PlantPal: Happy Planting
Care reminders, garden diary
Free · In-App Purchases
To-do lists, photo journal, organiser tools and a library of plant tips — PlantPal is your go-to app for caring for your garden.
Keep your houseplants thriving with PlantPal, a comprehensive plant care app made for houseplant lovers. From busy weeks to multi-plant routines, PlantPal helps you stay consistent, remember the right tasks, and track real progress.
A to-do list, made for plant care
Stay on top of watering, fertilising, and repotting with a checklist designed around how plant care actually works. PlantPal helps you get through your most important days quickly, and keeps everything tidy when life gets hectic.
More than just a checklist
Set repeating tasks so your plants are cared for automatically. Snooze tasks when you are running behind, and get back on track without losing your place.
Photo Journal
Turn plant care into a growth story. Capture updates with a photo journal and look back on every new leaf, bloom, and change over time. It makes progress easy to spot and satisfying to review.
Organised Plant Collection
Add and sort plants by room or group so you always know what is where. No more wondering where you put that succulent or which plants need attention next.
Smart Task Planner
Caring for multiple plants at once is easier when you can see ahead. Pick the days you like to tend your plants — or peek any time with a tap — and PlantPal shows tasks due soon, so you can batch your care into one session without burnout.
PlantPal Library
Search for plants and find basic care tips fast. The lightweight library includes starting guidance for a wide range of common houseplants, so you can care with confidence.
iCloud Sync
Keep your plant data up to date across your iPhone and iPad with secure, private iCloud sync.
Optimised for iPad
Enjoy a true iPad experience with a triple-column layout that makes it easy to manage tasks and your collection at a glance. Works brilliantly with Split View and Multi-Window when you want to use PlantPal alongside other apps.
Privacy first
PlantPal runs offline for a fast, responsive experience. Sync uses only iCloud, with no third-party servers running in the background.
Simplify houseplant care and stay consistent from one new leaf to the next. Download PlantPal and let it guide your routine.
more Greetings, plant parents! This update helps you see what’s ahead:
- Tasks due soon, at a glance: the task list can now show tasks that are coming up — use the new banner at the top of the list to show or hide them for the day. Guilt-free by design: a task due soon never becomes overdue; it simply comes due on its own date.
- Plan your care days: pick your favourite days in the new Task Preferences in Settings, and the task list will start those days with due-soon tasks shown — perfect for batching care into one relaxed session.
- Smoother timeline and photos: fixed an issue where the timeline or photo grid on a plant’s page could freeze or stutter while scrolling — photos load quicker, and the timeline now refreshes right away when you complete a task.
- Plus a round of polish and performance improvements throughout the app.
Hope you’ll enjoy this update! Please let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback.
2026.21 12 hr ago
Greetings, plant parents! This update gives your plants’ story a little more room to shine:
- New care heatmap: see months of completed care at a glance, right on the plant page.
- Redesigned timeline: your plant’s photos and notes are now grouped day by day, making it easier to follow its growth over time.
- Smarter photo reminders: the Photos page now shows how many photo suggestions are waiting for you. Not a good time? Tap “Later” to set them aside for a week — your choice syncs across your devices with iCloud.
- You can now decide whether photo suggestions show a badge on the Photos tab — find the switch in Settings.
- Snappier search: results now appear as they are found, and plants with long lists of alternate names are ranked correctly in the Plant Library again.
- Plus a round of polish: widget colours display correctly again, and long plant and task lists scroll more smoothly.
Hope you’ll enjoy this update! Please let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback.
2026.20 10 Aug
Greetings, plant parents! We've made some minor improvements and fixes in this update.
- Fixed an issue where the app showed a blank screen until it was deleted and reinstalled when upgrading from an older version.
- File export and import are now fully available. You can export or import your data for portability or other purposes.
- Fixed typos and incomplete sentences in the plant library for certain locales.
- On the Tasks page, the + button now lets you take a photo of a plant directly.
Hope you'll enjoy this update! Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
2026.19 22 Jul
Greetings, plant parents. Here are some updates to the app in the new version:
New — Spotlight support: Search and find your plants with Spotlight. You can jump to the plant in PlantPal with one tap.
Improved — Thanks to an app-wide migration, almost all views now refresh more reliably, and changes are localized. This made the app run more efficiently and more smoothly (especially on older devices), and it fixed some animation glitches.
Improved — It’s now faster to perform a search in the plant library.
Improved — The plant library now features in-season plants for inspiration.
Improved — In the Tasks page, you can now use the “plus” button to add photos to the plant directly.
Fixed —
* The Tasks view might jitter when you un-check a task. Fixed.
* The Tasks view might not stay in sync on all iCloud devices when you hide finished tasks. Fixed.
* Some users might not be able to add photos properly until they reset storage options. Fixed.
Thank you and hope you’ll enjoy the update. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please let us know!
2026.17 8 Jul
Greetings, plant parents. This update is a maintenance release that improves the app in some minor but important ways.
* On the plant detail page, you can use the toolbar to move, archive or delete a plant.
* Plant thumbnails, name font and layout have been made consistent across the app.
* It’s now much faster to search and find plants in the PlantPal Library.
* We’ve improved the experience for new users with helpful tips scattered throughout the app. Long-time users may discover something new, too.
* Photo suggestions have moved to the Photos tab.
Thank you — we hope you enjoy this update. Please share any feedback or suggestions; you’re helping us build a better app together!
2026.16 23 Jun
Hello, plant parents. This update includes minor UI and localisation fixes. It also resolves issues that could prevent widgets from refreshing correctly in some cases.
Thank you — we hope you enjoy the update. Happy planting!
2026.15 9 Jun
Greetings, plant parents! This update includes improvements to the app:
- The Home Screen task widget has been redesigned to show a breakdown of tasks by type. Now you get a clearer preview of the day — is it just watering, or is there more to do?
- Live Activity has been redesigned to reflect your remaining tasks, whether for today or when you are time travelling to the future.
- Live Activity used to start immediately when you opened PlantPal. Improved — Live Activity now intentionally starts when you tick off a task. This reduces the chance of seeing Live Activity when you can’t act (for example, when you’re not at home).
Fixed in this update:
- Photo Home Screen widget sometimes didn’t open the photo when tapped. Fixed.
- Live Activity could reset your time travel settings when tapped. Fixed.
- Some button images didn’t display correctly on iOS 18. Fixed.
- Home Screen widgets might not load properly from the background. Fixed.
- The app could crash when moved to the background. Fixed.
We hope you enjoy this update! Please let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback.
2026.14 22 May
Greetings, plant parents! This update improves task notifications so you get tasks done and your plants keep thriving.
- Set up notifications for when you return home — a great complement to time-based reminders.
- Snooze notifications for 20 minutes or 1 hour — long press a notification to get another reminder shortly.
Location-based notifications require access to your precise location and need “Always” access. PlantPal respects your privacy and battery life. It does not run continuously in the background; it registers the area with iOS and is notified when the system detects you’ve returned home.
For power users, PlantPal now includes two Shortcuts actions so you can automate it however you like:
- "Send Notification" sends a PlantPal notification if there are tasks remaining. Wire it to your own triggers such as location, time of day, Focus changes, etc.
- "Get Task Summary" returns text when tasks are due so you can feed it into other actions, for example Messages.
Other fixes and improvements:
- Morning Summary notifications no longer light the screen, vibrate or play a sound.
- Fixed an issue where changes to a room’s colour might not save.
- Updated the notification sound: modern and more cheerful, with a subtle sense of urgency.
- Redesigned the report view for plant library issues. The new layout shows exactly what you send for transparency and lets you add more comments and context.
Hope you enjoy the update! Please send any questions or feedback.
2026.13 20 May
Hello, plant parents! This update introduces the timeline view for your plants — an easy way to see everything at a glance: task records, photos and text notes. You can now add text notes to record important details!
What’s new
* Timeline view: add text notes, write captions on photos, and see care task records together in a clean, organised feed.
* One‑tap switch: return to the classic photo grid with a single tap — still the best compact way to browse all plant photos.
* Quick notes: tap the + button in the task list to add text notes directly.
Also updated or fixed
* You can now add the date you added a plant to your collection. (PlantPal may infer a date automatically from photo or task timestamps.)
* Fixed: the plant widget incorrectly showed the “Archived” badge.
We hope you enjoy this update — please send any feedback or suggestions!
2026.12 5 May
Greetings, plant parents! This update brings new features and improvements:
◎ Plant widget — Pin a plant to your Home screen
Add the new Home screen widget to pin a plant from your collection. Tap the widget to open the plant directly — a quick way to keep an eye on your favourite.
◎ Bug fixes and improvements
* Task repeat options expanded: choose intervals that suit you — 1–30 days, 1–20 weeks or 1–12 months. The stepper no longer forces jumps between days/weeks/months.
* Fixed an issue where thumbnails in a plant note could change randomly when multiple photos were present.
* Corrected labels and incomplete generative AI text across the app and plant library.
We hope you enjoy the update — please send feedback or suggestions. Happy planting!
2026.11 22 Apr
Hello, plant parents! We’ve updated how you can customise care tasks for your plants, and what you can do in the app for free.
◎ Customisable tasks
You can now do and track much more with tasks:
* Customise how the task appears in your list. For example, if you’ve been doing semi-hydro planting, you can rename “Water” to “Top up” or “Flush”.
* Create multiple tasks of the same type—ideal when you need more than one fertiliser application, or occasional special treatments with watering or pesticides.
* Add text notes to each task, to help you remember important details like dosage or strength.
* Enable or disable a task so it no longer shows in your list—much like archiving.
◎ Do more for free
We’ve updated how the app works for free:
* You can now manage 20 plants for free (up from 5)
* You’ll no longer see third-party ads in the app
* For free users, it remains that only watering tasks are available
◎ Other updates
A few improvements:
* PlantPal is now available in Italian.
* We reorganised sections on the plant details page to make different aspects of your plants clearer—because there can be many!
* We added more external search providers. With one tap, you can open an installed app using your search query for the plant—for Bilibili, YouTube, Safari (using your set search engine), and Zhihu.
Bug fixes:
* On the plant details page, Garden Day might apply to all 7 days of the week, regardless of your settings. Fixed.
* On the My Plants page, plants might not align vertically. Fixed.
* In the plant library, each plant’s watering and light needs are shown more clearly with a new meter design.
Thanks for your support—hope you enjoy this update! Let us know if you have any questions or feedback. Happy planting!
2026.10 6 Apr
Hello, plant parents! This update brings new and refreshed entries to the plant library — now with 504 plants in total.
• Corrected details for existing plants, including scientific names and local common names
• Removed a few unnecessary entries, especially cultivars that cluttered search results
• Added dozens of succulents, mainly from the Crassula family
• Added many subspecies and cultivars of edibles like lettuce, tomatoes, radishes and cucumbers/squash
• Added around a dozen popular annual flowers grown worldwide
• Updated photos for edibles and herbs so they look more like what you buy in shops and grow in small-space gardens
• Added common cultivars of favourite evergreens such as ZZ plants, Monsteras and Syngoniums
We hope you enjoy this update. Tell us what you think and share any ideas for future improvements.
2026.9 24 Mar
Greetings, plant parents! This release is a big one, just in time for the new season.
◎ Improved Plant Library
We have redesigned the plant library so it is faster to search, more accurate to match, and more useful for everyday care.
- Fully localised: Search and match plants in your own language. Works even if you use more than one language.
- Works offline: the library still functions without an internet connection.
- 200+ new plants, including popular herbs, fruits, and veg from around the world.
- Richer info and images: We used generative AI to help fill in photos, descriptions, and tags, making the library more informative when you are deciding how to care for a plant.
◎ Garden Day for your tasks (Pro)
For Pro members, we are introducing Garden Day, a simpler way to keep a realistic weekly rhythm with your plants.
- One focused care day: Choose one day of the week as Garden Day. A rabbit icon and orange tint mark it clearly in your task list.
- See what is coming up: On Garden Day, PlantPal shows tasks that are due soon, so you can batch watering, pruning, and repotting instead of chasing them every day.
- Stay light on other days: On non-Garden Days, you only see tasks due that day, which keeps the list short and manageable.
◎ More ways to repeat a task
Your plants follow the seasons, and now your tasks can, too.
- Seasonal repeats: Set tasks to repeat only in specific months. For example, schedule a deep clean or reshaping for early spring and late autumn, and keep your list uncluttered for the rest of the year.
- Flexible intervals: Make tasks repeat every X weeks or every X months, such as watering every 3 weeks or feeding every 2 months, so you do not have to remember the pattern yourself.
◎ App improvements & bug fixes
We have fixed a long list of issues to help the app run more smoothly.
We hope this update makes it easier to learn about your plants, keep a realistic routine, and enjoy your garden. We always welcome your feedback and suggestions.
2026.8 17 Mar
Hello, plant parents! This update focuses on improving app quality.
Photo Library improvements:
* When you view a photo from your Photo Library without the right permissions, you’ll now be prompted to grant or update access.
* We’ve refreshed labels and messages for saving photos to your Photo Library, so it’s clearer how to choose what works for you.
Interface improvements:
* On iOS 26, long‑pressing a plant now shows the menu alongside its thumbnail. On iPad, the thumbnail has a smooth hover effect when you use Apple Pencil.
* Similarly, on iOS 26, long‑pressing a photo thumbnail shows the menu next to the photo, with the same Apple Pencil hover effect on iPad.
Bug fixes:
* On iOS 18, the confirmation alert when deleting plants, photos, rooms and more sometimes failed to show all available buttons. Fixed.
* On iOS 18, the Save button could incorrectly appear as “Confirm” when creating a new plant or editing notes. Fixed — it now correctly shows “Save”.
* When a new day started, or the system time zone changed, the task list did not always refresh properly. Fixed.
We hope you enjoy this update. Share any feedback or ideas from your plant corner!
2026.5 3 Mar
Greetings, plant parents! This update improves how you manage your care tasks.
◎ Filter and focus
We have redesigned the task list to be more powerful and practical:
- See what’s on for today at a glance: is it just watering, or is it time to bring out the fertiliser as well?
- Filter tasks by type so you can, for example, tackle all fertilising jobs first.
- When you have finished caring for a plant, hide it from the list to stay focused on what’s next.
- Open full task details and jump straight to the plant or its task history with ease.
◎ Bug fixes
- Live Activity could sometimes start more than one instance at once. Fixed.
- Some tasks still showed as “Due Today” even after you completed them that day. Fixed.
- On the plant page and in the photo list, photo thumbnails could jitter when opening or closing the long‑press menu. Fixed.
- The app could crash when receiving a large number of updates from iCloud. Fixed.
Hope you enjoy this update. We would love to hear any feedback or suggestions.
2026.4 17 Feb
Hello, plant parents! In this update, the “Search” feature is back — quickly find your plants and any text in photo captions just by typing.
We’ve also fixed several issues with the app’s interface and localisation.
We hope you enjoy using PlantPal. Please share any suggestions or feedback you may have.
2026.3 4 Feb
Greetings, plant parents! This update includes a few small fixes and polish following the 2026.1 language updates.
- When using PlantPal on multiple devices, if a plant or photo was deleted elsewhere the page on other devices could go blank. Fixed — you’ll now see a short message explaining that the plant or photo was deleted.
- Live Activity wasn’t starting properly on iOS and iPadOS 26+. Fixed.
- The “Move…” menu sometimes didn’t work for plants in your list. Fixed.
- We’ve added a subtle visual cue for plants that are selected and open in the plant list. This makes it easier to see which plant is active on iPad when using the 3‑column layout.
- We’ve refreshed the wording and tooltips around the “Filter” option in the plant list to make it clearer how to use the filter button.
We’re also removing support for importing data from a backup. The wording for the “Data Export” feature has been updated to show it’s no longer meant for backups — PlantPal still supports data portability, and you can export your data for use in another app.
We hope you enjoy this update. Let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
2026.2 20 Jan
Hello, plant parents! Version 2026.1 brings PlantPal to even more languages:
- Spanish
- French (France and Canada)
- German
- Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil)
- Traditional Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
We have also made small improvements to the English versions for the US, Canada and the UK.
We are thrilled to make PlantPal available to more people. Please let us know if you spot any issues with the apps localisation, or anything else at all.
Happy New Year!
2026.1 5 Jan
Greetings, plant parents! This update brings the fix to a few issues with the app:
- When the app receives background updates from iCloud, it will now refresh its Home Screen widgets and app icon badge, so that you don’t receive outdated notifications about your care tasks.
- We made some improvements on how the app communicates with the App Store. Your purchase and membership status will not reset itself as it often did before.
- We made some improvements on the app’s navigation, so that you can access app settings more easily.
We hope you’ll enjoy this update. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
2025.16 21/12/2025
Greetings, plant parents! This update brings a few improvements and fixed some issues with the app.
- In Tasks page, you can now tap on plant thumbnail to view plant details, like you used to in a prior version.
- Home Screen widget might have glowing text and poor visuals in Tinted or Clear Home Screen styles. Fixed.
- Edits to your plant's name might not be saved. Fixed.
- Edit Room button didn't work properly on iPhone. Fixed.
- Adding a new task completion record would not get saved. Fixed.
- Tasks and plants might jitter and re-order themselves when you checked off a task. Fixed.
- Making a purchase of PlantPal Pro, or restoring your purchases, might show an alert that didn't dismiss itself. Fixed.
- Notifications might not load and work properly. Fixed.
- When you updated the room name, the new name was not immediately updated in the title bar. Fixed.
- In plant care notes, the grid of your photos might not adapt to wide screen layouts. Fixed.
- In plant care notes, when you search and link a plant in the library, the search page did not properly close. Fixed.
We hope you will enjoy this update. Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions. Thank you!
2025.15 14/12/2025
Greetings, plant parents! This update improved the appearance of the Tasks page. You can tap to expand all task details of a plant in a design that brings more focus to your work.
This update also includes an updated Home Screen widget for your care tasks.
We hope you’ll enjoy this update. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
2025.14 02/12/2025
Greetings, plant parents! This version adds support for iCloud sync with your in-app preferences, so that you get the same consistent expereince on all your devices, automatically.
This version also fixed some minor issues and improved app stability.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback. We hope you enjoy this update!
2025.13 19/11/2025
Greetings, plant parents! This version fixed an issue where the app may crash when trying to upgrade with Pro Membership.
In a previous update, we brought you an updated design for iOS and iPadOS 26.
◎ Liquid Glass
The app fully adopts the design paradigm of Liquid Glass to highlight the view hierarchy and help you focus on your content. Some of the UI elements reacts beautifully to their surroundings and morph seamlessly to reveal more options.
◎ Multi-window support on iPad
On iPad, you can open as many windows of PlantPal as you need. The windows adapts properly to their size, and you can tile or overlay them however you like.
◎ Continuity and Handoff
You can continue your work from iPad to iPhone, or vice versa, thanks to iOS/iPadOS continuity.
◎ Accessible font size
In most parts of the app, PlantPal respects your choice of an accessible font size.
◎ And more!
For those app nerds out there — this version of PlantPal fully adopts SwiftUI, and we are gradually moving to modern frameworks such as Concurrency and Transferable. We cut thousands of lines of code from our codebase, and can move faster for planned features in the upcoming releases.
We hope you’ll enjoy this update. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions — we are all ears!
2025.12 07/11/2025
Greetings, plant parents! This version fixed an issue where the date picker may not work properly on iPhone.
In a previous update, we brought you an updated design for iOS and iPadOS 26.
◎ Liquid Glass
The app fully adopts the design paradigm of Liquid Glass to highlight the view hierarchy and help you focus on your content. Some of the UI elements reacts beautifully to their surroundings and morph seamlessly to reveal more options.
◎ Multi-window support on iPad
On iPad, you can open as many windows of PlantPal as you need. The windows adapts properly to their size, and you can tile or overlay them however you like.
◎ Continuity and Handoff
You can continue your work from iPad to iPhone, or vice versa, thanks to iOS/iPadOS continuity.
◎ Accessible font size
In most parts of the app, PlantPal respects your choice of an accessible font size.
◎ And more!
For those app nerds out there — this version of PlantPal fully adopts SwiftUI, and we are gradually moving to modern frameworks such as Concurrency and Transferable. We cut thousands of lines of code from our codebase, and can move faster for planned features in the upcoming releases.
We hope you’ll enjoy this update. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions — we are all ears!
2025.11 06/10/2025
Greetings, plant parents! This version brings an updated design for iOS and iPadOS 26.
◎ Liquid Glass
The app fully adopts the design paradigm of Liquid Glass to highlight the view hierarchy and help you focus on your content. Some of the UI elements reacts beautifully to their surroundings and morph seamlessly to reveal more options.
◎ Multi-window support on iPad
On iPad, you can open as many windows of PlantPal as you need. The windows adapts properly to their size, and you can tile or overlay them however you like.
◎ Continuity and Handoff
You can continue your work from iPad to iPhone, or vice versa, thanks to iOS/iPadOS continuity.
◎ Accessible font size
In most parts of the app, PlantPal respects your choice of an accessible font size.
◎ And more!
For those app nerds out there — this version of PlantPal fully adopts SwiftUI, and we are gradually moving to modern frameworks such as Concurrency and Transferable. We cut thousands of lines of code from our codebase, and can move faster for planned features in the upcoming releases.
We hope you’ll enjoy this update. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions — we are all ears!
2025.10 01/10/2025
Greetings, plant parents! This update helps you see what’s ahead:
- Tasks due soon, at a glance: the task list can now show tasks that are coming up — use the new banner at the top of the list to show or hide them for the day. Guilt-free by design: a task due soon never becomes overdue; it simply comes due on its own date.
- Plan your care days: pick your favourite days in the new Task Preferences in Settings, and the task list will start those days with due-soon tasks shown — perfect for batching care into one relaxed session.
- Smoother timeline and photos: fixed an issue where the timeline or photo grid on a plant’s page could freeze or stutter while scrolling — photos load quicker, and the timeline now refreshes right away when you complete a task.
- Plus a round of polish and performance improvements throughout the app.
Hope you’ll enjoy this update! Please let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback.
more Version 2026.21 12 hr ago
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