GardenDex is a plant identifier, plant care tracker and garden planner in one app. Snap a photo to name any plant, collect it as a card, follow it from seed to harvest, and see your whole garden from above, with the real sun every bed gets.
📷 NAME ANY PLANT FROM A PHOTO
Photograph a leaf, flower, fruit, seedling or plant label. GardenDex identifies it and makes a plant card with its sun, water and soil needs, pH, spacing, harvest time and a care tip. Vegetables, herbs, fruit, flowers, houseplants, succulents and trees all work. When a few look-alikes are possible, you see the candidates and how to tell them apart instead of a confident guess.
🌱 FROM SEED TO HARVEST
Every plant has growth stages: seed, seedling, growing, flowering, fruiting and harvest. Move a plant on with one tap, see roughly when it will be ready to pick, and get a gentle nudge when a stage is usually due.
💧 CARE REMINDERS AND ONE-TAP LOGGING
Log watering, feeding, pruning and harvests with one tap, or simply say what you did. The Care tab shows who needs looking after today, soonest first. Set care reminders, keep your streak going, and look back on a journal of photos and notes for every plant.
🗺️ YOUR GARDEN FROM ABOVE
Lay out your garden to scale: beds, raised beds, pots, the shed, greenhouse, trees and paths. Got a veggie patch, a front verandah and a balcony? Give each its own map and switch between them. Tap a bed to open it and plant it square by square. Companion planting checks run as you go: good neighbours glow green and bad pairs warn in red, with the reason why.
☀️ REAL SUN HOURS FOR EVERY BED
Tell GardenDex which way is north (your phone's compass can do it) and it traces the sun across your garden for today, midsummer and midwinter. Every bed gets its hours of direct sun, counting shade from the house, sheds, trees, fences and verandahs, so you know where sun-lovers will thrive and where shade plants belong.
🔬 PLANT DOCTOR
Spots, yellow leaves, wilting or bugs? Photograph the problem and the plant doctor names the likely disease, pest or deficiency, rates how serious it is, and gives a step-by-step treatment plan with organic options and tips to stop it coming back. Save the diagnosis to the plant's journal.
🏆 COLLECT, LEVEL UP, EARN BADGES
Every plant becomes a collectible card with its own rarity. Earn collector points, level up from Seedling to Garden Legend, and unlock badges for streaks, harvests, pollinators and more. You can scan the bugs and birds you spot in the garden too.
🏡 SHARED GARDENS
Gardening with family, housemates or a community plot? Share your garden with an invite code so everyone logs to the same plants: no double watering, one shared streak.
🌦️ WEATHER-AWARE ADVICE
Add your location and GardenDex follows your season and local forecast, with alerts such as frost warnings that name the plants to protect.
☁️ SYNC, BACKUP AND OFFLINE
Start without an account. Sign in for free to sync your plants and garden map across devices, export a backup any time, and keep your collection available offline.
Free to use, with an optional GardenDex Pro subscription.
Whether you grow tomatoes on a balcony, tend a vegetable patch or help run a community garden, GardenDex helps you know your plants, care for them on time and plan a garden that grows well together.
Identify plants by photo, track their care and plan beds with real sun hours