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Make a plant care and watering app for iPhone

Every plant wants water on its own schedule. Describe your plants and Borel builds a native iPhone plant care app in SwiftUI: a photo of each one, how often it needs water and food, a reminder on the right day, a growth timeline from your photos, and an AI helper you can ask about yellow leaves.

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A prompt to start from
“A plant care app: each plant has a name, a photo, a room, and how often it needs water and fertiliser. The home screen shows which plants need water today. A reminder comes at 9 am on watering days. Each plant has a photo timeline. Let me ask an AI about a problem, with a photo of the leaf.”

Screens

What a plant care app needs

The screens Borel builds from the prompt above. Ask for more, fewer or different ones.

  • Today

    The plants that need water or food today, ticked off with one tap.

  • My plants

    Every plant as a photo card, grouped by room.

  • Plant

    Its schedule, last watered date, notes and a timeline of photos.

  • Ask

    Describe a problem or add a photo, and get advice from AI.

Data

What it keeps

Borel writes these as Swift models. On the phone they work with no connection; in Borel's cloud they follow a signed-in person.

What a plant care app made with Borel keeps, and where
WhatHoldsKept
PlantName, room, photo, water and food intervalsOn the phone, with SwiftData
Care logPlant, date, watered or fedOn the phone, with SwiftData
PhotoPlant, date, pictureOn the phone, with the plant

Make it yours

What to ask for next

Once the first version runs, ask for changes in the chat, in words like these.

  • “Water less often in winter, from November to February.”
  • “Let me mark a plant as away, like when it's at a friend's.”
  • “Show a grid of every photo of one plant, oldest first.”

How to make it

From a prompt to your iPhone and the App Store

  • 1

    Describe it

    Paste the prompt on this page into Borel, or write your own in plain words. Borel plans the screens with you before it builds.

  • 2

    Try it in your browser

    Borel writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI, builds it with Xcode on its own Mac and opens it in a live iPhone simulator in your browser, free.

  • 3

    Put it on your iPhone

    With Pro, Borel Companion for Windows or Mac installs it on your own iPhone with your Apple ID: a cable the first time, then Wi-Fi.

  • 4

    Publish it when it's ready

    Pro publishes to the App Store from the same project. Apple's Developer Program, $99 a year, is the one thing you pay Apple.

Reminders and the camera need the real iPhone. Add your actual plants with photos, set one to be due tomorrow, and check the reminder arrives at 9 am and opens the right plant when you tap it.

Plant shops can publish a care app for their customers with their plants already in it. Borel's cloud keeps the shop's plant guide up to date for everyone without a new version.

Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month, and the simulator in your browser costs nothing. Pro, from $20 a month, adds installs on your own iPhone through Borel Companion and publishing to the App Store.

Before you start

Good to know

  • It doesn't identify a plant species from a photo by itself; the AI can suggest what it might be, and you confirm it.
  • Reminders follow the schedule you set; the app has no soil sensors.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Give each plant its own interval, and Borel schedules a reminder on the iPhone for each due day.

It can ask Borel's AI with your description and photo, and show the answer. Treat it as advice, not a diagnosis.

Yes, except the AI questions. Plants, schedules, photos and reminders all work offline.

Yes, with accounts in Borel's cloud: everyone sees who watered what, once the app is on the App Store for them.

Make your plant care app

Start from the prompt on this page, change it to fit your idea, and Borel builds it while you watch.