PictureThis - Plant Identifier 4+

As with their other ‘picture’ apps, it is literally life changing. All you do is take a picture of the plant and boom, the app tells you what it is! Most of the time it comes up with the answer, but if the photo is a big poor/the plant is a little ambiguous, it gives you a couple of options. As well as this it gives you information like the Latin name, if it’s invasive etc, and it usually lets you know if it’s poisonous in a descriptive paragraph - but if not, you can always search it. There is a premium subscription option for anyone who wants extra info (including plant health, cures for diseases it has, whether it’s poisonous, how to care for it etc), the option to save your identified species in the app for longer/save more species, and way more, but you can also use the app for free which is amazing!!! Although they have recently removed some features to make them subscription exclusive, I don’t mind because of how good the app is. If you garden, or are a plant lover, I’m sure the subscription would be worth it.
I 100% recommend not just this app, but all of their identification apps for sure. As someone who doesn’t get out and about too much, I still use it several times a month at minimum so it’s been worth it to keep the app around.

I rarely leave feedback or a review, but this app is one that everyone should have on their device. This is the second or third app of this sort that I have tested, and it is infinitely better than any of the others. it looks awesome for home gardening enthusiasts and plant hobbyist. You can easily take pictures of any plant or tree, and it will give you the closest plants to it. I think it gets it correct 95% of the time! You can also take photos of plants for diagnosis, there will be a professional botanist analyze for you. I absolutely adore this app. I’ve always been a plant lover and sometimes I just use it to verify I am correct when naming something. Now that we are quarantined at home, I have been spending a lot of time in my garden, and this app is teaching me so much that I didn't know, a wonderful learning trip.

I have one suggestion about the app. You may be interested in the plants in the gallery, the community, and while browsing the article. However, there is no ability to group together where your favorite plants appear. We would be very happy if you could consider adding this feature. Thank you.

Multiple almost identical high-quality well-lit photos of the same common potplant gave me Common Borage, French Lavender, Cherry Pie, Bredasdorp Gasteria, Peanut Cactus. I can’t remember what the correct plant name is from when I bought it, but I know these identifications were all incorrect, and a quick visual comparison of these plants to the photos I took show them to be obviously incorrect.

The payment of a subscription for a good app providing a good service is a normal and good thing nowadays and the price doesn’t seem high at £20 per year. BUT, there is nothing I can see which easily shows what you are getting for your money. And it’s not made clear you have a choice, or what the unsubscribed users will be able to do.

It’s clear to me that a lot of plant experts have been involved in the production of this app. And some of the knowledge articles look well written and informative. But the AI algorithms need to be fine-tuned, since for me false diagnoses on common plants are a dealbreaker. And while transparent clear marketing could actively persuade me to pay for premium, I am less willing when the developers, despite their reassurances in replies to comments a year ago, still haven’t addressed the appearance of sneakiness. Message to developers: this could be a worldbeating app, but I respectfully suggest that your marketing and AI departments need to do some re-design.