Oriora Plant Diary
A quiet diary for your plants.
Log each watering, feeding, repotting and pruning, and Plant Diary reads back each plant's own rhythm — the cadence you actually keep, not a generic schedule. Get a care plan for any plant — watering, light, soil, feeding and what to watch for — reasoned for the species and then tuned to how you actually care for this one. When something looks wrong, photograph the plant and Plant Diary reads the picture alongside that plant's own care history to suggest likely causes and what to check. Group plants by room, mark each one's health, build an album from your own photos, and watch it grow. An assistant runs the whole app by chat, so you never hunt for a button.
What you get
- ✓A care plan for each plant — watering, light, soil, feeding and what to watch for, tuned to how you actually care for it
- ✓Diagnose a struggling plant from a photo, read against that plant's own care history — likely causes and what to check
- ✓Log watering, feeding, repotting, pruning and misting for each plant
- ✓See what's overdue by each plant's own rhythm — most overdue first, with reminders on your device
- ✓Group plants by room, and mark each one Thriving, OK or Struggling
- ✓An album from your own photos, plus growth and milestones — height, leaf count, the first new leaf or flower
- ✓Run the whole app by chat: add plants, log care for several at once, search, recap the week
- ✓Back the whole collection up to your own GitHub or Google Drive, or export it to a file
Example outputs
How it works
Log it
Add your plants, then tap when you water, feed, repot or prune — or just tell the chat.
It learns the rhythm
Days since each action versus that plant's own average, worked out on your device.
Ask it
Recap the week, read one plant's story back, or ask a question about a plant.
FAQ
Will it tell me what's wrong with a plant?
Photograph a struggling plant and it reads the picture alongside that plant's own care history to suggest the most likely causes, each with one thing to check — possibilities to weigh, never a single verdict. It also answers plant questions — why leaves might be yellowing, how to take a cutting — grounded in your own log first. Where it's reasoning rather than reading something it looked up, it says so plainly, because a confident wrong answer is worse than an honest uncertain one.
Is my plant toxic to my cat?
It won't answer that one. Questions about your health or an animal's go to a vet, a doctor or a poison-control line — the app says so and points you there rather than guessing.
Where is my data stored?
Your plants and photos live on your device. You can back the whole collection up to your own GitHub or Google Drive (connected once in your Oriora account), or export it to a file. What each AI action sends is used to answer it and isn't retained.
How does restore work — and which cloud does it use?
In the latest version, the Back-up panel shows exactly where your backups live before you press anything — "Backing up to: GitHub, last backup 31 Jul" — and every restore button names its source. You can also just tell the chat "restore my data": it names the source and asks you to confirm. Files from iCloud need no connection at all — "Import file" opens your phone's own Files picker, where iCloud Drive (and Google Drive, if it's on your phone) simply appear. Photo-heavy backups can outgrow the normal path; for those, the latest version's "Connect GitHub" button pulls any size directly onto your device.
How does photo species-ID work?
Attach a photo and it suggests the species for you to confirm before saving. The photo is sent through Oriora to run the identification and isn't retained afterwards.
Do I need a subscription?
No. The app is free; you only pay for the AI actions you run — a fraction of a cent each, billed to your Oriora wallet.
How do I sign in?
With your Oriora account — an emailed code, or Continue with Google, GitHub or Apple. It's the same Oriora sign-in page the website uses, shown inside the app, and one account covers every Oriora app.
Available on
Local-first iPhone app — coming to the App Store. Stored locally on your device; AI billed to your Oriora wallet.
Plant owners who want a real record of how they actually care for their plants — and of what changed because of it.