Plant Nanny Water Tracker Pal 4+

Amazing, but takes a bit of time to motivate you

I first downloaded plant nanny a couple of months ago. I am REALLY bad at drinking water, and some days I literally don’t drink any. However, while I logged my water for a couple of days with the app, after that I became less motivated as I had the mindset of just using the app for my health. I re downloaded the app the other day, and the thing that has changed is I am thinking about collecting all the plants to fill out my greenhouse and generally levelling up within the game. I definitely missed the point of the app when I first got it, but now that I am more invested in the actual ‘game’ I have become a lot more motivated and refilling my water bottle comes with the satisfaction of knowing I am gaining something other than better health. The app also comes with many useful features such as being able to add different volumes of water - I add one for each bottle I have and also have the ‘standard’ cup of water - and an overall observation after downloading that gives you an estimate for how many ml of water you should drink a day. You can also collect different plant pots.

Overall, I would 100% recommend plant nanny because you really can’t go wrong! It is completely free, easy to use and just such a fun app to motivate you to drink more water :)

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This is one of my most favourite apps

This is a great little app for tracking how much water I drink! It’s gamified enough to make me invest my time and interest but at the same time does not require my constant attention - just tick a glass of water when I drink one, maybe pick up the seeds from the greenhouse and done. The graphics are amazingly cute and just looking at my plants chilling in their pots make me smile - I absolutely adore all the little animations on the plants when you tap them, like the sneezing dandelions. I like how adds are not shoved down my throat but either just sit there under my current greenhouse or I can elect to watch them for clovers. One thing that does bug me on occasion though is a lack of ability to continue your streak - a couple times I was just under 100ml short of water a day (got busy, either forgot to drink it or record it) aaaaaaand there goes my three months streak... I’m not saying this should be available all the time, but maybe as a once a month type of ‘get out of jail free’ thing?

A little disappointed now

Before the most recent update, I was really enjoying the app. Unlocking all of the plain plant varieties without subscribing was possible, it was just going to take time and commitment to drinking water - which is the point of the app, so I was all for it. The subscriber special bonus was all of the sparkly/fun plants, which were cute and I was considering upgrading the app.

Then, the update. Now, there are 6 varieties of plant that one gets with the unsubscribed/unpaid version, in both sparkly and plain forms - but there’s loads of other plants, that’d I’d previously been able to grow, that are now behind a paywall. I tried the free trial with the new update, and… I don’t think it’s worth the money to subscribe, just for the ability to grow different plants and get a couple of extra clovers (in game currency) per day.

So four stars, because it does the job now, but I guarantee I’m going to get bored of growing the same plants over and over again. I’d pay a one-off fee to unlock everything/go ad-free, but the subscription wasn’t useful enough to justify the price.