Show shape and habit
Include the plant’s overall form and the setting where it is growing.
Photo identification with Garden Sage
A plant identifier app for your iPhone.
Put a name to your plant from a photo. Check the suggested name, then add your plant to My Garden. Keep its care guidance, watering history and later photo checks together.
Free to download. Start with two saved plants; optional Premium supports a larger collection. Compare free and Premium.
Photographed plant
Soft tree fern
Dicksonia antarctica · App preview
From photo to plant record
How to identify a plant from a photo.
Start with the plant in front of you. Add your plant to My Garden to keep later photo checks and watering or feeding history together.
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Choose one clear plant photo
Show the whole plant where possible, or use one attached leaf, stem, flower, fruit or bark detail when that best answers the question.
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Check the suggested name
Compare the name with your plant. Read what is still uncertain and whether a closer photo would help.
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Add your plant to My Garden
Check the name before saving it. Keep later photos and watering or feeding notes with the same plant.
Product proof
See why the app suggests a match.
The result tells you whether there is enough evidence to confirm a match, whether only a broader plant type is clear, or whether another photo would help. A result labelled Prediction is a suggestion that still needs checking.
- Prediction kept separateA Prediction is a suggestion to check. It cannot be confirmed or saved, and it does not provide plant-specific care.
- Know what is still uncertainThe exact species may still be uncertain, even when the photo suggests a plant name.
- A specific next-photo requestWhen no useful result is available and another view would help, see which closer view to try.
Better evidence, better starting point
Photograph leaves, flowers or the whole plant.
A useful result begins with a useful view. Choose either the whole plant or the attached detail that best answers the question; when there is no useful result and another view would help, the app can ask for one.
Keep leaves on the stem
Leaf arrangement and stem structure can separate plausible lookalikes.
Add what makes it different
Flowers, fruit, buds, bark and a sense of scale can carry the identification.
Honest uncertainty
Broad when the evidence is broad.
Garden Sage can show a clearly labelled prediction, keep an identity broad or ask for another view instead of inventing species-level certainty. Treat any app result as a starting point when toxicity, foraging, treatment or another high-consequence decision is involved.
How Garden Sage handles uncertaintyLearn before you photograph
Learn how to check a plant identification.
These editorial guides explain the evidence and limitations in more depth. The page you are on explains the product workflow.
Photo checklistIdentify a leaf, tree or bush from a photoChoose the whole plant or attached detail that best shows the identifying trait.
AccuracyHow accurate are plant identification apps?Understand top matches, confidence and independent verification.
Second opinionsWhat to do when plant apps disagreeCompare the evidence instead of choosing the most confident label.
From a name to ongoing care
Give your identified plant a care record.
Start free: Start with a free plant check: one useful check, once. Retakes and clarifications needed to finish it are included. Your result and essential care stay available. Save up to two plants free.
Care for a larger collection: Premium includes further plant checks, saved-photo reanalysis and new AI garden questions, with up to 50 plant checks each day. It also removes the two-plant save limit. Your existing saved plants, results and conversations remain readable when Premium ends.
Choose a monthly or annual Premium plan. Any introductory trial is shown in the app, subject to Apple’s offer and your eligibility.
Apple shows the current storefront price and renewal period, and confirms any trial duration and eligibility, before you subscribe. After a trial, the selected paid plan begins automatically. The subscription renews unless cancelled in Apple subscription settings.
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