Looking for the best plant identification app to identify, diagnose, and care for your plants?
YardMate helps you identify plants from a photo, diagnose plant problems, get personalized plant care guidance, and stay on top of watering reminders — all in one simple, ad-free app.
Whether you’re identifying a flower on a walk, checking a tree in your garden, or trying to understand why a houseplant looks unhealthy, YardMate gives you the information you need in seconds.
KEY FEATURES
ACCURATE PLANT IDENTIFICATION
Identify plants instantly from a photo.
YardMate works as your plant identifier and plant scanner for:
• Flowers
• Trees
• Leaves
• Weeds
• Houseplants
• Succulents
• Garden plants
• Indoor and outdoor plants
Simply take a picture to discover the plant’s common name, scientific name, species information, origin, characteristics, and more.
Use YardMate as a flower identifier, tree identifier, leaf identifier, weed identifier, and everyday plant ID tool wherever you go.
PLANT DISEASE DIAGNOSIS
Is your plant turning yellow, developing brown spots, wilting, losing leaves, or showing signs of pests?
Take a photo and YardMate helps diagnose possible plant diseases and health problems.
Understand:
• Possible causes
• Plant health issues
• Disease symptoms
• Pest problems
• Treatment suggestions
• Steps to help your plant recover
It’s like having a plant doctor with you whenever something doesn’t look right.
SMART PLANT CARE
Give every plant the care it actually needs.
YardMate provides personalized plant care guidance based on the species and its needs, including:
• Watering
• Fertilizing
• Light
• Soil
• Seasonal care
• Growth
• Blooming
• Plant health
WATERING & CARE REMINDERS
Never forget to water your plants again.
Create personalized care schedules and get reminders for watering, feeding, and other plant care tasks.
YardMate helps you care for your plants when they need attention — not simply by the clock.
DETAILED PLANT CARE GUIDES
Explore detailed plant guides for thousands of species.
Learn about:
• Watering needs
• Light requirements
• Soil preferences
• Fertilizing
• Growth and blooming
• Indoor plant care
• Toxicity
• Pet safety, dog, cat, etc.
• Plant origins
• History and interesting facts
Whether you’re a new plant parent or an experienced gardener, YardMate makes plant care easier to understand.
WEED, FLOWER & TREE IDENTIFICATION
Not every plant you find is a houseplant.
Identify weeds growing in your yard, flowers you discover outdoors, trees in your neighborhood, leaves on a hike, succulents in a garden, and plants you’ve never seen before.
Snap a photo and learn what’s growing around you.
AD-FREE, BY DESIGN
YardMate is ad-free.
No banner ads. No pop-ups. No distracting advertising while you identify plants, diagnose problems, or learn about the natural world.
DISCOVER THE STORY BEHIND EVERY PLANT
Plant identification is only the beginning.
Learn where a plant comes from, how it grows, what makes it unique, and how people have lived with it throughout history.
From windowsills to wild gardens, every plant has a story.
YardMate is available in 11 languages.
YARDMATE PREMIUM
Upgrade to YardMate Premium for unlimited plant identifications, full plant diagnosis, and advanced plant care tools.
Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings.
Terms:
https://yardmate.ai/terms
Privacy:
https://yardmate.ai/privacy
I downloaded YardMate because I keep seeing the plants around my neighborhood that I couldn’t name. Now I find myself stopping to scan flower, tree, and even random weeds whenever I’m out for a walk. What I like most is that it doesn’t just tell you the name and stop there. The short story and background about each plants make learning much more personal. I’v start to noticing plants I use to walk right past, every walk feels like I am discovering something new. It’s become one of this app I open because I am curious , not because I have to
Developer Response
Thank you, this is exactly what we hoped the stories would do. A name on its ownis easy to forget, but the fact that a plant was carried across an ocean, or usedas medicine 500 years ago, tends to stay with you. That is why we write them.One thing you may not have noticed: every scan is saved in your history, so a fewmonths of walks quietly turns into a record of your own neighbourhood. Enjoy thenext one.
Actually useful for a beginner
double flower88
I bought a few plants after moving into a new apartment and quickly realized I had no idea what I was doing. I mainly downloaded this to identify them, but I’ve ended up using the care reminders more than anything else.The advice is straightforward and usually answers exactly what I’m wondering, like whether a yellow leaf means too much water or not enough. I still forget to check the app sometimes, but my plants definitely look better than they did before.
Developer Response
Congratulations on the new place, and thank you for writing this. Coming foridentification and staying for the care side is exactly the path we designed for.On forgetting to check in: you should not have to. If reminders are not on yet,turn them on, and put the widget on your home screen, it shows what needs watertoday, so the app comes to you instead of the other way round. Your plants soundlike they are in good hands.
Expected a scam, got the real thing
Collette Battle
Downloaded this fully expecting another scammy plant app. Identified 14 plants on my street walk, got every one right including a weird cultivar my neighbor confirmed. The care schedule adjusts by season too, which I did not expect.
Developer Response
Thank you, Collette! As the person building YardMate, this was incredibly nice to read. I’m especially glad it held up across 14 plants, including the weird cultivar. Thanks for giving it a chance when you were skeptical 💚
Actual advice instead of panic
DelphiaRoxiez
My monstera had weird brown spots and google was useless (apparently everything means overwatering AND underwatering at the same time). Took a photo, app said fungal leaf spot, cut affected leaves, ease up on misting. Spots stopped spreading. Actual advice instead of panic.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for sharing this. I’m really glad YardMate helped you figure out what was actually going on with your monstera, and even happier to hear the spots stopped spreading. This is exactly what I hoped YardMate could do: turn plant panic into a clear next step.
A daylily opens for one day. It unfolds at dawn and is spent by nightfall, while the next bud on the same stem is already set for morning. Each stem carries a string of buds, so a clump stays in bloom for weeks and never shows the same flower twice. Come back tomorrow and there is a new one.
What's new:
• New curated collections, added regularly
• iPad and iPhone Duo layouts
• 10-day weather forecast
• Southern Hemisphere seasons
• Bug fixes
Version 2.3.0
The developer, CHEN YAO, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Identifiers
Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
