TheTreeApp SA vs Urban Trees

Identify and discover over 1200 indigenous and selected invasive trees of South Africa. The app provides full species descriptions as well as uses and gardening information. Tree details are described in artworks, over 6000 photographs, maps, and texts. Searching for a species can be done by scientific or common name, using any of the 11 South African languages. Once loaded using Wi-Fi, no internet is needed; but satellite coverage improves the map and Location search experience. Interactive Location options based on unique, highly detailed species distribution maps, rapidly reduce the number of tree species to the actual number that can grow there naturally. Using the powerful, rapid, and highly intuitive random Tree Search function; the characteristics of your tree are matched to those on the app. Select the relevant tick-boxes and watch as the number of species’ choices in the Tree List reduces! If you are a new user, you can download and test the free Evaluation version of TheTreeApp SA, covering a limited number of trees (155). To load all 1 399 trees, you must buy a yearly subscription of R179,99 by pressing the Buy Full Subscription Version button on the Home Screen in the app and following the steps. TheTreeApp SA has an inbuilt education system; based on clicking InfoHotSpots, for explanations about any detail that is not clear. In Settings on the home screen, you can select your use of primary and secondary languages from Scientific, English, or Afrikaans. In addition, the Sightings function allows you to add and list the names of your own personal tree discoveries. You can also type in notes and record GPS locations. The Second Edition is a two-in-one app that contains both the Original version (simple English terms) and the Botanical version (classical Botanical terms). Therefore, you only pay for one subscription per year but you receive both versions of the app. Users can switch between versions on the app home screen. The language differences apply to the search, text, and captions. Both versions include all South African trees, and all species’ artwork, photographs, and maps. *** MTN App of the Year Winner 2017 – Agriculture (Conservation) ***

The Urban Trees app allows you to identify the trees around you using your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. ___ Supported Cities --- • Alblasserdam • Amersfoort • Amsterdam • Arnhem • Assen • Austin • Baltimore • Barcelona • Barendrecht • Basel • Belfast • Berlin • Birmingham • Bonn • Boston • Bristol • Buenos Aires • Buffalo, NY • Cambridge, MA • Chemnitz • Clark County • Cupertino • Delft • Den Haag • Denver • Dordrecht • Edmonton • Eindhoven • Frankfurt • Fingal • Gelsenkirchen • Groningen • Haarlem • Halle (Saale) • Hamburg • Hilversum • København • Köln • Las Vegas • Leipzig • Lelystad • Linz • Lisboa • London • Los Angeles • Melbourne • Mississauga • Montréal • Mulhouse • New York • Nijmegen • Oslo • Palmerston North • Paris • Philadelphia • Portland • Rostock • San Francisco • San Jose • Santa Monica • Seattle • Sliedrecht • Tilburg • Toronto • Ulm • Umeå • Utrecht • Valencia • Vancouver and Surrounding Areas • Vejle • Washington DC • Watertown, MA • Wien • Zaanstad • Zürich • ...more cities are added regularly Non-Urban Areas: • Sweden A big thank you to the Open Data portals of those cities! ___ iPhone (iPad) --- Just point your device at the tree you want to identify. Using Augmented Reality (AR), the app will display a label with the species right next to the tree. (Use the map view, if the label won't line up...) Tapping on the label will display the Wikipedia page about that tree's species. In addition to the AR mode, Urban Trees features also a map mode. Notes: • Urban Trees does NOT use image recognition but uses OPEN DATA, which provides the exact location and species of every PUBLIC tree in the supported cities • Check the help section within the app if the label locations in AR are off. ___ Apple Watch --- On the Apple Watch the five nearest trees are shown on a map. Tap the screen to display the species of those trees. ___ iPad & GPS --- Please note: only iPad models with cellular do have GPS built-in. ___ Less is More --- • NO ads • NO storing of any private data • NO accounts/logins • NO in-app purchases (but you can leave me a tip...)