Reminders, when needed
A Monstera in a 24cm terracotta pot by a north window is not on the same cycle as one in plastic in a dim corner. Sprout adjusts for pot size and material, drainage, room light, window aspect and season, so the list you get is the list that is actually due.
Set a location and it reads the forecast too. Before a hot dry spell it offers to bring watering forward; before a wet week it offers to hold off. You approve every change.
“Four plants are ready for a drink. Nothing dramatic.” — Sprout
Draw your home
Trace your floor plan once. Mark the windows, point north, and Sprout works out how much light each room gets and which way it faces, then places every room on the same five-rung scale it matches species against.
Light crosses one doorway and no further, one step dimmer. A plant two rooms from a window is not in a bright room, and Sprout will not pretend it is.
Try the planner (opens in a new tab) In your browser. Nothing to install.
See it built
Watch a home go from a blank grid to a finished plan in under a minute. Draw the rooms, mark the windows and point north, and Sprout works out how much light reaches every corner, then shows where each plant will do best.
When something looks wrong
Start from what you can see: yellow leaves, brown tips, sudden drop, fungus gnats. Answer what else is true and the ranking shifts, because a supporting clue lifts a cause and a contradicting one pushes it down.
Every cause is weighted by what your species is prone to. A fern with crispy edges is a different problem from a cactus with crispy edges, and the answer comes with what to do about it.
Something worth keeping
Every plant gets a diary and a growth chart: photos, measurements, milestones, repottings, problems. Watch a cutting become a plant.
Toxicity is rated separately for cats, dogs and humans.
Tell Sprout what lives with you and it flags what matters.
The species list
The plant list on evergreen is ever growing. Each profile carries information on watering intervals, feeding cycle, ideal light, and a toxicity rating scored separately for cats, dogs and humans.
Nothing by that name yet, and more are added as we go. If yours is missing, the diagnosis tool still works without it.
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The part most apps skip
Your plants, photos, diary and schedule live on your phone and are never uploaded. There is no server, no analytics and no profile of you anywhere.
One thing leaves, and it is worth saying plainly rather than rounding up to "everything is local": if you set a location, its coordinates go to the weather service to fetch your forecast. They are rounded to about a kilometre first, so what travels is a neighbourhood rather than an address. Nothing accompanies them and nothing else is ever sent.
Questions
Yes. Sprout is free on Google Play while we gather its first reviews.
Not yet. The App Store release is on its way; Android is available now.
No. There is nothing to sign up for, and everything you add stays on your phone.
No. Reminders are scheduled by your phone itself, so they arrive when Sprout is closed.
Yes. Schedules, the planner, diagnosis and your diary all work without a connection. Only the weather forecast needs one.
Schedules cover the species above, with more added as we go, so a plant outside them can't be added yet. Diagnosis still works for any plant, with the advice left general rather than tuned to a species.
Yes. Save a backup from Settings and restore it on the new phone. The file goes wherever you send it, and nowhere else.