PlantNet Plant Identification

What is PlantNet?

PlantNet is a plant identification app with over one million images into projects which covers plants from around the globe. It claims to have over 20,000 species in its database which grows every time a new identification is made. 

Like all plant identification apps, the position and quality of the photo are critical. Once the app identifies a plant, it shows other similar plants so the user can confirm their choice, thus adding to the database. If you upload a picture you’ve taken of a plant, PlantNet will recognise it and provide you instantly with more information about it. This app has information about more than 6000 kinds of plants and keeps adding more every day. You can even help by sharing your own pictures and information with PlantNet.

PlantNet can be downloaded on either iOS or Android devices for free. It is necessary to register to take full advantage of the app and to share your own contributions, but no credit card information is necessary.

Is PlantNet free?

You can download and use the PlantNet app for free. With the free version, you’ll get disease diagnostics, pot meter, weather tracker notifications, light meter, unlimited estimations through water calculator, an unlimited number of plants in My Plants, and a plant search with a filter.

Pros

• It has great themes built in to study, search and understand plants in a better way.
• It provides a list of useful plants as well.
• Searching is very easy and efficient because of the geographical search feature.
• It constitutes data about all parts of the world including Garden by the Bay and several micro-projects.
• Can search with ease using just pictures of plants.

Cons

• The world flora option provides fewer details than the other specific geographic area-based options.
• The AI plant identification is slightly slow.

How accurate is PlantNet?

PlantNet boasts that it identifies plants with over 95% accuracy.

Alternatives

PictureThis, another popular plant identifier app, is similar to PlantNet in that you get a lot for free, that recognizes over 10,000 different types of plants.