Frequently asked.

No. Open the app and you can identify three plants a day as a guest. Make a free account and the daily allowance goes up to five, plus your collection syncs between phones and sessions.

Yes. Pocket Botanist is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and on Google Play for Android. The same features and your synced collection work on both.

Premium is a subscription billed through the App Store or Google Play, with monthly and annual options, a lifetime option, and a 7-day free trial on the monthly and annual plans. Open the app and tap any Premium feature to see the current price in your local currency. Cancel any time from your App Store or Google Play account.

Pocket Botanist is made by Seamless Logic, a small independent studio. No ads, no data sold to advertisers, no venture-capital pressure to grow at any cost. You can write to us at hello@pocketbotanist.app and a real person will reply.

Email us at hello@pocketbotanist.app and a real person will reply. It helps to tell us your device, your app version (Settings, then Help), and what happened. If it is about an identification, let us know the plant you expected. You can also tap "this is not right" on any result to flag a wrong match.

Premium is billed by the App Store or Google Play, so you manage it there. On iPhone or iPad, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile, then Payments and subscriptions. You keep Premium until the end of the period you already paid for. If something looks wrong with billing, write to us at hello@pocketbotanist.app.

For common houseplants and garden species in good light, accuracy is very high. For obscure or near-identical species, the confidence figure drops and Pocket Botanist tells you what the next likely candidates are.

When we are not sure, we say so. We would rather be honest than confident.

Tap the result and pick "this is not right" to see the next two candidates. For how we think about accuracy and the confidence figure, see our methodology.

Partially. The camera, your collection, notes, and reminders all work offline. The identification and diagnosis steps need a network round-trip because the model runs on a server.

Yes, all of the above. Pocket Botanist covers about 412,000 species across flowering plants, trees, shrubs, succulents, herbs, fungi, and ferns. It will tell you when something is outside its training.

Most identifications return in about a second after you press the shutter. The model runs on a server, so a strong network connection helps. You see the common name, the scientific name, the family, and a confidence figure in the same view.

Identification results include a toxicity note when the species is known to be harmful to cats, dogs, or children. Treat those notes as a starting point, not a substitute for veterinary or medical advice. The app itself collects no personal data unless you choose to sign in. For an example, see our Monstera deliciosa guide for the ASPCA-sourced toxicity note we publish.

No. Identification and diagnosis photos go straight to the AI model and are never stored on a server we operate. The original photo stays on your device. If you save a plant to your collection while signed in, a resized copy is kept in your private cloud storage so it syncs between your devices, and nothing else.

Your collection syncs to Firebase if you are signed in. Reminders live on your device. Location data, if you grant the permission, stays on your device and is only used to filter weather tips.

Settings, Account, Delete account. We remove your collection, your saved plants, and your account record within seven days.

Each plant in your collection can have up to five reminder kinds: water, fertilize, repot, prune, mist. Pick the interval (1, 3, 7, 14, or 30 days) and set quiet hours so the phone will not buzz at midnight. Notifications are local, so they work offline.

Yes, on Premium. Settings, Collection, Export. Choose CSV or a PDF field-book with plate-numbered pages and your own notes.