You may encounter a beautiful, unknown plant on the roadside; you may have no idea how to care for a lovely plant. And now, simply take or upload a photo with your phone, and you will know the accurate name and story of the plant in 1 second. PictureThis helps over 10 million people to identify 17,000+ kinds of plants with accuracy of 98%, better than most human experts. In this app, you can not only identify plants with a snap, but get detailed plant care guides, make a new mobile wallpaper of beautiful plant, educate your children about nature, etc.
On iOS AppStore, PictureThis’s rating is 4.8 out of 5.0, with more than 794,727 reviews. And it has been ranked as the #2 in education apps. On Google Play, its rating is 4.6 out of 5.0, with 470,881 user reviews and more than 10,000,000 installs. It has also been collected in the most authorized "Editors' Choice" list.
PictureThis is featured in over 100 countries, attracting a large number of plant lovers and helping more people appreciate nature. It is easy to observe that it has a fairly high rating in the above two app stores compared to most other similar apps of its kind, which means that it offers a perfect experience to its users. Last but not least, it is worth mentioning that it has been recommended on the first page of the iOS AppStore eight times.
Such educational apps focus more on the accuracy and timeliness of identifying plants through photos, so the development team pays more attention to fixing some bugs that may affect the user experience. In addition, the PictureThis development team also optimized and improved the app's interface layout and screen design to make the overall look and feel attractive and relaxed.
Identify Plants: With the support of a revolutionary AI-driven plant identification system, users of this app can identify different species of plants instantly by simply taking or uploading a photo of any plants.
Plant Care Guides: Different from other similar apps, PictureThis provides users with professional advice regarding growing plants from botanists in one-on-one conversations or from weekly shared plant science articles. Users can also diagnose plant problems by taking a picture of sick part of plants and get possible causes and effective treatment suggestions. Other than that, it can help inexperienced gardeners choose suitable, healthy plants which are easy to grow.
Share Your Plants: Plant lovers can use this app to keep notes and record the growth of their plants. It is also convenient to share beautiful photos of plants with a growing vibrant community of gardening lovers.
Pros
l It can distinguish with impressive accuracy between different species of rare plants.
l It’s more accommodating and convenient to use than other Apps.
l It not only shows a simple name of an unknown plant, but also provides care tips, commonly asked questions and their answers, photo examples so the users can be sure they are getting the right results, etc.
l It can also be used as an academic and educational app, which is helpful for people work in ecology or for those who practice herbal medicine.
Cons
l Purchasing of subscription services needs to be further optimized.
l Occasional freezing or stagnation is very frustrating for some users.