Put a plant identifier and caretaker in your pocket for $15 with this iOS app

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Your iPhone is your ticket to a green thumb with this top-rated gardening and nature identification app.
Identify plants, get curated caretaking guides and more from this plant identification app.
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Taking care of plants requires much more than sprinkling some water on leaves and letting the Sun do the rest. So whether you’re tending a little home garden or want to know if the tree you encountered on your camping trip was a birch or an elm, NatureID can help. This plant identification and education app can analyze and inform you about more than 14,000 plant species, and lifetime Premium Plans are on sale for $14.99 (regularly $59), the best price you’ll find online.

Get help identifying, growing and healing your plants

If you’re a new plant parent, you’ll find that gardening requires much more effort than picking the right fertilizer and calling it a day. Plants can get sick, overwatered and receive too much Sun. If caring for plants sounds stressful, that’s one more thing you have in common with plants because they can feel that too. That’s where NatureID comes in.

This iOS app can identify plants and receive advice on caring for them. First, take a picture of the plant you want to identify with your iPhone camera or upload an image from Photos. The app will use AI to analyze the photo and provide a suggestion from its database. Then, you can set up a plant journal for every fern, flower or shrub in your garden and receive reminders for when to water, mist, feed and rotate them.

If you’re worried your plant is sick, NatureID’s Plant Doctor can help you get to the root of the problem and guide you to the next best steps. And if you’re interested in learning more about the world’s many plants and nature in general, you can leaf through the daily articles NatureID publishes in its encyclopedia.

NatureID earned 4.6 out of 5 in the App Store across more than 62,000 user ratings. One five-star reviewer writes, “I was keeping one of my plants in direct sunlight, and it was dying, but the identification let me know it’s best to keep it in cool, dry, darker areas and now my plant is growing again!”

Save on a lifetime subscription to NatureID

For a limited time, you can purchase a lifetime NatureID Premium Plan for the best price online, just $14.99 (regularly $59).

Prices subject to change.

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