TheTreeApp SA 4+

Second Edition

High Branching cc

Designed for iPad

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

The Ultimate app for discovering and identifying the trees of South Africa.

TheTreeApp SA is a sophisticated tool for smart phones and tablets to identify
indigenous and invasive, alien South African trees.

The Second Edition is a two-in-one app that contains both the Original version
(simple English terms) and the Botanical version (classical Botanical terms).
Therefore, you only pay for one subscription per year but you receive both
versions of the app. Users can switch between versions on the app home screen.
The language differences apply to the search, text, and captions. Both versions
include all South African trees, and all species’ artwork, photographs, and maps.

If you are a currently registered, paid-up subscription user you will automatically
be entitled to the upgrade for the Second Edition for no extra payment. This is
automatic on some devices. Other users will already know from previous
upgrades how to do this using the App store.

If you are a new user, you can now download and test the free Evaluation version
of TheTreeApp SA, covering a limited number of trees (155). To load all 1 399
trees, you must upgrade to a yearly subscription of R179,99.

Once loaded using WiFi, no internet is needed; but satellite coverage improves
the map and Location search experience.

In the full subscription version, you can choose your location to reduce the Tree
List from 1399 species to the actual number that grow there naturally.

In both versions you can follow the easy, step-by-step Tree Search process, and
match characteristics of your tree to those on the app. Select the relevant tick-
boxes and watch as the number in the Tree List reduce! Tree details are in
artworks, photographs, maps, and texts.

The powerful, rapid, and highly intuitive random Search function provides the
user with much more than just a keyword search and makes it possible to
discover and learn to love South African trees.

It has an inbuilt education system; based on clicking InfoHotSpots, for
explanations about anything that is not clear. Icons and texts cover virtually every
aspect of the App's functions.

In Settings on the home screen, you can select your primary and secondary
language choices from Scientific, English, or Afrikaans. In the Tree List you can
search for a species by name, using any of the 11 South African languages.

In addition, the Sightings function allows you to add and list the names of your
own personal tree discoveries. You can type in notes and record GPS locations.

A glossary gives access to botanical words from/used in the Botanical app and in
other more complex publications.

*** MTN App of the Year Winner 2017 – Agriculture (Conservation) ***

What’s New

Version 12

Many new and improved icons in the Tree Search.
New images and updated captions.
Edited species information data.
Deactivated the Bioregion Location search option.

Ratings and Reviews

3.6 out of 5
30 Ratings

30 Ratings

34South ,

Great, but lacking at the same time

Don't get me wrong, I love this App, specifically its layout, ease of use, rich information and superb illustrations, especially by Joan Van Gogh, whose work I am very familiar with (did you know, remarkably, she is a descendant of the impressionist Vincent Van Gogh?). The App is priced just right and certainly gives good value for money. My slight criticism though is that, as good as the illustrations are, they do not give a good overview of the entire tree and mostly do not include photographs. Also, although the focus of the App are our indigenous species, and despite the inclusion of many alien species, I have discovered a few at first use that are not. For example the English Oak (Quercus robur) established more than 200, possibly 300, years ago, so hardly an alien and ubiquitous in the Greater Cape Town. One can only hope that the database will expand with future updates and include an increasing variety of images.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoy it! We are continually adding more data to the app and are in the process of adding hundreds of photographs which should be available in the next month or so. We have also identified about 60 trees which might be added to the list available in the app.

Anglican wildwoman ,

Good app

This app has been very useful to me. I am very grateful to the developers for creating it. Occasionally at certain species there are not photos or illustrations of all the aspects of a tree. Occasionally I would have liked more of the invasive aliens in a natural area like a national park to be included. Also I am not sure why all national parks are not on the app (presumably the developers have not themselves done a list for some parks). Perhaps the developers could ask for volunteers amongst the users to start them off with lists of trees in certain parks. Also, there is a tree list for at least one of the parks I am thinking of on inaturalist. Those are just minor details though. Thanks again!

AyamaQi ,

It’s good to have but why not show the full tree and not just the leaf

As someone getting into trees and plants this is helpful to hand and the information write up is good but if they had just added a picture of a mature tree it would have been superb app as you could actually see what the tree looks like . Happy to subscribe for the year to play with this app but would be so good if they just added a full picture of the tree

App Privacy

The developer, High Branching cc, 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 Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Location
  • Contact Info

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