PlantAI: Identifier & Diagnose

So I innocently assume free meant free and that there would be some limitations. No, wants your card details and you can have 7 days free. I hate it when it says free but actually it means free until you have to pay a subscription 🤨😢

I have been using this app for around 3 months and I reckon it is around 98% accurate to date. Very reliable identification and good guide to plant health. Really impressed and would definitely recommend.

You don’t find out that the app is only free for 7 days until you download it after which you have to pay a subscription and if you have made a mistake by downloading it in the first place there’s no way to cancel it .

Ad for this app says Free. Only free for 7 day trial. Total ripoff and misleading customers. High time this sort of advertising was stopped

Plant AI does not show this trial subscription anywhere under your AppleID, on purpose I suspect. They’ve found a crack in Apple’s system so that they can scam all free 7-day trial users into paying for a year. It appears that Plant Parent set this up to be an in-app purchase instead of a proper subscription. I asked Apple - Apple can’t see it to cancel it for you, and later Apple won’t help cancel the charge when it comes on day 8 because it’s an “in-app purchase”. Plant Parent intentionally does not give any option to cancel anywhere in the app (I’ve read every line of every page, just like many others). If contacted (they only have an email, no phone etc), and you happen to get a response, they’ll apparently send you to iTunes(?!) to cancel it (no one can get this to work). In other words, once you start the 7-day trial, you’re paying for a year, unless you have luck disputing the charge with Apple (keep documentation), or later disputing the Apple charge with your credit card (documentation needed as well). I strongly recommend filing a scam report with your AppleID with Apple. Surely Apple does not want this sort of behavior in its App Store.

Not sure if I know what to do if the plants look sick

Garbage pure garbage 🗑️ u. Owe me money for trying this

Great to identify plants for free but then it’s a charge for a diagnosis. Shouldn’t be advertised for free.

The app does not do the same as the video, it doesn’t automatically give you a quick response but a lengthy write up, not happy

Still trying to figure out how this all works