“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…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 503 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★119,321 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
109 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
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…
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 6.21 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.21, updated 2026-09-02.
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
Does not say 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
80–89% 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 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 503 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 20 distinct reviewers (4.0% of 503 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 503 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
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.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 25 distinct reviewers (5.0% of 503 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“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…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.21.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.