Plantbook - Plants' Companion Reviews

I really like Plantbook for helping me keep track of my plants. I especially appreciate the fact that I can take notes on my plants and can save multiple photos to track its health.

I have a couple of requests for Plantbook developer that I think would make it even better, specifically the ability to set custom reminders. As other reviews have mentioned, it would be nice to be able to set specific reminders rather than just having it notify you exactly 24 hours since you last marked the plant as watered (or 48 hours or whatever). It would also be nice to be able to set reminders less than 24 hours apart. I live in a very dry climate so several of my plants need to be watered in the morning as well as evening. I also have plants that need to be misted daily but only need infrequent watering, so it would be nice to have an option to set a reminder to mist once per day then a reminder to fully water every few days.

Overall, however, very useful app!

The reason I like Plantbook is because I have A LOT of plants that are difficult to keep track of by memory, and Plantbook is the most reliable one that I’ve found so far to accurately remind me of watering schedules and keep a lot of data.

I like the way it automatically organizes all of the plants in order of what should be watered next, however, sometimes that means I’m walking from room to room trying to keep it all straight or scrolling up and down trying to find the plants that are in the same room to make watering more efficient. It would be nice if there were filters or sorting options by room or by name.

I also find myself watering at different times of day whenever I find the time, and the notifications only come based on the exact time they were watered last. Sometimes if I water in the morning, I’ll miss a bunch of plants that I have to come back to later because the last time I watered them was nighttime and I haven’t gotten the notification yet. The option to set reminders for a specific time would be helpful.

And finally, I wish that clicking “water” or “save” wouldn’t shut off my music or podcasts to play the little chime that accompanies the clicks. Lowering the volume would be fine, but I’d like to listen to my phone and water my plants at the same time.

I’m really enjoying the simplicity and visual aspects of Plantbook. Unlike many plant inventory and garden reminder apps, it sticks to the basics, which I like. My one major request is for alternate sorting options, either by alpha, manual or date added sort order. This would be a huge timesaver. Perhaps in a future version you could consider adding categories for filtered sorting and viewing? I currently use this to track my succulents, but could see potential utility for vegetable gardens, outdoor plants, trees, etc. Thanks for producing Plantbook —great job so far!!

I wish there was an option to alphabetically order it and/or have it chronological order of when you watered it. The only problems I have is that the watering dates are too exact, I wish it would notify me on the day needed to be watered not the time. The pictures i noticed are too blurry looking at the profile picture of the plants. I would totally buy the pro! But I am currently waiting if u will add these features or any other feature.....

So there is a glitch with one of the plants that I no longer own. You not able to delete that plant. I have create another test plant and I was able to remove that one.

I have send 2 emails and still no response. So I’m thinking Plantbook is not 100% supported. Which I knew before paying for the pro version.

I like the idea of Plantbook. It’s a bit buggy though. I’ve added some of my plants and pictures, but the pictures keep disappearing. The only way I can view them is when I click on the share button for that image. Then the image will appear but it will disappear again once I exit that screen. I’ll hold off on adding my other plants to see if the issue is resolved. Still looking for the best Plant organization app.

I have tried several other plant apps and this is my favorite. If you are looking for a simple water and fertilizer reminder, this is it. I have 50+ houseplants and there is no way I would be able to keep up with each plant’s watering schedule without Plantbook.

Very nice app concept! However, bugs occur when you scroll and while taking photos, leaving you in an endless loop of scrolling plant profiles and attempting to crop images is impossible, as it just resets to the original cropping outlines. Allowing users to add details about their plants, such as sunlight, soil, and propagation requirements would be a plus. Wonderful concept of an app, I cannot wait to see what future updates bring!

Not sure why my review disappeared but..

I like Plantbook but it needs more features like:

-I accidentally clicked the water button and theres no way to undo it
- i watered 3 days ago but forgot to push the button. If i click it now it’ll say it got watered today. Wish it asked me to choose TODAY or choose previous date.
-add a timeline update for each plant like progress photos. And a notes with dates (similar to posts or tweets) it would show date + the caption. For ex: i could add a note today for my mint that it’s droopy and add a photo.

For a straight log of your plants, this is a fairly simple and easy to use app. It would be very helpful to sort plants alphabetically. And also to edit the dates info for photos.

Plantbook was just what I needed! It was simple and did it’s job. But sadly I’m on the look out for a new plant app because the glitch on Plantbook is annoying.

Plantbook is ok, it has options for a picture of the plant and to add multiple plants and how many days they need to be watered. They don't remind you on a day they remind exactly how many days you want from when you last water the plant. So if I water my plant every two days and I water it on Monday at 2:01 it will remind me on Wednesday at 2:01 to water my plant.

I was excited when I first downloaded Plantbook but as soon as I uploaded all my plants the page glitched out and started perpetually scrolling up and down super fast. I restarted Plantbook and it still does it, I can’t even use Plantbook . This one’s not it.

App crashes every time I try to add or edit a plant entry and changes do not save.

Deleting Plantbook. Won’t add my plants after I add info and picture

Lovely app for reminding me to water my plants. Very simple, no invasive ads, and straight to the point. Very well done app 👌🏾

I got the pro version, and am so disappointed. It only sorts plants by when they are scheduled to be watered- I use automatic drip, so this is totally useless. You cannot list your plants alphabetically.

Tech support is completely unresponsive. Waste of money.

App has completely stopped working in the last few days. Won't let me mark as watered and crashes every time :(