Planta: Complete Plant Care

I have told everyone I know about this app by now, but it’s genuinely one of my favorites. It’s extremely informative, very easy to use, and even lets you name your plants :) I never knew I could have and keep plants alive long-term before Planta and I am so grateful it exists. I now have a dozen plants after having started with one very sad-looking Spotted Begonia hybrid that started out a bargain-bin find with a few very fragile, sickly stems, and is now a few feet tall and very bushy. My partner got the premium version for us and I use it the most but it’s been really great to get plant care tips and it even has special notifications and warnings for when there are weather changes and events that could affect your plants. There are even plant sharing forums where you can talk about your plants with other people! Really can’t say enough great things about this app!

E. GreyWed, May 1, 2024

United States

i have the subscription for planta, and i’ve been using it for a month or so now. it’s been useful, but it’s also made some things more difficult than they need to be. to start off, like others have said, there’s a lot of plants that are missing from the catalogue, and you cannot add even a temporary listing, or a custom one privately. if it’s not in the catalogue, you just can’t make a schedule for it, which i found to be a pretty large design flaw. you also cannot undo tasks, etc. either. another issue for me personally, is that i find myself having to look up plants care guidelines because the ones in the plant listing are SO vague. “part sun, part shade, full sun, shade”. those are the extent of the options. it’s not helpful when a plant isn’t a beginner plant that can hold up to a lot of inconsistency or deviation from what they like, and some of my plants have been doing poorly because of this. i’m not sure why they aren’t more specific like “this plant likes indirect bright light” or “this plant will thrive in shade, or indirect medium light”, etc. also, another thing that bothers me: they should have the care guidelines visible when you’re doing tasks for that plant instead of having to go to the info page in my opinion. it would be great if more difficult plants would have tips like “susceptible to leaf scorch” or “drought resistant”, and guidelines on how to prune specific plants (or whether you should at all since it can send certain plants into shock). beyond this here are a few other things i think would improve the app. something i’d like to see that would be helpful is a humidity estimated preference, like a percentage. plants can be difficult to just “get a feel for” sometimes, and being specific could really help your user base. even if a plant isn’t by the ac, it doesn’t mean that the humidity range in a high rise apartment with the ac running a lot will be the same as a stick built house in a tropical area where they may get more moisture or have better ventilation. a feature that lets you specify why the plant is sick or in bad condition: aka some sort of way to track pest management/fungi. i’m not sure if this is already a thing, but if so then it’s been very difficult to find. my last issue with it is that the dr.planta feature is not very intuitive to use. if at the end it provides you results that aren’t accurate, all you can do is restart or send a message to the plant expert, meaning if you need to change an answer you have to take all the photos again and rewrite everything. it would be more useful if it provided a list of issues with how likely, and let you browse them if the first few they suggest aren’t accurate. sometimes the ai for that is just so far off. the good of this app is mostly that the tasks are helpful (though i think other apps offer this for free), the user interface is attractive and minimalist, the communities are helpful, and the experts are responsive. i hate subscription plans, but i think 35 for a year is pretty reasonable if they improve some of this stuff. in the current state of the app, i would say pass and try something else til they make some improvements.

nikisickMon, Apr 29, 2024

United States

Don’t waste money on this, if you have questions and submit a request you will never hear from them the supposed experts apparently don’t exist. Total waste of time and money

cricketdave4422Mon, Apr 29, 2024

United States

No opportunity for a trial. Immediate payment

kwiggi_Sun, Apr 28, 2024

United States

new plant mom, or bad plant mom tryna get better here. this app is so amazing. it’s a complete diary for your plants. (i got my first 2 and named them Bonnie and Clyde) the app will let you try as hard as you want to. you can learn about ANYTHING. but if that’s too much it condenses it into short and concise information as well. (i learned about water bathes today) i looked at 3 different apps and this one is so far my favorite. thanks planta for helping me start my plant collection journey, i look forward to filling my life with life

45887532586421hiSun, Apr 28, 2024

United States

My mom and I went on a nature trail and used the scanning apps of our plant apps. Plants didn’t accurately identify one plant. I recommend using PlantNet instead, which was my mom’s app, and accurately identified the plants. Very disappointing considering I paid for this app

Monimau5Sun, Apr 28, 2024

United States

I generally love the app, however there is a glitch and no way to report it. The app does not actually fit into my iPhone 14 Pro screen. The words and button options are off screen and I have no way of seeing or selecting them. I do have the zoom feature on my phone to increase the size of the letters, but that doesn’t affect any other app in this way. I could send a screen shot if there was a support email.

JPGreen14Sun, Apr 28, 2024

United States