What’s more, you can download these plant care apps for free!

In this article, we’ll cover seven free plant care apps that can help you monitor your indoor greenery and keep them thriving.

1. Planta

Planta is a favorite plant app for many plant parents because it provides an array of features that will make it easy to care for your plants. First, it can help you accurately identify plants, which is critical if you want to give them the best care.

The app allows you to create reminders for watering, fertilizing, and repotting to keep your plants healthy. Planta is available to download for free on the Google Store and App Store.

2. PictureThis

PictureThis is a free app that’s popular for its accuracy in identifying plants. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify plants from a database of over 1 million plant species. 

Once you’ve identified your plants, you can also access detailed and personalized care instructions and tips. 

While the premium version gives you extra features like plant disease diagnosis and toxic plant identification, the free version will give you the basic information you need to keep a healthy indoor garden. 

You can download it for free on the Google Play Store and App Store. 

3. Happy Plant

Happy Plant is a helpful app for identifying plant diseases and getting expert-recommended treatments. Users can also set personalized maintenance reminders including pruning, and fertilizing.

It is specially designed to make watering fun with games and growth video lapses to keep you motivated.

The app is free to download on the Google Play Store and App Store, with the premium version at only $1.99.

4. Gardenia

Gardenia is a one-in-all app organizer that helps users keep their plants on a list and schedule maintenance tasks. With a simple calendar keeping track of your plants is easy.

The app also provides real-time weather information including humidity and temperature to ensure your plants get the best care.

You can download the Gardenia app on your device for free on the App Store.

5. Blossom

The award-winning app is your friendly plant helper in your pocket. It not only identifies the plants but also helps you navigate all care tasks like fertilizing and repotting effortlessly through timely reminders.

Additionally, with just a snap of a sick plant, you can get an accurate diagnosis and treatment information you need to get your green friend happy and healthy again.

The Blossom plant app is available for download for free on the Google Play Store and App Store. 

6. PlantNet

PlantNet offers a platform for plant parents to gain more insights about their houseplants while contributing to a citizen project. 

Once you upload a snap of your plant on the app, you add it to a plant database that scientists analyze to learn more about Earth’s biodiversity. 

Apart from identification, you can also acquire basic information on how to care for your plants from the curated information accumulated over the years.

The app is free, and you can download it from the Google Play Store and App Store.

7. Plant Note

Do you urgently need help to revive your almost-dying house plants without having to pay for expensive subscriptions? 

Try out the Plant Note app. The app offers accurate plant disease diagnosis, treatment options, and tips to ensure your plants remain healthy and thriving.

With a $0.99 first-month trial, you can accurately identify your plants from their 20,000 plant database and get basic information for regular maintenance. 

You can download the Plant Note app on the App Store. 

Sylvia Kiragu

Lead Editor for Insight Weeds.

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Fortunately, technology has quickly come to our aid. A range of mobile apps can help ensure your green friends receive just the right amount of water at the right times. 

Here’s a look at some of the best apps that can remind you to water your plants, helping them thrive and grow.

1. Planta

Planta is a popular plant app with highly efficient features to help identify and cater to all your plants’ needs. 

The app’s smart algorithms utilize over 30 parameters, along with your local weather data to alert you on the best time to water each of your plants. 

Additionally, you can rely on Planta to set reminders on other gardening activities like misting, fertilizing, and repotting.

2. PictureThis

PictureThis is a free plant app that only helps in identification but also personalized watering schedules for each of your plants. 

All you need to do is upload the pictures of the plants and let the app’s algorithms do the rest. One thing is for sure, from now on, your plants will never wilt or die from lack of water.

3. Happy Plant

Happy Plant adds a gamified twist to plant care, featuring a watering streak challenge that motivates you to consistently care for your plants. 

It includes a timer to track how long it’s been since your plants’ last watering and sends cheerful reminders to ensure your plants stay hydrated. 

The app also lets you document each watering with a photo, creating a visual timeline of your plants’ progress.

4. Vera

Developed by Bloomscape, a popular online plant shop, Vera helps you keep track of all your plant care tasks. The app not only reminds you to water your plants but also when to mist, fertilize, and repot. 

Vera allows you to create a profile for each plant, where you can log detailed care notes and track your plant’s health and growth over time. 

5. Gardenia 

Gardenia is a popular app designed to make caring for plants easy. Based on its extensive plant database, you’ll receive customized watering alerts, allowing you to maintain a consistent care routine. 

You can keep watering logs on the app to track when and how much water the plants receive. In the future, you can use the data to make adjustments based on the plant’s response over time.

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Fortunately, in this age of technological advancement, there are convenient tools to help diagnose and treat plant diseases. Smartphones have enabled plant lovers to effectively carry out plant disease identification online.

Below are 5 free apps that you can use to diagnose plant problems and diseases.

1. Planta

Planta is an app that detects plant diseases. It also helps you keep tabs on your plants’ growth, with automatic reminders for watering, fertilizing, cleaning, and repotting.

This app comes with Dr Planta, a cool feature that acts as a plant-care expert who helps users troubleshoot common plant problems. Planta also has a light meter feature that helps users measure sunlight.

However, these deluxe features are only available to premium subscribers at $8 monthly. 

Free users still enjoy the information on water, soil, and sunlight needs. This includes watering reminders and plant recommendations.

Download: Android | IOS

2. PictureThis

PictureThis is a free app that helps users identify plant diseases by picture. The app identifies a plant from the photo taken and suggests treatment.

In instances where the user is not satisfied with the diagnosis, they can reach out to their botanist team. They can then get customized treatment plans from the botanist team within 24 hours.

PictureThis also allows users to set reminders for watering, fertilizing, and other plant-related chores.

Download: Android | IOS

3. Vera

Vera is one of the most common free apps for diagnosing plant diseases. The app provides a user-friendly interface where you can document your houseplants. 

Vera has customizable schedules for watering, fertilizing and repotting.

In-house experts are also available with guides on caring for different plants and tips to keep them healthy.

As of November 2020, Vera is only available to users in the United States.

Download: Android | IOS

4. Blossom

Easily one of the most versatile apps on this list, Blossom has functionality for outdoor gardens. 

The app provides information on how and when to sow seeds for outdoor gardens, seed spacing, planting, and harvest dates.

Blossom also offers integrated shopping; linking suggested tools and plants on Amazon for its users. 

Through plant picture ID, Blossom users can identify their plant and diagnose the disease. This feature is available to premium subscribers at $4 per month.

Download: Android | IOS

5. Gardenia

Gardenia is a helpful tool for outdoor gardeners. However, users can still use the free app to explore watering, fertilizing, and potting requirements for their indoor plants.

The app has a garden manager that enables users to set task reminders. It also provides gardening tips for a collection of 2000+ plant species. 

The weather monitor also gives customized gardening information based on user locations.

Download: Android | IOS

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Carter

IW’s Chief Editor and a lover of green spaces.

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