# iplant - Plant Identification — user reviews > 955 indexed App Store user reviews of iplant by 宗群 杨, rated 4.10/5 from 7,058 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iplant-plant-identification/id1372113110/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iplant-plant-identification/id1372113110.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,423 · 4★ 1,121 · 3★ 458 · 2★ 228 · 1★ 828 ## What do users think of iplant? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for plant identification - 🚀 Fast and accurate engine - 💡 Provides useful information about plants **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate plant identification - 💸 Excessive ads - 🤔 Inconsistent results **Commonly reported bugs** - Identifies unrelated objects as plants - Fails to recognize common plants - Crashes or freezes during use **Most requested features** - Option to save plant identification history - Improved accuracy for rare/uncommon plants - Ability to provide feedback on incorrect identifications ## Newest reviews (13 of 955) ### 3/5 — For some reason keep getting results I can’t read *2026-06-24, version 2.2.0* App is great for plant id lage database ### 4/5 — iplant app *2026-06-15, version 2.2.0* Doesn’t always give accurate info The same picture sometimes gives different plants ### 3/5 — CALI User *2026-06-12, version 2.2.0* Too many ads! Please reduce the ads🙏🏼 ### 4/5 — Weiglia *2026-04-25, version 2.2.0* Lovely bushy shrub ### 4/5 — Dr *2026-04-25, version 2.2.0* Pretty accurate ### 4/5 — My review. *2026-01-03, version 2.2.0* I like this app a lot. I am trying to learn plants for a class for credit. And this helps me so much. ### 4/5 — Like this app *2025-10-04, version 2.2.0* I enjoy using wpit as it quickly identifies the plant and some of its uses ### 4/5 — Seaside bush *2025-09-11, version 2.2.0* Identified as a rose even though it doesn’t have blooms, just fruit ### 4/5 — むかんし *2025-08-07* 聞いたこともない植物が解りました **Developer response:** ご利用ありがとうございます。聞いたことのない植物の名前を知るお手伝いができてうれしいです。今後も日本語での名称表示と識別精度を改善してまいります。 ### 4/5 — What country *2025-07-11, version 2.2.0* Everything I’ve scanned so far came from China? ### 3/5 — Too many ads *2025-06-29, version 2.2.0* Possible to cut down the ads. It way too long. ### 4/5 — Great *2025-06-21, version 2.2.0* Great but just took a shot and an advert came on the screen a different app!, Not easy to get rid of and very annoying. ### 5/5 — Superb *2025-05-26, version 2.2.0* This app is fun informative and user friendly! I enjoy the free version and find it helpful to enjoy the process multiple times and learn ! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sucks *2026-08-09, version 2.2.0* Erratic ### 1/5 — Umm How *2026-07-30, version 2.2.0* To put this gently. It’s really limited and doesn’t do that great of a job IDing They could get a boost with AI Uninstalling it. ### 1/5 — It was superb… *2026-07-17, version 2.2.0* All the ads now make it unusable ### 1/5 — Wrong *2026-07-08, version 2.2.0* Both of my first two I’d attempts were with known flowers and the app got the wrong both times. Useless. ### 1/5 — Cheap *2026-05-28, version 2.2.0* If you want the minimum with ads short answer, no picture all they want. Is to get access to your phone.... try another app ### 1/5 — Rubish *2026-04-29, version 2.2.0* It gave me 5 different responses using an identical photo ### 1/5 — A great idea *2025-06-05, version 2.2.0* A great idea that unfortunately in my case doesn’t work . Most times it comes back with the wrong plant . Very rarely does it get it right . Even with cropped pictures showing nothing else except the plant . ### 1/5 — Don’t bother, *2025-01-07, version 2.2.0* Misidentification, plant description in Chinese, long loading time… app deleted… ### 1/5 — Not in English *2024-12-30, version 2.2.0* When I first purchased this app I got a lot of use out of it but now the results are no longer in English even when it sends me to Google! Can use what I can’t read! ### 1/5 — Not one plant correct *2024-12-27, version 2.2.0* Do not bother, so far wrong on identifying plants. Not worth the free lol. Oh and it’s changes to Chinese ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great identifier *2026-05-29, version 2.2.0* I’ve used this in our new garden, it’s great cuts out any mistakes as I learn what to keep and what to dig out ### 5/5 — OMG *2026-03-28, version 2.2.0* I love this app except there’s one thing I don’t like I don’t like if you take a picture from outside from inside your house or a building and there’s a plant and you resize it for that plant it will say it’s not a plant it will say there’s no plant I still love it though I still give it five stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ I recommend this app 🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍 ### 5/5 — Really helpful *2026-03-09, version 2.2.0* Love this app, I have so many what I thought were weeds but turns out they are not👍🏼👍🏼 ### 5/5 — Awesome and easy to use *2025-12-23, version 2.2.0* Superb and convenient to gain plant knowledge. ### 5/5 — Muy buena opción para cuidado plantas *2025-11-27, version 2.2.0* Es un muy buen auxiliar para la identificación y cuidado de plantas. Lo recomiendo. ### 5/5 — Rất hay *2025-09-24, version 2.2.0* OK ### 5/5 — Plant girl *2025-08-30, version 2.2.0* IDPlants ### 5/5 — AndyBee *2025-08-14, version 2.2.0* Great ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2025-07-05, version 2.2.0* The iplant app is easy to use and helps to identify what plants you find in your garden as well as telling you what to look for if you see a specimen in someone else’s garden that you’d like. ### 5/5 — Tree *2025-07-03, version 2.2.0* 10 stars --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-11.*