Topic 5 lists · 20 apps

Plants

From the first pot on the windowsill to a collection measured in years.

The lists

• 5 apps for people who keep killing their succulentsPlantNet · Succulent · Photone · Sun Seeker · Hygrometer
• 5 apps for plants that came with no instructionsPlantNet · Fern · Picture Insect · Buce Plant · Parcel
• 5 apps that know your window, not your plantSun Seeker · Succulent · Light Meter LM-3000 · GrowIt · Skyflow
• 5 apps for when your plants are a collection, not decorPalmstreet · Fern · Leaf People · BWH Plant Co · Photone
• 7 apps for keeping your first plants alivePhotone · Succulent · Plant Daddy · Greg · Plantfie · Greener · PlantScope

Every plants app on these lists

20 apps in total. Each line is what that app does differently from the others here — the reason it made a list rather than being a second copy of something already on it.

• Buce PlantBuce Plant is an aquascaping shop in app form: aquarium plants, hardscape and tanks, for the part of a collection that lives underwater instead of on a shelf.
• BWH Plant CoBWH Plant Co is one nursery's own app: restock alerts, a wishlist and your order history, so a drop doesn't sell out while you refresh a browser tab.
• FernFern is a page per plant: dated photos plus what you changed. A year of growth replays in one swipe, which is the only honest way to see a slow plant move.
• GreenerGreener takes three photos of the plant that looks off and tells you what to do next: overwatering, pests, light stress, or something else.
• GregGreg identifies your specific plant, then tells you how much water it needs and reminds you when, instead of a flat every-seven-days rule.
• GrowItGrowIt is a planting calendar built from your zone and climate: when to start seeds, when things go outside, and a heads-up before a freeze arrives.
• HygrometerShows the humidity around you on a simple dry-to-wet dial.
• Leaf PeopleLeaf People is an identifier tuned to the rare end — velvet anthuriums, fenestrated monsteras — with species profiles that rewrite their care advice for your region.
• Light Meter LM-3000Light Meter LM-3000 turns the front camera into a light meter and reads out lux or foot-candles. A number for that exact spot, instead of guessing at "bright indirect".
• PalmstreetPalmstreet is where rare plants change hands in live shows — a seller holds one up, people bid, it ships. Anthuriums and exotics, not a storefront grid.
• ParcelParcel tracks the box, not the plant. Paste the number and you know how many more days the cutting is sitting in a truck before it needs unpacking.
• PhotoneMeasures the light your plants really get, with your phone's camera.
• Picture InsectPicture Insect names whatever is sitting on the leaf, and marks whether it is harmful to plants, a pollinator, or nothing to do with you.
• Plant DaddyPlant Daddy does just watering: add your plants, keep care notes, set reminders. It does not even ask you to make an account.
• PlantfiePlantfie identifies the plant from a photo, then hands you a care guide and reminders for that species rather than one generic schedule.
• PlantNetSnap a leaf or flower to find out which plant you actually bought.
• PlantScopePlantScope diagnoses the leaf that looks wrong. Sick foliage, fungal issues and the usual troubles, identified from a photo.
• SkyflowSkyflow is a time-lapse camera with manual control over interval and exposure. Point it at the same shelf for a month to find out if anything moved.
• SucculentA dated photo of each plant, so slow changes stop being invisible.
• Sun SeekerShows where the sun crosses your window, hour by hour, all year.