Effective 7 October 2026
The short version. Plant Identifier AI is an account-based app, and your plants live on our servers rather than only on your phone — that is what lets your collection survive a reinstall or a new device.
When you identify a plant, the app may first recognise it on your phone. When it is sure, that is the answer and the photo is not sent to any third party. Otherwise the photo is sent to Pl@ntNet, a third-party botanical identification service, to identify it. Either way the photo is saved to your account so your History can show it. Your photos and plant records are private to your account and are not shown to other users. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app at any time.
Plant Identifier AI is published by Inplex Studio. If you have a question about this policy or about your data, email support@inplexstudio.com.
You can use the app as a guest without giving us an email address. If you create an account, we store your email address so you can sign back in and recover your password. You may optionally set a display name. We also store your language and time zone, which is what lets a care reminder arrive at 9am where you actually are rather than 9am somewhere else.
Passwords are handled by our authentication provider and are stored only as salted hashes. Nobody at Inplex Studio can read your password.
Photos you capture or choose for identification, health checks and growth tracking are uploaded to our storage and are readable only by your own account, enforced at the database level rather than by the app being polite about it.
To identify a plant, the app may first run a plant recognition model on your phone. When that model is confident, its answer is used and the photo is not sent to Pl@ntNet. Otherwise — and in app versions without this feature — the photo is sent to Pl@ntNet. To check plant health, the photo is processed by our own service.
The photo of every identification is stored in your account, so History can show it. Deleting an entry from History removes it from your History; the stored photo itself is removed when you delete your account. Photos you attach to a saved plant, such as a growth timeline entry, are kept until you delete that plant or your account.
The plant recognition model runs entirely on your phone; the photo is not uploaded for it to work. We record which engine answered each identification (the phone or Pl@ntNet), and anonymous usage events — the plant it suggested, how sure it was, how long it took, and whether it matched Pl@ntNet's answer, never the photo itself — help us measure and improve it. The model was trained on public photos shared by iNaturalist contributors; see Photo credits.
Plants you save, their nicknames and locations, care schedules, watering and feeding history, growth photos, and your identification and health-check history are all stored against your account so the app can show them back to you across devices.
If you allow notifications, we store a push token for your device so care reminders can be delivered. It identifies the device installation, not you personally, and is removed when you delete your account.
Plant Pro is sold through Google Play. We never see your card details — Google handles payment entirely. We receive and store the status of your subscription (active, trialing, expired, cancelled and similar) so the app knows what to unlock. Our subscription provider, RevenueCat, receives your account identifier in order to attribute a purchase to the right account.
We use Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics to understand which screens are used and to receive crash diagnostics. These collect usage events, device and OS information, and the Android advertising ID. Firebase Analytics also estimates an approximate location (country, region or city) from your device's IP address; the IP address is masked before this happens and is not stored by the app.
About ads. The current version of the app shows no ads. We intend to introduce ads on the free tier in a future release, with Plant Pro removing them. The advertising ID is already collected today by Firebase Analytics, which is why it is listed above rather than only mentioned once ads appear. When ads are introduced, this policy will be updated before that release ships, and users in the EU and UK will be asked for consent before any personalised ad is requested.
| Permission | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Camera | Photographing a plant to identify it, check its health, or read light levels |
| Photos / media | Choosing an existing photo instead of taking a new one |
| Notifications | Delivering the care reminders you set up |
| Alarms & run at startup | Making a reminder still arrive at the chosen time, and survive a reboot |
| Internet | Identification, syncing your collection, and purchases |
You can refuse or later revoke any of these in Android Settings. Refusing notifications does not block the rest of the app; refusing the camera means you can still pick photos from your gallery.
We do not sell your data. It reaches these services only because they perform a function the app depends on:
| Service | What it receives | Policy |
|---|---|---|
| Pl@ntNet | Plant photos submitted for identification that the on-device model could not identify confidently | Privacy policy |
| Supabase | Hosts our database, file storage and sign-in — so all account data above | Privacy policy |
| Google Firebase | Usage events, crash reports, device info, advertising ID, approximate location (from IP address), push delivery | Privacy policy |
| Google Play | Payment and subscription processing | Privacy policy |
| RevenueCat | Your account identifier and subscription status | Privacy policy |
We may also disclose data if we are legally required to, or to protect the rights and safety of our users.
Your account data is kept for as long as your account exists. Delete your account and it is removed — see Data deletion for exactly what goes and what cannot.
Two things outlive a deletion, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Google Play keeps its own record of transactions, because tax and refund law requires it and it is not ours to erase. Firebase analytics and crash data expire on Google's own retention schedule rather than instantly.
Depending on where you live you may have additional rights, such as under the GDPR or the CCPA, including access, correction, deletion, portability, and objecting to certain processing. The email above is the way to exercise any of them.
Plant Identifier AI is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has given us data, email us and we will delete it.
The services listed in section 5 operate internationally, so your data may be processed outside the country you live in, including in the United States and the European Union. Each provider's own policy sets out the safeguards it uses for those transfers.
If we change how we handle your data we will update this page and move the effective date at the top. For a change that materially affects you — introducing ads being the clear example — we will update this page before the release that makes the change.