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✓ Fantastic way to get spammed to deathEmail after email with no obvious way to make them go away..Version: 1.3.30
✓ Not as good as it used to beI have had this app for a few years and really enjoyed it. I used it frequently and successfully when I needed or wanted to identify plants and flowers. I even recommended it to several friends. When they gave me negative feedback I checked it again and found that the app had totally changed since the last time I used it. It is no longer as helpful or informative. And it’s got at least twice as many ads and waaaay more in-app purchases as previously. I don’t mind seeing ads in exchange for a free app but this one seems to be taking advantage of my good nature. Good bye..Version: 1.3.29
✓ Used to be great - needs subscription now.Used to be great. Added in the requirement for an account, ok begrudgingly adds account - has to sign up for premium to use. Deletes. Years of searches gone. Shame..Version: 1.3.38
✓ Need to register an account before usingWon’t use anything that forces me to share personal information for basic functionality..Version: 1.3.24
✓ Misleading and hollow appIt’s unfortunate to have to write this as it seems to be in tandem with a whole slew of apps centered around plant keeping and horticulture. If you are looking for answers, the only ones you will get from this are through the Facebook group that you would have to join. Otherwise, there’s nothing in the app. The other things to do are go through a portal of places to buy plants, which you can easily do with a web search. The ask a horticulturist laughable section is sadly only to “identify” your plant, and they literally just send you a Wikipedia article.... it’s honestly embarrassing that this is what horticultural apps have for us today. All of this I already do as a beginning plant keeper, I’m looking for a space online I can speak with others who are also hobbyists or horticulturists. This app doesn’t do any of that. It’s a shell of an app for web searches and a Facebook (cringe) group..Version: 1.3.34
✓ L’appli n’ouvre pasCette appli ne fonctionne pas. Après l’avoir téléchargée, elle ne s’ouvre pas..Version: 1.3.34
✓ NonsenseWhat a load of rubbish! A lot of gardening apps are the same. It identified my rosellas as poison ivy!!! My avocado plant as dogwood!!!??? I understand nothing is perfect and to get plant ID would be difficult. Absolutely not worth it. Glad I didn’t go add free and do my dough..Version: 1.3.38
✓ Couldn’t identify any plants I have...I tried this on a creeper that I can’t identify and it thought it was a maple tree. I then decided to tried it on a tomato plant, which it thought was potatoes. I tried a pepper plant and it thought it was basil. I gave up at this point and decided it was not worth my time. If you know nothing about gardening, don’t rely on this or you will be very much misinformed!.Version: 1.3.26
✓ Just google itI love plants and gardening but houseplants are truly becoming my obsession and I have been acquiring new plants and making an active effort to study each one, it’s name, it’s preferred lighting/watering/fertilizer conditions etc. so I was excited when I heard good reviews about this app that could possibly make my plant life a little easier now that I have so many of them. Downloaded this app and another plant i.d. app and when I tried the app none of the plants the app suggested was anything close as to what my house plants from WALMART were! Took a picture of my Calathea Compact Star and the app suggestions were a philodendron(not even close!)and prayer plant(fairly close-ish) Same thing with another plant I just got. I used the google app and did an image search and it correctly identified my Calathea Compact Star..Version: 1.3.40
✓ N’ouvre pasOuvre le logo, on attend et il ne se passe rien.Version: 1.3.31
✓ Pourquoi appli n’ouvre pas!Que dois-je faire?.Version: 1.3.37
✓ Useless!So I thought that this was going to be a nice app to detect plants and ask a professional if you had any more specific queries on your plant. I figured for a one off payment of £3.99 it would be well worth it. However, that just pays to use the plant detection (you can get much better apps to do this for free). And you have to pay an additional £1.99 each time want to ask a professional 1 question to help you with any plant queries! No thank you! Don't waste your money and look for better apps. Disappointed! A waste of £3.99 and I won't even be using this app now..Version: 1.3.40
✓ N’ouvre pas!L’appli téléchargée n’ouvre pas et reste sur une page présentant un visuel..Version: 1.3.32
✓ Won’t openRidiculous.Version: 1.3.34
✓ Ne s’ouvre pasDommage.Version: 1.3.40
✓ UnsuccessfulI have tried identifying several plant using this app with no success. I have even tried ones I already know. It gives me random matches, but not the right ones..Version: 1.3.31
✓ NOPE!Jamais pu entrer dans l’application, le logo en page de démarrage reste affiché éternellement. Désinstallé+réinstallé: aucun changement. Redémarrage: aucun changement. Je déteste être négative, mais la seule chose positive est que je n’avais pas eu à débourser pour télécharger l’app GardenAnswers..Version: 1.3.40
✓ Terrible match resultsI'm not very impressed with this. The developers claim that there are over 130,000+ entries and this app can't identify simple basic plants. I took a clear and precise picture of a plant in my yard and the possible matches that came up were no where close to what I took a picture of. I have seen where you claim to the "best", but how can you be the best of your matches are all over the place and no where close to what the picture is? I'm sure you'll respond back and say I didn't take a good picture or something like that, but I assure you I did. Especially since I took it with a high end camera and not my phone. This app does have potential of being good if you updated your interface..Version: 1.3.26
✓ Not workingApp will not even ipen.....Version: 1.3.32
✓ Rogue Adware in violation of AppStore rulesThis app is sending promotions and advertisements daily, which is clearly in violation of the AppStore rules. It can’t even identify Hydrangea. Hopeless! My request for identification has never been answered..Version: 1.3.29
✓ Useless waste of timeI installed the app and looked at the pictures of various leaves in their database. I didn't find anything so I decided to spend the couple of dollars to have my tree identified. In addition to the picture of the leaf, I sent a picture of the tree and a picture of a branch with several leaves and the berries. After a day + I received an email saying they could not identify the plant and that I could send more picture (even though I enclosed several pictures with the submission.) I actually think this app is a fraud and that they are just stealing money with hope that most won't bother to ask for a refund. Save your 2 bucks and go buy a cup of coffee instead. It is unfortunate that what seems like a nice idea and a useful app is really just a colossal was of time and a useless app. I'll be seeking a refund though..Version: 1.3.22
✓ Ouvre pasIl n’ouvre pas avec mon iPhone 12.Version: 1.3.40
✓ Won’t open. Don’t bother downloading.Tried to install and uninstall many times. Will not open..Version: 1.3.40
✓ Account now required?This is a great tool, and I used it a lot in the past. Just opened it up to find I am now required to make an account to use it? It's a hard no from me, guys. Deleting and finding another. But nice try at the data mining. 👎🏻.Version: 1.3.24
✓ DécevantNe s’ouvre pas!.Version: 1.3.40
✓ NulN’ouvre pas.Version: 1.3.40
✓ Glitchy and slowThe concept and design is nice, but it’s too frustrating to use. It’s either very slow or parts just don’t load. When I upload a photo of a plant to identify, it asks if I want a push notification or email, if you click push, it just stays idle and doesn’t load, so I have to shut the app and reload. I tried five times using the email notification and only one gave me an answer, the other four just didn’t load anything. On the one it did load, it gave me the correct answer, but then when I went to save it, it loaded a different variety to the one I’d clicked on. Such a shame as I had high hopes..Version: 1.3.26
✓ Does not identify plantsThis app does not identify plants, it asks you to send a photo to a so called expert. It has been over a week and I have still not had a reply to a simple Portuguese laurel. You also need to buy tokens to get any answers. It’s a nice try but the business model does not work and neither does the app. It feels more like amateur gardeners had a good idea on how they could raise some pocket money from their knowledge. What it really needs is technology to identify plants easily and accurately and then monetise it from support or advertising. I’ve deleted it and am looking at alternatives..Version: 1.3.34
✓ DéçueL’application ne s’ouvre pas....Version: 1.3.30
✓ Ouvre pasL’app ne veut pas ouvrir.Version: 1.3.32
✓ N’ouvre pas avec iOSProblème de l’ouverture du logiciel.Version: 1.3.31
✓ Ouvre pas/Dont workL’apps n’ouvre même pas... The apps dosent open. Broken?!?.Version: 1.3.30
✓ Not opening…For now, I can’t but leave one star as the app just opens on the logo and freeze there….Version: 1.3.40
✓ Seldom works correctly 🌱I use this app to make sure I'm pulling weeds and not plants. So I take a picture of what I think is a weed and submit it. But there are usually only a few results and none look very much like the picture I submitted. So then I've tried to contact a botanist. No response. So then I tried to test the app by trying a plant that I planted and knew the name of it (zucchini) it did not show a zucchini, the closest result was a pumpkin. And at that point I had already narrowed my search as well. So then I wanted to add it to the "library of plants" but there is no way to do that. I gave ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ because it doesn't always work but, the times it did it was very helpful..Version: 1.3.22
✓ Can't ID some common bedding plantsAs an experienced gardener with a degree in botany, I thought this would be helpful when I'm out and about. So I tried it on the bedding plants on my porch to test it. While it did offer the correct item in 6 of 9 trials, only one of them was the top hit (purple spoonbill osteospermum). It completely failed on a plain red snapdragon, and a black single petunia. There was also no option to input a leaf for a non-flowering plant, such as ferns, or something grown for their leaves such as coleus. I tried my angel-wing begonia and got no results with a leaf (I did try the flower also, since it has a few at this time). Items tested also include pink semi-cactus dahlia, single yellow gerber daisy, double purple calibrachoa, double purple petunia, and purple lobelia. Since this app has failed at common bedding plants that I have no trouble with, I can't see how it would be useful to me when I see something unusual in someones yard and want to know what it is on the spot..Version: 1.3.28
✓ Not impressed so far...Upon downloading the App, I instantly put it to the test using a fairly common house plant - Begonia Metallica. It couldn't find a match, despite it giving me a world of options linked to colour and leaf shape, but instead offered Coleus as the answer. However, the picture for the supposed coleus was indeed a variety of tropical Begonia!!??? So it got half of the match correct after refining the search results. It has to be said that the app is indeed easy to use and you can flag inaccuracies such as these as feedback to the app makers..Version: 1.3.23
✓ Useless....but will give it another tryMy original review: This basically gives you a list of things your plant “may be” & then you have to match it. The whole reason I wanted it was to tell me, not the other way around. Especially where weeds are concerned. Los of perennials look like weeds when they are coming up. I don’t want to pull out the wrong things Update: Developer responded, made sense & the option to pay $2 for a botanists advice. I figure that’s better than no response at all. They care enough to improve their product. Customer service pushes this review up a couple stars....Version: 1.3.26
✓ Really helpful but needs more user interactionThis is a fantastic plant identifying app, and can only become more accurate if users bother to input their own photos to the data base when the app accurately ID’s their mystery plant. The more photos of a particular plant which are added to the app, the easier it will be for users to successfully ID any plant. Detailed and fairly decent photos of the plant are obviously more helpful than poorly lit, fuzzy ones. If you have even a basic ability to take a photo on your phone, and use apps, you’ll be able to use Plant ID. There are two ways to use photos to ID plants on the app - by opening the app and THEN taking a photo of a plant, or using a older photo from your own photo library to upload to the app. If you worry about cyber safety, just don’t allow the app to access your photo library. The next step is that the app brings up numerous photos of similar (in theory) plants won your screen. You can scroll through all the app’s data base of plant photos, with names and helpful info, until hopefully you hit a bullseye. You can even dig deeper by tapping on a plant in the app’s data base which takes you to other sites to continue researching. I mainly use this app when I’m out and about and spot a plant I can’t ID and may want to buy. As I mentioned though, the photos of plants in the app’s data base will improve if users add their own photos once their plants are successfully identified. If I don’t find a match, I ask the “experts” via the app to look at my photo and get back to me with the name. Again, success depends on users adding decent photos which show their mystery plants when the app has successfully identified the plant. You don’t need to be a great photographer, but the more your photo shows the true colours and plant details the more helpful this app will be..Version: 1.3.40
✓ Never turned away faster from an apppCreate an account -Ok done Choose pay/restore purchase or get ads inbox. -Close and delete.Version: 1.3.37
✓ Lost of TimeWon’t open garbage.Version: 1.3.32
✓ Garden AnswersReally quite good at finding a match as long as your photo provided is good. I have luck a high percentage of the times I try and appreciate the ability to save my searches and save to favourites. The descriptions provided are excellent..Version: 1.3.40
✓ Wont open anymore, uselessUseless.Version: 1.3.32
✓ Does not openShows only a logo.Version: 1.3.40
✓ Payments could be done betterMost apps of this ilk generally have a discount for buying more of the consultations or whatever they're selling. It seems that a mode of $2 for one, $7 for 5, $13 for 10 is more reasonable … but sheesh… $2 for a plant ID is actually pretty pricey. I have a dozen or so plants that are probably brainlessly simple to ID for any number of Open Space personnel in a half dozen towns around. Getting them done here for $24 for the sake of convenience and to support the app seems silly. For the person who couldn't get her African Violet cousin identified … yeah well- this is apparently a North American GARDEN app. Remember that, reactionary folks. Don't freak out..Version: 1.3.22
✓ Ne s’ouvre pasComment cela se fait que le problème d’ouverture de l’application dure depuis plus d’un an sur iPad ?.Version: 1.3.34
✓ Garden Answers seldom accurateI’m not pleased with the app. It identifies plants maybe 2/5 times correctly and when incorrect just offers me to pay a horticulturist to ID. Don’t waste your $$.Version: 1.3.40
✓ White screen with logoThat it white screen with logo Useless Bug not fix since February according to other comments.Version: 1.3.31
✓ 0/5 identificationsUploaded 5 clear uncluttered photos of various succulents and none of the suggestions were close..Version: 1.3.24
✓ WoW, l’app ne démarre même pasNe perdez pas de temps avec cette application, elle ne démarre même pas, reste bloquée à l’écran de démarrage..Version: 1.3.40
✓ Very Poor App!This App was reviewed on my local noon news program and they made it sound so wonderful and helpful so I, being in need of all the plant and gardening help I can get, downloaded this App. I was skeptical to say the least as I've had horrible results from other Apps that were "supposed" to identify things by sound or photos! This one lost out instantly! I gave it a test and it completely failed to identify my plant! It gave me well over "50" possible matches and "none" were even a tiny bit close to what my plant is! I entered a photo of my "Streptocarpus" Ladyslippers Grape Ice. Could not identify it....not even the least bit close. The matches I received were totally ridiculous no where at all what I entered! My plant is a very, very common house and garden plant that is closely related to an African Violet"! I thought this would be a simple test to see how accurate this App is! It's horrible! If it couldn't identify this simple plant, how could it identify more complicated types?! It's been deleted! Totally useless App!.Version: 1.3.22
✓ Ne s’ouvre pasImpossible s’ouvrir l’app. Elle reste sur un genre d’écran d’accueil..Version: 1.3.40
✓ First time asking an expert - failI paid the $1.99 to "ask an expert" for identification. I submitted three very clear photos. All I got was an error message and I could not do anything else in the app. The error just kept popping up!!! Not happy. Also the photos used to help identify my plant were terrible quality. Just awful. Amateur quality, blurry. Update: After numerous error messages I went to my email and discovered five or more emails from the experts telling me what the flower's name was. Some of the comments seemed to refer to other people's photos though. Very strange. But glad it finally worked..Version: 1.3.22
✓ Failure to identify an orchid plantI was looking more for a gardening care app but also a plant id. I saw this and thought I’d try it. It failed to identify orchid plant matched with plants I’ve never seen before except for a plant that my mom calls a snake plant which is a plant that has pointed leaves and grows straight up with a stripped detail and if the tips are broken it won’t grow. Also I do not like that you MUST subscribe for email and promotions or newsletters to sign up for free. I attempted to push the grayed out green button with out the box checked and it wouldn’t do anything. Then I noticed the button changed shades of green when the option of receiving emails was checked vs unchecked. Why make it an optional thing when it is a must to use the app? You might as well take the ability to check the box or leave it unchecked out by stating that you will receive emails while using the app. I’ve removed the app. Hopefully I can unsubscribe for promotions and such..Version: 1.3.32
✓ Charged but responseI submitted a detailed question with photos to the charged identification service but have received no response.Version: 1.3.10
✓ DeceivingWon’t open? Stay on the main page..Version: 1.3.29
✓ Too many notifications!It doesn’t matter how good an app is, if suddenly and unexpectedly- notifications before breakfast outnumber annual usage, delete!.Version: 1.3.26
✓ No workingDon’t open app stay on main picture.Version: 1.3.32
✓ Continual marketing overwhelms any pleasure in using the appI downloaded this app with out reading their privacy policy (which I now realise is very prominently displayed - almost as a disclaimer). By default I’ve been opted into different marketing campaigns. Unsubscribing seems to achieve very little, in fact one of the opt out links I clicked on loads a blank google search page. Also slightly odd that the link for the support email as if by accident included the full stop at the end of the paragraph (making it invalid and bounce back). This is the first time i’ve downloaded an app from the App Store and had this experience, I’d become complacent and in future will read what I’m down loading much more carefully. It’s a shame as my friend showed me the app and I think it’s really great. But the way they’ve used my personal information so far and how unclear it is for me to manage this is a real problem for me..Version: 1.3.26
✓ Not openingThe stays on splash screen and is not opening on iphone. Not worth any attention..Version: 1.3.40
✓ Useless unless you pay an expert.I’m giving this one star because you can’t give zero stars. I was very displeased with the results. I took several clear and concise pictures of several common garden plans which I could identify. The results came back with plants that were not even native to my area. I took a very clear picture of a 7 leave grouping of a chestnut tree from my yard. The results came back again with everything but my common tree. I then did the same thing with a maple tree. Again poor results. This app in my opinion is designed for you to pay for contacting a professional just so they can get your money. Deceptive..Version: 1.3.30
✓ Could not identify plantProduced a variety of generic long leafed plants, but not the correct one. A short questionnaire about the size and texture of the plant would have helped. It seems to only go on leaf shape..Version: 1.3.22
✓ Knew it was a cactus but app unable to identify correctly even after 3 goes!Tried it on a cactus I have (opuntia Cylindrica according to the label) which is a cactus with a mass of bobbly dark green cylindrical leaves with fine short hairs. The app knew it was some kind of cactus or succulent but could not identify it using photos not even after 3 goes!! (I’m not a gardener but even without the label I would know it’s not an aloe?!). Also why does the app need permission for location to identify a plant? I have lots of tropical plants not native to my area. And why do I have to provide and verify my email address on something simple like plant identification??.Version: 1.3.24
✓ Can’t even get the app to open.Disappointing..Version: 1.3.31
✓ Bad appJust asks you to pay above $3 for one question. Other features just take you to their website. Pointless app basically.Version: 1.3.26
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