“Worst plant website — I tried to sign up for a free trial and ended up being charged the annual fee. I tried to identify a plant that this website couldn’t recognize. I tried to diagnose a sick plant and am being told I have to upgrade…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 372 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.0 ★8,108 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
89 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Identify plants instantly, diagnose diseases, and keep your indoor garden thriving with PlantLush!
Turn your iPhone into a professional botanist. Whether you are dealing with a sick plant, need a watering reminder, or just found a beautiful flower on your walk, PlantLush is your all-in-one plant doctor and garden guide.
Snap a photo to unlock a world of botanical knowledge. Our AI-powered plant identifier recognizes over 89,0000 species with 99% accuracy.
KEY FEATURES:
Precision Plant Identifier & Scanner Don't know what that houseplant is? Simply scan any flower, tree, succulent, herb, or cactus. Get detailed species information, origin, and growing tips instantly.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.7.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.7.8, updated 2026-06-16.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 372 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 372 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 43 distinct reviewers (11.6% of 372 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Plant lush — So I had an app for my plants but I was playing my golf game and this “plant lush” ad I watched said the best part is it’s totally free. Exact words, “totally free” so I downloaded it, well I can’t say if the app works…”
“PlantLash — This app offers a “totally free trial”. That’s totally false. When signing up for the totally free trial, the app automatically bills you for one year. Then Apple does nothing to refund that charge.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.7.8.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.