PlantIn: Plant Identifier・Care

So basically doing a search on Google you’ll find all the info found in this app. You can even find actual farmers ,horticulturalist and Botanist willing to offer advice for FREE. Right off the bat first the I found wrong with the app was the very reason I got the app. It had a feature to identify needed care. So I used this feature and it gave me conflicting advice that was wrong in both cases. 1st it said I over watered, I had not watered in 5 days. Next it said it didn’t get enough sun light. The only way for it to get more sunlight is if the days themselves where longer. I’m saying it gets direct sunlight from sun up to sun down. With that said I can’t honestly say the main feature is worth posting for. Unless your goal is to track statistics on your phone. But you can keep stats if your different plants as well as pictures on note pad. I’m not really sure who this app is for. It really just seems like a big money grab. Update: The Developer emailed me and was most respectful and professional in addressing my issues. While my personal review won’t change.. I will add that while it didn’t meet my expectations ( only due to the steep price) You may not experience the same problems and the support team is quite ready and willing to address issues and is consistently updating the app. Enjoy.

I have a bunch of plants and love creating succulent gardens from clippings and reviving dried up/ half dead plants from the side of the road or a friend who can’t handle the care of them. I’ve been able to take pretty good care of most and have a lovely garden of likely 40+ potted plants… Sometimes my adoptees have issues tho- recently had an aphid or spider mite problem, that started spreading to my other plants! I decided to finally give this app a try to see what the problem may be with a couple as well regarding their watering needs. Now I realize each plant is different in its care and I’m having fun learning what they need so I can make sure to water and feed appropriately. The weekly charge is super high at $7 so $28 per month is more than I spend on my pots, fertilizer and tools! It kinda makes the lifetime option the only one that makes sense. Idk, hopefully as time goes on they will make a longer trial period or a cheaper monthly subscription option. But either way, the app is easy/fun to use and super informative! You can essentially create a whole catalog of your plants and where they are located and get reminded about what they need. It’s pretty brilliant.

The ad shows you take a picture of your plant then it instantly says what the exact problem is and what to do. Reality is, you take picture and it recommends all the possible potential issues and what you can do for all of them. It gives no specific guidance, so you might as well just look up online. I took pictures of a healthy plant and a sick plant, it gave the exact same recommendations. Basically, what it said for both was, it could be under watered, it could be over watered, it could have soil deficiency (lists out 8 different types of potential deficiencies), it could need different potting, it never says what it actually is. This is nothing like the ad that shows exactly what to do. On top of all that, to actually get a real answer it wants to connect you to a botanist for an absurd fee that they try and rationalize(price anchor) with an even more ludicrous fee. My local nurseries and plant shops answer all of that for free. If they made it a nominal fee, that's one thing, I might pay for convenience, reality is, I bought the app because I thought that's what it did, avoid the need to talk to a botanist, it is your digital expert, but no, all they do is try and upcharge you. Want to change the color of your app? Watch out, that's more money. Want an actual direct piece of guidance, watch out, that's more money. Complete hack. I had such high hopes for this. I should have read the reviews as now i see this is a super common experience others are having.