Features
Everything in the companion is designed to stay small, useful, and beautiful — the opposite of a noisy dashboard. Below is how the app is organised today.
Plant photo scan — a key time-saver
Use your phone camera to identify a plant in the field or in a pot. You get ranked suggestions with reference images you can open at full size, plus optional encyclopedia-style context (including common names when the Latin name alone isn't enough). Review everything, adjust names and care, then save — you're not locked into the first match.
- New & learning: put a name to the mystery cutting from a friend, the shop label you lost, or the shrub you walk past — without flipping through a book first.
- Experienced gardeners: log impulse buys, seedling batches, and garden-centre grabs in seconds; use scans as a fast starting point for notes, photos, and care schedules you refine yourself.
Scanning uses plant.id (Kindwise) under the hood; you stay in control of what gets saved to your library. Free accounts include limited AI photo identifications; paid plans include a higher fair-use monthly cap.
Garden plans
Map beds and containers on a simple grid or canvas-style layout, place plants from your library, colour regions, and add quiet labels alongside a clear plan overview.
Plant library & care profile
Names, places, light and water preferences, plus rhythms in plain language — built from scratch or from scan suggestions. Attach dated photos for a timeline through the seasons.
Care schedules & calendar
Recurring water, feed, prune, sow, pest checks and more — with sensible next-due tracking in the app. Subscribe a private calendar feed for a bundled daily reminder in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and other compatible apps.
Garden journal
Notes linked to plants, plans, or care — templates when you want a structured nudge rather than a blank page.
Harvest log
Capture what came out of the garden and when — useful for planning next year and savouring wins without a separate spreadsheet.
Seed & bulb inventory
Catalogue packets and supplies so you reorder less and sow with confidence.
Garden checklist & shopping list
Turn plans into repeatable tasks or a shop list tied to real beds and plants — bridging "someday" and the next trip outside or to the nursery.
Expenses
A simple spend log for supplies and tools so the garden doesn't quietly eat the budget.
Seasonal guidance
Month-by-month UK notes for inspiration — a gentle cue for the next task, not a loud feed.
Account, plan & security
Sign in with email (password or magic link) or optional Google via the same provider. Subscribe and manage billing through Stripe Checkout and the customer portal where available. Optionally add authenticator-style two-step verification under Settings alongside profile and onboarding choices. Lightweight badges recognise milestones — opt out of fuss; we're not building a leaderboard.