LeafSnap Plant Identification

Sam Bouck

4 years ago

Was able to identify all my weird succulents and other more common plants. Just take a picture of your plant (my pictures weren't even in the best lighting). Then the app will give you a list of possibilities and you can compare your plant to several pictures. My plants were the first option they gave 90% of the time. Very accurate and easy to use!

nidhi neary

5 years ago

I have really grown to love this app for identifying plants. As long as you have service and can use the camera within the app, have decent photography skills, and can use some critical thinking, it will help you identify trees, shrubs, perennial and annual flowers. It doesn’t work at all (for me) to take a picture offline and later upload it. Best if you have flowers to capture, ok with leaves. I like the social interface to see other plants in the area.👍🏼

Rebecca Swafford

2 years ago

I have tried a few and this one is the most accurate. It helps that it makes you select if it's a leaf, flower, etc so that narrows down the search. Only feature I want is an option to backup/restore "My Plants" in case I switch phones. There are more ads now (I've been using it for 3 years), but it's still worth it and works.

Catherine Kirch

4 years ago

To test the app, I took a picture of a plant I already knew, and it turned up a bunch of plants that were definitely wrong (how do you confuse a spider plant with an Easter lily?). I tried with a few plants and a few pictures from different angles but it didn't seem to help. I definitely don't trust this app to help me identify plants - it gives too many options and not even correct ones!

Cassandra Smith

5 years ago

So far it's great! Not a lot of annoying ads and does exactly what it's supposed. Love the My Plants section so u can keep track of what u are growing. Thought about upgrading to remove ads but it's a monthly price and not a one time feel. Also it would be great if we could change the picture at the top of the my plants section to actually show a group photo of our plants instead of the stock picture.

E W

2 years ago

App is no longer even remotely accurate as of Sep 2022 update. Can't zoom in on suggested pics so there's no longer a clear way to compare images. None of the suggested plants are even close. And why did you remove the choice to identify by leaf, flower, fruit and bark? That was the most useful feature. Now this app is useless and so aggressive with ads that it's not worth even trying to use it.

Anne Mitchell

2 years ago

Hope you like ads, because you're gonna get those more than plant pictures. The app itself is pretty good, even if it does get a plant wrong here and there. It's a good starting point at the very least, especially considering how similar plants can look. But the ads... They're murder. I'd be more than happy to pay a couple bucks once to stop the ads. But a subscription is insane for a plant identifying app. So, looks like it's back to searching for something better, and less ad herendous.

thesnekker10

3 years ago

It's not perfect, but it's a big step in the right direction. It got several things right on the first try, and other times it guessed wrong or provided a lot of different options to choose from. Sometimes I got different results depending on whether I photographed the leaves or bark, so maybe a future version could accept multiple inputs. The ad frequency is mildly annoying, but that is the cost of digital innovation.

Carol Landrith

3 years ago

You cant put multiple pictures into one search. It doesnt take into account where you are and what grows locally. It suggests plants from a world away and requires you to go through a bombardment of ads to try to look at the pictures to rule it out. Maybe the paid version is good but honestly i wouldn't be willing to try it after such a negative experience.

Owlboy _

3 years ago

Excellent app! And completely free. The ads are pretty innocuous, generic android ads. Nothing super obnoxious. But more importantly, great plant ID. Gives you several guesses, with pictures and background info. Really impressive! (One bug: Sometimes "read more" doesn't continue the blurb but takes you to all new info without finishing the original sentence - as far as I can tell.)

A Google user

5 years ago

In a totally new environment, with strange flowers, shrubs and trees all around, I am able to walk through the gardens, down the beach and into the mountains, point the app toward plant with which I am unfamiliar, and it gives me additional photos, background, and botanical names. I have tested the app in taking shots of flowers at different angles and in combinations, and all have been readily identified. I feel as though I a very knowledgeable friend is with me on the walk. Worth every penny!

Ben Powell

4 years ago

Useful information . . . in between the barrage of ads! The app appears to work by using Google's photo matching search to select several possible candidate matches to your plant photo. It does NOT actually identify anything; it just makes it easier for you to do so. Once you pick a likely match from the ones offered, it then offers nicely reformatted information from other sources, mostly Wikipedia. So, fundamentally, it is really a plant identification ASSISTANT app, rather than a plant ID app. But because it only helps you get close, you are still going to have to do a fair bit of work to achieve a definite ID. As a result, it's probably more useful to someone who already has a fair bit of knowledge (I was a Scoutmaster) than someone who really has no clue. But . . . the ADS! They are endless, noisy (turn your sound off, BEFORE using the app), and obtrusive. And . . . they are interstitial ads, that act as a gateway each time you move from one element in the program to another: you CAN NOT simply ignore them! So . . . I would recommend not even bothering with this program, if you plan to use it much UNLESS you are willing to pony up the $'s for an ad-free version. ($2?) Essentially, the 'free' version is really a TRIAL version, but is not actually usable unless you have a higher tolerance for ads than I do. Me? I'm going to try all the other plant apps first, and only come back to this one if I can find nothing better.

Tim Jansen

3 years ago

Pretty good app. I realize the developers need to get paid but I'm having a hard time getting past the persistent and very annoying ads. Every single time you select an option you need to wit and then cancel an add. Most apps it will only be the first click in a catagory, not every single time you touch your screen! Normally I would have paid for the ad free version by now but honestly I'm not sure I trust it would actually be ad free!

Jamie Hildreth

2 years ago

I pay for the premium version so I don't have to watch the annoying ads. But every time I open the app or try to move around in the app (look up a new plant, etc.) the app conveniently forgets that I pay and makes me watch the ads anyway. I have to go through the process of clicking the upgrade button and clicking restore every single time. Beginning to think the paid version is a scam.

aerezia

2 years ago

Edit: Since the update the app has kinda sucked. Its so difficult to change things for reminders. If I wanted to change the start date for say the water reminders, I can't chose a date before or after the actual day I'm trying to do it. You have to choose the current date or it wont let you save. I liked having my plants in a grid instead of a list so I could see more of them. It also added plants that I didn't add, but just took a pic of to identify.

Amanda Schreiber

3 years ago

1)There is an issue with the ads which seems to prevail across many apps, not just LeafSnap.2)I have trouble accessing previous things entered into the app.3)Not able to enter more than one photo for the same plant(app doesn't let you store photo once you identify it as something you previously stored.)4)This is the big thing for me: Recommendations as to what the plant is are often incorrect and it seems that you get recommendations based on what other app users entered their photos as. I find

Sandra Baker

1 year ago

I have just downloaded this app and paid the 1st month. Unfortunately, I was unable to try it beforehand! I have tried to identify 2 plants. I was given 4 multiple choice answers for each plant. I took clear pictures that showed every detail. The eight choices were ALL wrong! Some of the choices did not even resemble the pictures! So I guess a scammer got me again! Don't download this app!!!!!!! It is a ripoff!!!!!