Plant Parent: Plant Care Guide

49 of 100 · reviews
4.7of 5 · store
86,719ratings on the App Store
489reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

An app with a pleasant interface for organizing a collection and its schedule, but the plant database is narrow: dozens of philodendron, anthurium, and alocasia varieties are missing. Diagnosis is weak: it reported a dying hydrangea as fine, and fertilizing information contradicts itself across sections.

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What people use it for

Beginners with a small collection of popular species

What reviews praise

Clean plant card interface with a growth photo log and task schedule on one screen.

What reviews complain about

The species database is outdated and incomplete for tropical plant collectors, and adding a species manually is not possible.

What users experience

1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

It's a good app. But it could be better. I have a lot of different plants and sometimes can't add them because it's not in the system. Like there are so many different philodendrons and the app only has a few to select from. Just like anthurium and alocasia and so on.