PlantSheets is built for people whose collection outgrew a notebook but who never wanted to give up the spreadsheet. Hobby growers and small nurseries tracking dozens or hundreds of varieties — on a real screen, with real columns.
Most gardening apps are designed for someone with eight houseplants and a phone. If you are tracking forty fig varieties, their source, their hardiness and what each one actually yielded last August, you need something closer to a spreadsheet — with the parts spreadsheets are bad at handled for you.
Rows are plants, columns are whatever you decide. Click a cell, type, move on. There is no new mental model to learn and no form to fill in for every edit.
Flavour, ripening window, rootstock, source, chill hours, price paid — add the columns your plants actually need instead of accepting a fixed set of fields someone else chose.
Add virtually unlimited plants and keep them on one desktop screen — every variety and every column in view together, so you can scan, compare and spot the gaps. A phone shows you one plant at a time; that is a different job.
Dated entries per plant, not per garden. "First fruit September 2026." "Scale insects, treated June." The history stays with the variety it belongs to.
Record what you picked, with dates and weights, and get totals and trends per variety. After two seasons you can see which plants are earning their space.
Turn on a reminder for any scheduled task — prune in March, spray before bud break — and choose how far ahead it arrives, from one to fourteen days. It comes by email, so there is no app to open and no notification to swipe away.
Pest spraying, fertilizing and pruning, each scheduled per plant type by month and week on one grid. Mark tasks done as you go, and copy the whole plan forward to next season in a single click rather than rebuilding it every spring.
No feed, no followers, no sharing your collection with strangers. Your inventory is yours, behind your own login.
You have more varieties than you can keep straight, and the notes are scattered across a spreadsheet, your phone's notes app and a few plant labels. PlantSheets puts them in one place without asking you to abandon the spreadsheet habit.
You need to know what you hold, what it came from, what it yields and what you treated it with — and you need that after the season, not just during it. This is record-keeping built for looking back, not only for today's watering.
The honest version. Several of these tools do a great deal — some of them more than PlantSheets in their own areas. The difference is the shape of the thing: PlantSheets is a spreadsheet with automation bolted on, and the others are apps with a plant database inside.
| Feature | Plain Excel sheet |
PlantSheets | Leaftide1 | Gardenize2 | Leafolio3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The four basics | |||||
| Same Excel format you are used to Grid of rows and columns you edit directly in place | ✓ | ✓ | — | Spreadsheet export only | — |
| Inventory system of plants A structured record per plant or variety | Build it yourself | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Harvest tracking Log what you picked and see totals per variety | Manual, by hand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Email reminders Task and seasonal notices delivered by email | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| Where the shape of the tool matters | |||||
| Columns you define yourself Add your own fields per plant type, not a fixed schema | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Desktop-first, for virtually unlimited plants Oversee the entire inventory on one screen — every variety and every column you have added, side by side, instead of one plant at a time | ✓ | ✓ | Mobile app | Mobile app | Mobile app |
| Separate sheet per plant type Figs and apples get their own columns | Manual tabs | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Three care types on a year planner Pest spraying, fertilizing and pruning — scheduled per plant type by month and week across the whole year, each with its own optional email 1–14 days ahead, and last year’s plan copied forward in one click | Manual, by hand | ✓ | Recurring reminders, not a year grid | — | — |
| Works with no account or internet Where a plain local file still wins | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
Thirty days free, no credit card. Bring one plant type and a handful of varieties and see whether the format fits how you already work.
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