Mister Smarty Plants
Free AppAbout Mister Smarty Plants
Your personal plant identification expert. Snap a pic of a unknown plant, flower, bush or shrub, enter a few details about it and hit submit. Our community of plant experts will work on an ID and let you know when we have an answer.
You can also help others identify their plants, no experience needed.
The app is the world’s first dedicated to crowd-sourced plant identification. It brings a virtual community of plant and flower experts to any android mobile device. The app is NOT a field guide and requires no advance knowledge of plants.
App users upload images of unknown flowers and plants they encounter, then real people work to identify the photos. After enough ID votes are entered, the photo poster is emailed or tweeted with the identification.
"Plant and flower ID is one of those tasks that humans are MUCH better at than computers." says John Ellis, the service's founder. "For example the automated LeafSnap app was developed by some of the world's best image processing experts BUT -- the app is limited to trees --- only trees in the northeast United States-- requires the user to tape a leaf flat to a paper-- and even with these restrictions has a high failure rate."
"While image processing excels at applications having a limited universe of possible matches (like the OCR used to turn scanned documents into text) it fails when there are millions of possible matches. Plant life is so diverse it just isn't a good fit for image processing. " Added Ellis “Our new app lets the user snap a pic of any plant flower or tree they encounter without restriction, and upload it to our expert community for identification.”
Mister Smarty Plants™ has been recognized by gardening writers at The Denver Post, Ohio.com and The Roanoke Times. Since launching, Mister Smarty Plants™ has helped ID over 1,000 plants, trees, bushes and flowers from Senegal to Pakistan, and the Caribbean to the United Kingdom. See some of the ID'd flowers here http://www.mistersmartyplants.com/NamedPlants.aspx
You can also help others identify their plants, no experience needed.
The app is the world’s first dedicated to crowd-sourced plant identification. It brings a virtual community of plant and flower experts to any android mobile device. The app is NOT a field guide and requires no advance knowledge of plants.
App users upload images of unknown flowers and plants they encounter, then real people work to identify the photos. After enough ID votes are entered, the photo poster is emailed or tweeted with the identification.
"Plant and flower ID is one of those tasks that humans are MUCH better at than computers." says John Ellis, the service's founder. "For example the automated LeafSnap app was developed by some of the world's best image processing experts BUT -- the app is limited to trees --- only trees in the northeast United States-- requires the user to tape a leaf flat to a paper-- and even with these restrictions has a high failure rate."
"While image processing excels at applications having a limited universe of possible matches (like the OCR used to turn scanned documents into text) it fails when there are millions of possible matches. Plant life is so diverse it just isn't a good fit for image processing. " Added Ellis “Our new app lets the user snap a pic of any plant flower or tree they encounter without restriction, and upload it to our expert community for identification.”
Mister Smarty Plants™ has been recognized by gardening writers at The Denver Post, Ohio.com and The Roanoke Times. Since launching, Mister Smarty Plants™ has helped ID over 1,000 plants, trees, bushes and flowers from Senegal to Pakistan, and the Caribbean to the United Kingdom. See some of the ID'd flowers here http://www.mistersmartyplants.com/NamedPlants.aspx
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
version - 0.07
1. no need to start over with 'more pictures' after viewing a plant.
2. reduced image distortion on upload and in gallery
version - 0.07
1. no need to start over with 'more pictures' after viewing a plant.
2. reduced image distortion on upload and in gallery
What are users saying about Mister Smarty Plants
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It does fine until I try to upload a picture to have identified, then it freezes up.
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great idea but wont let me enter any pictures
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App is rather handy. You post plants and others help id them. Down side is a lot of people don't use it and I wish the gallery was longer so I don't have to load as often. Maybe the community will keep growing
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Started using, but I got the impression some people are being idiots and taking pictures of whole gardens and bunches of shop bought flowers. Therefore, uninstalling as not going to waste my time. App worked well for my HTC 1.
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Needs work to satisfy.
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I think it is nice I think you don't have to log in that would be better thanks
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Won't stay Logged in even just a brief second when you may switch to a diff app or research google. Pix of plants are horrible, they are not formatted correct on mobile viewing. Now let's see if i get a response and if its accurate, if so i may raise to three stars cause then it did what it was meant to do and even with flaws if it can do that then its okay for me.
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Do not download this app will lock your phone up
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Uploaded a pic trying to find out what it was and it said name it. I clicked but didn't get an answer. Wanted an app that you can upload or take pics and it would identify them. This said that's what it did but it doesn't. Also wants me to sign in every time I open it. Uninformative and too much hassle (really? Sign in EVERY time?) Uninstalling.
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Says I cant connect with Facebook or Twitter even when I'm logged in. This Useless. Not rating until its completely fixed.
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I made several usernames and it says all lf them exist. Funny thing is these are very uncommon and i know not possible. When i did create one that worked it just stayed on the create screen! Serious bugs deleting this app now!
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Won't stay Logged in even just a brief second when you may switch to a diff app or research google. Pix of plants are horrible, they are not formatted correct on mobile viewing. Now let's see if i get a response and if its accurate, if so i may raise to three stars cause then it did what it was meant to do and even with flaws if it can do that then its okay for me.
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Blank screens when I try to submit a photo, and makes my phone lag. Quite Disappointing
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Won't stay Logged in even just a brief second when you may switch to a diff app or research google. Pix of plants are horrible, they are not formatted correct on mobile viewing. Now let's see if i get a response and if its accurate, if so i may raise to three stars cause then it did what it was meant to do and even with flaws if it can do that then its okay for me.
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Used to work now it don't really like it please fix tired of trying to switch user name and password and don't want to go to website.
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I made several usernames and it says all lf them exist. Funny thing is these are very uncommon and i know not possible. When i did create one that worked it just stayed on the create screen! Serious bugs deleting this app now!
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This app won't even let me register. Keeps saying user already exists
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Facebook registration not working. Manual registration keep looping. Can't even get in to use it.
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Hmm I think I should install it cause it looks cool
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Can't login.. Useless...
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Tried many different handles, including name with three digit numbers after, it kept telling me that it already existed!
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I attempted to register several times, but was repeatedly told user exists. Also could not log in via the Facebook widget. Might rate higher if there was a way to actually use the app
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This is the worst app ever I can't even get on Facebook with this app or Twitter
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Couldn't even register
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Wish it worked, couldn't create an account from the app, so I did that at their website. After two days of trying I never did get logged in.
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No matter what name you use the app will tell you the name is already in use. I've tried multiple random letters,numbers and even symbols and every name possible is apparently in use. You can't even preview anything. Uninstalled...
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I submitted a plant ages ago and it wasn't identified. There are lots of other unanswered posts too. This is a completely useless app and not worth the effort.
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This app is a front to harvest email, usernames and passwords
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This app does not work at all. However, the ads work totally fine.
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exellent idea, horridous app
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Love using this for my own info and trying to help others too..fun and informative
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I installed this app because of its concept but in reality it makes my phone crash every time. :-(
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I installed the app but I can't log in. It keep asking me for user name and pw...how can I get those?
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1st you have to register using your email & sign up with a username and there is no option to deactivate your account or delete your info. Uploading a picture of your plant is easy as 123 however you do not get a timely response, app relies on other users to help name your plant and users can agree to it. Not very accurate in my opinion. App also doesnt keep you logged in, if you back out of the app or your screen times out, you must log back in. Good concept but needs improvement.
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Won't stay Logged in even just a brief second when you may switch to a diff app or research google. Pix of plants are horrible, they are not formatted correct on mobile viewing. Now let's see if i get a response and if its accurate, if so i may raise to three stars cause then it did what it was meant to do and even with flaws if it can do that then its okay for me.
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This is a very cool idea. Being able to enter extra details about a plant would be much more useful if there was a way for the people doing the id to see that info! The app itself does what it is meant to do, but is missing a lot of important features. The ability to leave feedback both from the originator of an image and from identifiers is essential and completely missing.. Identifiers need the ability to go back and modify or delete their mistakes. Everyone needs to be able to communicate more.
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This app is ALMOST what I need. To really be useful in accurate identification I'd like to be able to see the region the plant is located as well as the time of year the plant was photographed. With only 1-4 photos to go by it's a guessing game
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Completely useless
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I made several usernames and it says all lf them exist. Funny thing is these are very uncommon and i know not possible. When i did create one that worked it just stayed on the create screen! Serious bugs deleting this app now!