Greg: Plant Identifier & Care

I am thrilled that this app exists, and there are so many things I love about it! But I have to echo previous reviews and say that the Plant ID feature is lacking. My Bush on Fire Croton was ID’d as a Gold Dust Croton (after multiple pictures from different angles), and my Dark Mystery Pilea kept getting ID’d as an Aluminum Plant. I experienced multiple issues when filling out the “profiles” for each of my plants. I was unable to set the desired cover photo (even after deleting all other options). The names of my plants kept resetting or even copying the names from my other plants, and at one point, some points, the plant profiles would either clone themselves, or disappear entirely. There is also a lot of lag/glitches when I am switching between screens. When I select the buttons about “difficulty, pot type, etc”, sometimes the screen it goes to is just blank. I have to restart to app to get it to fix itself. On the whole, this app has SO MUCH POTENTIAL and I am thrilled that it is in the works. But I don’t get the impression that it is polished enough to have paid features at this point in development. If everything ran smoothly, I’d be more than happy to subscribe for a year, but the amount of problems I’ve seen on day one of the free trial is discouraging.

I have always been the bringer of death to every plant I have brought home. From cactus to snake plants to outdoor gardens, everything ended up the same way. I was ready to give up and stick to plastic plants and flowers, but then I found Greg! I now have a small thriving collection of beautiful house plants and even a thriving elderberry bush I love! The app itself is wonderful at helping remind me on watering and fertilising schedules (although it’s important to remember it’s a suggestion and you still have you use judgement on if the plant needs watering or to wait) it helped teach me the basics on lighting and how I was incorrectly placing so many plants in wrong areas for so long. Greg is helpful with providing advice on different aspects of plants I own which has been really great. But my favorite part of Greg is the AMAZING community! I can’t tell you how truly fantastic the people are! They have helped me through every plant crisis and every little question I have had. I can not recommend Greg enough!!!

As a newb to plants, this app is very helpful. I love that it takes so many things into consideration. Here are my thoughts: Pros: ~ It’s easy to put your specific plants in the app and you get to use your plants picture. Even better cause sometimes the plant you have isn’t always a perfect replica of the stock photo of the plant. ~ If you are unsure of the type of plant the app will help you identify it. ~ The algorithm updates as you water more frequently or less frequently. That’s really nice. ~ You get to name your plants! Unlike any other app I was looking into using. ~ The app lets you set lots of criteria that will change how your plants grows such as lighting, indoor/outdoor, pot type, pot size, etc. Cons: ~ I wish once it identifies your plant that it gave the plants preferences for light and watering on the “home page” for the specific plant. Since I’m new this would help as a quick reminder when I want to move a plants location. ~ I wish it put the plants name (the one that you give it) on the bottom of the picture when your looking at all of them together. This would help with the plants that I started from seed/bulb and the original picture is basically just a pot of soil. If not all the time since some may not like that at least the option to do that would be nice. EDIT: ~ wish it gave you the option to edit when you watered cause sometimes I forget to put in that I watered and it won’t let you edit that ~ wish it gave you the option to track the rain as “watering” also.