to upload, write this and now delete.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Weak attemtp. More about social media than anything.

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Slow & doesn’t provide immediate data; only options. Even the choices it showed were so tiny I couldn’t see if any of the options looked like the plant I was trying to identify. Very disappointing. I am canceling my subscription and going back to Picture This.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No. Too confusing, not user friendly.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No way to cancel. It doesn’t work the way advertised and there is no way to cancel once you start

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Foragers BEWARE-Wrong plants being identified. A couple of years ago this was my go to app for cross referencing while foraging but today I would use something else. I tried to identify wild lettuce, Latuca virosa L., and while it appeared as a second option, opium poppy, papavar somniferum L showed up as the first option even though there is no resemblance. Additionally, wild lettuce was consistently misidentified by members as being opium poppy. This is one example and there are many. Foragers BEWARE!

17. ★★★★★recognition misses on the most common plants

    Doesn’t ID Plants. I must be doing something wrong— I TAKE PHOTO, THEN APP asks ME to ID plant from about 10+ far-ranging options! If I knew what it was, I wouldn’t need to ask! I started with a rose plant, and it asked me to tell them which type of rose it was out of about 10+! Then with plant I had no idea what it was, it asked me to ID Plant from about 20 options, ie poison ivy, poison oak or MANY common plants…this is NOT helpful!

18. ★★★★★account bans or deletion without explanation

    4 years later. Worked great. Now getting error messages that my profile has been blocked by the server. No notice. No explanation so deleted and reinstalled/ checked here for notifications. Waited several days. Same error’s. My nickname? is taken… Where do I submit for problems? Nice while it lasted. Doesn’t seem to have a fix. IDK

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Marge. There is nothing to tell you how to transfer a photo from your gallery to the plant net gallery so you can find out what it is if it’s there I don’t see it so that’s why it got a low score

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can’t open it. Shows an error 500

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesn’t work.. App would not identify common plants in my region.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Trash. Keeps on crashing and I end up on a loading screen that won’t load for minutes. “Error due to possible ip being blocked” Yeah no thank you, i didnt even have to use it to know it’s already bad

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Camera option refused to work. Worthless-no way to contact company. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling app. No luck

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not impressed. Couldn’t even identify an Aloe Vera plant, already deleted this app

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Need to have to cure for plants. Good app to identify plants but that all it does not worth the money because there is no cure to fix problems with plants. Very disappointed. Plant to cancel app.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    no instrucciones. could not upload photo and no directions. I have iphone 15 photos

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I am not a robot. I really like this app until I had to create an account. I tried many times to create an account and it just kept claiming that I am a robot. Because of this I am now locked out of the app. I am NOT a robot!

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    apparently i’m a robot??. would love to give this app an honest review , but i can’t even make an account because apparently i’m a robot???

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can't identify a pine cone????. Keeps telling me my pine cone is "not a plant".

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Guess I’m a bit. Can’t create account looked kinda cool to use. Each time I try to create an account it tells me I’m a bot. Someone needs to fix.