Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.
No specific positive published.
From our automated analysis, 8 Oct 2026.
This analysis describes version 6.21 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-08 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.21, updated 2026-09-02.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Identify plants in seconds with Plantum — your fast and accurate plant identifier.
What Can Plantum Do?
► Recognize over 40,000 natural objects.
Try taking a picture of a tree in the park and recognizing it with our plant scanner. You won’t be able to stop once you get a taste of our instantaneous plant identification. With our extensive database, you can identify plants and impress your friends on your next walk in the park. You can also search for a plant by its name or set Filters and discover the green pets that suit you best.
► Work as a plant disease identifier
No matter how hard you try, your plants may still get sick. Don’t ignore early symptoms, and use Plantum’s Diagnose to learn what disease your plant is suffering from. You’ll get an instant plant diagnosis and a list of treatment options, along with plant health advice.
► Share plant care advice…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Trial converts to a charge: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 503 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
Hard to cancel: raised by 20 distinct reviewers (4.0% of 503 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Misleading advertising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 503 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Surprise charges: raised by 25 distinct reviewers (5.0% of 503 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
503 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
SHADY SHADY company — Despite canceling during the free trial period keeps charging my credit card every week !!!!!! Update on 4/1 Contrary to what they have responded, despite canceling the subscription the same day as I started ( while…
Misread plants and double charged — I tried the 1 week free trial, got charged immediately instead of after the first week. I scanned a plant in my yard and it identified it as wild cabbage when it was clearly milk thistle, so I decided…
Impossible to cancel — I signed up for a free trial and forgot to cancel before the charge period. I then went to cancel after the first charge and found it is virtually impossible. In fact, I am still trying. The FAQs tell you to cancel…
Needs subscription — I enjoyed using the free version of this app. I only have one plant so it was nice to just get some info about it. Now every time I open the app, it pops up a screen telling me to pay $70 a year for the premium…
No Longer Free — Hit cancel hidden top right. Now it cycles over and over pop ups to buy. Hit cancel. Pops right back up deletes your photo. Hit cancel. Take photo. Pops up deletes photo. Will not let you use the app without paying a…
Plantum you can’t cancel — I have tried to cancel this subscription. Even with google I cannot figure out how to do this. They are deceptive with this.
Meh! — So far it has told me nothing, I feel that advertising is somewhat misleading.
Not Free — As I am looking for a free app to help with my plants I am rating all apps that advertise free but require a subscription. Hope my hard work helps others and prevents them the frustration of dealing with false advertising
Not what was advertised. — The advertisement showed scanning a plant and a cool thing like add milk, coffee etc popped up. I couldn’t try the app without subscribing to it. The “3 day trial” would make me sign up at a higher price. So I…
SHADY SHADY company — Despite canceling during the free trial period keeps charging my credit card every week !!!!!! Update on 4/1 Contrary to what they have responded, despite canceling the subscription the same day as I started ( while…
Misread plants and double charged — I tried the 1 week free trial, got charged immediately instead of after the first week. I scanned a plant in my yard and it identified it as wild cabbage when it was clearly milk thistle, so I decided…
HIDDEN CHARGES — I went to sign up for what I thought was a monthly charge when I was prompted to pay what I thought would be a one time charge of $49.99 only to learn the app was charging me $6.99 every WEEK on top of the lifetime charge…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 6.21 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-08 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.21, updated 2026-09-02.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Hello, nature lovers! The new version has arrived! Here’s what we have in store for you: – Polished design for a more enjoyable app experience – Minor bugs were detected and fixed Stay tuned for more updates in the next version! Sincerely yours, Plantum team
Appworthy
plantum-apple-1476047194Assessed 2026-10-08 from 503 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.