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Pretty good app, just...

This is a pretty good app, but I don’t know how you scan the seeds, i tried to scan them but only the animation pops up.

Response from developer

Hi O.O Thanks for your feedback, we will look into improving in-app instructions. In the meantime, please see https://www.mxtreality.com/growandlearn for a guide that hopefully solves your issues.

Vague instructions

Great concept, packaging and delivering needs improvement. To identify and scan seeds, you must open the seed packet, and scan the enclosed seed marker, not the outside of the seed packet which looks like a scannable image.

Response from developer

Thanks Ruth, We obviously have lots of people from all backgrounds using the app, and some will learn more from their store experience, and some not. There are certainly some improvements that we can make to help with the educational instructions, and we thank you for your support and constructive input.

Good App! But...

This is a good app to keep track of when it’s time to repot and harvest my garden, but I was experiencing a bug. When I was scanning in all of my fruits, herbs, and veggies, the scallions weren’t working. All of the other markers scanned, but when I put the marker for the scallions in the frame, nothing was happening. Please fix this.
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Tough Scanning

Once I got past the initial scanning problems, I finally got my seed all scanned. Looking forward to seeing how the app works!

Better Camera

This app I thought was so cool, until I went to scan my seed, and all I saw was my entire phone screen white with a button that said “ skip”. The next day I tried again, but still didn’t work. My camera is fine, as I have allowed access to it, and I used it about 30 minutes ago so I could take a photo and it still works, so it’s not that. Plus, this has nothing to do with the app, but can you add Cilantro to your seed collection? And Garlic? Also, am deleting this app right away. I gave it two stars because the app opened up at least, which some of my other apps don’t. I hope you fix this costumer service. Maybe an update? Hope you fix it!( I’ll still do the planting part)
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Response from developer

Hi iducbxwjvksg, Sorry to hear about your issues, yet thanks for keeping a light hearted approach. Given your issues and the common problems with other apps, we can only guess that you have an older phone that isn't fully AR compatible. Can you tell us what phone you have? (and we'll be able to check if it should work) As for the garlic and Cilantro, we love that idea. Stop and Shop chose the 26 seeds owing to ease of growth, maintenance, etc. And these were considered, yet didn't make it in the first list. We'll certainly let them know your feedback, and fingers crossed we may see these added in a future update.

Why is this so hard to unlock

Just tell me what the seeds are so my kids stop yelling at me MY GOD was this confusing to figure out and not fun at all

Great app! Awesome little project

I did have a little trouble scanning a few of the plants, I had to quit the app and restart it on 2 of them but for the most part the app works great for us! Was able to scan the majority easily enough to add the plant to our collection I love that it saves the “plant date” and you can track the progress of the plant and when it will be ready to harvest! Lots of awesome info and content :)
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Response from developer

Hi AbbyRose1 Thanks so much for the informational and positive feedback.

Doesn’t Scan

Was excited but the app doesn’t scan even within full view. Still did the seeding but would’ve been nice for my son to enjoy this part of it. So disappointing

Response from developer

Hi BE259, Sorry to hear about your problems... given your information, it sounds like you might have a phone that is not fully compatible. We've made this webpage with an overview https://www.mxtreality.com/growandlearn. Please let us know if this helps (or not), as any feedback you offer will go into further instructions and/or an app update. If you have any specifics around what is working or not, please email us at growandlearn @ mxtreality .com (please delete the spaces, they just stop us getting spam bot emails)

Scanner doesn’t work

I was so excited about this project but the scanner in the app doesn’t work at all. I place the marker in full view of the scanner and a big white rectangle shows up and blocks any chance of getting a shot. It only gives me the option of a screenshot which is useless. Will still try the seeds, but my kids would have loved the technology part with it.
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Response from developer

Hi Mcstevens58 Given your issue, it sounds like your phone may not be fully AR compatible. Can you please let us know what phone you are using. If it helps, we've made this webpage https://www.mxtreality.com/growandlearn and you'll find a list of compatible phones and devices. Please let us know if we can help further.

Works well and fun

Me and my dad did this and it was fun but I can’t do it with my phone which is a iPhone 6 and my dad phone works wich is a Samsung I think is a Samsung 9 but Overall it is great

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