Every part feeds the next one
Identifying a plant gives it a care profile. The profile plus your room decides its watering. The watering log is what lets Herb tell overwatering from thirst. Nothing here is a standalone gimmick — that’s the whole design.
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Five features, in detailFive features, one morning screen
You don’t navigate between features. They arrive together, on the screen you open with a coffee.
Water groups surface first, already adjusted for today's weather.
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Every watering and diagnosis lands here automatically — the memory Herb reads.
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The spot's measured light, scored against this species' needs.
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Herb answers with your garden, weather and history already in hand.
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The same features, a different set of defaults
Most plant apps do photo ID and reminders. The difference isn’t the feature list — it’s what each one does when it doesn’t know something.
| Behaviour | The usual approach | LeafRanger |
|---|---|---|
| Where care numbers come from | the AI model's training | a verified species record |
| When the data is missing | a plausible-sounding guess | we go and research it |
| When the research finds nothing | you never learn there was a gap | the gap stays marked, unfilled |
| Pet safety with no test data | treated as safe | stated as unassessed |
| Watering schedule | a fixed weekly reminder | shifts with your weather |
| Where the plant lives | a room name, if that | a measured spot with a light score |
| Failed identification | the closest guess | an honest empty result |
| Community advice | whoever posts loudest | growers in your climate band |
We haven’t named anyone, because this isn’t about a rival — it’s about a default. Any app can choose the right-hand column; most just don’t, because the left-hand column demos better.
Every feature is standing on the same rock
Features are easy to add and easy to fake. What’s underneath them is the part that took two years — and it’s why the answers agree with each other.
- One catalogue, not five. Herb, the camera, the watering engine and the shop all read the same species record — so they can’t contradict each other.
- Absence is stored, not hidden. A field we don’t have stays empty everywhere, instead of being quietly filled in by whichever feature needed it.
- Your data is a layer, not an afterthought. Care history sits between the catalogue and the features, which is how the app tells your plant from the species.
The free plan is a real plan
Identification, diagnosis, watering, the map and the community are all free. What you pay for is talking to Herb and reading your soil.
- 10 plants
- 30 AI scans a day — identify & diagnose
- Watering schedules & reminders
- Home map & light scans
- Community and marketplace
- Chat with Herb
- 30 plants
- Chat with Herb — 50 messages a day
- 50 AI scans a day
- Multiple Homes
- Full Herb chat history
- Soil intelligence
- 100 plants
- Chat with Herb — 200 messages a day
- 150 AI scans a day
- Soil intelligence
- Multiple Homes
- Full Herb chat history
Prices shown in USD; you’ll see your local price in the store at checkout. Subscriptions are billed through the app store, so cancelling takes one tap there and we never hold your card. Full plan details →
Six things you won’t find here
What an app refuses to do shapes it more than what it ships. These aren’t roadmap items — they’re decisions already made.
If any of these ever changes, it will be written on this page before it ships — not buried in a terms update.
Questions before you pick a feature
- Do I need all five features?
- No. Most people start with identification and watering, and never draw a map or post anything. The features feed each other when you use them, but none of them is a prerequisite.
- What's genuinely free?
- Identification, diagnosis, watering schedules, the home map, light scans, the species library, the community and the marketplace. Chatting with Herb and soil intelligence are paid.
- Which platforms?
- Android first — that's where we're launching. iOS is in development: watering reminders already work there, and server-sent alerts are waiting on an Apple developer account.
- Is my garden data private?
- Your plants, spots and history are yours. Herb reads them to answer your questions; nobody else's assistant can see them, and we don't sell data to anyone.
- What happens when the AI is wrong?
- You can correct it — species can be changed, diagnoses re-run, and Herb's memory edited or deleted. The design assumption is that it will sometimes be wrong, which is why nothing it produces is locked in.
- Do I need to be good with plants?
- No. Tell Herb you're a beginner and he adjusts how he explains things. The app is built for the person who has already killed a few, which is most of us.
Read the one that matches your problem
If a plant is dying, start with diagnosis. If you keep forgetting, start with reminders. If you just want a straight answer, go and meet Herb.
Free plan, no card needed · Android first, iOS in development