Arbor Day Tree Identification Guide: What Tree ... App Reviews

I hope that the next update fixes some things because viscerally, I really like this app. I can understand folks frustrations listed in the reviews: the limited visual resources, trying to identify a tree out of its zone, etc. However, tromping through the forest with this app is fun and helpful. I put it to use within the first 24 hrs of downloading it and it expanded my knowledge of trees. Id say thats a success. What I would like are: 1. A way to group favorite trees. Right now, the "My Trees" section only lets you geotag trees. Even if you have tagged a tree, theres no easy way to get into its bio page to read about that species. I would love to have a "My Favorites" so I could easily pull up descriptions of trees I commonly find around me: Western Redcedar, Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, etc. 2. A deeper description of the trees with more illustrations As it stands, youre given a beautiful drawing of a trees branch, leaves, and cones. But what about the bark? What about differences between when its young and older? Heres an example description: "The Western Redcedar does not like extreme heat and dry conditions but does make a good hedge, visual screen, windbreak, or specimen tree. It grows at a medium to slow rate in its optimum growing conditions under full sunlight or partially shaded areas in moist soil. Grows up to 70, 25 spread." Im trying to identify trees in the woods, not plant a hedge. It would be more helpful to answer the questions I stated above. 3. A tweak to the search bar This is a small thing, but when I hit the search glass, I think its implied that I want to search. I dont want to tap again on the search bar to pull up the keyboard. Just bring the keyboard up the first click! Ultimately, this app is a great beginning. Arbor Day Foundation, you have a beautiful infrastructure, now just fill it out please!!

This App cannot identify any tree I have tried so far, it doesnt even ask the correct questions to get to the correct answer. Its a waste of money.

Knowing what I know now, I probably wouldnt have spent so much on this app. Theres a bug when you try to tag a tree - the app asks to "allow use of location services even when app is not in use" and when you hit dont allow, it freezes and is only fixed by deleting and reinstalling the app. This needs to be fixed, for one, and there also needs to be a way to tag/group trees without engaging location services at all. I agree about including photos and descriptions of bark types as well, its a whole part of the tree thats been excluded. I also think there ought to be a question at the beginning of the dichotomous key that asks "does the tree have fruits or flower on it? Or not?" so that users have the option to skip the flower and fruit section if the tree doesnt have them. Bark types need to be included in the questions as well.

From the first question I knew this was a bad buy... They have a map of the USA. Can you select a part of that map that includes Florida or any of the wonderful tropical trees??? Answer is no! I played along answer the rediculous questions only for this $5 app to tell me my sausage tree is an alder tree??? I think not, do not waste your money on this nonsense