Pikeworks
Plant Vault
In testing
Your garden, kept properly.
Plant Vault remembers every plant you have, when you last watered it and what's in the shed. The journal works offline, and on Android your records can live in your own Google Sheet.
Android, iPhone later
Not out yet. It's in closed testing on Google Play, so you can't download it yet. Help test it and you can. Email me and I'll let you know when it is.
What it does
What it keeps track of for you.
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Every plant, numbered
Name, variety, where it is, what it cost and when it went in. Fruit trees keep their rootstock and pollination group. Seeds keep their sowing date and days to harvest.
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Care that turns up
A care guide for 298 common plants sets sensible watering and feeding, and one tap logs the job. A note each morning says what's due, and Today lists the week's seasonal jobs for what you grow, from pruning the apples to chitting potatoes.
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Frost and heat warnings
Weather for your own postcode from MET Norway, with a warning the evening before a frost.
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Your kit, counted
Pots by size, or by litres worked out from the measurements. Feed by how much is left. Seeds, tools and netting.
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Your sheet, your Drive
Link a Google Sheet and Plant Vault keeps it in step both ways. It can only see the file it made. Unlink it and everything is still on the phone. This is Android only for now: the iPhone version can't link a sheet yet.
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Ask, if you want to
Plant Vault AI answers questions about your own plants, names a plant from a photo and works out what's wrong with a leaf. It's a subscription. The rest of the app is free.
What it costs
Plant Vault is free and has no adverts. Only the AI helper costs anything.
- Price
- Free
- Purchases
- Plant Vault AI, a subscription.
- Adverts
- None.
Every plant, the care guide for 298 of them, the reminders, the weather and frost warnings, the kit list and the Google Sheet link (Android only for now) are all free, with no account to make.
The symptom checker is free too. A plant that is dying is the worst possible moment to meet a payment screen.
Plant Vault AI is a subscription, because it costs money every time it answers. It reads your own plants to answer questions about them, names a plant from a photo and works out what is wrong with a leaf.
It is the only part that is paid for, and the app is worth having without it.
Privacy and support
Your plants live on this phone. The forecast is looked up with a rounded position for each garden, and anything else only leaves when you ask: linking a Google Sheet, asking the AI helper, looking up a postcode, sending feedback, or signing in to a Pikeworks account, which keeps a private copy of your garden, photos included, so you can get it back. A Pikeworks account and friends are optional; friends see a plant only when you add it and choose to share it. The full privacy policy says exactly what is kept and what is sent.