Leaflet — plant care that remembers
Watering and feeding schedules that actually remind you, and a photo timeline showing a year of growth in one scroll.
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Houseplants rarely die of neglect in one dramatic moment. They die of a schedule that drifted. Leaflet is a care journal for people who already know what their plants are and want to keep them alive.
What it does
- Watering and feeding schedules per plant, with reminders that fire
- A photo timeline per plant — a year of growth in one scroll
- Care history, repotting dates and adoption dates kept per plant
- A needs-care-today view so nothing gets quietly forgotten
- No AI identification — fully offline
“Water once a week” kills more plants than forgetting
It is the most repeated houseplant advice and the least useful, because thirst is not a property of the plant alone. It depends on light, on how warm and dry the room is, on pot size and material, and on whether the plant is growing or dormant. The same Monstera might want water every six days in a bright July window and every three weeks in a dim December corner. A fixed weekly schedule is therefore wrong for most of the year, and it is wrong in the dangerous direction — toward soil that never dries.
Overwatering is what actually does the damage. Most houseplants tolerate going too dry: they droop, you water, they recover. Constantly wet soil suffocates roots and invites rot, which is usually fatal by the time it is visible above the surface. There is a free plant watering calculator here that gives a starting interval by species, season and light — a starting point to check against the soil, not a rule.
Growth is invisible day to day
The other thing a journal gives you is proof that anything is happening. Plants move too slowly to notice, so a difficult year of adjusting light and watering can feel like no progress at all — until you put two photos side by side eleven months apart. That is also, in practice, the most shared thing anyone does with a plant app.
No AI, deliberately
Leaflet does not identify plants from a photo. It is built for people who already know what they own and want a record rather than a guess — and there is nothing to log into.
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Privacy
Everything you enter in Leaflet stays on your device, with no account and no cloud sync. Anonymous crash reports and usage statistics help us improve the app; the full privacy policy lists exactly what is collected.