Just short of perfection
I love this app, it has helped me to monitor my water intake and at times forced me to drink water when I would rather be drinking something else, all in an effort to keep my little planties happy.
I have 3 issues that I hope would be addressed in the near future. Firstly I would like to change the amount of water I drink, I don’t always drink 240ml. Secondly, I would like to be able to use my watch to log when I drink, its way easier to do and a lot more convenient. This ties into my final issue, when I’m driving, or otherwise engaged, I drink water, but I’m unable to log it(the watch can assist with this). When I do get a chance, it’s a bit annoying to get a warning message about drinking too much water every time. I hope the developer can find a workaround for this.
That being said, I love this app, it’s my favorite water tracker and I have no intention of switching to any other. Highly recommended
I have 3 issues that I hope would be addressed in the near future. Firstly I would like to change the amount of water I drink, I don’t always drink 240ml. Secondly, I would like to be able to use my watch to log when I drink, its way easier to do and a lot more convenient. This ties into my final issue, when I’m driving, or otherwise engaged, I drink water, but I’m unable to log it(the watch can assist with this). When I do get a chance, it’s a bit annoying to get a warning message about drinking too much water every time. I hope the developer can find a workaround for this.
That being said, I love this app, it’s my favorite water tracker and I have no intention of switching to any other. Highly recommended
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I love it!
Plant Nanny is very helpful in keeping me drinking the amount of water I should everyday. It doesn’t even feel much like a chore because I’m keeping this cute little plant alive!😜 I do wish I could take a glass of water through my Apple Watch... this would be way more convenient because I see the notification pop up but am usually talking to someone or in other words, too busy to bring out my phone at the moment and I forget later. And the other thing I would like to see is more ways to get more involved in the game... My son likes to play the game just for the plant and it does encourage him to drink more water, however, when water isn’t available (or he’s too lazy to get it) he likes to douce the plant in tons of water he isn’t actually drinking because there isn’t much else to do... I know that is very specific and more my problem than yours, but I think if you were to take care of it more like play games or more customizations, like of the background, people might have a better time visiting the game... Again, more my problem than yours so this is only a tiny suggestion if you want..
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Keep It Up!
I use Plant Nanny because it’s the most atheistically pleasing tracker and also functions as a game, that being said there are ways it can be improved on to just be that little more satisfying to use.
1. I know you get a lot of reviews asking for you to add more pots, personally I think more is less, narrow down the types of pots but add some interesting looking ones, they’re all similar shapes and mostly just colour variants. Anything can be a pot if you really want it to be.
2. I would like an option to remove adds, keep your other games in the buy menu, I’m fine with that, I don’t like the apps in the news tab or under the grown plants, I’d pay to remove them in a heartbeat.
3. Settings menu is clunky and accounts don’t register properly, I’m known as a random assortment of characters by the game.
4. Quests. They don’t really function as well as I hoped, I’d suggest replacing them entirely with a weekly challenges board, setting challenges like within the next week grow a sunflower for rewards. It would give a reason to grow these less expensive plants other than to unlock the creatures, I have no reason to grow anything less than a cactus right now.
5. Give function to the creatures.
Anything is better than nothing at all.
Just don’t make it bland. ;)
They could be used in some sort of minigame.
I love the game and I feel like I’ve become a lot healthier do it. I hope there is motivation to make Plant Nanny even better.
1. I know you get a lot of reviews asking for you to add more pots, personally I think more is less, narrow down the types of pots but add some interesting looking ones, they’re all similar shapes and mostly just colour variants. Anything can be a pot if you really want it to be.
2. I would like an option to remove adds, keep your other games in the buy menu, I’m fine with that, I don’t like the apps in the news tab or under the grown plants, I’d pay to remove them in a heartbeat.
3. Settings menu is clunky and accounts don’t register properly, I’m known as a random assortment of characters by the game.
4. Quests. They don’t really function as well as I hoped, I’d suggest replacing them entirely with a weekly challenges board, setting challenges like within the next week grow a sunflower for rewards. It would give a reason to grow these less expensive plants other than to unlock the creatures, I have no reason to grow anything less than a cactus right now.
5. Give function to the creatures.
Anything is better than nothing at all.
Just don’t make it bland. ;)
They could be used in some sort of minigame.
I love the game and I feel like I’ve become a lot healthier do it. I hope there is motivation to make Plant Nanny even better.
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No app watch interaction?
Hey. It could be perfect if it let my Apple Watch submits a log too
Make iWatch compatible
It would be nice to be able to actually water the plants from the iWatch app.
One step forward two steps back?
Edit - you now have multiple containers available at once, so I have adjusted my rating and moved over from Plant Nanny. I do still wish the app icon told me how many glasses I have left to drink today, like the old one did, so I don’t have to go into the app to check if I’m on track. Hopefully they will fix that eventually.
This seems a DOWNGRADE from Plant Nanny in many ways. I now can’t have multiple saved containers, the app icon no longer tells me how many glasses I have left to drink today, the shop has fewer options to unlock (though maybe you get more as you level up)... There just doesn’t appear to be any reason to ‘upgrade’, and several reasons not to, so I’m going back to the original. Very disappointed and confused to see actual useful features dropped in favour of a graphics overhaul.
This seems a DOWNGRADE from Plant Nanny in many ways. I now can’t have multiple saved containers, the app icon no longer tells me how many glasses I have left to drink today, the shop has fewer options to unlock (though maybe you get more as you level up)... There just doesn’t appear to be any reason to ‘upgrade’, and several reasons not to, so I’m going back to the original. Very disappointed and confused to see actual useful features dropped in favour of a graphics overhaul.
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Great water reminder but could be better
This is a great way for you to get set reminders (you can choose when) to drink water every day. It’s fun and cute. Nevertheless, they could improve the app by the following few things. They let you name the plant (the plants are already named by the type of flower or plant it is, but you can change it) yet on the main watering page and even after it’s planted into it’s Flower Box in the tree hole, the names of the plants are never shown anywhere. It would be nice if they would put the names at the bottom of the planter of each plant. I played the original Plant Nanny for a couple years and it had more plants to choose from (and the names were displayed). Plant Nanny 2 only has seven plants to choose from. They really need to add more plants, not to mention more pot options (colors, shapes, designs) as well. Other than that, I can’t think of anything else that would make the game better but will update my review later. All in all, it is a great app and you should give it a shot!
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Cute, but missing v1 concenience
Pros: The new modern interface is nice and it's a definite plus that I'm able to link to Apple's Health app. If you're like me and you dislike seeing a red notification bubble on your home screen, you'll like that this version doesn't utilize that as a countdown feature.
Cons: There is only one quick cup size. While you can customize how many oz or ml in your "default," I don't always use the same cup size all day and need to manually adjust it every time. I liked the feature in v1 that allowed you to preset multiple cups you might drink from in a given day. I hope a future update will make this available. Also, the notification is not dynamic. I just recorded drinking a glass of water, and two minutes later was reminded to drink more just because it was on the hour. I know going in to record more already will give me a warning to slow down, so I would like to see a notification pop up an hour from my last cup rather than prompted by the world clock.
Cons: There is only one quick cup size. While you can customize how many oz or ml in your "default," I don't always use the same cup size all day and need to manually adjust it every time. I liked the feature in v1 that allowed you to preset multiple cups you might drink from in a given day. I hope a future update will make this available. Also, the notification is not dynamic. I just recorded drinking a glass of water, and two minutes later was reminded to drink more just because it was on the hour. I know going in to record more already will give me a warning to slow down, so I would like to see a notification pop up an hour from my last cup rather than prompted by the world clock.
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Love it but
It should also have a button for when ur sick, to remind u to drink more water than ur daily dose to help ur body heal
Not an improvement
I loved the original plant nanny. It is simple but effective and engaging. This newer version is too busy and complicated, and it is not convenient to change cup sizes. Don’t they realise that over one day we may drink from multiple glasses/bottles of different sizes? You also can’t see how much of your daily water you have drunk from the main page. I will be returning to the original version I think.
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