Big collections
A calmer app for forty plants and counting
Somewhere around fifteen plants, remembering stops working and the collection starts running you.
In review with Apple · iPhone, iOS 26 · Five profiles free when it lands
A small collection lives comfortably in your head. A large one does not, and the failure is gradual: you keep watering the ones in the rooms you use and slowly lose the ones in the spare room. What a large collection needs is not more reminders, it is one view of what is genuinely due today across everything, and a way to record what each plant actually is so you stop looking the same thing up twice.
What actually goes wrong: Forty plants on forty schedules produces either forty notifications, which you will disable, or no system at all, which is what most people fall back to.
Setting it up in Kounts Care
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Work through the collection with the camera
Photograph each plant and accept the identification. It takes an evening for a large collection and it is the last time you will have to look any of them up. Each becomes a profile with its species, care needs and schedule.
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Let Today do the sorting
One screen, everything due, ordered by urgency, filterable to plants or pets. Forty plants produce a handful of tasks on a given day rather than forty rows.
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Use the calendar to see the week coming
The month view shows which days are heavy, which is how you notice that next Tuesday has nine things on it and move some of them before you go away.
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Start growth logs on the ones you care about
You will not photograph all forty. Pick the ones you are actually trying to grow, and the ghost-guide overlay lines each new photo up with the last so a year becomes a watchable timelapse.
Worth knowing before you start
Past five profiles you need Premium, at $19.99 a year, $34.99 once, or $2.99 monthly. If you are weighing that, the lifetime option is the one built for a collection you expect to keep for years.
Why it suits this house
One digest instead of forty pings
Notifications are grouped into a single daily digest that respects quiet hours. This is the design decision that makes a large collection survivable, because per-plant notifications would be unusable at this scale.
The species data stops the repeated lookups
Light, humidity, temperature and soil pH sit on each profile. When you rearrange a room or move something to a brighter spot, the information is already there.
Seasonal adjustment scales
Manually stretching forty intervals for winter is not something anyone does. Doing it automatically per species, from your actual daylight, is the difference between a collection that survives February and one that does not.
Questions, answered
Is there a limit on how many plants I can track?
Five on the free tier, shared with pets and shared across the household. Premium is unlimited.
Will I get forty notifications a day?
No. Reminders are grouped into one gentle daily digest that respects your quiet hours, and there is no per-plant notification stream at all.
Can I organise plants by room?
Profiles filter by kind, plants or pets, and each carries a photo and species. There is no room-based grouping in version 1.0.
What about plants that are not in the catalogue?
The catalogue hand-authors 148 houseplants. Anything outside it gets a starter care plan generated on device, clamped to safe bounds, or falls back to its botanical family's presets, and the ASPCA cross-reference still runs for toxicity.
Keep everything alive.
Five profiles free, shared across your whole household, with every toxicity warning included.
See also: Growth log and timelapse · Seasonal watering · Kounts Care vs Planta