Four things. Then it mostly runs itself.
Setup takes about a minute, and there is no account screen in the way of it.
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Say where you are
Or let it find you. You get your hardiness zone, your climate region and live weather. 16 regions worldwide, so it works outside Canada too.
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Add your plants
Type a name, or photograph the bed and let the AI lay the whole thing out. Care profiles come attached, you do not build them.
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Look at it in the morning
Today's tasks, per bed, each with the reason underneath. Water now, water light, or skip. Frost and severe weather get flagged early.
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Do it, or decide it can wait
Both count. The streak only goes up on days you did the right thing, and some days the right thing is nothing at all.
Not sure where step one starts for you? Tap the thing you are actually working with and we will point you at the right door.
Garden and ops dashboard
The one you will live in. Build your garden by name or from a photo, then get watering, feeding and harvest timing per bed, plus diagnosis and weather alerts.
Open dashboardFertilizer and pest guide
Pick a plant type and a region, get feeding and pest advice built for it. 12 plant types across 16 regions, with pollinator and pre-harvest safety flagged every time.
Open guideAutonomous build guide
Want the garden to mostly run itself? Sensors and a liquid feed tank that water and fertilize once you tap yes. Parts list, where to buy, plain steps. Under $250.
Open build guideIt shows you the arithmetic.
Most plant apps remind you on a fixed schedule. A schedule does not know it rained on Tuesday. Plantelli runs a water balance per bed off live Open-Meteo data: what the plants need, what the sky already gave them, what evaporated. Then it says what to do and shows its work, so you can check it instead of just trusting it.
Deep soak the tomato bed.
About 9 L, or 6 minutes on the wand. At the base, keep the leaves dry.
Why Plantelli is saying this
22mm received17mm short of 39mm/wk
need ~39mm/wk · rain past 7d 22mm · next 48h 0mm
ET0 past 3d 4.9mm/day · deficit 17mm · bed is 2 days past due
Both count. Deciding a plant is not thirsty yet is a win, not a skip.
Leave it alone until Friday.
31mm received5mm over 26mm/wk
need ~26mm/wk · rain past 7d 31mm · next 48h 6mm
deep roots, established · balance +5mm · no action
A small drink, not a soak.
27mm received6mm short of 33mm/wk
about 4L · deficit 6mm · watered 3 days ago
Same three verdicts every morning, for every bed. If you think it is wrong, the numbers are right there, and you can just water it anyway. It is your garden.
One photo. A real answer, and the gentlest fix first.
Nothing staged below. One phone snap of a sulking houseplant, and this is genuinely what came back. Plant ID apps stop at the name. Plantelli gives you the IPM ladder: identify, then start on the rung that does the least harm.
What you snap
Curled leaves, no idea why. Shot on a living room floor, right next to a heat vent, which turns out to matter.
Never-Never Plant
Ctenanthe setosa, often sold as Calathea setosa
The tight, tube-like curl is the plant conserving moisture, from low humidity, underwatering, or hot dry air. Note the heating vent on the floor nearby. Spider mites often follow stressed Marantaceae, so check the leaf undersides while you are there.
Treatment ladder least harm first
Relocate it
Off the heat vent, out of the draft. Free, and it is the single biggest move here.
Wash both sides of the leaves
Tepid water, gentle. Trim the dead stems out while you are at it.
Water properly, then stop
Soak until it runs from the drainage holes, then let it drain fully. Do not leave it sitting in a saucer.
Insecticidal soap, only if mites persist
Coat the undersides. Repeat every 5-7 days for 3 applications, since it only kills on contact.
Pyrethrin, last resort only
Spot treat, label rate, never a routine spray. Marantaceae can burn, so test one leaf first.
The plant looks how the plant is.
Every plant in your garden is drawn, and the drawing changes with its real state. Thirsty leaves droop and lose colour. A sick plant carries its mark. It does not perk up because you tapped a button, it perks up when the readings say it did.
We are new. So here is what is actually true.
No download counter, no star rating, no testimonials we wrote ourselves. Just the things you can check for yourself in about a minute.
The comparison, factually. We opened Planta, PictureThis, Blossom and Greg in August 2026, and every one of those four put something useful behind a subscription. Plantelli has no paywall to hit, because there is nothing here to sell you. Checked August 2026, and these things move. Go and look for yourself. If it changes on their side, this line changes on ours.
The full list. Nothing padded.
If it is on this list, it is in the app today. The three marked new are landing right now.
Weather-aware watering
Live Open-Meteo forecast, past 7 day rainfall and ET0 evapotranspiration, run into a per-bed water balance. Out comes water now, water light or skip, with the reasoning string attached.
AI photo diagnosis, IPM first
Identification plus a least-toxic-first treatment ladder. Pollinator safety notes and pre-harvest intervals on edibles. Hosted, so there is no API key to go find.
Build the whole garden from a photo
Shoot your beds from a couple of angles. The AI finds each bed and plant, stitches the shots together, and adds everything with care already attached. No typing.
12 categories, 16 regions
Twelve plant care categories, sixteen climate regions worldwide, hardiness zones, and auto location detect so you do not have to look any of it up.
Frost and severe weather alerts
Frost, heat spikes, hard wind, hail and heavy rain, flagged before they land, with what to actually do about each one.
Fertilizer and pest guide
N-P-K, rate and method for your plant type and region. Acid lovers get flagged, because most prairie soil sits around pH 7.5 to 8 and a standard feed will not fix that.
Season calendar
Harvest windows, spring prep, winter prep and the overwintering list. What to dig up, what to cover, what to bring indoors, and roughly when.
Care streak New
It only counts the days you did the right thing, and correctly deciding a plant is not due yet counts. A missed day dents the row, it does not wipe it.
Honest health states New
Thriving, thirsty, struggling, sick. Per plant, drawn, and driven by the record rather than by whether you tapped a button today.
Today's tasks New
One list, ordered, with the reason under each item. Get through it in a couple of minutes and you are done for the day.
Sensor ready
Built to take soil moisture sensors and approval-based watering later. There is a full parts list and a build guide if you want to go that way.
Web dashboard too
The whole thing runs in a browser as well, same data, same maths. Handy when you are planning beds on a laptop rather than standing in the dirt.
It is free. That is the whole section.
Not free for 7 days. Not free until your third plant. Not free with a modal on every launch. Just free.
- Every feature. Watering maths, photo diagnosis, build from a photo, alerts, the guide, the calendar. All of it, all the time.
- No account. No email box, no password, no "verify to continue".
- No paywall and no trial clock. There is nothing to cancel, because there is nothing to start.
- No ads, and no selling your garden. Your beds and plants stay on your device.
Plantelli is free and it stays free. The AI diagnosis does cost real money to run, so if it saves a plant for you, you can chip in to keep it running. Entirely optional, and it unlocks absolutely nothing.
Get Plantelli on your phone.
It is the garden you carry around anyway. Point it at a plant, it tells you what is wrong. Open it in the morning, it tells you what needs water and what does not.
Live on iOS and Android. No sign up, no email, no trial clock.
Or open the dashboard in your browser