Identify This
Summary
You're on a trail, you've spotted something that might be edible or might send you to urgent care, and your search engine returns a Wikipedia page that matches nothing you're looking at. That's the gap Identify This targets.
Identify This is a mobile AI identifier that takes a single photo and returns a classification — plant, insect, food item, coin, collectible, or landmark — along with safety warnings, calorie estimates, historical context, or travel tips depending on what it sees. The workflow is one-shot: photograph, submit, read result. There is no API, no self-hosted option, and no way to pipe outputs into another system, so every identification lives inside the app. The personal history feature lets you save and revisit past identifications, which helps repeat foragers or collectors build a reference log. The trial period gates full access, and the vendor page describes no permanent free tier after it expires.
Bottom line: A practical field companion when you need a fast identification and a safety flag on an unfamiliar plant or insect — but the moment you need bulk identification, offline access, or any data export, you are working around constraints the app was not built to handle.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 weeks ago- Price
- $4.99/month or $39.99/year
- Free Tier
- 3-day free trial
Free Trial
3-day free trial access to all features
- Detailed descriptions & fascinating facts
- Calorie counts, nutrition & recipes for food
- Plant care tips & health diagnosis
- Breed, habitat & behavior for animals
- Value & rarity for coins, art & collectibles
- History & Maps links for landmarks
- Safety warnings for dangerous species
- Save & revisit all identifications
Monthly
Flexible, month-to-month subscription
- Detailed descriptions & fascinating facts
- Calorie counts, nutrition & recipes for food
- Plant care tips & health diagnosis
- Breed, habitat & behavior for animals
- Value & rarity for coins, art & collectibles
- History & Maps links for landmarks
- Safety warnings for dangerous species
- Save & revisit all identifications
Annual
Best value - Save over 33% vs monthly
- Detailed descriptions & fascinating facts
- Calorie counts, nutrition & recipes for food
- Plant care tips & health diagnosis
- Breed, habitat & behavior for animals
- Value & rarity for coins, art & collectibles
- History & Maps links for landmarks
- Safety warnings for dangerous species
- Save & revisit all identifications
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Safety warnings are bundled directly into plant and insect identifications, so you get a toxicity or venom flag in the same result rather than cross-referencing a second source in the field.
- Covers five distinct identification categories in one app — plants, insects, food, collectibles, and landmarks — which means you carry one tool instead of switching between category-specific apps on a trip.
- Personal identification history saves past results for later review, so repeat foragers or collectors build a searchable reference log without manual note-taking.
- Food photo analysis returns both calorie estimates and recipe suggestions, which means a single shot replaces a manual nutrition lookup and a separate recipe search.
- Landmark identification ships with travel tips attached, so context about a site arrives with the identification rather than requiring a follow-up search.
Cons
Sign in to edit- There is no API and no data export path, so any team or developer who wants to embed identification into a product, spreadsheet workflow, or second app hits a dead end immediately — the only option is switching to a vision API like Google Cloud Vision or a specialized platform that exposes programmatic access.
- The trial converts to a paid subscription with no permanent free tier described on the vendor page, which means casual or infrequent users face a recurring cost for occasional field lookups — at that point, free alternatives with narrower category coverage become the practical substitute.
- Identification is single-image and single-shot with no batch mode, so a collector processing a tray of coins or a researcher cataloguing specimens from a field session cannot process multiple items in one session without submitting photos individually.
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About
- Platforms
- iOS
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-30T09:16:43.630Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Nature explorers and hikers
- Travelers needing quick landmark info
- Collectors verifying coins or art
- Anyone seeking instant object identification
- Students and curious users
What it does well
- Identify unknown plants or insects with safety warnings
- Get calorie counts and recipes from food photos
- Estimate value and history of coins or collectibles
- Learn about landmarks and receive travel tips
- Save and revisit identifications in personal history
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Identify This free?
- Identify This has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades (paid plans from $4.99/month or $39.99/year). You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Identify This open source?
- No — Identify This is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does Identify This support?
- Identify This is available on: iOS.
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Identify This accepts a photo and returns an AI-generated identification across five categories: plants and insects (with safety warnings), food (with calorie counts and recipes), coins and collectibles (with estimated value and history), and landmarks (with travel context). The core workflow is a single-step loop — take or upload a photo, receive a result, optionally save it to personal history. Nothing runs in the background; there is no task planning, no follow-up actions, and no connection to external data systems.
The safety-warning layer on plant and insect identification is the feature that separates it from general image search. When the model flags a species as toxic or venomous, that warning surfaces alongside the identification rather than requiring a second lookup. For hikers and foragers making a quick go/no-go decision in the field, that consolidation matters.
The app fits well for individual, ad-hoc use: a hiker checking a mushroom, a traveler identifying a monument, a hobbyist collector verifying a coin. It breaks down when the use case requires more than one photo at a time, any programmatic access to results, or continued access without a paid subscription — the vendor page describes a trial that transitions to paid options with no permanent free tier remaining afterward.
There is no API and no self-hosted deployment path, which means teams or developers who want to build identification into a product or workflow cannot use this as a backend. It is a consumer app, not a platform component.