Nurture: Plant Care

Nurture reminds you when your plants need care, and tells you what each one needs. The reminders ask nothing of you first: no account, no sign-up, no card. They work the moment you open the app.

Nurture counts which features get used, anonymously and never with your account, so I can tell what is worth building next. You can turn that off in Settings.

Add a plant, choose what it needs and how often, and Nurture takes it from there. It reminds you at the time you picked. Mark it done, and the next reminder schedules itself.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Set reminders for watering, fertilizing, pruning, repotting, rotating, and cleaning leaves, or write your own
• Choose any interval, in days, weeks, or months, at whatever time of day suits you
• See everything due today on a single screen
• Care early when it suits you: water a plant three days ahead and the next reminder moves with it
• Keep a photo of each plant
• Organize plants into spaces: living room, balcony, office, windowsill
• Look back at what you did and when, and fix it if you forgot to mark something at the time

KNOW WHAT YOUR PLANT ACTUALLY NEEDS

Plant apps that tell you what a plant needs usually charge for it. This one does not.

Choose your plant's species when you add it and you get a written guide to it: how it behaves in a living room, what light and water it wants, and what to do about repotting, pruning and cleaning the leaves.

The advice comes with its conditions attached, because an interval on its own is wrong half the year. "Every seven days" means one thing on a south-facing sill in July and something else in a cold room in January, or in a pot two sizes too big. So the guide tells you what to actually look at: how far down the soil is dry, the weight of the pot, what the newest leaf is doing. Then you can judge it yourself.

It covers the plants people keep at home, including the ones that punish a sensible guess. Orchids that will not flower again without a cold autumn. Cacti that want nothing at all from November to March.

Your plants, reminders and history work with no connection at all. Opening a guide page needs one the first time, after which it is kept on your device, and new plants can be added to the guide without you updating the app.

Nurture only ever suggests. It never changes a schedule you set.

IDENTIFY A PLANT FROM A PHOTO

Not sure what you have? Take a photo, and Nurture suggests what the plant is and opens its page in the guide, so you can add it with the right care from the start. It says how sure it is, and when a look-alike cannot be ruled out, it shows you that one too.

Identifying plants needs a free account, made with Apple or Google, and gives you 3 a month. Everything else works without one. Signing in moves nothing. Signing out keeps your plants on the phone, or in your account if you subscribe. Nurture does not keep the photo.

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS

Nurture can save everything into a single backup file: plants, schedules, history, and photos. You choose where it goes, whether that's a folder on your phone, your cloud drive, or wherever you like. Restore it on a new phone and it all comes back, photos included.

PREMIUM, IF YOU WANT IT

Premium is optional, and everything above works without it. It adds backup and sync, so your plants follow you to any phone, identification with no monthly limit, and caretakers for when you are away. A Household plan lets up to five people care for the same plants and see who watered.

It needs an account. Your plants, notes and photos are kept on our servers only if you subscribe or join a household, and seen only by people you share them with. If a subscription ends, nothing is deleted.

REMINDERS THAT KEEP WORKING

Reminders arrive when the app is closed, and with no connection at all. Open Nurture after restarting your phone and anything the restart disturbed is put back.

Terms of Use: https://nurture-app.w3radar.com/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://nurture-app.w3radar.com/privacy/

Recent changes:
• Nurture in Japanese: it follows the phone's language, or choose it at the top of Settings or on the tour's first slide. Search the guide by Japanese plant names, in hiragana or katakana
• In Europe, Nurture asks before sharing anonymous usage counts
• Plant codes replace gift codes
• Repeating care reads "Every day", not "Every 1 day"
• A clearer welcome tour