# Wild Flower Id British Isles — user reviews > 77 indexed App Store user reviews of Wild Flower Id British Isles by Sunbird Images OHG, rated 4.50/5 from 6 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wild-flower-id-british-isles/id671592368/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wild-flower-id-british-isles/id671592368.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of Wild Flower Id British Isles? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🖼️ Beautifully presented app - 📚 Informative content - 🚶‍♀️ Useful for walks - 📸 Good quality photos - ✅ Great for common flowers - 💡 Good identification checklist - ➕ Ability to add to own list - 🇬🇧 Comprehensive UK species (over time) - 👍 Easy visual identification - ✨ Pleasure to browse and learn - 👍 Positive developer response to suggestions **Cons** - ❌ Auto recognition doesn't work - 🐛 App crashes frequently - 📉 Poor recognition accuracy - 🤷‍♀️ Unclear navigation - 💸 Waste of money - ❓ Useless for intended purpose - 👎 Suggests wrong flowers - 🚫 No way to find info on wrong suggestions - 🔄 Keeps crashing - 🚫 Doesn't cover every species - 🤷‍♂️ Auto recognition not working on newer iPhones - ❓ Doesn't seem to identify from photos - 🤔 Suggestions look nothing like photo - 🚫 Not intuitive - ❌ Fails to recognise known plants - ❓ Can't find search button - 🚫 Takes you out of the app - ❌ Can't tell common flowers apart - ⚠️ Only gives % probability, not definite ID - ❌ Fails to identify easy subjects like dandelions - ❌ Poor auto recognition - ❌ Photos recognised by other apps are not recognised here - ❌ Only gives a few flowers of the right colour - ❌ Developers need to improve algorithms - ❌ Crashes regularly - ❌ Photo ID is hopeless - ❌ Recognition is hopeless - ❌ Doesn't work - ❌ Auto identification doesn't work - 🤢 Prehistoric UI - ❌ Poor recognition accuracy - ❌ App closes unexpectedly - ❌ Loses image just taken - ❓ Can't delete individual sightings - 🚫 No auto recognition on iPhone 8 - ❓ Manual ID icons lack descriptions - ❓ Key for size descriptions needed - ❌ Failed on first attempt - ❓ Not sure how automatic works - ❌ Nonsense suggestions from manual ID - ❌ Doesn't do what it claims - ❌ Doesn't accurately identify common flowers - ❌ Identification does not work - ❓ Only a handful of species in library - ❌ Identified only one out of five plants - ❌ Virtually all attempts to identify failed - ❓ Why aren't the flowers I'm seeing featured? - ❌ Auto ID is useless - ❌ Does not have a search facility - ❌ Limited use - ❓ Order of flowers not clear - ❌ Wanted app to recognise from photograph - 🤢 Ridiculous suggestions - 🤢 Multiple choice answers leave you none the wiser - ❌ Zero automatic identification - 📉 Screen size makes it less useful - 🥶 Froze iPhone - ❓ Missing species - ❌ Feeble hit rate with photo ID - 🤷‍♀️ Suggestions at 95% were amusing - ❌ Photo recognition does not work - ❌ Gives random flower completely different to photo - 📉 Incomplete database - ❌ First flower looked for not there - ❓ Why not add more species? - ⏳ Waiting for promised update for auto recognition - 😔 Sold a pup - 📉 Missing auto recognition on older devices - ❌ Not enough time on quiz to read answer **Commonly reported bugs** - App seems jammed on yellow iris - Keeps crashing - App crashes when trying photo ID - App glitches frequently - Shuts down before being able to ID a plant - Constantly crashes - Keeps crashing and simply doesn’t work - Pressing a button just takes you out of the app - Crashes constantly - Loses the image just taken - Kept crashing - Was clunky to use - Auto recognition feature doesn't work - Poorly designed & coded app - UI is prehistoric - App closes unexpectedly - Auto recognition doesn’t work on iPhone 8 - Manual ID icons lack descriptions - No key for size descriptions - Failed on first attempt to offer useful guidance - Automatic bit doesn't work - Manual ID gave nonsense suggestions - Identification does not work - Only a handful of species in library - Virtually all attempts to identify met with utter failure - Auto ID is useless - App does not have a search facility - Order of flowers isn't clear - App failed to recognise even basic types - Makes ridiculous suggestions - Photo ID feature failed - Suggestions were way off - Results in a multiple choice answer - Zero automatic identification - Screen size makes it less useful in the field - Froze my iPhone - Photo recognition does not work - Gives either the same flower or some random flower completely different to the photo - Promised 'next update' for auto recognition on iPhone 4s has not materialised - Missing species that are still around - Fragrant orchids, lesser butterfly, and pyramidal orchids are missed - Feeble hit rate with photo ID - Suggestions at 95% were amusing - Incomplete database - First flower looked for was not there - Not enough time on the quiz to read the right answer **Most requested features** - More species needed - Add more plants to the database - Improve data retrieval and plant recognition algorithms - Add descriptions to manual ID icons - Provide a key for size descriptions - Fix quiz timing for reading answers - Add a search facility - Include more species, e.g., Blue Sow Thistle - Improve auto recognition on older devices - Allow deletion of individual sightings ## Newest reviews (15 of 77) ### 4/5 — Informative & useful *2026-03-20, version 9.0* Useful tool to help identifying wild flowers and getting information about them on-the-go ### 4/5 — Really great but needs more species *2025-07-14, version 9.0* Such a good app for testing ID skills but gets a bit repetitive and doesn’t cover ever species ### 2/5 — A year on *2024-03-29, version 9.0* I have had this app for a year and it is great at the common flowers. The identification checklist is excellent and makes you look at the flowers carefully. The ability to add to your own list is good. However the automatic recognition does not work even on a 2022 iPhone SE. ### 4/5 — Wildflower uk *2023-07-02, version 9.0* Took a few minutes to learn how to use is but a great learning tool and fun to use ### 2/5 — Search *2022-06-02, version 9.0* Disappointed with this app. Flower photo identification is very poor. Can’t find the search button. Quite often pressing a button just takes you out of the app. Identified pictures are good and show leaves as well ### 3/5 — Unidentifiable *2021-10-24, version 9.0* Great concept for an app and reasonable and honestly priced, Howver, I couldn’t get any of my photos to be recognised by the app. I tested this against Bing’s on line photo recognition app. Photos that were recognised by Bing were not recognised by this app. I also tried to list all the flowers that are Yellow, and then again by other colours. The app only gave a few of the right colour and a large number of flowers that were no where near the colour. Admittedly it gave low percentage recognition for these. On the plus side, the photos of the flowers on the database are excellent. So if you know the plant the information is great. I use it for verifying flowers that I think I have identified. The developers need to improve the data retrieval algorithm as well as that for plant recognition. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2021-07-25, version 9.0* Opened app for the first time, first title was Asparagus with a photo of a bluebell!! Back to the pocket wild flower ID book. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2021-07-21, version 9.0* Absolute rubbish. Totally unclear how to navigate, crashes frequently, and recognition is hopeless on the clearest photo. Extremely disappointed. ### 2/5 — Kept crashing *2021-07-08, version 9.0* I didn’t find this app very user friendly. It kept crashing, and was clunky to use. ### 1/5 — Don’t buy this app for the recognition feature *2021-06-11, version 9.0* Because it doesn’t work. I don’t doubt that the index of flowers is very comprehensive, but that’s not what I bought this for and I’m very disappointed. ### 1/5 — Difficult to use *2021-05-31, version 9.0* I am very disappointed with this app. I feel it was a waste of money. Difficult to use and badly designed. I would not recommend it. ### 1/5 — Auto non recognition *2021-05-24, version 9.0* Like many fellow victims I bought this program to identify wild flowers from phone images. Like so many others I was conned by the auto recognition feature. I photographed a pink flower - a 5 petals member of the family Portulaceae, the auto recognition came up with 91% probability of a YELLOW 6 petal Celandine- a completely different family AND the developers say they are professional botanists! They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for marketing such a rubbish piece of software. ### 1/5 — Avoid this app *2021-05-16, version 9.0* Poorly designed & coded app. The auto identification doesn’t work. UI is prehistoric. If Apple made it easier to get a refund I'd attempt to get it back. Developers should be ashamed ### 1/5 — Do not purchase *2021-05-04, version 9.0* This is a really poor app and not worth the money. It does not accurately identify many common species and is problematic in use. I am really dissapointed. ### 1/5 — Very poor recognition accuracy *2021-05-03, version 9.0* I have never reviewed an app before but feel compelled to report how astoundingly poor this one is. So far, not a single correct recognition of some pretty common UK wildflowers, plus the app closes unexpectedly and often loses the image just taken. Don’t buy, is my advice. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t seem to work *2026-07-20, version 9.0* Shouldn’t even be one star. App seems jammed on yellow iris. I tried importing photos of wild flowers to identify but app doesn’t work – still lists yellow iris when the flower clearly isn’t. Waste of money so far. Keeps crashing. Suggests flowers that look nothing like the photo imported. No way to find information on the wrongly suggested plant. Utterly useless. ### 1/5 — Great idea poor app *2023-06-09, version 9.0* Certainly on my iPhone 7 (up to date iOS) it keeps crashing when you try photo id. Now hardy use it after buying about 3 years ago. ### 1/5 — Useless *2023-05-20, version 9.0* I honestly don’t know what this App is for…. I thought you could photograph the plant in question and get an answer but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It’s useless and I’d love to know how to get my money back. ### 1/5 — Glitchy *2023-05-11, version 9.0* This app glitches frequently. The majority of times that I have used it, it has shut down before being able to ID a plant. I can’t believe I wasted money buying it ### 1/5 — Sad *2023-05-11, version 9.0* Just spent an hour using the Auto Rec function to identify two different flowers. It Informed me that the first flower was a yellow species when in reality it was blue and that the second flower was firstly one species and then another quite different species, even though I was using the same specimen to photograph! The thing about this is that the App is probably being used by those who wish to improve their knowledge and this is certainly not going to do that. ### 1/5 — Useless *2023-04-30, version 9.0* I am glad I didn’t pay much for this app as it even fails to recognise the plants I already know ### 1/5 — Waste of money! *2022-07-06, version 9.0* Bought this for the auto recognition feature. Constantly crashes and simply doesn’t work. Don’t waste your money. ### 1/5 — Total rubbish *2022-05-22, version 9.0* Crashes constantly It is sold to identify British wild flowers It can’t tell the difference between a dandelion and a buttercup It does not give you definite identification only a % probability, with second or third choices completely different colour and specie plants I’m not a botanist but this is crap ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing, auto recognition very poor *2022-04-26, version 9.0* I thought I’d try it on something easy first. A bold clear photo of a dandelion ought to give just one answer, you’d think. Wrong. Same with primrose. Going to delete and look for something better. ### 1/5 — Very Disappointed *2021-09-04, version 9.0* This app had a lot of promise but is badly let down due to it not being intuitive and crashes regularly. Don’t waste your money until it’s sorted! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent guide - easy to use and comprehensive *2026-08-19, version 9.0* Has vastly increased my knowledge of wild flowers simply by having it there to hand when I'm out and about. Reliable and simple to use, this is a great app for anyone with an interest in nature and the countryside. ### 5/5 — Visual and Informative *2023-08-12, version 9.0* This is an app that's beautiful to behold, enabling easy visual identification - even between closely related varieties. IPhone app best useful on walks but iPad app such a pleasure to browse and learn from. Over time (I've had it for some years) the app has grown to include most UK species and the developer responds positively to suggestions for improvements and inclusions. One of my "essentials". ### 5/5 — Great app *2022-02-06, version 9.0* Beautifully presented and a great companion when walking ### 5/5 — Excellent pictures and range of British wildflowers *2022-01-01, version 9.0* I have enjoyed using this no frills app showing a wide range of our best and commonest wildflowers in Britain. ### 5/5 — Sightings *2021-05-02, version 9.0* I don’t seem to be able to delete an individual sighting that I have accidentally duplicated. It seems you can only delete all sightings. I may be wrong in this but I can’t see a method. DMC ### 5/5 — Flowers *2020-10-21, version 9.0* A lovely app to use ### 5/5 — A real delight *2020-07-19, version 9.0* Excellent interface. Lovely clear photographs. Adds extra interest to walks. ### 5/5 — Love it. *2020-07-08, version 9.0* Such a good app! I agree about there not being enough time to read the correct answer on the quiz. Would be great to get this fixed. I have found a few wild flowers that aren’t on the app but overall it’s been so worth the money. Happy that there are people in the world who care enough to make these apps. ### 5/5 — Love this app *2019-05-08, version 8.9* Such a easy app to use. I love being able to identify all the wild flowers I see in my walls with the hound x ### 5/5 — Great App *2019-03-31, version 8.9* I love this app. It’s really handy for reading about information on Wildflowers or identifying them. You don’t even need WiFi, so it’s great when out in the meadows. 🌱🌸🍃🌼 --- *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 2026-09-06.*