Planta: Plant & Garden Care 4+

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!!!

Thank you so much for your glowing review! We're thrilled to hear that our app has helped you stay organized.

We're glad you find the features like plant identification, tailored watering schedules, and progress updates valuable. We'll certainly consider your suggestion for tracking bug spray application as we continue to improve the app.

If you have any more ideas or feedback, feel free to share them with us.

Happy planting, and thanks again for your support! / Emma, 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. 🙂

Hi! Thanks so much for your review and for your suggestions! We'd love to make the algorithm self-learning in the future, we can totally see that this would be a useful feature. In the meantime, if you find your schedule is consistently off (and everything is okay with your set up) it may be beneficial for you to use a custom schedule instead.

We're also working on expanding Dr. Planta in the future! In the meantime, in case you weren't already aware, if Dr. Planta doesn't manage to help you then premium subscribers can always email us with questions/plant photos at contact@getplanta.com or via the in-app contact form in order to get help and advice directly from our plant experts. Adding grow lights is also on our to-do list! Best / Amelie, Planta