Terms of Use
Please read this part. Loam identifies plants with machine learning and tells you how sure it is. It can be wrong. Never eat, forage, or give to an animal any plant based on an identification from an app.
The service
Loam provides plant identification, care guidance and plant health suggestions for home growers. Identification results show ranked candidates with a confidence band; a "likely" match is still an estimate. Care guidance is general horticultural information and not professional, veterinary or medical advice.
Safety
- Loam refuses to identify mushrooms and other fungi.
- Toxicity notes follow published references but may be incomplete. Contact a poison control centre or veterinarian in an emergency.
- Lookalike warnings are provided for known dangerous pairs; their absence is not a guarantee of safety.
Your account and allowance
Loam has no accounts, so allowances are counted per device, not per person. Daily allowances reset at midnight UTC.
- Free: up to 5 plant identifications a day, 1 plant diagnosis in total (not per day), and up to 3 plants in My Plants.
- Loam Pro: up to 200 plant identifications a day, up to 40 plant diagnoses a day, and no cap on the number of plants.
Abuse of the service (automated requests, circumventing limits) may result in requests being refused.
Subscriptions and the free trial
Loam Pro is offered as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Prices are shown in full, in your local currency, before you buy.
Free trial. A single 7-day introductory free trial on the annual plan is available to eligible new subscribers. Apple decides eligibility, and the trial is offered only to eligible subscribers. The other plans have no free trial.
Renewal. When the 7-day trial ends, the annual subscription automatically renews and your Apple Account is charged the annual price shown before you subscribed, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. A paid subscription likewise renews for the same period at the price then in effect unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple Account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours before that period ends.
Cancelling. Manage or cancel a subscription in Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions on your iPhone. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. A lifetime purchase is a single payment and does not renew.
Content and licences
Identification is powered by a third-party identification provider (see the Privacy Policy for exactly which providers are active), and explanations and health diagnoses by Anthropic's Claude. Your photos remain yours; you grant Loam only the transient right to process them for your request.
Liability
The service is provided as is. To the extent permitted by law, Loam is not liable for losses arising from reliance on identifications, care guidance or health suggestions.