Plant Parent: Plant Care Guide

I downloaded this today, and I'm honestly not too happy with it. There seems to be a lot of misinformation on plants, plants not in their database (string of turtles), and they're "sickness detection" feature os completely bugged. Anytime I would scam a plant, it would say my healthy ones are sick and the unhealthy ones are completely healthy! it also doesn't give you specific information on how to treat it. You just have to search through their common diseases list to find it.

I went ahead & got the $1.99 month rather than the 7-day free trial. I read there was a free version? There isn't. Not anymore. Only a trial & a yearly subscription. So far what I see is there are no limits to adding plants. I have been identifying and adding all my houseplants! It even diagnosed a disease I wasn't aware of, something minor. And I am just getting started! So getting a month to explore for $2 is not too bad, & I can cancel right away so I don't forget & still get the full month!

Better than Planta it has way more options for customization when it comes to each plant's care routine. However, it also demands money from you at every turn, and they didn't even have a few of my plants as options. I hate how limited that is; you can ONLY select plants that are in their database. If you also have a Monstera Burle Marx Flame, do not depend on this app to help you with it.

Love this app. it is free to use, but you do have the option to purchase a subscription. It gives you notification to water and fertilizer your plants just in case you forget plus you can take photo if you don't know what a plant is. Edit: All the plants I had on there is no longer there. It's pretty much asking me to redo everything thing. It was good until it wasn't.

All in all, I like the idea of this app. Much of the content is quite informative, but I do not trust the watering schedules any longer. So, pre-app, I had this gorgeous African violet that was growing more vigorously than any I'd ever had before, and it bloomed like mad. Fabulous. But the app had me watering it every few days instead of only when it was dry, and now it is an anemic little plant with rotting leaves that never blooms at all. I am worried that I'm going to lose it soon.