WaterMe - Gardening Reminders

I’ve been using this app for a couple of years now and love it! I always recommend it to all my plant enthusiast friends. It’s easy to use, has a beautiful and simple UI, and is easy to understand at a quick glance. I currently use the water reminder note section to put all of my plant care info. It would be nice if a notes section was in the “Edit Plant” section instead for these general types of notes and then the reminder notes could be specific to those reminders. I also would love a plant graveyard. When something goes wrong, I always feel terrible deleting a plant and it would be nice to keep track of the plants that I have had in the past so that I know which ones might not have done well in our apartment’s dry winters which is when we tend to have plant difficulties.

I’m a total novice at gardening, but I became very interested in growing succulents and spices when I saw videos online. Needless to say, the watering schedule got confusing pretty fast, and so I looked up a tool to help and found this app. It’s really great, and works well to remind me which plants need watering (and how much watering in the notes), as well as when to fertilize etc. The only thing I’d like to see added is a choice to start a timer on a certain day of the week, for example, if I water a cactus once a week on Thursdays, I want to be able to add the plant in the app on a Monday but only start receiving notifications on the following Thursday, instead of having the plant sit in the “late” column for a few days, or starting the plant on watering day. Great job with this app, in any case!

I have a few plants with different water cycles. I realized within the span of a month, I forgot to water/fertilize/mist at lest one plant. This app easily allows for editing of the length between waterings for each plant, allows you to add a picture, and allows you to see upcoming reminders. I personally have not had issues with the app crashing or not loading (unlike other similar apps). My favorite feature is the naming system. With this I have one plant that needs misting every few days, fertilizer every 2 weeks, and a water change every 9 days. I realized you can just add "mist" or "fertilizer" after a plants name so you can keep track of all three things (water/mist/fertilizer) in one easy to use app.

This app has helped me with my little indoor garden and knowing when to water each of my plants. Before I was scared that I was watering them too much because I mostly have succulents. I even downloaded multiple plant watering app and in the end WaterMe won the little contest! The only reason it wasn’t 5 stars is I wish the notifications would make a sound like a text message or something else my phone is alerting me of. The notifications saying something like ‘Today is the day to water Casper and Mouse!’ (Those are the names of two of my plants: using as an example.) Fixing that would make this a 5-star review!

I’ve been using this app in conjunction with a few other plant apps for the past few months and this one has quickly become my favorite. I don’t need to add extra details, I can name the plants whatever I want, and I can add/edit reminders as I see fit. I can easily adjust reminders settings as well, this is helpful as a novice plant parent who is still figuring out what works! The reasons I did not give 5 stars are these: I wish there was a previous calendar (it could be super minimalist, like just a list or something) that shows more than just the immediate previously watering/whatever item is scheduled. I’d like to look back at maybe 6-8 weeks of what was completed when so I can pick up on trends. Also, this is less necessary but a cool add on could be a spring/summer vs fall/winter schedule for different plants. I’d be happy without this feature, as I haven’t seen it anywhere else and I prefer the minimalist style of this app and don’t want to ruin it. I never review things but this app performs almost exactly as I would like it to, and it seemed worth mentioning.

I've been using the app for about a year and it's really solid. The design is simple and clean. Also, each plant is easily editable for those new plants that you don't know personally enough yet to give a good spacing between waterings and checkins. I also like seeing the "contact photo" of the plants. It's cute because I think of them as my babies and I think most plant people are the same. It would be a solid five stars if the app registered a completed plant task the first time every time and dealt with the badge accordingly. Instead I often have to open the app again and close it so the badge number(s) correct themselves. A minor annoyance. Optimistically, in the future I'd also like to see a seasonal shift toggle. Something like in the summer time watering, sun, etc. are a particular set of values while also holding a separate set of values for the winter. Then being able to toggle between them.

I love apps that fit a single purpose and do it perfectly. While I understand that the scope of the app is simply reminding when to water plants, for the initiated in gardening this is a learning process. A plant may be said to need water every 7 days but reality is that sometimes you water plants before or after as you see them needing water. A great feature to have would be to keep a log of when the plant was watered and the number of days since it was watered. This could be accessed in the (i) Ivon at the right of every plant so is not intrusive. With this information one could adjust the alarms of watering una better way.

I really like this app! With having over 100 plants to water this helps me keep track of them all so none are forgotten. But it could also benefit from a few things (in my opinion) like undoing a watering if you accidentally click on one you did not water. And maybe the app could keep track of what ones were watered when like a watering diary, so if one needed watered a day early or a few days later than normal you can remember it all. Or be able to take notes on them. Just some ideas but in all its a nice app.

Love how simple and clean this app is BUT... 1) would be great if you could manually change the date the plant was last watered. Sometimes I forget to actually mark that I watered a plant until it’s the next day and I check the app to see what needs to be watered when I get a notification. Also useful if the plant is outside and it rained. 2) not as important but would be nice to have a tab for a calendar view with the pictures of the plants on the days they need to be watered/fertilized. Sometimes the regular view gets confusing because there are no dates for the “Later” plants so I have to click on them to see when they need attention next. Otherwise - love this app!

I just got into growing indoor plants and have been having a lot of fun using resources around me like books and apps such as these. I wish that this app included a little more information about the plants you add to your journal. I also never received any reminders to my phone when I set up reminders every week on this app. You have to enter the app to see what to do. Other than that there are no glitches run really smoothly and would be helpful for more experienced planters.