Droplet - Plant Care

It’s a very pretty design! Enjoying it more and more!

This is not one of those 100 apps out there that identify a plant for you. This app is an excellent app to help you keep track of the plants you have and when to give them some love. The app is simple to use and easy to learn. Great tagging system. I use this app as a field note to keep track of plants I see. I’d have to do some digging to identify unknown plants but that’s how you learn.

This app is actively harmful; it tells you it will remind you on a watering schedule but then sets random dates way farther. For instance, a plant that needs weekly watering says it’s reminding me, but the next reminder is set for 21 days from now no matter what I do

This app really doesn’t do anything more than display pictures and names I’ve given to my plants. The description of this app makes it sound like an effective way to remind yourself about watering and fertilizing your plants. Unfortunately, this app does a really poor job of sending reminders. They almost always get buried by text messages and any other notifications you might have on your phone. There is no repeat or loud alarm. If you miss the alert thats it for the week. Lastly, there are really no distinguishing features that make this app worth downloading, let alone pay for!? Really disappointing...

I thought this was going to help identify my houseplants and then tell me often they needed to be watered and fertilized. I didn’t realize I was going to have to lookup all of this info on my own and enter it manually. I was excited about this but it’s really not much help.

I thought there’d be some help with my houseplants within this app. It lets you inventory and keep track of watering and fertilizing schedules, but it doesn’t provide any information about the plant - there is no database. I have to go look up information and enter it in for each plant. Not as awesome as I though it was going to be.

This app has promise but needs a bit of tweaking. The user experience isn’t the best. I do like how the plants are arranged in their own section and not as some huge annoying list. I think this app could be a problem solver if the ux issues and crashing get resolved. Adding a new plant is my biggest complaint. On a small mobile screen it can be frustrating to move the screen up when the keyboard is in the way, or to try and see the date picker. I think that experience needs improvement.

Overall, really great concept, but needs some fine tuning. Would be nice to have a few more input sections rather than just "description". Some of the UX/UI is clunky and not intuitive. For instance, editing the description, if you click the wrong place of the invisible bounding box, you back out of the editing option. Then you have to scroll up and click through several menu options to re-enable editing. Frustrating. Adjusting the watering / fertilizing schedule is also kinda clunky. Took me a minute to figure out how to do it. Maybe using more symbols, like a pencil for edit rather than always a "..." menu would be helpful. Overall, I don't like digging through menus to find what I need. I would prefer more symbols (applied in a sophisticated way) and gestures (like double tap to edit) to make the experience better. Colors could be modernized, toned down, and used to guide the user through the app in a more seamlessly way.