Greg: Plant Identifier & Care

52 of 100 · reviews
4.6of 5 · store
20,039ratings on the App Store
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An editorial reading of the saved reviews

The most thoughtfully designed watering tracker in this set: tracks pot size, sends reminders, manages a collection. But the identifier mixes up orchids, hoya, and mint with alfalfa, and app reliability has dropped lately.

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What people use it for

Owner of 5 to 20 houseplants who needs a watering tracker

What reviews praise

The watering reminder system accounts for plant species and pot size, which genuinely helps avoid overwatering.

What reviews complain about

The identifier struggles with atypical specimens, and there is no way to correct a wrong identification.

What users experience

4 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Watering recommendations should be based on size of the plant, not just size of the pot. FERN misses on this. Also, I think water recommendations are much too frequent for - established large snake plant and large zz plant.

I love this app. Been using it for a little over a year. I do wish it had the ability to tell it when I plant 2 different plants together in 1 pot and most importantly that my plant is still wet when it recommends watering.

I wanted to like & use this app but it failed immediately in identifying plants in my garden. For example identifying the my perennial flowering catmint plant as alfalfa and then as chaste tree.