The Plantry App — Mr. Phileas, In Your Pocket
The Plantry Plant Co.
Mr. Phileas, In Your Pocket
A botanist, a passport and a greenhouse, all in one free app
Free on iPhone and Android · App Store and Google Play
It's official — Mr. Phileas is out of the greenhouse and into your pocket, free on iPhone and Android alike.
A little greenhouse you can carry, with Mr. Phileas Plant himself behind the counter. Point your camera at a leaf and he'll tell you what it is, and how sure he is. Ask him why yours is turning yellow. Save your plants, learn their proper care, and collect stamps from everywhere you botanise.
It's real, it's free, and it keeps growing. Since launch, Winston has begun stamping your Explorer's Passport with the shape of the state or country you found a plant in, Sprouts have arrived for sending a friend a tiny, wordless hello, and your garden now sorts itself by room and warns you when a cold night is coming. Here is the tour.
A note from Mr. Phileas Plant —
"You may recall that I was learning to travel in coat pockets. I am pleased to report that the practice goes splendidly. Winston, meanwhile, has taken to stamping passports with a great deal of ceremony, and insists that each stamp carry the outline of the place itself, so that Texas looks like Texas and Iceland looks, I am told, rather like Iceland. If you would care to join the endeavour, the doors are open below. Do tell me when I get a plant wrong; an honest eye is worth a dozen polite ones."
P.S. — I have also learned that certain plants do not care for a cold porch. I shall say so before the frost rather than after. Do have a look at what else has taken root.
— P.P.
What It Does
Everything a curious grower needs, in one pocket
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Point and identify
Aim your camera at a single healthy leaf and let Mr. Phileas study it. Four modes — Rooted, Cutting, Wild, or Kitchen — tune the read to what's in front of you. Pinch to zoom in on a small or faraway plant, and a calibrated second opinion double-checks the tricky ones.
An honest answer, with the reasoning shown
Every result tells you how sure he is and what he based it on, never more confidence than the evidence earns. Tap through for care guidance and an About note, save the plant to My Garden, confirm it if he got it right, or correct him if he did not. Both are welcome, and both earn points.
Bought it from us? The result says so, with a nod that we have it at The Plantry.
A botanist in your pocket
Yellow leaves? Leggy growth? A pest you can't name? Ask him anything, or show him a photo and he'll take a look. Ask from a plant's own page and he knows exactly which plant you mean. Patient, honest, and quick to admit when he isn't fully certain.
Can't find the plant you want in the shop? Tell him, and he'll take a request.
The Explorer's Passport
Stamped by Winston, with the shape of everywhere you have been
A few stamps from one gardener's passport. Every one is pressed by Winston.
Identify a plant more than 40 miles from home and Winston presses a stamp into your passport. In the middle of every stamp is the outline of the place itself, the U.S. state or the whole country, with its name set inside. Texas looks like Texas. Hawaii scatters across the stamp the way Hawaii does. Where a shape is too small or too thin to hold the words, the name sits just underneath. A green banner on your Home screen tells you the moment a new one lands.
The coverWinston, Chief Expedition Companion, on duty.
Your travelsOne stamp for every new place, countries and states alike.
Where your plants hail fromA quieter record of your collection's origins.
Only real trips count
Scanning around your home town earns nothing. The app works out home from where you scan most, or you can set it yourself. One stamp per place, ever.
Coarse, and only if you say so
Travel stamps need location turned on, one button in the Passport. They use only your town or region, never a precise spot, and only at the moment you identify a plant.
Follows your account
Signed in, your stamps are saved to your account and come back on a new phone. Where exactly you stood stays on your phone.
Your first plant gets one too
Save your very first plant and Winston stamps your home town into the book. Every plant you identify also adds the biome and continent it grows in.
Sprouts
A hello without the small talk
The Sprouts announcement, as it appears in the app.
Send a friend a Sprout
Open a friend's Gardener Card from the Leaderboard and tap Send a Sprout. One tap, one little picture, no words to find. Choose Mr. Phileas, Winston or Silas, or a rainbow, a ladybug, a ray of sunshine, a rain cloud, a fall leaf, a watering can, even a cactus hug. Seasonal Sprouts, like the autumn pumpkin and ghost, come and go with the calendar.
It's a way to say nice garden, welcome, or I'm thinking of you, without touching a keyboard. A Sprout earns no points and asks for no reply, so there is nothing to keep up with. Friends find theirs under Sprouts you got, and you can look back at the ones you sent.
Sprouts travel between friends. Add one by scanning their friend code, which takes about a moment.
Your Garden, Kept Like a Home
Rooms, windows, watering and weather
Give every plant a room
Tell The Plantry which room each plant lives in (Living room, Kitchen, Office, Front porch, or a name of your own) and My Garden can regroup itself by room. Sections fold away when you want a quieter view, and a single tap brings back the usual list.
Does this spot suit it?
In a plant's growth journal, note which way its window faces and how bright the spot is. The Plantry compares your answer with the plant's own care guide and tells you, gently, whether it's a good match, a little dim, or getting too much sun.
It is the guide's opinion, not a verdict. Mr. Phileas can't see your window, and a happy plant knows best. The journal also keeps your notes and photos, with a slider to drag between then and now.
A word before the frost
Keep a plant on the porch, the patio or in the yard, set its room to match, and your Home screen will name the plants to bring indoors when a cold night is forecast. On the coldest nights your phone can remind you at five o'clock, too.
It's a forecast for your area, not your porch, so treat it as a nudge and trust your thermometer.
A watering round that knows your plants
Switch on a reminder and each plant gets its own rhythm, adjusted for its soil, its pot and how snugly it fits. The Watering screen lines up what's thirsty now, what's due today and what's coming this week, and My Garden can show only the plants that need a drink.
The Kitchen Garden
Growing food, not just houseplants? Scan in Kitchen mode, then sow what you plant into beds. Each sowing counts down to harvest with what a ready one looks like, keeps its own diary, and can nudge you when it's ready to pick. Your beds follow your account, right alongside My Garden.
Know What You're Looking At
Matched to your home, honest about pets, clear about origins
Five honest questionsLight, pets, watering, experience, and how many picks.
Picks he'd stand behindIn his own words, from what's actually in stock.
Plant Matchmaker. Answer a few quick questions and Mr. Phileas curates your matches himself, from what's actually in stock. If he isn't certain a plant is safe around a pet, he sets it aside and says so. He would rather give you fewer picks he's sure of than guess. And if nothing here truly suits you, he names something else, honestly labeled "Not currently at The Plantry."
Pets come firstUnsafe plants are flagged on the result, with who to ring.
Where it's actually fromIts native range, on a real map.
Plants that aren't safe for cats and dogs are flagged right on the result, drawn from The Plantry's own list, with a plain note on who to ring if a pet has nibbled. And every care guide plots the plant's native range on a map, which is the difference between being told "keep it humid" and understanding why. One more promise: Mr. Phileas will never tell you a wild plant is safe to eat from a photograph.
Grow and Collect
Points, levels, and a few things worth bragging about
EarnedEach badge has its own little painting.
Almost thereA ring fills as you close in, and glows when you're nearly done.
Thirty-nine badges to earn, from a first snap to a hundred-day streak, with a rim that shows how rare each one is: copper, silver, gold, or gold set with little green gems. Earn points, level up from Sprout to Master Botanist, and keep a daily streak going. Climb the Greenhouse leaderboard among friends or globally, add a fellow gardener with a friend-code scan, and tap a friend to see their Gardener Card: level, streak, favourite plant and badges.
Always Within Reach
Home Screen widgets, and everything one tap from Home
The widgets, shown on Android. iPhone has them too.
Add The Plantry to your Home Screen and Mr. Phileas comes along for the ride: your plant count and streak at a glance, a one-tap shortcut to identify something new, the next plant that needs water, everything coming due, and a bit of his advice each day. No need to even open the app to see what needs you.
One tidy hub
Your Passport, History, My Garden, Watering, the Kitchen Garden, the Leaderboard and your Badges all sit on one Home screen, under Mr. Phileas's greeting and the day's care notes. Light or dark, to suit your phone.
Scan your Plantry tag
Bought one of ours? Scan the code on the pot to pull up its exact care card in a tap.
Going away? Make a Sitter Pass
Text whoever is watering a link. No app, no account: they see each plant with its watering note and tap Mark watered. You'll need to be signed in to make one.
Share a care card
Send a plant's photo with its light, water, soil and humidity on it. A picture gets read where a wall of text doesn't.
Your garden follows you
Sign in and your plants, journal, confirmations and passport stamps sync safely across your devices.
Wishlist and restock alerts
Heart a plant you can't find and get word when it's back in stock at The Plantry.
Honest by default
Market value stays off unless you ask for it. The app leads with care, not commerce, always.
It's Here — Step Inside the Greenhouse
It's free, it takes about two minutes, and there's plenty to try: stamp your passport, send a friend a Sprout, give your plants their rooms, and ask Mr. Phileas something. And there's one thing we'd especially love: tell us when he gets a plant wrong. The whole app is built to be honest about what it doesn't know.
Free and fully live — tap Get, then Open, and Mr. Phileas is in your pocket. No TestFlight, no waiting room, no group to join.
Free and fully live on Google Play too. Tap the button, tap Install, and you're in.
iPhone and iPad
Android
On a computer? Scan a code above with your phone's camera to pull it up right where you'll use it.
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Need a Hand?
Mr. Phileas does his best, but some things are easier fixed by a person than a mossy botanist
An identification seems off
Tell him so — right on the result, tap “Ask Mr. Phileas Plant about this plant” and let him know what he got wrong. An honest eye is worth a dozen polite ones.
Notifications aren’t arriving
Check your phone’s own notification settings first — Settings → Notifications → The Plantry. Still nothing? Email us below with your device and OS version.
You’d like your data removed
Open the app, go to Account → Settings, and use Delete Account — it removes your saved plants, journal, and photos. Or email us and we’ll do it by hand.
Something crashed or broke
Tell us what you were doing right before it happened, plus your device and OS version — that’s the single most useful thing you can send us.
Anything else — email jon@plantryplantco.com and a person will get back to you, not a bot. See our Privacy Policy for how your information is handled.
— Filed from the potting bench, while the app takes root.
