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Planta: Complete Plant Care
Water tracker & Light Meter
Planta is the ultimate plant care resource for both novices and green-thumbed plant lovers, offering customized guidance, troubleshooting, and reminders to help your garden grow indoors and out.
What we love: The accessibility of so much information on each and every plant! Start by finding your plant in the database or take a photo and let Planta find it for you, then explore all the details: ideal temperature and water needs, fertilizer and humidity tolerance, toxicity reports, and more. When you add a plant to your collection, Planta will create a schedule of notifications to help you care for it.
Quick tip: Is your plant yellow, brown, dry, wilting, or otherwise just not looking its best? On the Dr. Planta tab, take a photo of its symptoms, answer a couple of questions, and receive a diagnosis and treatment plan. If the app doesn’t have the answer, not to worry! You’ll be referred to a plant expert who will respond to you within 48 hours for a consult.
Meet the creator: Planta was founded in Sweden in 2017 by Martin Wählby and Tove Westlund, who have been developing apps since 2008. The idea was inspired by Westlund’s own need for a tool to help her manage watering, fertilizing, and diagnosing problems in her own garden. Initially expecting it to be a fairly simple project, the cofounders found it took more than two years just to research and develop the care algorithms within the app.