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Botanical Legacy
Most plant apps look yours up. This one simulates it.
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Most plant apps look yours up. This one simulates it.
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Most plant apps look up a species and set a reminder. Botanical Legacy keeps a Digital Shadow per Specimen: a model of one plant, rebuilt nightly from its photos, care log, weather and sensors. It drifts from the species when yours does, and stays drifted: after a few weeks the model believes your plant over the reference. When the watering date moves, you can open it and see what moved it. Free for 5, no card. Full export on every plan.
Hi Product Hunt. I'm Lucian, and I built Botanical Legacy because a plant of mine died on a schedule that was completely correct.
It was correct for the species. Every plant app I tried worked the same way: identify the plant, look up what that species needs, set a reminder. That model is right on average and silent about the exception, and the exception is the plant you are worried about, in the room you have, in the week the weather turned.
So the whole product rests on one idea: the unit is the specimen, not the species.
Every plant you add gets a Digital Shadow: a small model of that individual plant, rebuilt every night. It reads your local weather, the photographs you take, and any sensor readings you feed it. Soil moisture depletes on a curve, not a countdown. When the schedule moves, you can open it and see what moved it.
The part I care about is that the Shadow keeps what it learns about that one plant. In the apps I tried, an unusual plant kept getting pulled back toward what its species is supposed to do. Here it drifts, and stays drifted. If your Calathea has always dried out faster than a Calathea should, after a few weeks the model believes your plant over the reference.
A few things that follow from that:
Hydrate, Nourish and Photo are modelled events, not calendar entries. Feeding a plant that is too dry barely moves the Shadow, and the app says so instead of ticking a box.
- Dormancy slows watering and pauses feeding per species and hemisphere, computed live.
- Weather drives frost and heat alerts, and outdoor plants get credited for rainfall.
- Sensors connect through Home Assistant and feed the same model. A fresh reading always beats the estimate.
- Growth curves build from your own photographs over weeks: height, leaf count, vitality.
Where it runs. In the browser on any device, as an Android app on Google Play, and as a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux (botanicallegacy.com/download). The iPhone app is not in the App Store yet. Until it is, the web app works on an iPhone and installs to the home screen. The Windows build is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will ask once. Standalone soil probes and voice assistants are on the roadmap and not shipped. Sensors work through Home Assistant today.
Pricing. The free Observer plan holds a Sanctuary of 5 Specimens with the nightly Shadow, care reminders and 3 AI diagnostics a month. No card. Cultivator is €6.99/month or €49.99/year: 50 specimens, 120 diagnostics, sensors, Weather Intelligence and the live simulator. Choose it at signup and the first 14 days are free, with no card and nothing charged when they end. Conservancy is €14.99/month for collections of up to 150. Full export on every plan including the free one, because a collection you cannot take with you is not yours.
I have been running this on my own plants for months and there are things I still get wrong. If you try it and it tells you something that turns out to be nonsense, I want to hear about it here. That is more useful to me today than anything else. I will be in the comments all day.