The 8 best applications to identify plants

identify plants

The phone is a really important tool for us in all areas, whether to make a call, send a message and even make unusual uses. Thanks to the many applications in the Play Store, the smartphone can be very useful for almost everything.

If you need to be in the middle of the field and want to know information about a specific plant, you can find out its name and all the information thanks to applications. To do this you just have to open that app and point the camera at the plant, so that in a matter of seconds it tells you what it is specifically.

Imagine being able to count on applications to identify plants and flowers quickly, even knowing what it is for and much more information. When identifying one, you have the option of being able to save the search in case you want to consult about it a little later.

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plant snap

plant snap

It is a complete application capable of identifying plants and flowers in 90% of cases, the database makes it stand out from the rest of the tools posted on the Play Store. It usually recognizes flowers, plants and trees, but it also recognizes things like leaves or the fruit itself.

PlantSnap is going to let you create your own library of plants, to do so, select the ones you want to obtain information about. It is a free app, it has a fairly large community and with whom to be able to talk, to this is added that it is available on Android and iOS.

Using PlantSnap is simple, open the application on your phone, use the camera to visualize and press the button so you can recognize in about ten seconds at most. PlantSnap has reached 10 million downloads and works from Android 5.0 onwards. It has been updated on February 28.

plant snap
plant snap
Developer: Plant Snap, Inc.
Price: Free

PlantNet

PlantTet

It has gained great weight due to the ease of recognition of plants from anywhere in the world., since it usually recognizes more than 95% of trees, plants, flowers and more. Behind it, it has a scientific endorsement that makes it a recommended application if you want to have the best information at the moment.

Among other things, makes you interesting by being able to donate images to the database, all this as long as it provides you with beneficial information, this is an exchange with the naked eye. The application has been in operation since 2014 and is managing to maintain itself thanks to the different donations.

Pl@ntNet Pflanzenbestimmung
Pl@ntNet Pflanzenbestimmung
Developer: PlantNet
Price: Free

flora incognita

unknown flora

In the development is the Polytechnic University of Ilmenau and the Max-Planck Institute of Jena, all thanks to the work of scientists and engineers. By scanning plants and flowers you will obtain really important information, as well as some photos on the right side (sometimes even a gallery).

Flora incognita shows valuable information, among which are the characteristics of the plant, propagation and where we can even find it. To identify the plants you only have to use the camera, to do this press the button at the time of detection of each of the plants.

flora incognita
flora incognita

picturethis

picturethis

It has earned a niche when it comes to identifying plants due to the large base it has, recognizes more than 100.000 different varieties, which is one of the largest at the moment. Thanks to its artificial intelligence, it will be able to recognize with 98& of the accuracy, it also gives indications of the care of the plant, among other things.

Among its additional points, you can leave notes on each of the plants recognized by the camera, while you can share photos for its database. PictureThis has a beautiful and comfortable interface, you also have a tab to save all the plants, both recognized and those that are of interest to you.

Leaf Snap

Leaf Snap

Instantly identify thousands of plants, flowers, fruits and trees thanks to the camera and to the artificial intelligence incorporated by LeafSnap. The recognition of the different plants is 90%, it is an application that has grown remarkably and the rating is almost five stars.

The design is minimalist, but it is as powerful as the others, finding the plant you have taken a screenshot of, it took just two seconds to find it. Internet is needed to access the database, which are usually several, up to four or five at a time. Over a million downloads.

LeafSnap Plant Identification
LeafSnap Plant Identification
Developer: appixi
Price: Free

findplant

findplant

Take a photo of the plant and verify which one it is in just over a few seconds, all this with artificial intelligence, which is the great asset of this application. FindPlant is interesting, and its use is similar to that of other apps, so it won't be complicated at all to use it.

FindPlant has one of the largest recognition databases and It may be the one that recognizes the largest number of plants, more than 120.000 different. The app is not available in the Play Store, to download the miosma you have to pull from the different Internet repositories, which are many.

Download: findplant

NatureID – Identify Plants

Nature ID

It is an application that recognizes a lot of plants, including trees, flowers and even any of the fruits that it bears. The operation is identical to that of other apps, take a photo and wait for the result, you can see all the information in the tab that will open.

You can upload a photo from your phone to identify the plant, for this it will take a few seconds to identify what it is. The application also usually identifies the disease of a plant if it had one, finding the root problem, has care reminders and more. It passes the million downloads in the Play Store.

Plantum - Identify plants
Plantum - Identify plants
Developer: AIBY Inc.
Price: Free

TreeApp

Tree App

You do not need an Internet connection to locate those trees in nature, for this it will use the base included by the Royal Botanical Garden of the CSIC. It includes more than 500 photographs of trees and their most unique characteristics, a glossary with nearly 90 terms, and 2 types of searches.

140 species have been described in 122 files, recognizing all the native trees of Spain, Andorra, the Balearic Islands and Portugal. ArbolApp is a recommended application for those people who are looking for a tree and wants autonomy to come to him for the whole day.

TreeApp
TreeApp
Price: Free

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