Yoi Bonsai

Yoi Bonsai is the all-in-one companion for serious and casual bonsai enthusiast. Build a private record of every tree in your collection: photos through the seasons, repotting and pruning notes, watering reminders, and AI-assisted summaries that turn years of log entries into a clean, readable history.

Free to download. Track up to 10 trees with free version, browse the Ichiba marketplace, and message sellers about trees you'd like to add to your collection.

Upgrade to Premium for unlimited trees, AI features, the full marketplace experience, and sharing tools you'll actually use.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Track your trees
• Add a photo, a note, or both — every entry timestamps automatically
• Photos by season build a visual history you can scroll through
• Repotting log keeps the date you last touched the soil one tap away
• Cover photo, species, height, pot, age — the details that matter to you and a future buyer

Reminders that respect how bonsai actually works
• Recurring monthly reminders for the work you do every year (repot, fertilize, wire-off, defoliate)
• Single-tree or multi-tree reminders — fertilize the whole back bench in one tap
• Mark a reminder complete and it auto-creates a log entry on each tree, so your history stays in sync

AI-powered summaries (Premium)
• Generate a clean, readable summary of any tree's history from its log entries — perfect for sharing or remembering what you did three years ago

Ichiba marketplace
• Browse trees for sale from other growers
• Message sellers directly to ask questions before buying
• Premium subscribers can list their own trees, including AI-assisted listing copy
• Tree transfers move ownership cleanly with full history intact

Sharing and collaboration (Premium)
• Share trees with another grower — read-only or full edit access
• Transfer trees permanently when you sell, gift, or downsize
• Built for instructor / student workflows where both parties need to see and update the same trees

Privacy first
• Your trees, photos, and notes are yours alone unless you choose to share
• No ads, no tracking pixels, no selling your data — ever
• Sign out wipes the device; delete your account and we anonymize the record

PLANS

Free
• 10 trees
• Photos, logs, reminders
• Browse Ichiba and message sellers
• Buy trees from other growers

Premium (monthly or annual)
• Unlimited trees
• AI tree summaries and listing copy
• List trees for sale on Ichiba
• Share and transfer trees with other growers
• Direct messaging beyond the marketplace

If a Premium subscription expires, your trees, photos, and reminders all stay. You'll have a 7-day grace period before the limits return; the first 10 trees you created remain editable, and the rest become read-only until you renew or trim back.

WHO BUILDS THIS

Yoi Bonsai is built and maintained by Lonnie Bowling — a working bonsai enthusiast. The project is run as a service to the bonsai community, not as a profit-maximizing business: the goal is the best possible platform, a reasonable subscription to develop and maintain it, and contribution to the advancement of the hobby and the art. The structural choices that follow are deliberate:

• Ichiba charges zero fees. Sellers keep 100% of the sale.
• Subscription fee held or lowered as the goal — never raised just to chase profit.
• No ads. No tracking pixels. No selling your data — ever.
• One-tap export of every tree, log entry, and reminder, plus bulk photos at original quality.
• Real questions reach a real person. 3–5 business days, often faster.
• If the app is ever discontinued, you get 90 days notice and a final export.

This is built to be good for the long-haul enthusiast, not optimized for the new install.

Cancel anytime through your App Store subscriptions. Auto-renews unless cancelled.

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