Cheerful Plants

I’m rather new to maintaining succulents, and this app has been a great help to me so far. Being reminded when to water them helps me both not under water or over water the succulents and cacti I’ve been keeping, which my friend tends to do. Would recommend to new and current succulent caretakers. My only complaint is that I cannot find the plant known as a desert rose in their database, which I would’ve liked if for nothing else to have another opinion on how often to water it. Otherwise, great app!

Attractive, but lacks tools you would expect from a plant identification and care app. I was expecting a “succulent” app to be dedicated to identification and care of succulents, but it lacks those features. I f you do not already know why your plant is, and how to care for it, this will not help because it is little more than a database and reminder. There is a buried plant database, but it is manual l. It has filters, but you need to know you have a Crassula to narrow down to anything similar and it does not seem to load all of the photos, so you have to tap to see what each Crassula is. It is a little odd that you cannot enter the last time a plant was watered if it was watered before you added it. It is not clear to me what the $30/yr subscription gets you.

I started taking care of succulents a couple of years ago and somehow ended up with over 30 plants (counting props). Lol. My poor ADHD brain has had a slightly difficult time keeping track of the minutiae for every plant. A few months ago, I dreamed up an app that would help. THIS is the app! I found it! And it’s almost perfect. **NOTE: This isn’t an ID or Diagnostic app!**It’s a Helper app: To help keep track of your succulents. I’ve tried a few other apps that try to “do it all,” but they all fell short for me. I think this one is the best. There’s no AI feature for diagnosing problems or identifying unknown succulents, but what it DOES do, it does really WELL! It took a little while to get comfortable with it, but getting started was pretty simple and easy. I had plants put in, named (genus, species & variety, and cultivar), nicknamed, tagged, photographed, and organized really quickly. When I’ve wanted a feature, I’ve quickly realized that the feature already existed, I just hadn’t discovered it yet. For instance, I have different species of succulent props together in one dish: I can enter them each individually, and when I water the whole dish, I can bring up their tag (propdish) and log “water” for all of them as a group, instead having to log it for each one, separately. I’m really pleased with this app overall. Pretty much everything I need is easy to see and keep track of. No more losing track of when something was watered or repotted last. Highly recommend!