Wood Identifier User Reviews

Top reviews

Easy and Accurate

Very easy and convenient to use. Perfect if you like the outdoors!

So hilfreich!

Mir wurde die Holz App von einem Bekannten empfohlen und ich bin sehr zufrieden. Die klappt so viel besser als andere Holzerkennungs-Apps. Gerade wenn man viel mit unterschiedlichen Holz arbeitet ist das echt ein Segen. Klasse!

Response from developer

That sounds great! Then I wish you a creative and wonderful Christmas season! 🎄🎅🏼😊

Cost

I don’t pay for apps

Response from developer

Our Wood Identifier app uses a fast, high-performance server to identify different types of wood, ensuring users get top-quality results without having to wait long. This incurs ongoing costs. We offer a trial subscription, and you can cancel your subscription at any time and renew it whenever you want to use it again. Unfortunately, your rating has nothing to do with our app. But thank you anyway for the feedback.

Technically Not Possible

I scanned 4 pieces of furniture and it only identified 50% of the wood correctly. As a professional furniture restorer it can be difficult to identify wood sometimes, but technology can’t do it. This is a skills that requires experience to identify grain, colour, weight, and texture. A photo along is not good enough to identify wood.
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Response from developer

Thank you very much for your review. We realize that even for experts, it can be difficult to identify the type of wood based on a photo. However, we do offer the option to provide suggestions as to what the wood might be. If the photo is clear and well-lit, the accuracy rate is very high. We’re glad you tried our app. We’re constantly improving it, and reviews like yours motivate us to keep doing so.

Only good for very common wood

I tried 6 different pieces of wood, even giving hints of the county or origin and it was wrong 5/6 times.

Response from developer

First of all, thanks for your review. It’s obviously hard for us to tell exactly what the issue was on your end, but it’s always important to have enough lighting so that the wood can be clearly identified. Our system is constantly improving, and we’re always working to make it better. We’re glad you tried out our app. Have fun with your future woodworking projects.

Useless App

Got the app , tried it free, seems to be great. Paid for one year subscription , started scanning some wood pieces and started thinking something isn’t right . So I did a test. Took the same piece of wood and took a picture of it 4 times, each time the ap gave me a different result/ name ! each one different than the last ! So one piece of wood got 4 different names , once it was Walnut , then it was Paduk , then it was Cocobolo, then it was dark Walnut it’s all over the place , making it absolutely useless! Save your money and time and move on. Wish I could just get my money back.
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Response from developer

We're very sorry to hear that you've been having problems. But thank you for reaching out to us. This helps us continue improving our app. Often, the issue is that when lighting isn't sufficient, details are missing from the image, making it difficult to identify the wood accurately. We wish you all the best and much success with your woodworking projects.

Crashed & burned

Simply doesn’t work anymore. Asks me to sign into Apple ac to restore subscription but doesn’t restore

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. We have tried to recreate your error. We were unable to find any errors of this kind. We apologize for the problem you encountered. Could you please send us some general information, such as your iOS version and device, to our support email address? Restarting the device or app often helps. We hope that it is now working and that you can continue to scan and identify your wood types. All the best until then.

Money Grab

Tries to trick you into paying right away. You get five free tries, but at least 40% of those are wrong because those five tries gave two answers for the same wood.

Response from developer

Hello, criticism is welcome, but it's not true. Yes, you can use the App for Free. We also offer a free trial subscription to explore the app further. If you have wrong detections, we are very sorry, we would have liked to know what you used so that we can continue to improve our app as before. We would therefore be happy if you let us know what did not work well. We wish you the best Best regards Wood Identifier Team

Alright,…

Thinks almost everything is oak, even though most of it isn’t works better with stripped wood, but still ok.

Response from developer

Thank you for your message. Feedback is important to us so that we can improve our app. We are constantly working on our app. Thank you for your support. Best regards Wood Identifier Team

Price is stupid ridiculous!!

This developer wants $5.00 PER WEEK for this app. Nuts!

Response from developer

Thank you for your message. We have two models. The weekly model is often chosen by people who use the app a lot for short periods of time, which explains the price. The second is annual and is for people who want it much cheaper because they use the app occasionally. We have decided not to set a limit such as tokens or x scans per week. If you would prefer that, please let us know and we will consider it. Best regards Wood Team

Not accurate

Tried a few different types of lumber, and they all came out as walnut

Response from developer

We didn't have that before either. Thank you for getting in touch. We have been able to improve a few things and the AI scanner now performs even better. The identification of wood, logs and plants has also become faster. We are constantly trying to improve! Thanks for your feedback and have fun with your crafting projects!

Am I missing something?

Uploaded a picture to be identified and it said it was a pale wood with an occasional knot. When I asked for clarification, apparently it is ‘challenging’ to use identify wood from photographs. So how else does it expect to identify wood then? It’s just rendered itself utterly useless.

Response from developer

We understand your point and have made an effort to incorporate your feedback. The wood detection is now more accurate. If the AI is not sure, details via text can be helpful or a new photo with other details can help. Thanks for your feedback! Good luck with your further woodwork!

Not accurate

I used this to check 5 different types of wood for accuracy. All of them I knew what they were. The app was right once. I wouldn’t pay anything for this nor would I recommend it unless you are looking to waste money and time.

Response from developer

Based on your feedback, we have put a lot more work into the app and have been able to improve the recognition of wood, logs and plants. Thank you for getting in touch. We wish you lots of fun with your future projects!

just not enough training

tried with three different samples from a material archive, got them ALL WRONG. 6$ per week is ridiculous. also: got a weird html error message.

Response from developer

Leider hatten wir zum Zeitpunkt, als du dein Feedback geschrieben hast, Serverprobleme, die kurz danach behoben wurden. Inzwischen konnten wir auch unsere Erkennung von Holz und Co. noch einmal verbessern. Danke, dass du geschrieben hast. Wir geben uns Mühe, uns als App für KI-Holzscans immer weiterzuentwickeln! Viele Grüße und weiterhin viel Spaß bei deinen Projekten mit Holz! ------------------------- Unfortunately, we had server problems at the time you wrote your feedback, which were resolved shortly afterwards. In the meantime, we have also been able to improve our recognition of wood and co. once again. Thank you for writing. We are doing our best to keep developing as an app for AI wood scans! Best regards and have fun with your wood projects!

Scam Alert … avoid at all costs!

Downloaded the app with the intention of buying a years subscription which I thought was very reasonable at £24.99. Advertised is a 3 day free trial, I snapped a pic straight away but as soon as I did, I got a ‘bot msg’ stating that “something has gone wrong” and that “I had exceeded my quota”. WTH!!, avoid, Avoid, AVOID!
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Response from developer

Hello, we can reassure you. We had a server failure and that led to this message. Now everything is running as usual. 3 Day trail is attached to our small subscription and not to the annual subscription. We are sorry that it leads to misunderstandings, we follow the guidelines of the Appstore. We hope we were able to clear up the misunderstanding and apologize for the server outage. We would appreciate a correction of the rating. Best regards, Wood Identifier Team

Was hoping…

But the app errored in ID-ing several species of lumber. Was hoping this app would be better. Hopefully I can cancel subscription!!

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. In the meantime, we have made some improvements and the AI scanner app for wood and co has become even better. Thank you for your feedback and keep enjoying projects with wood!

Really great, but ….

This is a fabulous app for identifying and learning about wood. It’s simple to use and accurate. For me, the use would have been occasional, and so I would have paid a £4.99 monthly subscription but not this amount weekly! Perhaps adding a use limited option for light users would be an idea. Shame really (for me).
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Response from developer

Hello, thank you very much for your praise. We have taken your feedback on board. We have found a solution to be even more favourable than your suggestion. Have a good time. Best regards, your team from Wood Identifier.

Wanted to like it

I had 6 hardwood project panels that were all different species. Problem was they were delivered w/o any identification on them. I am testing stain results on the different species before I chose a species for my actual project. The app appeared to work great at first. I decided to double check and found that the app would never identify the species of any of the panels the same twice in a row. Canceled my subscription.
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Response from developer

How quickly time flies. But we have used the time to make significant improvements to our app. The AI Scanner and Identifier are now better than ever. Thanks for your feedback! Good luck with your craft projects.

Wrong 3 strikes and out

A simple piece of as wood was identified as pine, then cedar, then on it’s 3rd try said it was either maple or walnut???? Wow, just wow

Response from developer

I'm sorry to hear that it didn't work out for you. We have never had such an error during our regular tests. If you want, you can send us the image that caused the error by e-mail. We look forward to constantly improving our app. Best regards from the developers [purepomodoroapp@]

Thanks to the Developer

Super practical! I think it's great that I can collect good new information as an expert, but as I see it, beginners can also work really well with it. I always particularly like that!

Response from developer

With pleasure. Always nice to see that the app helps others. Happy Holidays! 🎄