About PLAN'T
Why PLAN'T exists
Calendar timers kill more houseplants than neglect ever will. We built the engine that replaces them.
What we believe
Plants don't know what day it is.
What they do know
- Heat
- Light
- Moisture
- Weather
- Seasons
So those are what we read.
The problem
Most plant apps hand you a timer: water every seven days. But a monstera in terracotta by a July window and the same plant in glazed ceramic in January are two different thirsts, the timer drowns one and starves the other. Root rot, the most common houseplant killer, is almost always a schedule's fault.
PLAN'T replaces the calendar with context: live local weather, the species' real appetite, whether the plant lives indoors or out and how much sun it takes there, the vessel and the mix inside it, whether the pot can drain, how much of it the roots have taken, the length of the day, and the rain due. Pot size sets how much water to pour. And because a forecast is not a soil reading, the date it lands on is a day to CHECK. You put a finger in the soil, tell us what you found, and the plant's own rhythm adjusts to that rather than to our arithmetic.
What we believe
Three things we hold to.
Care beats schedules
Plants respond to conditions, not calendars. Every recommendation starts from your climate and your setup.
Tools should be free
Identification, schedules, and tracking work without an account and always will. Sign-in buys one thing: a reminder that reaches your phone.
Show the working
Every date comes with the eleven values behind it, each one measured by re-running the real arithmetic with that value neutralised. A number you cannot check is a number you cannot argue with.
Our promise
What stays free, in writing.
Promise 1
The diagnostic engine is 100% free. Identification, schedules, and tracking, no account required.
Promise 2
Plant health never goes behind a paywall. Not now, not later.
Promise 3
The reasoning stays visible. Not a score, not a confidence percentage, but the chain that produced the date and the limits of what it knows.
See it work on your own plant