Hostas

Name: Hostas
Rating: 1.1 (16 reviews)
Author: Tatiana Churanova

By: Tatiana Churanova

Recognize Hosta from camera

Features & Capabilities

Focus your device camera at a hosta and the app will tell you its name instantly.

Determine a hosta cultivar by device camera. Currently, the app recognizes about 400 hosta cultivars.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Tatiana Churanova

Rating:

1.10

(16)

Version:

1.2 Last updated: 2021-07-10

Version code:

842993742

Creation date:

2020-03-08

Compatible devices:

Size:

78.45MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-07

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# 581,677 ▼ 2,244

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Developed by:

Tatiana Churanova

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hostas/id1501778840

User Reviews

The app is praised for its concept and a useful picture gallery, but it repeatedly misidentifies hostas and its accuracy is highly sensitive to lighting and angle. Variety coverage is limited, and the UI makes it hard to see identifications. Overall, a promising idea with significant reliability and data gaps that need addressing.

Pros

Great concept for hosta identification.
Visual catalogue/gallery of hosta pictures for browsing and visual matching.
Positive anticipation/recognition of potential usefulness.

Cons

Frequent incorrect or inconsistent identifications.
Performance highly dependent on light, angle, and which part of the plant is photographed.
Limited variety library with missing common varieties.
Cannot easily view the matched plant's name/details and navigation is limited.
Results vary wildly between attempts (inconsistent across tries).

Recent reviews

Wish this actually worked! This is a great concept, but it just doesn’t work most of the time. I pointed this at Hostas I know, and it usually identified it wrong. One review stated it depends on light, angle etc., but I found it is just wrong. It even identified a non variegated Hosta as a variegated one!?!? Now, what is kind of cool is it’s “catalogue” of hosta pictures. It is possible to scroll through those pictures to find ones that look like your Hosta. Now I will say that some of the pictured plants have on name on them that I think is wrong. Please keep working on this. Lots of Hosta collectors will love it. Perhaps if in included categories of descriptions of the plants characteristics.

by QC*****, 2023-08-06

Named every hosta wrong !

by Ks*****, 2023-05-29

It gave me the same wrong option for most any hosta even when I knew it was something else. When two options were suggested for a just purchased plant with tags on both were wrong. I have a minimum of 40 varieties but don’t know them all and was hoping this app would help but it’s just frustrating. If it at least came close I would be willing to research further.