Point the camera at a plant and BotanAI tells you what it is. Ask it why the leaves are spotting and it talks you through it. Add the plant to your garden and it reminds you to water it, reading the local weather so the reminder waits when rain is on the way.
The pitch that matters most is the quiet one: none of this needs an account, and almost none of it needs the internet. What can be done on the phone is done on the phone.
Identificationtried on-device first
BotanAI carries three identification engines, tried on-device first and escalated only when your phone is not sure. They do not all run at once, and the phone never sends a photo it did not need to.
A TFLite model (Google AIY plants V1, 2,102 classes) runs entirely on the phone. For a plant it knows, nothing leaves the device at all.
If the phone is not confident, the photo is sent to Pl@ntNet for a second opinion.
Only if that is still not enough, the photo goes to Plant.id, with your approximate location when it is available.
We measured our own on-device model on a reproducible benchmark and published the result in full, including the parts that are unflattering. See how accurate it really is.
AI Plant Doctora text chat
When a plant is struggling, the Plant Doctor is a chat that helps you work out why. It is powered by Groq, and by design it receives only text: your typed message, the plant’s name, and a short summary of the identification.
If you attach a photo, the photo itself is read by Plant.id, and only a text description of what it found is passed on to the chat. No photo, no location, and no identifier of any kind reaches Groq.
The core toolsall free
Every plant you keep, with its photos, care logs and notes, stored in a database on the phone.
A text chat about a sick or struggling plant, powered by Groq. Attach a photo and it is read by Plant.id first, then only a short text summary goes to the chat.
Measure the light in a spot with the camera sensor, so you can place a plant where it will actually be happy.
Care reminders that read the local forecast from Open-Meteo, so a watering nudge can wait when rain is coming.
A dated run of photos of one plant, so you can see how far it has come.
A fuller tour of each tool lives on the features page.
Privacylocal-first, by construction
There are no accounts and no sign-in of any kind. Your garden, your photos, your care logs, your Plant Doctor history, your wishlist and your settings are stored only on the device. There is no BotanAI server for them to sync to.
Data leaves the phone only as transient, per-feature calls to the third-party processors named above, plus Open-Meteo for weather and anonymous, non-identifying analytics and crash reports. There is no user id, no advertising id, and no ads. The full account of what each processor receives is on the privacy page.
Pricefree, with optional Pro
Every core feature is free: unlimited identification, the AI Plant Doctor, health checks, the light meter, weather-smart reminders, and the growth timeline. The free tier keeps up to 20 plants in your garden.
Pro is an optional subscription that removes the cap, for an unlimited garden. It runs about $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year, and the exact price is set in Google Play and shown in the app. See the pricing page for the detail. There are no ads on either tier, ever.
Get iton Google Play
BotanAI is on the Google Play Store. It is free to install, and you can be identifying plants before you have made a single decision about Pro.