# About Herbs — user reviews > 87 indexed App Store user reviews of About Herbs by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, rated 4.00/5 from 83 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/about-herbs/id554267162/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/about-herbs/id554267162.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 48 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of About Herbs? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 📚 Extensive information on herbs - 🧑‍⚕️ Useful for healthcare professionals - 💡 Comprehensive and detailed content - ✅ Evidence-based information - 🆓 Free to use - 👍 Easy to navigate (older versions) - 🌟 Life-changing for studies - 💯 Pharmacist approved - 💯 Favorite health app - 👍 Great for integrative medicine - 👍 Well-researched and concise - 👍 Streamlined and helpful - 👍 Great resource for alternative options - 👍 Invaluable resource - 👍 Excellent reference tool - 👍 Fantastic app - 👍 Brilliant app - 👍 Best herbal reference - 👍 Very useful - 👍 Really helpful **Cons** - 🐛 Search function not working - 🐛 Alphabetical index not jumping - 🐛 App crashes on startup - 🐛 App not opening on iPad - 🐛 Bookmarking crashes app - 🐛 Offline mode removed - 🐛 Landscape mode not supported - 🐛 App freezes - 🐛 App immediately crashes - 🐛 Limited database - 🐛 Information is not truthful/censored - 🐛 Negative portrayal of supplements/cannabis - 🐛 Tiny font size - 🐛 Missing common herbs - 🐛 Incomplete (poisonous plants excluded) - 🐛 Graphic presentation is shoddy - 🐛 Too many disclaimers - 🐛 App shuts off after agreeing - 🐛 Bad app, against natural medicine **Commonly reported bugs** - Search tab not functioning - Selecting letters on right sidebar does not jump - Search doesn't work - When clicking alphabetized index letters, no results are returned - App not functioning, gives an error - App not opening on iPad 7 - Bookmarking crashes app - Add bookmark crashes app - Bookmark function doesn't work on iOS 14 - App crashes on startup - Latest update crashes - Update is crap, won't open - After update the app crashes at opening - Crashes on startup after latest upgrade - Updated. Won't open. Deleted. - Keeps crashing after update - Crashes upon opening - Won't open after update - Slight glitch in navigating back to main menu - App would crash and close as soon as opened (after iOS update) - Once I hit 'Agree' it shuts off **Most requested features** - Continue updating the program - Update the app - Bring back offline mode - Fix for landscape mode - Search by symptoms - Add more content - Search by illness - Add font size options - Allow searching within entries for drugs - Add sage & white tea - Add vitamins and minerals - Make available in landscape mode for iPad - Search by symptom, not just herb names - Add poisonous plants with dosage info - Search by use instead of name ## Newest reviews (15 of 87) ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work *2024-04-19, version 2.0* Unfortunately the search doesn’t work. When I click on the alphabetized index letters, no results are returned. ### 2/5 — Bring back offline mode *2024-03-25, version 2.0* Please bring back offline mode. I like having information available when cell or WiFi is spotty. Thanks. ### 4/5 — Great info but… *2024-03-12* I really appreciate the information this app has but it used to work in landscape mode and i really miss that or I would have given 5 stars. Please fix for landscape mode! ### 2/5 — Hello *2022-09-24, version 1.4* I have a problem with the app not opening on my iPad 7 ### 3/5 — Could be 5 stars, but... *2020-12-19, version 1.3* Mostly love this app, but it would be great to be able to search by symptoms, not just herb names. Also, bookmarks function doesn’t work on iOS 14. ### 4/5 — Very informative *2020-04-05* This app is great and informative if you know what plant you are looking for. I wish you could put in what the problem is and then it’ll bring up all the plants that would be good in those situations. I would pay for something like that! ### 2/5 — Add Bookmark crashes app *2020-01-26, version 1.3* Try to add any herb to bookmarks and entire app crashes. iOS 12.1.3 on iPhone SE. ### 3/5 — Almost perfect! *2019-04-26, version 1.3* This is very well done but it’s incomplete, I see that poisonous plants are excluded but they can also be of use in the right dosage for health benefits, also I wanted to learn what plants are safe and what plants are not but unable to do so. ### 4/5 — Essential *2019-04-13, version 1.3* Excellent app Please update and add more content. Add the ability to search by illness! ### 4/5 — Spelling error *2019-03-06, version 1.3* Creosate is spelled CREOSOTE, creosote bush. Larrea tridentata. ### 4/5 — Cool app *2019-02-15* Would recommend but there is a very common plant missing, and that’s mint. I love mint and it was the first thing I looked for but it only has peppermint. Still a good app. Text is small as well. ### 5/5 — Delete then download for newest v *2018-08-28* I’m running competitive research of medicinal herb apps because I had an idea to develop an app as a side project. Then i find this gem! I’m moving forward with my project and taking the reviews here into consideration. Excited to find my initial idea to allow users to browse based on their main symptom and track a remedy that way is what the user wants. Also, my app won’t be backed by their fine medical institution but it will definitely have better UX (user experience). Best of luck to you on your search for herbal solutions! ### 5/5 — Absolutely love! *2018-08-23* I LOVE this app! I wish they would keep updating the list of herbs and have options for font sizes. ### 3/5 — Please update *2017-04-30, version 1.3* Great app, however I can no longer get it to open on my iPad. I think an update would help ### 5/5 — Great resource for info on alternative options *2017-03-18* This app is easy to use, I really like that it has a professional and lay views. Streamlined, helpful, and concise. I only wish it had more on essential oils! Still, this is a really great resource for evidence based information on alternative options where the research is few and far between. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bring back the old version *2024-06-12* Although the older version had very tiny font, the interface was so much easier to navigate. This app updated a few years ago and since then it seems archaic. The search tab is not functioning. Selecting the letters on the right side bar does not jump to that part of the alphabet. You have to scroll from the beginning down. Disappointed that a reputable organization would produce such a inferior app, especially as an updated version ### 1/5 — App not functioning *2024-02-15, version 2.0* When I try to look up information it gives me an error ### 1/5 — You need to amend your cannabis page *2023-10-16* There are so many mentions of cannabis being OMIGAWD SO VERY ADDICTIVE when that’s literally just not true, like, this was definitely written by big pharm trying to keep you from taking something other than their overpriced drugs. I’ve read a few entries, and so far, every listing for supplements is very negative, claiming that none of them work. I’m not saying supplements work or not, it just seems like this app wants you to think they don’t at all. ### 1/5 — This app is not at all truthful *2022-05-12* Honestly, this app is only putting out about 2% of truth when it comes to natural herbs and also I suggest people do their own research. It’s sad that the truth about natural cures is so censored. I wouldn’t have gave it one star but I had to in order to leave a review. ### 1/5 — Limited Database *2018-01-13, version 1.3* Could find info on oregano pills/oil or or other herbs. It’s not a comprehensive database ### 1/5 — Great but crashes *2017-02-25, version 1.3* Great app but is crashing on startup. iOS 10.2 ### 1/5 — WTHeck happened to this app?!?!.... *2016-02-25* I used to LOVE this app! It worked flawlessly.. Updates were always good.. Info checked out so it was reliably useful on the go.. Now I can't even open it! 😩😢 It was opening for a while but would freeze and I couldn't use it. Then came another update and now it immediately crashes. It isn't my phone - this is the ONLY app I have any issues with. Users beware right now. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP so I can use it again! 😖 VERY disappointed in the function after weeks of this nonsense. ### 1/5 — About Plants *2015-09-13, version 1.3* After update the ap crashes at opening. Now totally useless. ### 1/5 — Updated. Won't open. Deleted. *2015-09-13, version 1.3* Why don't you test these things? ### 1/5 — Crashes upon opening *2015-09-12, version 1.3* This app was a good app for getting basic information on herbs. Just upgraded and now it crashes when I attempt to load it. Using an iPhone 5s with iOS 8.4.1. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very Informative A+++ *2025-10-29* What a fantastic app it teaches you so much about herbs and other things. It’s very detailed. It has a lot of information. I hope they continue to update this program. ### 5/5 — Best app for cancer patients *2025-09-07* There happen to be dozens of anti-cancer herbs and supplements out there. Prioritizing which ones are worthwhile to pursue while balancing them with one’s particular medical regimen is a top priority for us cancer patients. This is a very comprehensive yet accessible app for this purpose, especially the section for physicians. Combined with databases like PubMed, many of your questions will be answered and your oncologist can be absolved to spend their time on the more conventional side of your treatment plan. ### 5/5 — Life saver *2025-09-01, version 5.0.2* This app has literally saveddd me through my studies so far, I am so so grateful for this app, very useful, easy to navigate, never change!! 🫶🙏 ### 5/5 — Pharmacist Approved *2021-12-26* This app is extremely convenient to have. Please let us know if you’re able to provide us with an update. Seems like 6 years is a long time. Feel free to contact me, I’d love to be part of the integrative healthcare practitioner team at MSK. ### 5/5 — AMAZING APP!!!!! FAVORITE HEALTH APP!!! *2021-09-14, version 1.3* LIFE-CHANGING!!!! HAS ALLLLL THE ANSWERS MY IGNORANT DOCTORS WON'T ANSWER. SAD THAT DOCTORS ARE BRAINWASHED BY BIG PHARMA AND LACK BASIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT NATURAL NUTRIENTS. WELL, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAN'T PATENT NUTRIENTS AND EVIL PPL OPERATE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES. THANK YOU FOR DOING MY DOCTOR'S JOB!!! ### 5/5 — One thing *2021-09-04, version 1.3* Great app, but whenever I try to bookmark something the screen just goes white and it never actually bookmarks ): ### 5/5 — Memorial Sloane Kettering *2021-03-31* I’m always grateful & feel fortunate that MSK is in NYC thank you for all the services like the Integrative Medicine you guys provide. Hopefully one day soon MSK will have branches all over the world. :) ### 5/5 — Great App!!! *2020-05-29, version 1.3* Great App!!! Very good - I like having all the information in one place. ### 5/5 — Amazed *2019-09-29, version 1.3* So far looks really great. Easy to use, heaps of herbs and clinical info. So far looks like a great aid. ### 5/5 — Best herb app out there. *2019-06-16, version 1.3* Fantastic app. It’s all here. 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