Plant Scanner – Pflanzen-ID

Take a photo, identify the plant, collect it in your digital herbarium and mark the spot on the garden map. Photos and results stay on your device.

Plant Scanner identifies plants from a photo and collects every identification in a digital herbarium on your iPhone or iPad.

PHOTO AND IDENTIFICATION • Take a photo with the camera or pick one from your photo library • Identification through the Pl@ntNet interface, called via a proxy server • Result list with the scientific name, the common name (when available) and a confidence value in percent • Up to 20 identification requests per device per day

DIGITAL HERBARIUM • Every identification you save stays in the herbarium, on the device • Detail view with photo, scientific name, confidence, family and genus • Family and genus come from the Pl@ntNet identification result

GARDEN MAP • Mark the spots where you found a plant on a map – school garden, flower bed or a walk • Location is only recorded if you grant access; identification works the same way without it

PRIVACY • Photos and identifications are stored locally on the device • Before the image is uploaded for identification it is re-compressed, which removes EXIF data including GPS • The proxy stores no images; for the daily limit a randomly generated device identifier is sent that is tied to no account and no person • No user account, no sign-in

INTERFACE • SwiftUI interface for iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 and later • Status is shown with SF Symbols in addition to color • VoiceOver labels for photos, locations and controls

Please note: identification is automated and can be wrong. Do not use Plant Scanner as the only basis for deciding whether a plant is edible or non-toxic.

The app interface is in German.