Meet Frond — Your plant shelf, beautifully cared

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Frond

Your plant shelf, beautifully cared

What Frond does

Frond is the calm, beautiful companion for everyone who keeps houseplants. Add each plant in seconds — choose its species, room, light level, and watering interval — and Frond builds a lush visual shelf that makes your collection feel like a gallery, not a chore.

Every morning, a gentle "water today" list tells you exactly which plants need attention. Tap each one done and it resets for next time. The same simplicity extends to fertilizing and repotting reminders: set the interval once and Frond handles the rest.

Snap a photo whenever a new leaf unfurls. Frond lines every photo into a growth timeline, so you can swipe back and see months of quiet progress — the most satisfying part of keeping plants.

No account. No cloud. No subscription required to use the basics. Everything lives on your device.

• Visual plant shelf organized by room • Daily watering list with one-tap completion • Fertilize and repot reminders on custom intervals • Per-plant photo growth timeline • Care notes and full history log • 100% offline — SwiftData, no account needed

A look inside

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What's inside

• Plant Shelf & Room View — A grid of plant cards organized by room. Each card shows the plant's name, species, pot thumbnail, and a color-coded watering status badge so you know at a glance what needs attention.
• Daily Watering List — A focused list of every plant due for water today, sorted by urgency. Tap a plant's checkmark and it records a CareEvent and recalculates the next watering date. List resets daily.
• Plant Detail & Care Card — Full care card per plant: light level, water interval, pot size, last-watered date, next care dates for fertilizing and repotting, and free-text notes. All editable.
• Growth Photo Timeline — A reverse-chronological strip of photos taken for each plant, each stamped with the date. Tap any photo to full-screen it. Shows how much the plant has grown over weeks or months.

Why we built it

Plant owners rely on sticky notes, phone alarms, or memory to track watering schedules for multiple plants with different needs. Existing apps are cluttered, push users toward subscriptions for basic reminders, or require cloud accounts — creating friction for a hobby that should feel peaceful.

What makes it different

Frond pairs a room-organized visual shelf with a dead-simple daily watering list and a swipeable growth photo timeline — all offline, all free for core use. Unlike Planta (subscription) or Greg (account + social), Frond has zero cloud dependency and treats the visual gallery experience as a first-class feature, not an…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their gear, and their offline life.

In one line: Your plant shelf, beautifully cared

Try it

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