PlantSnap Pro: Identify Plants

By the grace of God in heaven I downloaded this app yesterday with the notion of making a record of the plants growing on our little homestead acreage in Iowa. I tried it on a couple of trees yesterday and put it away because, we’ll, there’s a lot of work to be done around the farm. Today I happened to be out in the garden pulling weeds and encountered a plant next to the carrots that I wasn’t sure what to do with ... similar to the carrots, but much taller. Not wanting to accidentally pull a vegetable from the soil, I skipped over it for the time being. Later it finally dawned on me that I can use this app to see what that tall carrot-looking plant is. The app identified it as poisonous hemlock... a seriously deadly plant. I thought, nah! And tried again from a different angle... this time the app indicated it could be licorice root, but right there near the top of the list of possibilities was again the poisonous hemlock. Fortunately this convinced me I needed to be careful around this plant just in case. I’ve since confirmed it is indeed poison hemlock... the app was correct on the first try. Before today I had no idea what poison hemlock even looked like and certainly had no idea the stuff (having fern-type leaves that resemble carrot greens) could be growing in my *garden* — next to my carrots! Even a small amount of poisonous hemlock is quickly fatal to people and animals. This app quite likely was instrumental in saving lives here on our little homestead. Thank God in heaven for PlantSnap!

I absolutely love this app and cannot say enough good things about it. I love walking through different botanical gardens, greenhouses, or even just hiking, and now when I’m curious about a plant, or just think it looks interesting I can use Plant Snap! Not only does this let me look back on the plant later, but I also learn a lot of information about it. However I do have one improvement that would make the app even better. Because I love plants so much, I own several and was so happy that I could organize them online on Plant Snap. However I wish there was a section that talked about plant care specifically for that pant you take a picture of. I know this is a monumentally huge task given how many plants are in the system, but my primary use for the app is for organizing plants I grow myself. It would be really beneficial to learn growing technics (how difficult, how much water/sunlight, etc) for the plants you snap. Often times I’ll snap a plant in the wild and want to buy it from a nursery but I’ll have to leave the app and google the information instead of it being presented within the app. Overall though this is an amazing app and I am very happy with my purchase! Thank you so much for creating this app and continue to release amazing updates 🌱

What a wonderful app, and a wonderful concept! Its not 100% accurate 100% of the time, but you honestly can’t expect it to be with something as diverse as plants. So far almost all of the plants I’ve tried this out on have been accurate (and I’ve been doing it on plants that I already know) and most of the ones where the best guess wasn’t correct had the correct plant in the “if it’s not this, then it might be one of these” area at the bottom of the screen. For those of you that are salty about the app not being perfectly accurate every single time, you have to understand that with something like plants, many species are extremely similar to each other, and you can’t forget that these are living things with their own diversity amongst their own kind. You might have two red clovers side by side, but they’re not going to be *exactly* the same. The fact that this app is accurate more than 50% of the time is phenomenal, let alone the fact that probably 20 of the 30 something plants I’ve snapped have been correct. The more people that add photos and data to this app, the more accurate it will be! Do not expect perfection, but expect to be wowed at how wonderful it is. I highly recommend the tutorials on how to take the best photos for the app to best “read” the picture as well, they’re very helpful.