Pros: Beautiful app with well-presented plant information, well-organized taxonomy. Cons: Not 100 percent accurate; likely match percentages can be confusing.
Free to download, with a $2.99 monthly charge, $19.99 yearly charge, or $39.99 lifetime subscription for their premium version. Runs on Android devices (5.0 or later) and iOS devices (12.0 or later). PlantSnap relies on AI to identify plants using a database of over 600,000 plants and fungi. Free.
PlantNet is our number one pick for a totally free plant identification app. PlantNet describes itself as a ``citizen science project on biodiversity''. It counts on its users to create a botanical database and the user is the last word on whether or not the plant listed is a match.
The researchers' identifications were then compared to the botanist's identification. The accuracy of the applications varied considerably, PictureThis was the best, with 74% correct identification per exposure, followed by Plant Identifier and Pl@ntnet™ (both 72%). PlantSnap had the lowest accuracy (38%).
Introducing PlantSnap for Free on Android! - Instantly ID Plants.
Simply snap a photo of a plant to identify the species. Here's how it works: Get close to the flowers or leaves and snap a clear, well-lit pic. Then pinch to zoom in. From there PlantSnap will scan the hundreds of thousands of plants in its database.
Pros: Beautiful app with well-presented plant information, well-organized taxonomy. Cons: Not 100 percent accurate; likely match percentages can be confusing.
Leafsnap can currently recognize 90% of all known plant and tree species, covering most of the species you will encounter in every country on Earth. - Quickly identify plants, flowers, trees, and more. - Instant access to a massive Plant Database that constantly learns and adds information on new plant species.
Dr. Planta can help you figure out what's wrong. Get the right diagnosis and set up a treatment plan to cure your plant.
What is Google Lens? Google Lens is a set of vision-based computing capabilities that can understand what you're looking at and use that information to copy or translate text, identify plants and animals, explore locales or menus, discover products, find visually similar images, and take other useful actions.
The Planta app is free to download and use, and you will not incur any charges from simply downloading it or creating a Planta account. If you wish to subscribe to our paid service called Planta premium, you can subscribe to Premium monthly, or on a three month or 12 month basis from within the app.
Identify plants and plant diseases. For free.
Plant.id can accurately identify more than 35,000 taxa of plants, mushrooms and lichen from around the world. We give you the common name, a short description and the classification of your plant in addition to the scientific (Latin) name. Is your plant sick?
iNaturalist – the other Top Pick by the Times, and FREE
“For teachers, community educators, and citizen scientists who want to be able to identify plants they find as well as learn and share information about them, iNaturalist (iOS, Android) is the app we recommend.”
No other app I have ever tried has worked with anywhere near the same ability as LeafSnap, and it is a FREE app that has performed better than even paid apps.
Overall a kickass app. And it's free!
For kids and adults with an interest in science, gardening, and horticulture, this app is a valuable tool, but unfortunately with requirements such as social sharing on Facebook, logging in to an account, and watching irrelevant ads being required to use it for free, it's not great for young kids to use on their own.
This one is good.
It gives you a choice of identifying the plant or diagnosing a problem. Then it gives you possible issues with the plant and includes information about each of them. Then it can save your plant and you can do another one.
You can learn from Plantora the best plant identification app which also includes a plant guide and takes your plant care skills to the next level.
Sixty percent of the time, PlantNet returned the correct species ID as the first result. Twelve percent of the time, the correct species was identified as the second result. Thirteen percent of the time, the correct species was the third hit or lower, and 15% of the time the correct species was not identified at all.
Yes, Google Lens can identify plants, both indoor and outdoor. With the help of its advanced image recognition technology, you can identify house plants by picture online for free using Google Lens. Point your phone's camera at any plant, and Google Lens will analyze the image for you.
Unfortunately, the iPhone plant identifier feature works only with select devices. You can use it to identify images in the Photos, Messages, Mail or Notes apps, though you'll need to use an iPhone running iOS 15 or later (which debuted in September 2021).