[rahimnathwani]

I'd never heard of this app, but your description made me want to install it. When I googled it I was surprised at the app ratings:

Apple: 4.8

Google Play: 3.4

The most common issue mentioned by negative Play store reviews is the camera not focusing on the right thing, and needing to try many different angles before something is recognized correctly. This is probably nothing to do with the underlying model, which I guess is the same on both platforms.

[Taek]

Camera zoom is definitely annoying, there's no way to control how zoomed in it is.

And yes, it often takes as much as a minute to identify a species, because you have to keep adjusting zoom and angle and trying to catch every important feature.

That said, once you are used to it, it becomes less noticeable and just feels like part of the game.

[rahimnathwani]

I'm curious why this seems (from the reviews) to be an issue only on Android?

[whatevertrevor]

I tried this app for a while, and there's definitely some rough edges. My partner's phone was much quicker in recognizing plants and flowers, so after a while I gave up and we just used her phone instead.

And then there's the issue of many plants being slightly mis-identified, many really common flowers being incorrectly identified. I don't really know how people get remotely close to wild animals to identify them, I had no luck with animal life with this and after a while I started mistrusting its results and cross referencing with google lens anyway.

[techterrier]

our own app Birda has this issue too, most of the 1 star reviews are 'not the app I was looking for' or 'not a game'