ID, care plan and pet-safety — all free

Knowing its name
won’t keep it alive.

One photo gives you the species, the watering schedule, and whether it can hurt your cat. The part other apps put behind a paywall.

Identify my plant — free
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Free to download. No account needed to try. Android 7.0+.

  • No card to start
  • Care plan free
  • No account
  • 15 languages
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Monstera

Monstera deliciosa · Araceae

Pet & Child Safety

DogsTOXIC
CatsTOXIC
ChildrenMILD

Care Basics

WaterWeekly
LightIndirect
Temp18–27°C
Humidity 60%+ · draining soilFull guide ›
Identify again+ Add to Garden
Live scan, ~2s Toxicity, not paywalled Care plan for this species
  • 400K+ species database
  • 15 languages
  • Gemini multimodal AI
  • Wikipedia · iNaturalist · GBIF · Trefle
  • Pet & child toxicity on every ID
  • No account needed
  • Care plan never paywalled
  • Herbs, trees, crops & houseplants
How it works

Three taps from “what is this?”
to “here’s how to keep it.”

No sign-up wall, no questionnaire, no email. Open the camera and go.

01

Point at a leaf

Camera, or a photo from your gallery. Flash, zoom and crop if the light is bad.

02

Get the species + a confidence score

Common name, scientific name and family. Top 3 matches with a percentage, so you can tell a guess from a certainty.

03

Keep it alive

Watering rhythm, light, temperature, humidity and soil — plus a toxicity verdict for dogs, cats and kids.

Identify my plant — free
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The gap we built for

Every other plant app stops at the name.

The most common complaint in this whole category is the same sentence, over and over: “it told me what my plant was, then charged me to find out how to look after it.” So we put the care card, the schedule and the toxicity check on the free side of the line.

1 · The ID is the easy part

Gemini multimodal AI reads the photo and returns the species with a confidence percentage — plus the runners-up. When we’re not sure, the number says so instead of pretending.

2 · Then the care card opens, free

Water rhythm, light, temperature, humidity and soil for that exact species — sourced from real plant databases, not one generic template applied to everything green.

3 · And the safety verdict, also free

Dogs, cats, children. Three plain verdicts before you decide where the pot goes. If it’s toxic, the app offers a similar-looking plant that isn’t.

4 · Reminders that follow your actual plant

Add it to My Garden with a nickname, room and pot size. Watering reminders arrive on schedule, and the streak counter turns keeping-things-alive into something you can win.

Free tier, in full

3 AI scans, no cardSpecies, family, confidence %, photo gallery, Wikipedia link — ID or disease
Plant Care CardWater, light, temp, humidity, soil — per species
Pet & child toxicityDogs, cats, children — plus safe look-alike suggestions
Reminders & My GardenWatering, fertilising and repotting — no plant cap
Encyclopedia, search & badgesBrowse by category, A–Z, plants near you, achievements

Competitors paywall the care plan, the reminders and the toxicity data. Those four rows above are exactly the ones they take away.

Pet & child safety

“Is this one toxic to my cat?”
You get the answer before the paywall — because there isn’t one.

Every identification returns three separate verdicts: dogs, cats, children. Colour plus an icon plus a word, so it still reads correctly if you can’t distinguish red from green.

SAFE

Non-toxic to dogs, cats and children. Spider Plant, Basil, Calathea, Lavender, Mint.

MILD

Can irritate mouth or stomach if chewed. Put it up high and you’re fine.

DANGEROUS

Genuinely harmful if eaten — out of the house, not just out of reach. Monstera, Pothos, Peace Lily, Snake Plant, Aloe Vera.

Safe look-alikes

Told your Monstera is toxic and you have a kitten? The app offers plants with a similar shape and habit that aren’t — so you don’t have to choose between the look you wanted and the animal you live with.

Pet-safe as a filter

Browse and search with pet-safe switched on, so everything you see is already cleared. Also filter by indoor / outdoor, light, water need, edible, and difficulty.

Straight about the limits. This is reference information, not a veterinary opinion. If your pet has already eaten something, call your vet or a poison-control line now — don’t open an app. And we deliberately don’t tell you whether a wild plant or mushroom is safe to eat: that judgement belongs to an expert in front of the plant, not to a phone.

AI plant doctor

Brown spots, curling leaves,
something eating it.

Photograph the damaged leaf. You get a named condition, a severity level, the likely cause, and a numbered treatment plan — not a shopping list.

A healthy Monstera leaf
A Monstera leaf with scorch damage
DAMAGED HEALTHY

Drag to compare. Two Monstera deliciosa specimens — scorch damage on one side, a healthy leaf on the other. This is the difference the scan is reading.

Leaf Spot

Detected on Fiddle Leaf Fig

MODERATE

What caused this

OverwateringPoor airflowFungal spread

Treatment plan

  1. Remove and bin the affected leaves — don’t compost them.
  2. Let the top few centimetres of soil dry before the next watering.
  3. Apply a copper-based fungicide every 7 days for three weeks.
  4. Move it somewhere with more air movement, out of direct sun.

For reference only. Consult a professional for severe cases or valuable plants.

Smart care

The reminder knows which plant,
which room, which pot.

A generic “water your plants” ping is how plants die. Schedules are built per species and adjusted for pot size, indoor or outdoor, and the season.

Real reminders, not a to-do list

System notifications at 09:00 local, one per plant per task — watering, feeding, repotting, misting. They survive a reboot. Grouped overdue / today / tomorrow, one tap to clear.

Feeding & repotting too

Three separate cycles per plant — watering, fertilising, repotting — each with its own interval you can tune day by day.

Seasonal adjustment

Advice shifts with the season and your region, because a Monstera in February is not a Monstera in July.

Watering streak

Consecutive days you kept up, on a 30-day heatmap. A 30-day streak earns Green Thumb.

Today’s care — My Garden

MontyMonstera deliciosa · overdue 1 day Water
Basil — kitchen sillOcimum basilicum · due today · pet-safe Water
Snake PlantDracaena trifasciata · next in 6 days Done
Explore & encyclopedia

Not just the plant in front of you.

A searchable database with taxonomy, native range, description and care summary — built on Wikipedia, iNaturalist, GBIF and Trefle, each credited.

400,000+ species

Browse by category or A–Z, or search by name. Each entry carries common and scientific names, family, origin, description and a care summary.

TreesFlowersFernsSucculentsVegetablesHerbsVinesHouseplants

Plants near you

What grows locally, what’s blooming this month, and which species near you are threatened. Location is optional.

Advanced filter

Indoor or outdoor, light, water need, pet-safe, edible, flower colour, difficulty — and native-to-my-area.

Care articles, written for beginners

Seven guides on the things that actually kill houseplants: reading when a plant needs water, spotting leaf disease early, choosing pet-safe plants, surviving low light, when to repot, and spring indoor care.

Does it need water?Leaf diseasePet-safe picksLow lightRepottingSpring care
Collection & streaks

Keeping things alive,
with a scoreboard.

Species you’ve identified accumulate into a collection with milestones at 10, 50, 100, 250 and 500. Twenty-one badges across four tracks — streaks, garden size, species found and care logged — plus a 30-day watering heatmap.

Sprout3-day streak
Week Warrior7-day streak
Green Thumb30-day streak
Plant ParentFirst care log
Botanist100 species
Centurion100-day streak
400K+Species in the database

Trefle and GBIF taxonomy, with Wikipedia descriptions.

15Languages at launch

English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian.

Top 3Matches, with confidence %

Not one confident guess. You see the runners-up and can report a wrong result.

0Accounts required

No sign-up screen exists. Your garden, care schedules and scan history live in a local database on the phone, and Settings has a one-tap “delete all data”.

Where we sit

Same job. Different line
between free and paid.

The row that matters most isn’t the price — it’s whether a card is required before you can use the thing you downloaded it for.

Plant Identifier: Plant Care PictureThis Planta PlantIn Plantum
Free AI scans, no card3Trial-gatedTrial-gatedTrial-gatedTrial-gated
Care plan after the IDFreePaidPaidPaidPaid
Pet & child toxicityFreePaid / absentAbsentPaidPaid
Watering remindersFree, no capPaidPaidPaidPaid
Disease diagnosisUses a free scanPaidPaidPaidPaid
Card required to startNoUsually yesUsually yesUsually yesUsually yes
Yearly price$19.99$39.99$47.99~$35$6.99 / week
One-time lifetime option$69.99————

Competitor pricing and gating collected from public Google Play and App Store listings. Prices vary by country and change over time. Free-tier limits reflect this app’s default configuration.

Why people install it

Mostly: they’ve killed things before.

Twelve situations the app was built around — drawn from what plant owners actually ask and complain about in this category.

Pet safety
The kitten chews everything. I need to know what is in the room before I bring a plant home.
Answered by the toxicity card, free
Schedule
I water everything on Sunday. Half of them clearly hate that.
Per-species intervals, per plant
Diagnosis
Brown edges appeared over one week and I cannot tell if that is water, light or a bug.
Photograph the leaf, get a named cause
The paywall
The last app named my plant, then wanted a yearly subscription to tell me how to keep it alive.
Care card is on the free side
Inherited
It came with the flat. Nobody knows what it is or when it was last watered.
One photo starts the whole record
First plant
First plant. I would quite like it not to be my last.
Beginner care guides, no account
Toddler
He puts everything in his mouth. Same question every time I see a new plant in the house.
Separate verdict for children
Low light
North-facing flat. I keep buying plants that need light I do not have.
Filter by light before you buy
Two weeks away
Which ones survive a holiday and which need a neighbour with a key?
Watering intervals you can plan around
On a walk
Found this on a path and just want to know what it is. Not planning to eat it.
Identification only, by design
A gift
Someone gave me an orchid. I am told they are difficult.
Species-specific, not generic advice
Keeping it up
I do not need another hobby. I need a reminder that actually arrives.
System notifications and a streak
Free vs Premium

The free version is the product.
Premium removes the ceilings.

Nothing here is a trial that quietly becomes a subscription. Premium is a separate, deliberate purchase inside Google Play — and it buys volume, not features.

Free

NO CARD

$0 forever

No account, no trial, no payment method. Supported by ads.

  • 3 free AI scans — spend them on plant IDs, disease checks, or a mix
  • The complete Plant Care Card and the full care guide — not a preview
  • Pet & child toxicity on every result, plus safe look-alikes
  • My Garden and every reminder — watering, fertilising and repotting, no plant cap
  • Streak, badges and species collection — all 21 badges reachable
  • Encyclopedia, A–Z, search, advanced filter, popular plants, herb guides, tips
Start free — no card

Ads appear between scans. The 3 free scans are a one-time allowance, not a daily reset — after that, scanning needs Premium. Everything else in the list above stays free.

Premium

REMOVES LIMITS

$19.99 billed once per year

That is the actual charge — about $1.67 a month, but you are billed $19.99 one time, once a year. Also available at $2.99 per week, or $69.99 once for lifetime access that never renews.

  • Unlimited AI scans — identifications and disease diagnoses, no counter
  • No ads, anywhere in the app

That is deliberately the whole list. Premium lifts the scan cap and removes the ads — it does not unlock the care plan, the safety verdicts, the reminders or the encyclopedia, because those were never locked.

See Premium in the app

Billing is handled by Google Play, which shows the price and the renewal date before you confirm. Subscriptions renew until cancelled; cancel any time in Play › Subscriptions and you keep access until the period ends. The lifetime purchase never renews. Prices shown in USD and may vary by country.

Straight answers

The questions people actually ask.

Will I get charged after a trial?

No. There is no trial to convert. The free tier is permanent and never asks for a payment method. Premium is a separate, explicit purchase in Google Play.

Is the care advice locked behind the paywall?

No — and this is the main reason the app exists. The full care card, the care guide and the pet-toxicity verdict arrive with every result, free ones included. Premium only lifts the scan cap and removes ads.

What happens when it gets my plant wrong?

You see the top three matches with a confidence percentage each, so a weak match looks weak. There is a “report incorrect result” action on every result screen.

Is this plant safe for my cat?

Every identification returns separate verdicts for dogs, cats and children. It is reference information, not veterinary advice — if your pet has already eaten something, call your vet or a poison-control line first.

Can I use it to tell whether something is safe to eat?

No, and we won’t add that. There are growing and harvest guides for herbs and vegetables you chose to plant, but the app does not judge the edibility of wild plants or mushrooms.

Does it need internet, and where do my photos go?

Scanning needs a connection — the analysis runs in the cloud. Your garden, reminders, schedules and history all work offline because they live on the phone. There is no account, and Settings can wipe everything in one tap. Location is optional and only powers “plants near you”.

How do I cancel Premium?

Google Play Store › Menu › Subscriptions › select the subscription › Cancel. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. The lifetime purchase has nothing to cancel.

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