Comparison

Plant Identifier Medicinal vs LearningHerbs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Plant Identifier Medicinal

Instantly identify plants, flowers, and fruits with a photo to learn about their medicinal properties. Discover how to prepare home remedies from herbs and connect with experts in a community forum. Access educational videos on natural medicine.

Highlights
  • AI-powered plant identification
  • Medicinal properties learning
  • Home remedy preparation guides
  • Community forum for experts
  • Educational videos on herbs
  • Care instructions for houseplants
Features
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Medicinal Plant Identifier is your botanical guide to identifying and recognizing plants, flowers, leaves, fruits, and seeds, and learning about their medicinal properties. It then teaches you how to mix these herbs into an infusion or decoction to create a home remedies. This Medicinal plant identifier allows you to identify and better understand all kinds of herb living in nature: flowering trees, conifers, ferns, vines, flowers, leaves, fruits, wild lettuces, and cacti. Identify any plant with one click of an image, and our advanced plant identification tool recognizes thousands of species, helping you learn more about its medicinal properties. Simply take a photo of your plantnet, and our app will provide detailed information on its care needs and ideal growing conditions, helping you treat your health problems and illnesses with home remedies. This plant identification app with herb brings together natural medicine experts, herbalists, botanists, and naturalists to teach you the science of plants and plant flora. Perhaps you don't know which plant you have? You can simply take a photo and our plant identifier will tell you instantly. You can scan all your houseplants to find out their scientific and common names, then learn how to care for them. Its AI plant identification module allows you to identify the mushrooms, and flowers in your garden, botanical herb, and forest. Simply snap a plant or fruit, and our AI will predict the recognition of this image with over 90% accuracy and suggest its benefits in garden Flora. The Forum menu is a space for discussion between forum members, naturopaths specializing in natural medicine, botanists,naturalists, and herbalists. You can ask questions about seeds and herbs from your botanical garden, and take pictures or snapshots of these plants to help alternative medicine experts identify them. The Video menu explains in more detail herbs, bark, and Ayurvedic spices with medicinal properties from the forest. It offers videos on the benefits and virtues of turmeric, ginger, cloves, basil, garlic, onion, mint, honey, moringa, ginseng, lemongrass, maca, aloe vera, and shea butter to learn grandmother's tips. We recommend seeking the advice of a doctor or botanist before making any medical decisions based on medicinal plant and their tips. You must capture a close-up image to ensure a good identification result with our AI. With our application, plants, herbs, barks and spices no longer hold any secrets for you. Privacy policy : http://bontwui.com/myapp/plantes/privacypolicy.php Terms of Use : http://bontwui.com/myapp/plantes/termsuse.php

About

LearningHerbs

Access herbal courses, home remedy guides, and community support. This app serves as a mobile portal for existing HerbMentor subscribers and owners of digital products, offering training and resources to become a confident home herbalist.

Highlights
  • Herbal courses and training
  • Home remedy guides
  • Community support
  • Access digital products
  • Beginner herbalist guidance
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LearningHerbs makes learning about herbs and home remedies simple. Access your HerbMentor membership and all your LearningHerbs digital products (such as Herb Fairies, Apothecary, and the Herbal Remedy Kit) in this mobile app. HerbMentor provides all the training, guidance, support, community, and resources you need to become a confident home herbalist, all at a very affordable price. Please note: This app is for HerbMentor subscribers and owners of LearningHerbs products. Log in with the username and password provided to you when you joined on the LearningHerbs site. Visit our support if you need help. This app does not yet support in-app purchases. Discover HerbMentor, along with our beginner course, kid’s herbal learning system, herbal kit, and board game at LearningHerbs.com. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Plant Identifier Medicinal4 screens
LearningHerbs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LearningHerbs at none against Plant Identifier Medicinal's 2. LearningHerbs also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Plant Identifier Medicinal's advantage is ratings volume (876 vs 6) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Plant Identifier Medicinal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. LearningHerbs asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Plant Identifier Medicinal against 4.8 for LearningHerbs. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plant Identifier Medicinal has 876 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Plant Identifier Medicinal's written reviews are positive against 100% of LearningHerbs's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plant Identifier Medicinal ships an update weekly, LearningHerbs fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Plant Identifier Medicinal versus LearningHerbs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlant Identifier MedicinalLearningHerbs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (876 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings876 — better6
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNdonna Yacynth BolanLearningHerbs.com, LLC

Customer experience

Plant Identifier Medicinal

All ratings874 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral1.8%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews81 reviews
Positive72.8%
Neutral9.9%
Negative17.3%

LearningHerbs

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Plant Identifier Medicinal

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Incorrect plant information and identification
  • Ads that cannot be skipped or closed properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add search function to quickly find plants
  • Implement plant identification via photo upload
  • Provide option to purchase ad-free version
  • Improve organization and navigation of content

LearningHerbs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Plant Identifier Medicinal

Subscriptions2
  • Monthy premium subscription$5.991 Month
  • Yearly premium subscription$39.991 Year
None

LearningHerbs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plant Identifier Medicinal free?
Plant Identifier Medicinal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LearningHerbs free?
LearningHerbs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plant Identifier Medicinal or LearningHerbs?
LearningHerbs is rated higher. Plant Identifier Medicinal averages 4.7 out of 5 from 876 ratings, while LearningHerbs averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Plant Identifier Medicinal or LearningHerbs have ads?
Plant Identifier Medicinal shows ads; LearningHerbs does not.
Which is updated more often, Plant Identifier Medicinal or LearningHerbs?
Plant Identifier Medicinal ships an update weekly, and LearningHerbs fortnightly. Most recently, Plant Identifier Medicinal was updated on November 3, 2026 and LearningHerbs on November 4, 2026.

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