Plant identification and care apps
Apps that identify plants from photos, diagnose health problems, and track watering and care schedules with reminders, journals, and sometimes gamified virtual gardens, for houseplant owners and home gardeners.
Built for: Houseplant owners and home gardeners
Projects since May 04
86
Different builders
80
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -57%
AI is the core
27%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (55%), web app (35%), hardware or physical (3.5%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- Botanica — Identifies plants from photos and shows detailed species information with downloadable PDF reports.“I built an AI plant identifier — can it recognize a flower that looks like a monkey?”
- Plans a garden layout in a 3D, Sims-style interactive scene.“I vibecoded a Sims-style 3D planner for my own garden renovation in ~4 evenings”
- Mossy — Identifies plants from photos on-device and provides care guidance.“Mossy — private on-device plant ID + care, no subscription”
- Plantyful — Tracks plant care tasks and lets users earn furniture for a pixel apartment.“I built a plant-care app with a room-decorating game attached”
- Auxine — Identifies plants from photos, provides care instructions, and tracks a personal plant collection.“I made a paid plant identification app. NO subscriptions!”
- I Have a Garden — Runs a single zucchini plant over 48 real days that grows in the background, where daily care like watering, feeding, weeding and pest treatment determines the final harvest.“I'm a UX designer who can't code. I built a gardening game with Claude, it takes 48 real days to grow one zucchini”
- Ripe — Shows seasonal fruit for a chosen city with tips for choosing and storing each fruit.“I built Ripe to help people choose seasonal fruit for their city”
- Lets users create a virtual plant or tree and share a link so others can water it, remove weeds, and leave messages.“Grow a virtual plant together”
- S.A.P. (Sexy Ass Plants) — Lets users explore plants, save favorites, and build garden spaces and plans from them.“I built a Plant Discovery app because AI-generated plant lists felt like they took the fun ✨ out of gardening”
- myGnomie — Logs plant watering, fertilizing and care history and offers basic AI care recommendations via a chat overlay.“I got tired of my roommate over watering our plants so I built myGnomie. A free plant tracker”
- Herb Library — Provides a herb and disease reference library with an AI chat for tea recipes and herbal information.“Built a landing page for my herbal wellness app — would love brutally honest feedback”
- Sasya — Identifies plants offline from photos and walks through a diagnosis flow to suggest likely causes of plant problems.“Working on this plant app — feedback on the ID result screen + diagnosis flow”
- Verdant — Logs plant care, growth stages and environmental readings and flags which grows need attention.““Verdant — a grow tracking app for home growers.””
- MowDaddy — Tracks GPS mowing paths to show lawn coverage, speed, turns, and patterns.“Built an app to track and optimize lawn mowing routes — looking for feedback and beta testers”
- Identifies plants from photos, shows the top three candidate species with confidence levels, highlights the leaf features behind the guess, and answers practical questions like toxicity to pets, invasiveness, and winter survival.“Rebuilt a top App Store app in 3 hours and improved it for myself”
- Tendril Care — Diagnoses leaf problems from camera photos and adjusts each houseplant's watering schedule using local weather data.“I'm building a privacy-first plant care app that reads your local weather to tell you when to water (closed beta on Android)”
- Plotline — Plans raised-bed garden layouts with companion-planting warnings and a seed-starting calendar based on last frost date.“I kept messing up companion planting in my raised beds, so I built a free planner for it”
- PlantSmith — Identifies a plant from a photo and turns the result into care guidance.“PlantSmith - An AI plant identifier for iPhone, looking for honest feedback”
- TreeWalk — Maps real street trees in NYC from open city data and offers gamified tree-identification lessons for kids.“I built TreeWalk — an open-source living map of NYC's street trees, with a gamified kids' STEAM mode”
- GrowSpot — Reads the light at a specific spot and scores how suitable that spot is for a given houseplant using local weather data.“I kept second guessing every spot in my flat until my plants paid for it. So I built an app that scores the spot for the plant before you move it”
Most discussed
- Virdis — Analyzes satellite imagery and public datasets to show vegetation health, soil profiles, air quality and land use for user-drawn map regions, and generates crop plans.“I vibecoded something that really might help farmers and landowners”
- TomatoFarm — Runs an indoor tomato farm with sensors, cameras and pumps, using a council of four LLMs to propose hardware actions that pass through fail-safe limits.“I built a real AI-assisted indoor tomato farm where 4 LLMs vote on every decision”
- MowDaddy — Tracks GPS mowing paths to show lawn coverage, speed, turns, and patterns.“Built an app to track and optimize lawn mowing routes — looking for feedback and beta testers”
- Waterd — Tracks houseplant watering schedules and sends daily or weekly email reminders, with replies to the email marking plants as watered.“I built a plant watering tracker where £1 from every subscription plants a real tree. It looks like this.”
- LawnLoop — Tracks lawn mowing, watering, fertilizing, and weed treatment and shows what is due this week based on logged tasks and weather.“I vibe coded a lawn care app”
- PixiePlant — Tracks houseplant watering and care tasks on a shared schedule with a pixel-art virtual plant companion.“A Tamagotchi inspired plant care app. All hand crafted pixel art!”
- S.A.P. (Sexy Ass Plants) — Lets users explore plants, save favorites, and build garden spaces and plans from them.“I built a Plant Discovery app because AI-generated plant lists felt like they took the fun ✨ out of gardening”
- Folivy — Lets users identify plants, save them into a personal collection, and view discoveries on a map alongside plants found by others nearby.“I launched my app 3 days ago and still have zero downloads. Where am I going wrong?”
- Scanora — Identifies plants and bugs from a photo on-device, showing a match with confidence and quick facts.“A hiking incident made me build an offline plant & insext ID”
- LawnLogic — Provides a mobile app for lawn care, with a landing page linking to iOS and Android versions.“Feedback on my landing page”