Oriora Plant Diary vs Planta
Plant Diary is free with no subscription, keeps your plants and photos on your device, and writes each plant's care from the rhythm you actually keep with it. Planta is a free download with in-app Premium subscriptions; it sets care from the species and keeps your data on its servers. Here is how the two differ, feature by feature, with every claim about Planta linked to their own pages.
Written by Oriora, the maker of Oriora Plant Diary. Every claim about Planta is taken from Planta AB's own published pages, linked per row, and was last checked on 6 September 2026. Planta is the name of Planta AB's product and is used here only to identify it.
- Oriora Plant Diary is a plant-care app for iPhone, Mac and the web with no subscription: the app is free and you pay per AI action from a prepaid wallet.
- Plant Diary keeps your plants, care log and photos on your device and backs them up to your own Google Drive or GitHub. Planta stores your data on its own systems.
- Plant Diary reasons each plant's care plan and diagnosis from that plant's own logged history, and you can run the whole app by chat or voice. Planta sets care from the species and adds a light meter, community, shared care and outdoor garden plants, which Plant Diary does not have.
Feature by feature
“Verify” opens the Planta page each row was read from.
| Feature | Planta | Oriora Plant Diary | Has it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free download with in-app purchases. Premium Plant Care subscriptions are listed on the US App Store at $7.99 to $9.99 a month and $17.99 to $47.99 for 12 months.Planta prices as listed on the US App Store on 6 September 2026.Verify ↗ | Free app, no subscription. You pay only for the AI actions you run, from a prepaid Oriora wallet. | Different |
| Where your data lives | On Planta's systems. Its privacy policy says information may be stored and processed in its facilities in the United States, and names Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Firestore among the providers it shares data with.Verify ↗ | On your device. Back the whole collection up to your own Google Drive or GitHub, or export it to a file. What each AI action sends is used to answer it and is not retained by Oriora. | Different |
| How the care plan is made | From the species, adjusted for home environment, local weather and plant type.Verify ↗ | From the species, then tuned to the rhythm you actually keep with this plant, read from your own log. The next watering date follows your real rhythm; refresh the plan any time and it re-reads your log. Local weather is not used. | Different |
| Growth history with measurements | A journal that documents growth. Height or leaf-count tracking is not described on the listing.Verify ↗ | Height in centimetres and leaf count per date, per plant, with a summary such as "+12.5 cm since March". | Plant Diary |
| Run the app by chat or voice | Not on the listing, apart from adding a plant by looking at it through Meta AI glasses.Verify ↗ | An assistant runs the whole app by chat, or you say it on a live call: log a watering with your hands still in the soil, ask for the week's recap, or ask about one plant. | Plant Diary |
| Platforms | iPhone (iOS 18 or later), Apple Vision and Android.Verify ↗ | iPhone, Mac and the web, one account across all three. | Different |
| Identify a plant from a photo | Yes.Verify ↗ | Yes. Confirm the suggested species and the app writes a care plan for that plant in your home. | Both |
| Sick-plant diagnosis | Yes, a symptom checker with step-by-step treatment.Verify ↗ | Yes. Photograph the plant and it reads the picture alongside that plant's own care history to suggest likely causes, each with one thing to check. | Both |
| Care log and reminders | Yes: watering, fertilizing, repotting, pruning and misting, with reminders.Verify ↗ | Yes: watering, feeding, repotting, pruning and misting, each with an optional photo, plus milestones, and a notification on your iPhone or Mac when a plant reaches its next due date. | Both |
| Light meter | Yes.Verify ↗ | No. | Planta |
| Community and shared care | Yes, a community feed and inviting others to help with care.Verify ↗ | No. Your collection lives on one device by design. | Planta |
- ✓You do not want a subscription. The app is free and you pay only for the AI actions you run.
- ✓You want your plant records and photos on your own device, backed up to your own cloud, not to Oriora's.
- ✓You want care worked out from how you actually look after each plant, with height and leaf measurements, rather than a schedule set from the species alone.
- ✓You want to run the app by chat or voice, and use it on iPhone, Mac and the web with one account.
Planta has a light meter, a community feed, shared care with other people, weather-adjusted schedules, and care for outdoor and garden plants. Plant Diary is for houseplants and has none of those.
Questions people ask
Is Oriora Plant Diary a free alternative to Planta?
Plant Diary is free to download and has no subscription. AI actions such as identifying a plant, writing a care plan or diagnosing a sick plant are billed per use from a prepaid Oriora wallet. Planta is a free download with Premium Plant Care subscriptions listed on the US App Store at $7.99 to $9.99 a month and $17.99 to $47.99 for 12 months.
What does Plant Diary do that Planta does not?
Plant Diary keeps your data on your device with backup to your own cloud, works out each plant's care from your own logged history rather than the species alone, records height and leaf counts over time, can be run entirely by chat or voice, and runs on iPhone, Mac and the web with one account and no subscription.
What does Planta have that Plant Diary does not?
A light meter, a community feed, shared care with family or plant sitters, schedules adjusted to local weather, and care for outdoor and garden plants.
The Planta column is read from Planta AB's own App Store listing, in-app purchase list and privacy policy, not from reviews or third-party articles, and was last checked on 6 September 2026. The Oriora Plant Diary column is read from the app as shipped. Where Planta's listing does not mention a feature, the row says so rather than claiming they lack it. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by the Oriora team. If anything here is out of date, write to [email protected] and it will be corrected.