Planta: Complete Plant Care

If you don’t pay it’s useless.

Planta took me from killing artificial plants to an actual gardener, no joke!

This app could be so much better. Apart from paywalling most features behind a seriously overpriced subscription model (which is somewhat commonplace these days) there are features that could be implemented in a much better way. I don’t care for “doctor planta” or adding grow lights or any of these bells and whistles, I just want to be able to keep track of when I water each plant and this app lacks even the basic functionality of letting me input that I watered my plant earlier than scheduled*… I don’t need to “tap on the task for instructions” since I have completed this task over a million times before. Tapping on a task to complete early or snooze or reschedule would be much more useful. *Update: I was contacted by Planta about how I can add a new task. Still it seems convoluted to me having to add a new watering task when I instinctively want to edit the upcoming one. Good software design is all about being intuitive after all. I appreciate they contacted me and since the feature exists I updated my rating to be fair.

Very good app, however it would be better that some there was no need for premium

This app is completely useless. It’s clear why they don’t offer a free or monthly subscription—once users try it, they likely wouldn’t renew. Instead, they lock you into a 1-year subscription, relying on marketing and questionable reviews to attract new customers. The plant identification system is inaccurate about 60% of the time, and the diagnoses are mostly generic advice like lack of light, water, or spider mites. Overall, don’t waste your money on this app.

Help

I have been using Planta for a good while now & overall ❤️ the concept of having an app keep me on track w/ taking care of my plants as my collection grew. I’ve shared with friends how much I love the Planta app! However, over the time Ive been using it, I have definitely lost some plants & I believe there’s a likelihood that it’s bcz of the bugs in planta - like not updating schedules when changes are made by the app user. If I decide to skip an action such as watering cz it appears my plant doesn’t need to be watered yet, I’m no longer confident that the app actually recalculates when the plant will need to be watered or updates based on my change. Sometimes it feels like I’m watering & fertilizing so often that it’s just not making sense & I think that’s due to that issue. The other big concern I have with planta is that when I have had a sick plant, I found the Dr. Plants advice to be so contradictory that I was just left not knowing what the heck to do. It’s just not helpful to be told 2 different issues on the opposite end of the spectrum are causing your plant to be sick ( I.e. over/under watering for example). Every time I go through the process of using Dr. Planta I come away feeling more confused than when I started but frankly, I often find the same to be true of Internet advice about plants. I recently moved a plant from soil to water & Planta definitely isn’t reading that, bcz it continues to offer a watering schedule. Overall, I would say that when I chose to pay for the app, I wanted something that would do a lot of the thinking for me, and I could trust that it was giving me the proper advice. I now think that expectation was unrealistic.

Edit: Only get it if you can’t remember to water plants, but even then it wasn’t getting them right after all anyways. My solution was a soil moisture meter! It’s a good app! But I don’t see much more added value in paying. Also to add, their recommendations with the ‘curing plants’ can sometimes be: you are either overwatering or under watering this plant. So, not the greatest.

I absolutely love this app! I have been using it ever since my newfound love for plants 6+ months ago. I love that I can create the different places in my home & add my plants with progress updates & photos to look back on. *I LOVE IT* Love the care tips for most of the plants & that you can edit their watering schedule as well.. Constructive Criticism: I wish the app had a bit more tips & tricks for new plant lovers. I wish it would send me cute reminders or sayings throughout the day (ex: your plants miss you, insert cute quote here)

I downloaded this app cause I’m trying to keep myself on better watering schedules for my plants as my collection is ever growing. Since downloading, I’ve lost 2 plants to overwatering. I’ve had them for years with no issues but with my depression seeping back in I figured the help keeping on track with them would be nice. I almost lost my beloved monstera but after sacrificing some leaves and going back to her usual once every week and a half/2 week schedule she’s back to glowing health. I’d say just take the watering advice with a grain of salt. It wants me to water my pothos plants that sit in my window more frequently but following their schedule I ended up with more yellow leaves and decided to switch back to just watering all my plants on my own schedule. They don’t mind missing a few days of watering but the overwatering is an issue neither I nor they can overlook.