Pocket BotanistQuick facts
- Name
- Pocket Botanist
- Tagline
- AI plant care in your pocket.
- Platforms
- iPhone and iPad (App Store), Android (Google Play)
- Price
- Free to download. Plant identification is free. Premium is a subscription with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase.
- Coverage
- 412,000 species, with names checked against GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French
- Made by
- A small independent studio in Poole, Dorset, on the south coast of England
- Launched
- 2026
What it does
- Identifies a plant from a photo in about a second, with the accepted botanical name rather than a guess.
- Diagnoses a sick plant from a photo of the leaf: likely causes, how serious it is, and what to try first.
- Keeps a garden of the plants you save, with watering reminders that follow the weather where you live.
- Tells you whether a plant is safe around children and pets before you bring it home.
- Runs on Google Gemini models, and drops your photo as soon as it has been identified. No ads, no ad tracking.
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Short
Pocket Botanist is a plant identification and care app for iPhone and Android. Point the camera at any plant to name it in seconds, find out what is wrong with it, and keep it alive with reminders that follow your local weather. Made by a small independent studio in Poole, England.
Long
Pocket Botanist is a plant identification and care app for iPhone and Android. Point the camera at any plant to identify it in seconds, across 412,000 species, with names matched against GBIF so you get the accepted botanical name rather than a guess. Photograph a leaf that looks wrong and it tells you the likely cause, how serious it is, and what to try first.
Plants you photograph save themselves to a garden with a watering reminder set to what that species needs, and Premium adjusts those reminders to the forecast at your postcode, warns you before frost or a heatwave, and adds a plant expert you can ask anything. Identification is free; Premium starts with a 7-day free trial. Pocket Botanist is made by a small independent studio in Poole, on the south coast of England, and carries no ads and no ad tracking.
Why it exists
We kept finding ourselves wondering what we were looking at, on walks and in gardens, and wishing for a quick, honest answer in our pocket. Field guides answer slowly and the apps that answer quickly often stop at the name. We wanted the name, and then what to do about it.
So the app is built around the second question as much as the first. A plant is identified, then saved with a care plan, then diagnosed when something goes wrong, with the same photo-first, seconds-not-minutes feel at every step.
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Identification, on two phones
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Feature banner
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Identify a plant
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Diagnose a leaf
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A plant page
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The care calendar
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The plant expert chat
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Review access
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Contact
For anything press related, write to hello@pocketbotanist.app. You will get a person, usually within a day.