PlantEye
English

About PlantEye

PlantEye is an offline plant-care app for phones. This page says what it does, where the care data comes from, who makes it, and what it is not.

What the app does

PlantEye keeps track of your plants and tells you when to water, feed and repot each one. Every plant gets its own schedule, built from its species, the light it actually gets where it stands, and the season — a monstera by a south window and one in a dark hallway are not watered on the same day.

The catalogue holds 302 species of houseplants and garden plants, each with its own page on this site: common names, botanical family, light, watering, feeding, repotting, and the sources the care advice comes from. The app also recognises a plant from a photo: the model ships inside the app, runs on the phone, and offers up to three suggestions so you make the final call.

It works offline. There is no account and no server of ours, no ads and no analytics inside the app; photos, plants and the journal stay on the phone. The free version covers 5 plants and 3 photo scans a month; Pro is an optional subscription or a one-time purchase that lifts both limits.

See the species catalogue

PlantEye is not the Phenospex PlantEye scanner

There is a second product with this name. PlantEye F500 and F600 are multispectral plant scanners built by Phenospex, used in research and in greenhouse phenotyping to measure how plants reflect light. This website and the PlantEye app have no connection to Phenospex, to that hardware or to that company’s software: ours is an independent app for people who want a watering reminder, not a laboratory instrument.

Who builds it

PlantEye is built and maintained by an independent developer. One person writes the catalogue, the app and this site, and answers the support mail; there is no company, agency or team behind it.

If something is wrong — a plant name, an interval, a broken page — write to [email protected].

Corrections go into the catalogue itself, and every species page lists the sources the figures were checked against, so a correction can be traced back to where it came from.

Where the care intervals come from

The watering interval on a species page is a baseline at medium light in a normal season. The app adjusts it for the light the plant really receives and for the time of year, so it is a starting point, not a fixed timetable. Each entry cites the sources the numbers were checked against: the RHS plant finder, Missouri Botanical Garden’s Plant Finder, NC State Extension, UF/IFAS EDIS and University of Wisconsin Extension, among others.

This is an app, not a botanical garden. Where a plant reacts differently than the entry predicts — drainage, substrate, draughts, pests, a cold windowsill — the plant is right and the number needs fixing. Tell us and the entry will be corrected.

What the app does not do

PlantEye gives no medical advice for people and no diagnosis for animals. If a child or a pet has eaten a plant, call a doctor, a vet or a poison control centre — not an app. Each species page states what a verified source says about toxicity for animals and people, and names that source; where no such source exists, the page says the catalogue does not know, rather than leaving the question unanswered in silence.

Where the toxicity entries come from

Toxicity entries on species pages come from open-access scientific reviews published under Creative Commons licences. Each entry names its source, its licence and the date it was read; the licences require attribution, and every species page gives it. What we publish is a short summary of what those sources say. It is not veterinary advice: we give no diagnosis, no dose and no treatment. Where the catalogue has no verified source, the species page says the entry is unknown, and does not present the plant in either direction.