Your own version
Your own Planta-style plant care app on your iPhone
Planta times watering from your plants, your room and your local weather, and can identify a plant from a photo. If you know your plants and just want a dependable schedule for each one, describe your collection to Borel. It writes a native plant care app in Swift with reminders, photos and notes, kept on your iPhone.
Updated . Borel isn’t connected to Planta.
“A plant care app for my 20 houseplants. Each plant has a name, room, photo, and its own watering and feeding interval, with a summer and a winter setting. Today shows what needs water, grouped by room, and one tap marks it done. Remind me at 8:00 on watering days. Each plant keeps a monthly photo timeline and notes.”
About Planta
What people like about Planta
In our words, from what Planta says about itself.
- Watering reminders that, Planta says, weigh over 30 factors plus local climate and weather.
- Plant identification from a photo, and Dr. Planta for sick plants.
- A light meter to match plants to rooms, and reminders to fertilise, mist and repot.
Planta's home page offers a 12-month purchase but doesn't show its price.
Made for you
What your own plant care app can do
What the prompt above builds, and what you can change by asking Borel in plain words.
Each plant's own rhythm
Every 7 days in summer and every 14 in winter, set by you for each pot.
Rooms and windowsills
Plants grouped by room, so a single reminder covers the whole sill.
Growth photos
A picture a month, laid side by side, so new leaves are easy to spot.
Done in one tap
Tick watered or fed, and the next date moves on by itself.
Said plainly
How it's different
- It doesn't identify plants or diagnose problems from a photo, and doesn't know your local weather.
- Its schedules are the ones you set, not advice from a plant database.
- There's no light meter; you decide which room suits each plant.
- Your app isn't Planta and won't look or work like it: it has only what you ask Borel to build, and none of Planta's own content.
- Your data stays in your own app: on your iPhone by default, or in your app's own database in Borel's cloud if you add accounts.
How to get yours
From the prompt to your home screen
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Start from the prompt
Change anything in it first: names, rules, screens. Borel asks what it needs to know, then writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI.
- 2
Use it in your browser
It opens in a live iPhone simulator streamed from Borel's Mac, at no cost. Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month.
- 3
Keep it on your iPhone
With Pro, from $20 a month, Borel Companion installs it with a free Apple ID, up to 3 apps at a time, and renews each one every 7 days while it runs.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Give each plant a summer and a winter interval, and the app switches on the dates you choose.
It can give general tips from a plant's name through the AI included with Borel apps; check anything important with a reliable source.
No. One morning reminder lists every plant due that day, however many there are.
Ask for a holiday mode that moves every due date past your return and reminds you to water the day before you leave.
Make your own plant care app
Start from the prompt on this page and change it until it's yours. Borel builds it while you watch.