Planta: Complete Plant Care

Plants in a room with direct light but behind something (like a wall or some other object) and plans that get unobstructed direct light are at different light levels. There really should be a way to identify whether the light that exists in a site is obscured for a specific plant. Either that or they should have a light meter or light setting by plant

Plants used to come to me to die. Not anymore. I love this app so much. Easy to follow. I have the paid version and I will pay every year. I bought a dying aloe plant because I figured it could just die at my house. It is now 2 feet long and thriving. I’ve since added 7 more and they are all doing great.

I do love this app; it keeps me semi-sane with reminders to check my plants for their various needs. I also love that I can look back on my plants and see their growth. I’ve had a subscription for at least two years and I think it’s worth it. There have been improvements, some which were very beneficial to me. I do think there’s still room for improvement in some areas. When I mark a site as humid, it doesn’t seem to affect the plants’ watering schedules at all. I can pause, but I’d love the ability to choose how long to snooze the reminder; sometimes I know it will be longer than just the two days and it gets annoying having to hit snooze multiple times. I wish the app would also take my plant lights into account when saying whether an ‘area’ is good for a plant or not. Yes, the room is full dark, but I have plant lights going for 12 hrs a day. Overall, I’m satisfied and look forward to seeing more improvements.

Good for managing watering and fertilizing. Should be able to name your plant locations-- if you have more than one bedroom and/or bathroom or location not listed. Very Disappointed to see all the ads. ☹️

I’ve done the pros subscription in the past, and felt inundated by some tasks that are often not necessary (repotting a plant within 6 months, for example, on many types of plants that don’t like to be repotted that fast). I found I was snoozing tasks way too often. I use the free version, and enjoy it for keeping my watering schedule, but I hate that a grow light is only on the pro version.

The recent update of the app completely messed up my plants schedules. Now I have no idea what needs to be done. I really loved this app and depended on it to help me with my plants but now it’s useless to me.

I’ve had Planta for about 4 years, as I was just starting to have houseplants and wanted to keep them alive and healthy. After 2 1/2 years and a few dead plants I realized that Planta prompts me to over water/fertilize/mist my plants, and if you snooze a prompt, it does not adjust the schedule it has for the plant; you can snooze adding fertilizer for a week, because the plant’s soil is still wet, but once you complete that task, it will still want you to water in 5 days or whatever schedule if has for your plant. The only reason I haven’t gotten rid of the app is I don’t want to lose all the information that’s stored for my plants. Just a suggestion to always check the soil of your plant before blindly trusting the app. Same goes for misting, unless you want to fast track killing your plants.

Ive used this app to help with watering schedules but I don’t trust it for much else. For example, I live in zone 5b and all the plants in my garden are hardy in zones 4-7 or similar, and have stayed healthy year after year, yet Planta tells me they are not suitable for planting in the ground in my area. Examples are catmint, dee-lish roses, knockout roses, dianthus, and hyacinths. They really need to update their information or allow more flexibility when it comes to plant varieties.

While this app in concept is a great idea, the execution could use some work. The app itself doesn’t always work well, such as not retaining location data after giving permissions but to actually be able to fix this (which is a truly simple fix on the service), is actually complicated as there is nothing that tells you a specific area to go to to fix it. (Traditionally location data is kept in settings, however on here it’s kept and can be edited on your “profile” within the app). Failure to update the location settings will default to Washington and give inaccurate temperature data for both indoor and outdoor temperatures. While they can be very educational with some plants, MANY plants have serious misinformation especially regarding toxicity. The app states that it’s toxicity information is gathered from “multiple sources” and that “some sources” say a plant may be toxic however it doesn’t actually give you access to these sources (also they’re just wrong and can be proved so with a literal google search, in addition to nontoxic plants being labeled toxic, there are several plants which while in general they may be safe they do have some toxic elements and these plants are labeled completely nontoxic to both people and animals which is also wrong), while they do offer the ability to “learn about poisonous plants” (in general, not for the specific plant), this information IS locked behind a paywall. There are actually lots of features in which are locked behind a monthly paywall (they do offer other payment plans though such as a 6 month or yearly subscription) such as analyzing your light source (aka light meter), their diagnosis plant scanner, plant identifier, fertilizing/misting/repotting/pruning schedules, plant site recommendations, care share, care guides/articles, overwintering, plant recommendations based on skill, and weather alerts. Bare bones for free you get the ability to put in your location, plant site for your specific plants (it does group your plants for each site), individual plant profiles (with ability to update each one individually and add your own photos), watering schedule, basic information on some plants, and the ability to join community groups. While they do offer several community groups, unfortunately there’s very few to join and most are either extremely specific niche topics OR they’re extremely broad. It’s decent for what it is, but for most of the features most people would need out of this app be aware you’ll more than likely need the subscription.

This works! If you follow the potting and watering schedule then you will never kill your plants. As a loving plant parent, I see all the results I want with minimal effort. I have yet to buy the premium version for fertilizer schedule and my plants still thrive. I like this app and recommended for beginner plant parents to the collectors