Waterbug Plant Care Guide

Name: Waterbug Plant Care Guide
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 2.1 (46 reviews)
Author: William Maschmeyer

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Only for iPhone

$2.99 · Designed for iPhone

46 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Lifestyle
Developer

William Maschmeyer
Language

EN
English
Size

9.9
MB

iPhone

Waterbug alerts you when your plants need watering. Clueless how to care for a calathea? Waterbug has a plant library to illuminate your dim plight. Need supplies? Waterbug has a curated garden shop, so you can have that heavy bag of dirt lugged right to your door. Pruning noob? Waterbug has plant care tips so you can figure out this whole pruning, fertilizing and pest control game. Features: · Get water level updates at a glance · Alerts when a plant needs water · Plant guide with sunlight and watering tips · A garden shop with plants, pots and other supplies

Ratings & Reviews

2.1

out of 5

46 Ratings

Loved it...before.
11/10/2015

kts7781
App was great to remind me when to water everything. I used it for at least a year and it kept everything I had alive! However, now it notifies me constantly of plants to be watered. It will tell me I have 41 notifications when none of my plants actually need watering. I'll clear them from my notifications window, I'll check them off in the app, and they all show back up the next day. If they fix this, it's worth the purchase. If not, just use your default calendar app.
Loved it...before.
11/10/2015

kts7781

App was great to remind me when to water everything. I used it for at least a year and it kept everything I had alive! However, now it notifies me constantly of plants to be watered. It will tell me I have 41 notifications when none of my plants actually need watering. I'll clear them from my notifications window, I'll check them off in the app, and they all show back up the next day. If they fix this, it's worth the purchase. If not, just use your default calendar app.
Waste of money, bad images
12/21/2015

KH2345
Disappointed that I spent money on this, and disappointed that it came highly reviewed from Pure Wow. I'll water my plants and get multiple notifications for each plant--and it's fine. It's a small annoyance, but it's a bug that shouldn't be there. There's not enough plants either--I have a plant in here under a different one because it's similar and has the same instructions, but it's a common indoor and outdoor plant. Plus very few succulents or cacti, and no agave or carnivorous plants. (I would not say I have any odd or unique plants!)Finally, the app will take your photo, zoom in, and animate it. (It reminds me of the wifi log in on the Greyhound.) It blows up and distorts the photo--it's weird, disorienting, and unnecessary.
Waste of money, bad images
12/21/2015

KH2345

Disappointed that I spent money on this, and disappointed that it came highly reviewed from Pure Wow. I'll water my plants and get multiple notifications for each plant--and it's fine. It's a small annoyance, but it's a bug that shouldn't be there. There's not enough plants either--I have a plant in here under a different one because it's similar and has the same instructions, but it's a common indoor and outdoor plant. Plus very few succulents or cacti, and no agave or carnivorous plants. (I would not say I have any odd or unique plants!)Finally, the app will take your photo, zoom in, and animate it. (It reminds me of the wifi log in on the Greyhound.) It blows up and distorts the photo--it's weird, disorienting, and unnecessary.
A great way to remember your plants' watering schedule
09/23/2015

kabounce
I've massively enjoyed Waterbug over the last year or more since I bought it. It’s been great at keeping me accountable for watering my plants, and having photos and names has made it easy to disambiguate “hmm which succulent needs water today?”The app is having some issues on iOS 9 with notifications, and I’m worried that it hasn’t seen an update in a little while. Hold off on buying this until there’s an iOS 9 bugfix update.
A great way to remember your plants' watering schedule
09/23/2015

kabounce

I've massively enjoyed Waterbug over the last year or more since I bought it. It’s been great at keeping me accountable for watering my plants, and having photos and names has made it easy to disambiguate “hmm which succulent needs water today?”The app is having some issues on iOS 9 with notifications, and I’m worried that it hasn’t seen an update in a little while. Hold off on buying this until there’s an iOS 9 bugfix update.
Needs way more plants
04/13/2015

JLyons92
Great app for many reasons. 1. I was thinking about making this exact app and found this one which is already well designed and the user interface is great. I definitely need this app because I continually forget when which plants need how much water. This app would be 5 stars if it had more plants. Only half of mine are listed in the data base. Please add more and I would use this app every day and recommend it to everyone!
Needs way more plants
04/13/2015

JLyons92

Great app for many reasons. 1. I was thinking about making this exact app and found this one which is already well designed and the user interface is great. I definitely need this app because I continually forget when which plants need how much water. This app would be 5 stars if it had more plants. Only half of mine are listed in the data base. Please add more and I would use this app every day and recommend it to everyone!

Prepare your brain to be fully exploded by these updates... · First, it's completely redesigned for iOS7. Much flat! Wow smooth, silky pixel! · Bigger, better photos of your plants in the detail view and we've added parallax because PARALLAX! · A new tips section turns you into like a plant-care genius or something, you crazy genius! Pruning, fertilizing and pest control will be your next party convo topic, smarty pants! · Plant library expansion! Over 100 common house plants! That's more than a dozen! Or even several dozen! Literally! · Plant library improvements! I've added photos of the various species because some of us didn't go to botany school and would like to match our plants visually thank-you-very-much-you're-welcome! · Plant photos taken in the app are now stored in your library so you can edit them and re-import the edited version. VSCO highly recommended for this purpose! Bugs that I squashed without impunity… · The plants used to re-order while you scrolled. That was dumb. It's fixed. · If you chose 20 days it would show 16 days, 25: 17, 30: 18, etc. Now you can rely on the days you set. · After tapping "watered" the list didn't shift and tapping on that plant would take you to the detail pane of the next item. Bozo move. It's fixed. · After deleting a plant, the picture of the next one would disappear. I'll never program blindfolded again, scouts honor. · If you ever backgrounded the app while creating a plant you noticed it would create a kind of zombie plant that had no name and photo. Zombies give me the willies, so I put this issue to bed. · Y2K'14 Bug: you might have noticed how after midnight on Dec 31st the next-watering dates on you plants went berserk-a-tron. This is fixed. · Fixed some general bugs with the notifications. I won't bore you with the details.

Version 2.0

04/22/2014

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Waterbug Plant Care Guide

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Loved it...before.

Waste of money, bad images

A great way to remember your plants' watering schedule

Needs way more plants

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