Plant Care: Watering Log

Plant keeps your houseplants on a schedule that changes with the year, and asks
you to check the soil rather than telling you to water on a timer.

WATERING ON A TIMER IS THE PROBLEM

More houseplants die of overwatering than of drought. Every other reminder app
has one verb — watered — so the only way to answer its prompt is to water,
whether the soil needs it or not.

This app asks you to check, and both honest answers are one tap:

• Watered it — the clock restarts from a full interval
• Still damp, left it — the clock restarts from a third of one

That second answer is recorded, not skipped. The app remembers what you found
and asks again sooner, instead of nagging you tomorrow or forgetting until next
week.

TWO INTERVALS, BECAUSE A PLANT DRINKS LESS IN WINTER

Every plant gets a growing-season interval and a resting-season one — a week
and a fortnight suit most houseplants — and the app switches between them on its
own. One number is wrong for whichever half of the year it was not chosen for,
which is why the usual advice among people who actually keep plants is to ignore
their app from November.

IT KNOWS WHICH HEMISPHERE YOU ARE IN

Set it once. South of the equator the resting season runs from May to August,
and an app that hardcodes a northern winter is not merely unhelpful there — it
is exactly inverted, telling you to stop feeding in the middle of the growing
season.

FEEDING STOPS IN WINTER, IT DOES NOT JUST SLOW DOWN

Fertiliser a resting plant cannot take up stays in the soil and burns the roots.
So feeding pauses completely, and the app names the day it resumes rather than
saying "in spring".

Feeding is off by default, because most houseplants in most homes are never fed
and an app that schedules fertiliser nobody asked for is an app that nags.

WHAT ELSE IS IN IT

• A Today screen that shows only what actually needs you
• Every plant, searchable by name, species, room or note
• A record of what you did and when, so you can see the pattern
• Repotting reminders in months, growing season only
• One notification a day, at a time you choose — never one per plant
• Dark theme, and your own language on Android 13 and newer
• Save a copy of everything to a file, and restore it on a new phone

WHAT IS NOT IN IT

No account. No sign-up. No sync. Your plants are on your phone and nowhere
else, and everything except the ads works in airplane mode.

No camera and no plant identification. Identifying a plant from a photograph
needs a server, an account and your camera, and it answers a question you only
ask once — what to call it — while this app is about the question you ask every
week.

No contacts, no location, and no exact alarm permission: soil does not dry out
at a particular second.

Plant is free and supported by ads. There is one occasional full-screen ad,
never while you are typing and never when you open the app, and you can switch
ads off for a day by watching a video if you would rather.

Recent changes:
Every row in Settings now answers when you tap its words.

Tapping "Privacy policy", "More Dash Fusion apps", "Watch a video, no ads for a day", "Save a copy" or "Restore a copy" used to do nothing - only the small button under each one worked, and a screen reader heard two buttons both called "Open". Now the whole row is the button, and it still tells a screen reader what it will do.