Best Apps to Track Your Plant Collection in 2025

What Makes a Great Plant-Tracking App

Before we dive in: here’s what I looked for, besides cool graphics and apps that don’t bore me after a week. I'm picky! What can I say. If your plant tracking spreadsheet had feelings, I'd still trash talk it.

• Customizability — I want to track lots of data points for my plants to make it easy to search and filter (soil pH, light requirements, leaf-size, how frequently I talk to it)
• Good visual layout — because if it’s ugly, I won’t use it (I ditched the ugly spreadsheets real quick)
• Care logging — watering, fertilizing, repotting, etc.
• Photo support + logs — so I can look back and mock my “before” pictures
• Ease of sharing / filtered views — for bragging to fellow plant nerds and comparing the sizes of our fiddle-leaf figs

With that in mind, here are my faves. (Yes, I put collecto.rs both first and last. Because I’m that shameless, and because the app is that good!)

🌿 Top Plant-Tracking Apps & Sites (2025 Edition)

1. collecto.rs (of course, duh)

Why it’s #1 (justifiably)

• Its visual layout is chef’s kiss. Your plant database doesn’t look like a spreadsheet—it looks like a curated magazine.
• Tons of data fields: you can track everything from soil type to light requirements to ascension number, and even tag notes like whether you whispered “grow big” to it that morning.
• The sharing / filtered views tool is where it flexes. Want to show only your succulents that need watering in the next 3 days? Easy. Want to publicize your monstera collection and hide your sad aloe? Also easy.
• It integrates the speadsheet like functions with gorgeous UI better than any other plant app.
• Super easy to get started. Lots of plant tracking apps take a lot of time to setup - collecto.rs is probably the easiest to get started quickly.

Weaknesses / Things to Watch Out For

• The app does not have AI plant identification yet, so you'll have to already know your plant names, genus', and other data fields that you care about. Although, I've got good word that their developers are hard at work building this feature. 😄
• Very limited plant care functionality might leave you wanting another app specifically for care. You can take notes on each plant, but you won't find features for disease tracking or automated care reminders.

In short: If you’re serious about tracking your plant collections (not just remembering to water your pothos), collecto.rs is the one I’d bet on.

2. Plant Tracker

• Clean interface, simple to use. See the Plant Tracker - Gardening App.
• Easy to add plants. You can add as many of your plants, flowers, or even trees (if you have ambitious goals) and start tracking them.
• Set up reminders so you don’t accidentally kill plants by forgetting watering or other maintenance tasks.

Weaknesses / Things to Watch Out For

• Compared to more advanced apps, you’ll probably wish for more complex custom fields, tagging, and filtering. Some plant caring tasks or metrics might not be as flexible either.
• The reminders are helpful, but aren’t always super smart (for example, seasonal adjustments and nuanced environmental feedback are minimal). Check out Planta, next on the list, for the best in plant care.
• Subscripton Costs — Many plant-tracker apps like this one have premium features locked behind paywalls. Some of them paywall even basic features that you need. ☹️
• No Easy Sharing — This is a place where many tracking apps (including this one) fall short—they don’t offer robust ways to share just part of your collection with friends or public, or to filter views cleanly across many variables.

3. Planta

Planta transplants the melanin in your thumb with straight chlorophyl for that vibrant green look. It is the perfect app for optimizing plant care, but not the best for tracking, sharing, or building your collection.

• Has a “plant journal” feature: document every stage of your plant’s life. This is probably the best app if your focus is on plant care rather than tracking and sharing your plant collection.
• Light meter tool built in to ensure your plants are getting the right amount of light for their genus and species.
• Smart reminders (adjusts for season, environment). Very focused on optimizing plant care!

Weaknesses / Things to Watch Out For

• Planta doesn't provide the types of features that make for a visually stunning portfolio. It focuses more on utility of plant care.

The BIG downside

: many features are premium-locked.

4. PictureThis

PictureThis nails AI plant identification and even helps identify disease on your plants. If you need help figuring out what plants you own and why you keep killing them, PictureThis could be the tracker for you.

• Snap a photo, and PictureThis will guess the species. It claims to identify over 400,000 species (yes, that many) with ~98% accuracy in ideal conditions.
  In head-to-head tests, it actually ranked top for correct identifications among several apps. (Grow It Build It)
• See weird spots or yellowing leaves? Take a pic. It’ll (attempt to) diagnose pests, disease, deficiencies, etc., and suggest actionable fixes.
• It gives you watering schedules, fertilizing tips, light requirements, and more with automated reminders so you can live your best Plant daddy (or mommy) life.
• It tells you if a plant is poisonous to pets/humans, flags allergens, and gives safety advice. Who knew some plants could be poisonous?

Weaknesses / Things to Watch Out For

• The free version of this app has very limited functionality. If you're cheap like me, stay away from this one.
• They do have ad supported tiers where if you watch ads you can unlock more plant identification. But who's got time to sit around watching ads? Not me. I'd rather watch all the gnats falling victim to my sundew (Drosera for you nerds).

5. Gardenize

• Gardenize is more of a “garden management / journal” app. Good for folks who mix indoor + outdoor gardens.
• You can attach notes, photos, and track growth over time, but compared to apps like collecto.rs, it’s less flashy in the “show-off your collection” department.
• This app is unique in that it is really focused around the journaling aspect of gardening. Pour your heart out all over your plants with Gardenize, but head on to any of these other apps if your focus is building a collection or getting care reminders.

6. PlantNet / iNaturalist / ID + journal combos

• PlantNet is awesome for species identification and citizen science, but not built to be your plant collection tracker.
• Many users use iNaturalist or ObsIdentify + a separate app or notebook to keep a full log. (Some testers found ObsIdentify topping charts in identification accuracy. Check out the Plant ID tests at Common.)
• This combo approach can work, but you’ll often feel like your digital life is fractured. Your mind slowing cracking amid the multiple apps you'll need for every piece of your plant collection journey.

Final Verdict & Pro Tip

If you want one app focused around tracking your plants with a beautiful UI (and to lord it over your plant-obsessed friends), collecto.rs is your champion. It blends beauty, flexibility, and the ability to share filtered views better than anything else I’ve tested on this list.

If you already use another app (Planta, PictureThis, Gardenize, etc.), you can export your collection and I will personally import your spreadsheet into collecto.rs. Look, I seriously spend my time watching my plants grow. Importing your spreadsheet would be a joy for me!

Let me know if you want a guided walkthrough of collecto.rs features or tips on migrating data from one of these apps. I’ve got you.