# Garden Answers Plant Id — user reviews > 119 indexed App Store user reviews of Garden Answers Plant Id by Gardens Alive Inc., rated 4.15/5 from 1,692 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/garden-answers-plant-id/id605855033/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/garden-answers-plant-id/id605855033.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,150 · 4★ 183 · 3★ 56 · 2★ 65 · 1★ 238 ## What do users think of Garden Answers Plant Id? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Super easy to use - 🚀 Very informative - 👍 Excellent site - 👍 Love this app - 👍 Indispensable App for Gardening - 👍 The google of the plant world - 👍 Always comes up with feasible options - 👍 Love it! - 👍 Great app! - 👍 Wonderful - 👍 Helps make the world a more beautiful place! - 👍 Great app - 👍 Amazing! - 👍 Fantastic - 👍 Brilliant!! - 👍 Great starter ID tool - 👍 Excellent results - 👍 Amazing - 👍 Great App for plant identification - 👍 Botanist HELP - YAY! - 👍 Amazing App - 👍 Great app - 👍 Thrilled - 👍 Excellent app for me! - 👍 Great App! - 👍 Excellent App - 👍 Cheaper than a landscaper! - 👍 Common Mallow - 👍 Garden Compass - 👍 Great **Cons** - 🐛 Won't open. Don't bother downloading. - 🐛 Décevant - 🐛 Ouvre pas - 🐛 Nul - 🐛 Does not open - 🐛 Latest iOS update causes the app to freeze. - 🐛 Useless! - 🐛 Not opening - 🐛 WoW, l'app ne démarre même pas - 🐛 Used to be great - needs subscription now. - 🐛 Misleading and hollow app - 🐛 Does not identify plants - 🐛 Failure to identify an orchid plant - 🐛 Unsolicited iOS notifications - 🐛 Useless unless you pay an expert. - 🐛 Deceiving - 🐛 Dreadful upload times...continued - 🐛 Glitchy and slow - 🐛 Could not identify plant - 🐛 Very Poor App! - 🐛 Charged but response **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Incompatible with older devices **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Advanced analytics dashboard ## Newest reviews (14 of 119) ### 4/5 — Great Help *2022-08-10* Very way to use. ### 5/5 — Indispensable App for Gardening *2022-05-19, version 1.3.40* As a casual gardener, this app has been invaluable for identifying plants i have and plants i see that i want. I almost always get a match, along with all of the care and placement information i need. I have used this app for years and i use it often. Super easy to use, i love being able to take a photo with my phone anywhere and retrieve all the info i want/need. Thank you Garden Answers, love this app! ### 5/5 — The google of the plant world *2022-04-07, version 1.3.40* I absolutely love this app. After moving into a 50 year old home, the beautifully established plants bloomed all around me! When I would wonder what they are, I had no way to know. Now I just snap a photo and it gives me a wealth of information. If it doesn’t at first identify, I just snap another photo until I find it. Now I know how to care for and propagate my favorites! Such a fun and rewarding app. ### 5/5 — Always comes up with feasible options *2021-10-15* A great app which rarely misses the mark! Does depend on the quality of the pic but a really handy “go to”. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2021-10-03* Just love this app. Have used it so many times. Have found though some Australian plants don’t come up but the more people use it and contribute the better it will become. Recommend this app to all. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2021-09-28* I’ve tested out a few plant/flower identifier apps and this one was the best by far! Highly recommend! Not always accurate but accurate majority of the time, offering multiple suggestions if the first one isn’t a match! Well designed and easy to use app, great! ### 5/5 — I use this every time I see a new plant or tree *2021-09-21, version 1.3.40* Using this app, I quickly saw the tremendous variety in plants and small differences in leaves, stems, colors, and flowers separate one from another. I like to save all my plants to favorites where they are easy to find. By taking a photo I can compare possible plants and almost always make a positive ID. Without a flower on the plant, it’s a lot more difficult. Still, this is a wonderful app and I highly recommend it. ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2021-09-02* The only app to – finally – found my answer. Thank you so much. ### 2/5 — Garden Answers seldom accurate *2021-08-28* I’m not pleased with the app. It identifies plants maybe 2/5 times correctly and when incorrect just offers me to pay a horticulturist to ID. Don’t waste your $$ ### 2/5 — Just google it *2021-08-27, version 1.3.40* I love plants and gardening but houseplants are truly becoming my obsession and I have been acquiring new plants and making an active effort to study each one, it’s name, it’s preferred lighting/watering/fertilizer conditions etc. so I was excited when I heard good reviews about this app that could possibly make my plant life a little easier now that I have so many of them. Downloaded this app and another plant i.d. app and when I tried the app none of the plants the app suggested was anything close as to what my house plants from WALMART were! Took a picture of my Calathea Compact Star and the app suggestions were a philodendron(not even close!)and prayer plant(fairly close-ish) Same thing with another plant I just got. I used the google app and did an image search and it correctly identified my Calathea Compact Star. ### 5/5 — Helps make the world a more beautiful place! *2021-08-26, version 1.3.40* I’ve been using this app to beautify my outdoor space with native plants. Whenever I’m out walking in the woodlands I take snapshots of plants that I find attractive. I choose ones that are growing in a similar environment where I want to plant something. I pull up the pictures I’ve taken to identify each plant and then determine if it’s one I would like to add to my landscape. It’s been really helpful and saved me a lot of time and money. Seeing first hand what thrives in similar environments has prevented the buying, planting, and waste of trial and error plant choices. Thanks…what a great app! ### 5/5 — Great app *2021-08-20* Fast and reliable. Great taking own photos and getting matched back. ### 5/5 — To Scratch or Not to Scratch that is the Answer *2021-07-11, version 1.3.40* My wife who appears to be able to get poison ivy by talking about is is constantly working in the flower beds with no gloves (mistake #1) on. As much as I remind her, she forgets. I was sitting at our picnic table under the trees and spotted what appeared to be poison ivy right out in the open. I verified using this app rather quickly and my suspicions were confirmed. What she had thought was sprouting Maple Seeds was in fact her foe poison ivy. Thanks to this excellent web application I sent her a photo of it so she could be more cautious when grabbing what she thinks is a tree sprouting when in reality it is her moral enemy! ### 5/5 — This is my GO TO app *2021-05-28, version 1.3.40* Although I have several flower and plant ID apps, this is my first choice because it is usually correct and I can easily find what I want. I love this app. It helps me find out what plants are what. Sometimes it misses but most times it is correct. I use this app all the time. I like how I can go back into my photos and pull a photo to use instead of having to take the pictures right then, although that is an option, too. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Won’t open. Don’t bother downloading. *2023-07-08* Tried to install and uninstall many times. Will not open. ### 1/5 — Décevant *2023-06-29* Ne s’ouvre pas! ### 1/5 — Ouvre pas *2023-06-28* Il n’ouvre pas avec mon iPhone 12 ### 1/5 — Nul *2023-06-27* N’ouvre pas ### 1/5 — Does not open *2023-06-09* Shows only a logo ### 1/5 — Not opening *2021-08-21* The stays on splash screen and is not opening on iphone. Not worth any attention. ### 1/5 — WoW, l’app ne démarre même pas *2021-04-04* Ne perdez pas de temps avec cette application, elle ne démarre même pas, reste bloquée à l’écran de démarrage. ### 1/5 — Useless! *2021-03-15* So I thought that this was going to be a nice app to detect plants and ask a professional if you had any more specific queries on your plant. I figured for a one off payment of £3.99 it would be well worth it. However, that just pays to use the plant detection (you can get much better apps to do this for free). And you have to pay an additional £1.99 each time want to ask a professional 1 question to help you with any plant queries! No thank you! Don't waste your money and look for better apps. Disappointed! A waste of £3.99 and I won't even be using this app now. ### 1/5 — Used to be great - needs subscription now. *2020-10-09* Used to be great. Added in the requirement for an account, ok begrudgingly adds account - has to sign up for premium to use. Deletes. Years of searches gone. Shame. ### 1/5 — Misleading and hollow app *2020-07-11, version 1.3.34* It’s unfortunate to have to write this as it seems to be in tandem with a whole slew of apps centered around plant keeping and horticulture. If you are looking for answers, the only ones you will get from this are through the Facebook group that you would have to join. Otherwise, there’s nothing in the app. The other things to do are go through a portal of places to buy plants, which you can easily do with a web search. The ask a horticulturist laughable section is sadly only to “identify” your plant, and they literally just send you a Wikipedia article.... it’s honestly embarrassing that this is what horticultural apps have for us today. All of this I already do as a beginning plant keeper, I’m looking for a space online I can speak with others who are also hobbyists or horticulturists. This app doesn’t do any of that. It’s a shell of an app for web searches and a Facebook (cringe) group. **Developer response:** We debated using Facebook groups for our plant hobbyists and horticulturists to give free gardening answers. Unlike those overseas apps, our goal is to continue to provide free automated plant identification as often as people want. Our experts do provide background on each plant as time permits on limited resources. Yes, we do use Wikipedia in tandem, it’s free and continuously updated, as is Garden Answers. We’d encourage you to at least give the group a try, it’s been a huge success and our plant lovers LOVE it! We also welcome your suggestions on improving the app directly: support@gardenanswers.com ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Super easy to use *2023-09-03* I love this app for answering my garden questions in a garden I didn’t plant. It helped me identify and avoid poison ivy too! ### 5/5 — Very informative *2023-07-28* I got my answer to my question within 24 hours. Great! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Latest iOS update causes the app to freeze. *2023-01-16, version 1.3.40* I updated my phone in May 2021, and the app no longer works. You can take a photo but you cannot enlarge the image to fit into the area needed for identification. Very very disappointed this needs to be fixed because I love this app. Update June 2022. The app will no longer recognize or upload a photo that you take with the app. It will only behave normally if you take a picture of the plant with your camera first and then upload the photo. Otherwise nothing happens. It’s a little bit worse than my last review unfortunately, but once I get an answer it is nearly 100% correct update, January 2 023I am still having the same problem so I take a photo of the plant first and then add it to my library and use that photo. It does not seem to want to take Live Photos, I don’t mean live photo in the Apple sense, but in the app sense ### 5/5 — Swedish Ivy! Who knew? Not me! *2023-01-06, version 1.3.40* Thank you so much for solving the mystery of the dna of my most precious plant. And what I did! This plant has special meaning to me. It started out as a clipping in a cup of water back in 2018. We had a slow start when I planted him in soil. But eventually, he got used to his new home in the dirt and grew like wildfire! I was so happy. He was so happy and grew into an amazingly beautiful happy fella…. Then I wasn’t home a lot and just ran in and out, not really paying attention to how much I was watering, and it may have been too much. I do see signs of new growth, so I think all is going to be well with my buddy, thanks to you! I would have never known what to do to help him. I’ve used your app before but never left a review. Thanks for being there for novices like me! ### 5/5 — Great website *2022-10-03, version 1.3.40* I have a Pony Tail Palm and was wondering why the some of the tips are brown, sometimes the whole leaf. I forgot I had this site downloaded. I took a picture and very quickly I received a reply. I am probably watering to much and it ☺️may not be getting enough indirect light. I will make the corrections to the care of my Peggy Sue. This is a wonderful webpage. So glad I refound it on my IPhone. Thank you very much. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2022-09-27, version 1.3.40* I’ve always been a gardener & hiker. Since becoming a widower, I am now responsible for tending all my wife’s gardens which include a succulent garden, several perennial gardens, a herb garden plus lots of everything else including wild flowers. This app has helped me to identify everything & enable me to properly care for everything with great success! It’s also awesome to use while hiking, identifying all kinds of amazing discoveries! ### 5/5 — Excellent site *2022-07-10* Great resource for new gardeners! ### 5/5 — Love this app *2022-06-22* This has been a fantastic app for identifying plants. I often take photos of unidentified plants. This is invaluable in finding the common and scientific names for them. ### 5/5 — Very useful App *2022-05-29* Have used to identify about 5 different plants over approx a year. I’m quite knowledgable in general so it’s not often I can’t identify something, so that gives a good idea how accurate this app is. Only one plant it failed to identify which I found growing in the lawn very early spring and can only be described as lily shaped, dark green glossy leathery leaf with one one thickish tap root. No key else has been able to identify it either and it’s been shown to several more knowledgable people than myself. It remains a mystery and has been nicknamed the alien plant for the time being.. ### 5/5 — Great app *2022-05-22* I’ve used this app on many occasions. We moved into a house with an established but overgrown garden. I’m a keen gardener but don’t recognise some of the plants. The results have always been spot on and helped us decide what to keep, what to re-position and what to compost. Been really helpful --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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