Planta: Plant & Garden Care

If you are a plant parent and need something to keep you organized, this is your app. I originally bought a subscription to another plant app starting with a P which I now regret…because its answer for every plant problem is water and light and soil without being specific. This one is VERY specific and is really good about identifying the correct plant If you don’t know what you are working with. But the thing I really enjoy about it is the schedules…it tailors your watering schedule to your plant and takes into account the size, light, soil, type of pot and reminds you to fertilize and mist and snip flowers…just everything. I bought a subscription pretty immediately because I wanted access to all the features, so I don’t remember what comes free and what doesn’t but what is also cool is the progress updates. You can keep records of the soil recipe you used, compare pictures to see how it’s doing, and it has a snooze and skip feature in the event that you check your soil and it’s not ready for watering yet. I strongly recommend this app for anyone who wants to be more organized and diligent with a watering schedule…my only recommendation for an additional feature would be to have something to track when you spray it with bug spray. Great, great app…I look forward to using it for a long time to come!!!

I had a few houseplants for awhile but could never remember to water them, and so I didn’t feel like a very good plant mom. I decided to try an app, and I’m happy I chose this one, and I’m happy to pay for the premium version. I find it super helpful with the daily reminders, and the ability to identify plants through the app. There are somethings I wish I could do through the app — I wish when you add a plant it would prompt you with questions about the current condition the plant is in, is the soil still moist when you bought it, are there new leaves that haven’t opened yet? Things like that that could help you notice the progress your new plant makes since bringing it home. I appreciate the Dr Planta feature but I wish they gave you the option of writing in what the issue is, instead of just giving you a couple of options to choose from. Also, I wish you could update a plant’s type after you have entered it as part of your inventory. I think I chose the wrong color variant on one of my plants, and I think I just have to delete it and enter it as the other one? Please tell me if there is a way to change this without deleting it and losing all of the data I had saved for it. Overall I’m very happy with this app, and I think the premium features are worth it for a newbie like me. I have learned a lot already and I’ve only had the app for a month. Thanks Planta!

🪴🪴🪴🪴Edit: I noticed that you added the slow release fertilizer sticks as an option but you cannot change this for an existing plant. 😔 I have 120+ plants and would prefer to use those types of fertilizers but don’t want to have to delete all my plants and add them back and lose all my progress. Can you please push another update that allows you to modify your current fertilizer preferences? ⭐️ 🌟⭐️🌟⭐️🌟 I have been using Planta for several months now and use it daily. I am a premium subscriber and while I do love the app I have some suggestions: it doesn’t seem to update watering schedule based on the amount of times you snooze the action. I live in rural VA and in the spring my houseplants don’t seem to need to be watered as often as the app suggests based on pot type and location. I would have thought the app would develop an algorithm over time but it doesn’t seem it has. Another helpful thing would be for you to be able to take a picture of a plant problem and submit it for review. I have had some issues with my plants that I am not positive are the issues outlined in Dr. Planta so I am not confident I am always treating the condition effectively. I wish that feature was more robust. I would also like to have the option to add light sources that are grow lights as I grow a lot of mine under lights. Overall, I love the app and will likely subscribe for another yearly subscription next year too. 🙂