Although it doesn't offer as seamless a sharing experience as iNaturalist or as much plant background information as some of the other apps we tested, PlantNet provides quick, easy identifications that our testers found to be consistently accurate.
After testing each App with 234 images, PictureThis was the best plant identification app with correct identifications 78% of the time, and Plant.net was the second best plant identification app, being correct 68% of the time. This was above the other five apps I tried.
The overall accuracy at genus level (i.e. genus correctly identified as the top suggestion) was as follows: PlantNet = 97%, LeafSnap = 95%; PlantSnap = 17%; iNaturalist Seek = 93%; Google Lens = 72%.
iNaturalist This app lets you take a pic of anything -- flora or fauna and it helps to identify it. You can also upload your own photos to have people verify what it is, but despite using this app for over 6 months, I haven't done that yet.
iNaturalist is free for anyone to use thanks to the generous support of many organizations and individuals.
The closest competitor to inaturalist.org are gbif.org, animalia. bio and fws.gov.
Overall a kickass app. And it's free!
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.
In this second experiment, we estimated the accuracy of the iNaturalist Research Grade observation dataset to be 97% correct and the accuracy of the Needs ID subset to be 79% correct. The graph below shows the first experiment (v0. 1) in lighter bars and this experiment (v0. 2) in darker bars.
One of the best Apps
Pl@ntnet is a very well run site. The team behind the mobile App are particularly helpful and responsive. There appears to be a considerable cohort of botanists, academics, horticulturists and enthusiasts who provide feedback to those who post.
Take your nature knowledge up a notch with Seek! Use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Earn badges for seeing different types of birds, amphibians, plants, and fungi and participate in monthly observation challenges.
Plant Disease Auto Diagnose & Cure
Snap a photo of a sick plant, and PictureThis will diagnose the disease and offer treatment advice. It's like having a plant doctor on call! Your favorite houseplant has developed brown spots on its leaves.
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%).
Flora Incognita is an AI-powered mobile app that allows users to identify over 16,000 plant species simply by taking a photo of the plant. The app is free, ad-free, and works offline, making it an ideal tool for nature enthusiasts, students, and conservationists.
Instantly Identify Plants with an App: How to Use PlantSnap
Download PlantSnap the app store of your choice. The app is now free on Google Play, but costs $3.99 on iTunes. Watch the short tutorial on the app. This details how best to frame photos so that the artificial intelligence can accurately identify the plants.
World flora: Identify — Pl@ntNet Identify (Plantnet.org)
Offers multiple possible species.
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.
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.
This project launched in 2009 has been developed by scientists (computer engineers and botanists) from a consortium gathering French research institutes (Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), Institut national de ...
Pl@ntNet is a citizen science platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate the identification and inventory of plant species. It is one of the world's largest biodiversity observatories, with several million contributors in over 200 countries.
iNaturalist observations are used in thousands of scientific publications. Many of them are using data that are shared with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility as part of the iNaturalist Research-Grade Observations dataset.