What Kind Of Plant Is This is an image-based plant identification tool for gardeners and nature enthusiasts on iOS.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Education
Sentiment
4.5
20 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the cognitive friction of manual botanic research by automating species identification via camera input.
For Home gardeners and nature enthusiasts seeking quick identification of plants and flowers.
What does it look like?
Key features
Image-based recognition engine identifying 60,000+ plant species via camera input.
Algorithm updates based on visual data provided by users during identification sessions.
How much does it cost?
Subscription model requires cancellation 24 hours before period end, with no refunds for unused terms.
Velocity
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The app has reached a zombie state, with no updates or feature releases in the last 807 days. Development activity has ceased entirely, and there is no evidence of ongoing maintenance or support. The lack of any recent version history indicates the project is no longer being actively developed.
Who built it?
Ngoan Doan Thi
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What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads upset.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Inconsistent plant identification results across multiple angles lead to incorrect information for the same specimen
1 of 1 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for What Kind Of Plant Is This
How's the Education market?
What Kind Of Plant Is This maintains a 4.45 rating across 20 total ratings, though the lack of updates since June 2024 suggests a stagnant market position.
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Key takeaways for What Kind Of Plant Is This
Where is it heading?
The plant identification market is consolidating around apps that provide frequent model updates and community-driven verification. What Kind Of Plant Is This remains exposed due to its long-term development silence, which will likely lead to further rating erosion as the identification engine falls behind current industry standards.
- The 26-month release gap indicates the app is in maintenance mode, which prevents the model from adapting to new botanical data.
- User reports of inconsistent identification results suggest the current engine is failing to maintain accuracy, which will accelerate churn among power users.
The SWOT
- 60,000-species identification library provides a broad knowledge base for general-purpose plant recognition
- Implementing a community-verified identification feedback loop could address the current inconsistency in recognition results
Next best moves
Audit identification engine accuracy because users report conflicting results for the same specimen → improve retention
The counter-intuitive read
The 26-month development silence is not just a maintenance failure…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The product remains in a maintenance-only state with no functional updates, but the analytical framework now explicitly identifies the risk of model obsolescence against active competitors.
Bottom line
The lack of development since mid-2024 leaves the identification engine vulnerable to accuracy drift, which erodes user trust in the results. Prioritizing a model-refinement sprint would address the core identification inconsistency that currently limits retention.
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Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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