PlantNet Plant Identification
Observation and help for the identification of wild plants
Total ratings
4.51
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Accurate plant identification
- User-friendly interface once learned
- No ads or payment required
- Helpful community verification for plant IDs
- Provides a wealth of information about each plant
Cons
- Occasional technical difficulties and bugs
- Challenges with offline mode and lack of access to information without a network
- Navigation issues and non-intuitive interface
- Requires multiple photos for better identification but users often take only one
- App needs access to all photos and location data, raising privacy concerns
Most mentioned
- Issues with offline mode not functioning
- Technical difficulties impacting usability
- Importance of taking multiple photos for accurate identification
- Confusion with navigation and interface design
- Need for accurate and vetted photos in the app
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-26 |  | | It does a good job AFTER you figure out how to use it. It's not a complex app, but it's not obvious how to use it. It took me a while and a lot of trial and error attempts. Eventually, I got what I hoped for. Now I wander around gardens with my camera which has become a fun thing to do. Some day I will sound like I know plants and flowers. Super!!! |
| 2024-06-21 |  | | Offline Mode is not working. I installed this app exclusively for its promise of offline operation. I enabled embedded identification and downloaded all of the packages including pictures. It does do a search and provides a list of scientific plant names. But when I click on a name to see more information or to see pictures to confirm, all I get is a network error. A scientific name alone is not enough. :( Also there is nowhere within the app to report an issue. |
| 2023-07-06 |  | | This app is great at identifying anything that grows (I kinda want to try it on a couple of my kids...!). Very accurate, speedy, and unlike all the other similar apps I've tried, it does NOT nag you or require payment. To the point I'd actually consider a paid version, since they have given me the opportunity to experience how good the free app is. |
| 2023-05-11 |  | | Been using this app for at least a year and all of a sudden it doesn't want to work anymore. Phone and app are all updated. Keeps giving me "technical difficulty" pop-ups and I can't even access plants/photos I've already identified, let alone ID new ones. Was a fine app and I liked the direct link to the plant's wiki but now it just doesn't work at all! :( |
| 2022-07-29 |  | | Cute idea, but not accurate, pics are not vetted by experts. For example, for oak & maple trees in New England most of the user uploaded pictures are for the wrong tree. Identifying oaks/maples is tricky because the leaves are close in shape/color. This makes the app useless for identification. There does not appear to be a way to flag incorrect info. On the other hand, for some other plants, the app points me in a direction and then I can use expert vetted resources to identify the plant. |
| 2022-06-25 |  | | This app is unspeakably dope. To the guy who says uploading multiple photos for an individual plant ID is broken, it is not. When you click the camera button to start an ID, take the 1st picture. Then select the appropriate category (flower, leaf, seed, fruit, bark, etc) and the app will display its best guesses of species with % confidence, example photos, etc. To add more photos, click the back arrow at top left, then the "+" sign in the blank picture frame next to your previous photo, repeat |
| 2022-04-30 |  | | Love this app. I use it very often to identify unknown species of all types of plants and weeds. Interface is straightforward and results are usually 100% correct. It also allows you to identify a pic, then go back and add more different ones to aid in the ID (bark, leaves, flower, fruit, etc). You can even submit for verification by others in the community as well as get scientific name and facts. |
| 2021-08-04 |  | | The app has correctly identified every plant leaf and flower I've inquired about so far. Some may require a little further research and, or observation, pics. The app points you in the correct direction to do so, along with quick and easy access to more data, information, as desired. Awesome app, just what I was looking for. |
| 2021-07-22 |  | | The app is accurate enough that it's a good first step in the identification process, but if it's a plant that may prove useful or important to know, I need to check it against a field guide. One of the recent updates has made it so that the search starts as soon as you upload a single photo, and then re-starts the search with every photo added, which is surprisingly annoying. I like how plant IDs can be verified by the community, although that doesn't seem to happen very often. |
| 2021-06-23 |  | | Works hot and cold,. Difficult to figure out how to navigate the many interfaces. Amending initial rating: what have you done?? It's impossible to get back to main screen w/ options of camera and Gallery. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to getting to the various screens I don't want to see every Tom , Dick and Harry's photos. I want my photos and pertinent ID info. I even uninstalled it and reinstalled hoping to clear the bugginess of it all. Down rating it which is a shame b/c it used to be very good. A Royal Pain in the " " |
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