Want to identify plants and trees quickly? Take the help of your smartphone and download one
of these Best Plant Identification Apps to identify plants with ease.
Check the description below to find a link for these apps.
1. Plantifier
Plantifier is a popular plant recognition tool backed by mygarden.org,
a wide community of garden and plant enthusiasts. It allows you
to upload a photo of an unknown plant and the community will help you identify the plant.
2. LeafSnap
This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from
photographs of their leaves. Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves,
flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark.
3. FlowerChecker
This app provides a paid plant identification service. You have to take a picture of an
unknown plant and get it identified by the international team of experts.
Their team will respond as soon as possible, but the identification usually takes several
minutes or hours. The developers claim they can identify more than 90% of plants.
4. Garden Answers Plant Identification
Garden Answers is the revolutionary plant identification app that instantly identifies over
20,000 plants and gives you accurate and detailed information about them.
It also identifies pests and diseases and provides expert advice for questions you ask about plants.
5. PlantSnap
Not only plants but flowers, trees, succulents, mushrooms can also be recognized within seconds
by this app. This revolutionary plant identification app is built by Earth.com.
One great thing about this app is that its content is translated into 30 different languages.
With a database of more than 500,000 species, this app is a very vast source of information.
6. Smart Plant Home
If you have a plant, pest or disease you want to identify, the Smart Plant Home app
is here for you. It allows you to take a photo and submit it to their expert team
who will not only identify what the plant is; they can also tell you how to grow and care for it.
7. PlantNet Plant Identification
PlantNet is an image sharing and retrieval application for the identification of plants.
Among other features, this free app helps in identifying plant species from photographs.
Plant species that are well enough illustrated in the
botanical reference database can be easily recognized.
8. PictureThis
This app also uses the latest AI technology for identifying the plants.
Take a snap or upload any pre-downloaded pic to get all the information about
that plant or flower. This app identifies the plants very quickly and accurately.
9. Plantix
With this not only you’ll get to know about the plant,
but you’ll also be able to identify the diseases.
The app recognizes patterns of disease and gives the solution accordingly. The community
of like-minded users and international experts share their knowledge and remedies on this app.
10. SmartPlant: Identify & Care
Identify the plant and get some amazing tips on this app. Although this app is free to download,
to unlock all its features you’ll need to buy a premium membership. You need to upload an
image from the gallery or take a live picture of the plant. This image is sent to a team of
expert horticulturalists who will get back to you with an accurate answer within some time.
11. Seek
Explore different types of plants with the help of Seek, an image recognition technology based
app available on iOS and Android. You’ll also earn badges while discovering plants with the help of
Seek. Along with plants, you can also identify birds, insects, fungi, and animals with seek.
12. PlantSpot
PlantSpot is a popular plant education and identification app available only for iOS
devices. Its database is vast with rich content and information of more than
3,10,000 species. Just take a photo, upload it to the server and you’re simply good to go.
It’s a subscription-based app and notifies you with plant care reminders.
13. Agrobase
Agrobase is a popular app among farmers and agriculture enthusiasts with free availability
on iOS and Android. It helps in identifying crops, plants, leaves, weeds as well as pests and plant
diseases. It’s extensively informative with rich content and a vast database.
14. Google Lens
Though not only for plant identification, Google Lens is an effective app with the
help of which you can identify plants and flowers. Simply take a picture,
scan it and google will show you similar plants from which you can find out the plant name.
15. Garden Tags
Available on both android and iOS, GardenTags is more than a plant identification app. It is a
large community of passionate gardeners and nature experts who help users in identifying plants,
sharing growing and nurturing tips as well as inspire you with their plant collection.
16. iNaturalist
With a community of more than 400,000 renowned scientists and enthusiastic nature experts,
iNaturalist is a popular plant identification app available for both android and iOS devices.
It’s a great app for gardeners who love to discover new plants and grow them.
17. Plant Lens
Easily available on iOS and Android devices, Plant Lens is a wonderful app that helps in
identifying plants and flowers with its image recognition technology. It enhances
its accuracy by machine learning algorithm and helps you explore the beautiful plant world.
Bonus tool
It is not an app but your favorite search engine. You can also identify plants using google image
search. To identify, you need to upload the image of the plant and write some descriptive words
about it. It will show you visually similar images. Browse through them, and hopefully,
you will find the name of the plant. You can also take the help of Facebook to
recognize plants. There are so many gardening groups that you can join and ask questions.
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