Anyone recommend a free plant/ bush recognition app

[Dave7]

I often seen plants etc when walking and wonder what they are.
I have posted some photos on CC with good results.
There are some free apps that look good but I am paranoid of viruses etc.
I imagine everything off playstore is safe but a recommendation would be good

 

[The Crofted Crest]

PlantNet

 

[ianrauk]

Seek is really good

 

[Julia9054]

My mother

 

[Speicher]

Seek is really good

Do you use it to identify animals and birds, as well as plants?

 

[ianrauk]

Do you use it to identify animals and birds, as well as plants?

Only ever used it for plants.

 

[Dave7]

Do you use it to identify animals and birds, as well as plants?

Hadn't thought of it. Not sure how I would photograph them.

 

[Speicher]

Only ever used it for plants.

I get a fair amount of snakes, and rodents in my garden, and I would like to know what they are. Allegedly I picked up a baby adder recently. I was wearing gloves, and it was very small.

 

[Speicher]

Hadn't thought of it. Not sure how I would photograph them.

The Seek site says you do not need to photograph them just point your phone at the thing to be identified.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

Hadn't thought of it. Not sure how I would photograph them.

There is a camera in the app (both PlantNet and Seek). It's really simple. You just press the button, the app takes a picture and nanoseconds later it tells you what the plant is.

 

[Dirk]

I often seen plants etc when walking and wonder what they are.
I have posted some photos on CC with good results.
There are some free apps that look good but I am paranoid of viruses etc.
I imagine everything off playstore is safe but a recommendation wouldde be good

I use Candide.
It's a bit like Facebook for plants.

Found it to be pretty good.

 

[dan_bo]

Seek thought my dog was a pig.

I can see it's point.

 

[Nitram55]

Picture This for plant ID

 

[PaulSB]

I've never used one of these apps but having retired from a career in horticulture feel my plant identification is pretty good. There are big gaps in my knowledge, I'm good on commercially grown plants, very poor for example on hedgerow plants. I do find the further I get in to retirement the harder a find it to be specific about a variety or cultivar.

This thread caught my eye so I read a little about the individual apps. It seems most rely on "citizen science." That is the public build the database for identification of plants.

Interested to know if there is any general view on how reliable this is? Not necessarily for plants but in general.

 

[simon the viking]

most android phones have google lens installed... i use that to identity anything and it scans qr codes