PlantNet Plant Identification

PlantNet

About this app

Pl@ntNet is an application that allows you to identify plants simply by photographing them with your smartphone. Very useful when you don't have a botanist on hand! Pl@ntNet is also a great citizen science project: all the plants you photograph are collected and analysed by scientists around the world to better understand the evolution of plant biodiversity and to better preserve it.

Pl@ntNet allows you to identify and better understand all kinds of plants living in nature: flowering plants, trees, grasses, conifers, ferns, vines, wild salads or cacti. Pl@ntNet can also identify a large number of cultivated plants (in parks and gardens) but this is not its primary purpose. We especially need Pl@ntNet’s users to inventory the wild plants, those that you can observe in nature of course but also those that grow on the sidewalks of our cities or in the middle of your vegetable garden!

The more visual information you give to Pl@ntNet about the plant you are observing, the more accurate the identification will be. There are indeed many plants that look alike from afar and it is sometimes small details that distinguish two species of the same genus. Flowers, fruits and leaves are the most characteristic organs of a species and it is them that should be photographed first. But any other detail can be useful, such as thorns, buds or hair on the stem. A photograph of the whole plant (or the tree if it is one!) is also very useful information, but it is often not sufficient to allow a reliable identification.

At present Pl@ntNet makes it possible to recognize about 20,000 species. We are still a long way from the 360,000 species living on earth, but Pl@ntNet is getting richer every day thanks to the contributions of the most experienced users among you. Don't be afraid to contribute yourself! Your observation will be reviewed by the community and may one day join the photo gallery illustrating the species in the application.

The new version of Pl@ntNet released in January 2019 includes many improvements and new features:
- The ability to filter recognized species by genus or family.
- The differentiated data revision that gives more weight to users who have demonstrated the most skills (in particular the number of species observed, validated by the community).
- The re-identification of shared observations, whether yours or those of other users of the application.
- The multi-flora identification that allows you to search for the photographed plant in all the flora of the application and not only in the one you have selected. Very useful when you are not sure what flora to look for.
- The selection of your favorite floras to access them more quickly.
- The navigation at different taxonomic levels in image galleries.
- The mapping of your observations.
- Links to many factsheets.

The web version of the application is also available at the following address: https://identify.plantnet.org/

Ratings and reviews

It's cool when it works, but a relative 80% of the time after I take a picture of the plant I want to identify, the app just restarts and takes me straight to feed instead of the identification page. I would have assumed I took a bad picture if it didnt work the first or second try, but I've been zooming in, physically getting closer to the plant, and it still resets by attempt #7. The lighting is pretty decent considering I' outside in the sunlight, so that definitely isnt why.

Predatory. Auto-renews for a full *yearly* subscription after the 1-week trial. Can't be canceled through the app itself. Can't be canceled through the Google play store phone app either. I had to get to a PC and dig to finally, actually cancel my subscription. Predatory practices should never be supported. Strongly recommend any other plant ID app but this one.

Offline Mode is not working. I installed this app exclusively for its promise of offline operation. I enabled embedded identification and downloaded all of the packages including pictures. It does do a search and provides a list of scientific plant names. But when I click on a name to see more information or to see pictures to confirm, all I get is a network error. A scientific name alone is not enough. :( Also there is nowhere within the app to report an issue.

What’s new

Sprouted a fresh observations feed, with many filters to facilitate corrections and watch your plant knowledge grow! Gave your observations new organs and a root-to-leaf redesign, plus you can now dig into genus/family details on shiny new taxon pages. And lastly, we pruned bugs and planted improvements all over — your app is now in full bloom!
https://plantnet.org/mobile-app-changelog/