PlantPal: Care Companion 4+

…I just wish they had more plants in their system. I have upwards of 40 plants in different varieties and most of them are not in the database. Otherwise I like this app a lot.

Hi Hanzhog: thank you for taking the time with the review! We’re very happy to hear you find PlantPal helpful, and we recognize the database should be more populated. We’re working on that and hope to have it improved soon!

In the meantime, you can manually add your plants by taking a photo or putting in the name. PlantPal launched without a database and we let you add plants that don’t belong to our library yet. Hope this can help :)

Cheers!

I’ve tried many plant care apps and most fall short. There are plenty out there that use faulty algorithms to determine watering frequency. There are just too many variables for these apps to get it right and I think those algorithms are worse than useless, hindering your ability to learn when watering is actually needed, and likely will lead to significant overwatering. Instead, this app does a great job of cataloging your collection and keeping track of ad-hoc and recurring tasks. You set the frequency but you can also look back and see your frequency averages, helping you to adjust care schedules as needed. A couple things I would love to see: 1) plant count. Would be fun to see this number rather than needing to manually count. 2) search feature for searching your own plants. If you have large collections and move plants around, sometimes it can take a lot of scrolling to find the plant in your collection you are looking for. 3) expanded plant library. The current library is somewhat limited.

Hi Beckela, thank you for the kind words and glad you love PlantPal! As a daytime data scientist, I personally know it’s impossible to predict when my plants need water—there are just so many factors to take in. That’s exactly why I built the app.

I’ve taken notes on your suggestions. Thank you and happy planting!

I have lots of plants, so I had to spend some time putting all of them into the app, but it was worth it. Now I know exactly when to water and treat them based on the schedule I set. Previously I was watering all my plants on one schedule, which quickly became very infrequent. This app is aging me time and effort and saving my plants from death by dehydration. I do wish there was a bigger library of plants, but I didn’t mind putting in my own plants.

Hello SchemeViller, thank you for the kind words, and we’re glad to hear you love the app! We’re working to add more plants to the library so hope we can improve on that front soon.

Happy gardening!