Plant identification
Take a photo and Botanix identifies the species in seconds, with scientific name, botanical family and a tailored care sheet.
What is Botanix?
Botanix is your personal digital greenhouse: a smart app that identifies plants from a single photo, diagnoses diseases and pests, and guides you day by day through the care of your indoor and outdoor plants. Built for anyone who loves greenery but doesn't always have the expertise or time to care for it perfectly, Botanix blends real botanical knowledge with artificial intelligence to make plant care simple, accessible and sustainable.
What you can do with Botanix
Problem diagnosis
Yellow leaves, brown spots, mealybugs, spider mites: Botanix recognises the symptoms and suggests graduated natural remedies.
Care reminders
A personalised watering, fertilising and repotting calendar for every plant, calibrated on season, city and home environment.
Personalised advice
Every sheet accounts for your city, exposure, pot type and current season — no generic tips.
Collection management
Build your digital greenhouse: add as many plants as you like, name them, organise them by room.
Tymo assistance
Ask Tymo, the Botanix conversational AI assistant, any question about caring for your plants.
AI plant identification
With Botanix you just take a photo to identify any plant in seconds. Our botanical AI recognises thousands of species across houseplants, succulents, cacti, orchids, herbs, balcony flowers and garden plants. For every match you get the common name, the scientific name, the botanical family and a care sheet tailored to your city, your habits and your home environment.
It's not just an identifier: it's a starting point to truly understand what you have in front of you. When you're unsure, Tymo — the Botanix AI assistant — helps you confirm the species with targeted questions about leaves, flowers, growth habit and habitat.
Disease and pest diagnosis
Yellow leaves, brown spots, fine webs, white cottony clumps? Botanix analyses your plant's photo and diagnoses the most common problems: root rot, powdery mildew, downy mildew, spider mites, aphids, mealybugs, thrips, whitefly. Every diagnosis comes with likely causes, natural remedies and a step-by-step treatment plan so you can bring the plant back to health without reaching for chemicals first.
The digital nursery was designed together with horticulture experts: the recommended solutions favour sustainable approaches such as potassium soap, neem oil, water and alcohol, isolating the sick plant and correcting the environmental conditions that caused the problem in the first place.
Personalised care reminders
Every plant has its own rhythm, and Botanix respects it. Based on species, season, the weather in your city and where the plant lives (bright indoor spot, south-facing balcony, humid bathroom), the app builds a watering, fertilising, repotting and pruning schedule that's genuinely yours. You get precise notifications when it's time to water your Monstera or feed the orchids, with the option to snooze or mark as done so the system keeps calibrating itself.
The result: no more guesswork, no more killing plants with too much water — by far the number-one cause of houseplant death.
Indoor, outdoor and balcony plants
Botanix is built for anyone with even a single plant on a windowsill. Our care sheets cover indoor classics like pothos, snake plant, ficus, calathea, monstera and philodendrons, but also orchids, ferns, cacti, succulents, culinary herbs (basil, rosemary, sage, mint, thyme), balcony bloomers (geraniums, petunias, surfinias) and garden species. Whether you have a studio flat with one plant in the bathroom or a terrace lined with pots, Botanix adapts to your space and climate.
Tymo, your AI botanical assistant
Tymo is the Botanix conversational assistant: write to it in natural language, just like you would to a plant-savvy friend, and Tymo replies with clear advice tailored to your context. "My calathea is losing colour, what do I do?", "Can I repot the snake plant now?", "How often should I feed potted basil?" — Tymo factors in your city, the current season, the plant's light exposure and its botanical traits to give you answers that actually help.
It never pushes products or one-size-fits-all fixes: first it understands the problem, then it guides you to solve it with what you already have at home.
Product suggestions when they truly help
When your plant genuinely needs a bigger pot, an orchid-specific substrate, a liquid fertiliser or a pest treatment, Botanix surfaces product picks chosen for your specific plant and situation. No generic shop window: only products compatible with the species, filtered for quality (minimum 4.3 rating and hundreds of verified reviews) and matched to the actual problem.
Sustainability and respect for greenery
Botanix promotes plant care that's kind to the environment: natural remedies before chemicals, mindful water use, a moderate fertilising calendar that avoids excess, and reusable materials for repotting and propagation. Our mission is to help you build a small home ecosystem that lasts years, not just seasons.
Why Botanix is different
Plant-ID apps are everywhere, but Botanix is an end-to-end experience: identify, diagnose, care, learn. The combination of AI identification, personalised schedule, Tymo conversational assistant and disease-and-pest nursery turns your phone into a real pocket greenhouse.
Botanix is free for the core features, works on the web and as an installable app on phones and tablets, and grows every week with new plants, new guides and new features requested by the community. If you love plants but think you don't have a green thumb, Botanix gives you everything you need to actually grow one.
Popular guides
- Root rot: symptoms, causes and how to save the plant — Complete guide to root rot in houseplants: how to recognise it, typical causes, how to intervene and how to prevent it.
- Spider mites: how to spot them and eliminate them from plants — Complete guide to spider mites (Tetranychus urticae): how to recognise symptoms, remove the pest and prevent new outbreaks.
- Mealybugs: how to spot them and beat them without chemicals — Practical guide to mealybugs and scale on houseplants: symptoms, natural treatment protocol and prevention.
- Yellow leaves: main causes and what to do for your plant — Why a plant has yellow leaves: the six most common causes, how to tell them apart and the right fix for each.
- Brown leaves: causes, diagnosis and how to intervene — Why a plant develops brown leaves or dry tips: the most common causes and how to fix each of them.
- How to water houseplants: the definitive guide — How, when and how much to water houseplants: methods, frequencies, common mistakes and the golden rule to stop killing your plants.
- How to repot a plant: step-by-step guide — When and how to repot houseplants: the right timing, choosing the pot, substrate and full procedure without stressing the plant.
- Monstera deliciosa care: complete guide — How to grow Monstera deliciosa indoors: light, watering, repotting, feeding, propagation and solutions to the most common problems.
- Pothos care: the perfect beginner plant — Complete guide to Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) care: light, water, propagation, pruning and how to make it thrive.
- Ficus care: Benjamina, Lyrata and Elastica — Guide to indoor ficus care: Ficus benjamina, lyrata (fiddle leaf fig) and elastica (rubber plant). Light, watering, pruning, common problems.
Botanix FAQ
Everything you need to know about how Botanix works, how it identifies plants, how it diagnoses diseases and pests, and how it builds your personalised care reminders.
How does Botanix identify a plant from a photo?
Take or upload a photo of the plant: our botanical AI analyses leaf shape, growth habit, flowers and other visible traits to identify the species in seconds. You get the common name, scientific name and botanical family, with a confidence score. When it's not sure, it asks for more information instead of guessing.
Can I identify a plant just from a leaf photo?
Yes, in most cases the leaf is enough. For very similar species (e.g. philodendrons or tropical climbers) it helps to include a full-plant view and any flowers or fruit, so the model can distinguish precisely.
Is Botanix free?
Yes. The core features — plant identification, disease and pest diagnosis, care reminders, the Tymo assistant — are free. Some in-depth content or premium features may be introduced later, but the heart of the app stays free.
Which devices does Botanix work on?
Botanix works on any modern browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) on phones, tablets and computers. You can also install it as an app on your phone by adding it to your Home screen: it behaves like a native app, with notifications and partial offline support.
Can I manage multiple plants in the same app?
Yes. With Botanix you build your personal greenhouse: add as many plants as you like, name them, tell the app where they live (living room, bathroom, south balcony, etc.) and it builds an independent care calendar for each one.
How accurate is TYMO, the AI assistant?
Tymo is designed to answer plant care, diagnosis and cultivation questions in natural language. It's built on a curated botanical corpus and on your plant's contextual data (species, season, city, exposure). It's very reliable on care, watering, feeding and common problems. For rare cases or unusual diseases it always suggests consulting a local nursery or a plant pathologist in person.
How are product recommendations generated?
Suggested products (pots, substrates, fertilisers, pest treatments) are filtered by botanical compatibility with your plant's species, by quality (minimum 4.3 rating and hundreds of verified reviews) and by relevance to the problem at hand. We use Amazon affiliate links where available to support the project — this is clearly stated.
How often should I water a Monstera?
On average, an adult Monstera deliciosa indoors needs watering when the top 3-4 cm of substrate is dry: roughly once a week in spring-summer, every 10-14 days in autumn-winter. Botanix builds a precise schedule for your city, season and the plant's light exposure.
Try Botanix for free
Sign up free with Google or email and start caring for your plants the simple way.