# GARDENIZE Plant Care Gardening — Plant identification & Garden

> Digital gardening journal for plant care, organization, and community. (iPhone/iPad app by Gardenize AB.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardenize-plant-care-gardening/id1118448120 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Gardenize AB](https://appshunter.io/developer/1118448119)
- Category: Lifestyle, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 270 App Store ratings · 163 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 158 MB
- Languages: American English, Danish, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, European Spanish, Swedish
- Released: 2016-07-23
- Data updated: 2026-08-18
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardenize-plant-care-gardening/id1118448120/reviews.md

## What is GARDENIZE Plant Care Gardening?

Keep track of your plants and grow your best garden with Gardenize!   
  
– Plant database with over 45 000 plants 
– Organize and create an overview of everything you have planted and where.   
– Get personalized plant care notes 
– Identify plants and add them directly to your digital garden   
– Get a historic overview of everything that has happened in your garden.   
– Set reminders, make notes and create to-do lists, visible in your calendar  
– Learn and be inspired by other gardeners and experts   
  

Download Gardenize now to let your digital gardening journal make it easier to overview, organize, understand, and develop your garden. Beginner, enthusiast or professional, let Gardenize be your Garden sidekick.   

FEATURES:   

PLANT DATABASE & CARE NOTES:   
Add plants from our database with over 45,000 species or by using the PlantID feature, and receive care advice along with other helpful information. Get personalized plant care tips tailored to your specific plants and garden location. 
 
SMART GARDEN PLANNING:   
With the smart calendar view, you get an overview of your to-do’s and you can easily plan your gardening. Set single or recurring reminders customized to your plant's needs and get notified when it’s time for watering, fertilizing, trimming, repotting, etc. Draw on images with the drawing tool to remember where you planted your bulbs or where and what to prune in the fall. Never forget a single plant again!   

ORGANIZE PLANTS & AREAS:   
Build your own unlimited garden library. For each plant, add your own photos, notes and caring instructions and connect it to one or many of your garden areas/cultivation sites. Organize your garden into an unlimited number of outdoor or indoor garden areas. Flowerbeds, borders, or raised beds, you can name them as you wish.   
    
NOTES & LISTS:   
The Event function is flexible and can be used for notes of all your gardening activities and events. Create your own "activity types" and link to plants and areas. Add photos & notes. Follow the progress of your efforts, monitor, and compare the results of your experiments on everything from growing development and crop rotation to nutrients. Create a Wishlist or a to-do list.   

SMART FILTERING:   
Use the filtering function to easily see where your plants are placed in your garden, what was done, and planted where in your garden. Stay aware of when you seeded your carrots or get a complete list of all your tomato varieties!   

INSPIRATION   
Use the inspiration feed to get gardening inspiration and all the answers you are looking for. Search & save posts you like, so you easily find them again. Get inspired by fellow gardeners and check out their gardens!   

GARDEN COMMUNITY   
Connect with garden friends, take a look inside their gardens and invite others to look into yours. You can also search for public parks and gardens to visit. Connect and share knowledge via the chat function.   

MULTIPLE PHOTOS   
Saving many images of a plant or an area is an excellent way to keep track of and remember how it has looked over time.   
 
DATA EXPORT 
Neat freak or Excel nerd? By exporting and downloading your data to a spreadsheet you can print lists of your plants to share with others and a good way to have a backup and summarize costs.   

Gardenize is free to download and use with the basic functions. Subscribe to Gardenize Plus to enable all features. It comes with a free 14-day trial and you can subscribe and unsubscribe whenever you want to. The content you add during your Gardenize Plus period will still be available for you if terminating your subscription. 

Gardenize is available in 8 languages!

Questions, suggestions or improvements? Contact us: customerservice@gardenize.com   

https://www.gardenize.com/terms_and_conditions_en/   
https://www.gardenize.com/privacy-policy/

## Key features

- Extensive plant database
- Personalized plant care advice
- Garden organization by area
- Plant identification feature
- Customizable care reminders
- Gardening activity logging
- Community inspiration feed

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| This subscription type expired | $6.99 | per month |
| Subscription not available | $6.99 | per month |
| 12 Months | $34.99 | per year |
| 3 Months | $17.49 | per 3 months |
| 1 Month | $6.99 | per month |


## What do users think of GARDENIZE Plant Care Gardening?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🌱 Excellent for cataloging plants
- 📸 Ability to add photos and track progress
- 🗓️ Helpful for planning and scheduling gardening tasks
- 🗂️ Organized by garden areas
- 💻 Syncs across devices
- 🤝 Potential for sharing with family/friends

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and crashes after updates
- 🔒 Loss of data after updates
- 💰 Paywall for basic features
- 🔍 Limited plant database
- 🕰️ Lack of auto-save and syncing issues
- 🧭 No landscape mode or garden layout view

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Search functionality not working
- Photos not displaying properly
- Inability to edit or delete entries

**Most requested features**

- Expand plant database with more species
- Add repeating event options (daily, weekly, etc.)
- Integrate with other gardening apps/services
- Provide more customization options
- Implement a garden journal/notebook feature

## Recent user reviews (10 of 163)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gardenize-plant-care-gardening/id1118448120/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Best Plant and Garden Catalogue

*2026-07-26, version 6.6.2*

I have trialled so many apps over last two years. This is the best by far for my needs. I wanted an app to catalogue my garden. I don’t need an app to identify plants as I have this all documented. This app is great, I can record all botanical data, photograph plant, photograph plant location. I can use between my phone and tablet and back up records to excel or google sheets. My garden is a hectare in size and holds several botanical collections of various species.

### 5/5 — The absolute best app

*2026-07-16, version 6.6.2*

This app has helped me manage my garden for over 6 years now. I love having the visual catalogue of all of the plants in my garden, as well as access to information about those plants. It can help you remember when you fertilized, repotted, etc. I also use it to identify different stages of plants, so I know what I am looking at when I’m weeding. This app is one of, if not my most, used app. I definitely recommend it to people who are avid gardeners, especially if you like to collect a lot of different varieties of plant species.

### 3/5 — Helps Me Record My Garden, Not Understand It

*2026-06-01, version 6.6.2*

I’ve tried Gardenize a few times and wanted to like it, but ultimately I found myself going back to other apps. For basic plant tracking, photo journals, reminders, and plant information, it works fine.

Where it falls short for me is that it feels more like a digital garden notebook than a modern gardening platform. I garden in a challenging high-desert environment and would love to see features such as zone mapping, microclimate tracking, weather integration, soil observations, shade analysis, wildlife and pollinator tracking, and long-term garden analytics.

The app does a good job recording information, but I’d love to see it help users discover patterns and learn from their data over time. After reviewing the update history, it also appears that major feature development has slowed in recent years.

For casual gardeners, Gardenize may be exactly what they’re looking for. For gardeners managing larger spaces, experimenting with soil improvement, or tracking ecosystem development, there is still a lot of untapped potential.

I appreciate the work the developers have put into the app and hope future updates continue pushing it beyond a journal and toward a true garden management system.

### 1/5 — Very poor database

*2026-05-31, version 6.6.2*

This app's database didn't contain common varieties of many landscape plants, and only uses formal Latin names - can't search by common name!

### 4/5 — It signed me out & can’t get back

*2026-05-04, version 6.6.2*

I’ve only used the free version & liked that I could just open the app to see when each plant was started & have my notes to refer to. I always put the plants in manually because every plant I tried wasn’t found in database. I stopped trying that way & just automatically went to manual. Not a big deal. 
My problem now is that it has signed me out & I cannot get back into it. The plants I planted this afternoon can’t be added. This has taught me not to depend on it. lol. I’ll definitely be putting the info on paper if I’m able to get signed back in. I came to the recent reviews to see if it was happening to others.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t Work

*2026-04-21, version 6.6.2*

I’m very disappointed with this app. I paid a subscription so I could get plant care information but it just says - Didn’t work, try again - over and over again. And I can’t get any response, after endless messages and emails. No customer service at all.

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2026-02-11, version 6.6.2*

I wanted to love it. Idea being it is great. Crashed all  the time,

### 5/5 — Tolles Pflanzen- und Ereignistagebuch!

*2025-08-05*

Finde die App wirklich toll. Ich benutze sie, um all meine Zimmerpflanzen aufzulisten und Ereignisse fest zu halten. So kann ich in Bildern und Kommentaren verfolgen, wie die Pflanze sich entwickelt, wie ihr Blührhythmus ist, wie lange es dauert bis ein neues Blatt oder Neutrieb voll ausgebildet ist etc. 
Ich würde mir lediglich noch wünschen, dass der Kommentar/ die Notiz im Ereignisüberblick unter dem Bild sichtbar wäre.
Danke für dieses tolle Pflanzentagebuch :-)

### 1/5 — Email

*2025-06-27, version 6.6.1*

I got an email evidently from y’all about my account. It was not nice so go ahead and delete the account. I don’t even know where your app is at. I evidently downloaded it. I can tell from the symbol, but it wasn’t something I kept for whateversince you’re gonna be nasty about things go ahead and delete the account!

### 1/5 — Too clunky to be useful

*2024-11-03, version 6.6.0*

App is inflexible  can’t modify layout or remove unwanted parts.  Events only take the date of entry rather than date of event and cannot be overridden. Not for me.

## Frequently asked questions about GARDENIZE Plant Care Gardening

### What does GARDENIZE Plant Care Gardening do?

This app helps you manage your garden and plant collection. It provides a large plant database with over 45,000 species, personalized care advice, and tools to organize your garden areas. You can track plant history, set reminders for care tasks, and connect with other gardeners for inspiration.

### What are the key features of this gardening app?

Key features include a comprehensive plant database, a plant identification tool (PlantID), personalized care notes, smart garden planning with calendar reminders, the ability to organize plants by specific garden areas, logging of gardening activities, and an inspiration feed from other users.

### How much does GARDENIZE Plant Care Gardening cost?

The app is free to download and use, but it offers in-app purchases. This means there are optional features or content that users can buy within the app to enhance their experience.

### What kind of plants can I track with this app?

You can track a vast array of plants using the app's database, which contains over 45,000 species. You can also identify plants using the PlantID feature and add them to your digital garden, along with any custom plants you wish to include.

### How can this app help me organize my garden?

The app allows you to create an unlimited garden library and organize plants by specific garden areas, whether they are indoors or outdoors. You can add photos, notes, and care instructions for each plant and link them to their respective locations, providing a clear overview of your entire garden.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 6.6.2 — 2025-07-17

What's New in Your Garden:

Fresh Sprouts: We've planted some minor updates to enhance your gardening experience.
Weed Control: Squashed a few pesky bugs to keep your app running smoothly.
Nurtured Growth: Improved overall performance and stability, ensuring your digital garden flourishes.
Keep nurturing your plants and enjoy the blooming improvements!

### 6.6.1 — 2025-04-14

What's New in Your Garden:

Fresh Sprouts: We've planted some minor updates to enhance your gardening experience.
Weed Control: Squashed a few pesky bugs to keep your app running smoothly.
Nurtured Growth: Improved overall performance and stability, ensuring your digital garden flourishes.
Keep nurturing your plants and enjoy the blooming improvements!

### 6.6.0 — 2024-10-21

Introducing Our Biggest Update Yet!


We’re thrilled to present the latest version of the Gardenize Garden app, packed with fantastic new features to help you grow and care for your plants with confidence. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this update has everything you need to nurture your garden to its fullest potential.

New Features:
Explore a Massive Plant Database - 45,000 plants!
Search and discover plants like never before with detailed information, beautiful photos, and expert tips on care and maintenance. From perennials and annuals to shrubs and trees, you’ll find everything you need in one place, when building your digital garden!.

Personalized Plant Care, Tailored to You
We’re taking plant care to the next level. Based on your location, Gardenize provides you with personalized plant care advice that takes into account your climate, weather, and regional plant needs. Now you can care for your plants more effectively with reminders and tips, all designed to help your plants thrive.

Update today and let your garden flourish with Gardenize!

### 6.5.1 — 2024-05-31

Good News - we fixed the bug related to uploading images, that was there for some iOS versions!
And, off course some other fixes here and there while we were at it!
Enjoy,
Jenny and the Gardenize Crew

### 6.5.0 — 2024-05-08

New Features
Sorting Functionality: Now, you can easily sort your plants by name, Latin name, or date! 

Enjoy! /Jenny

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