Move from "what's wrong with my plant?" to a concrete diagnosis and treatment plan with photo-based analysis.
You do not have to work out whether you are looking at a pest or a disease before you start. Send the photo and Pocket Gardener sorts out which it is. A spotted, chewed or wilting leaf comes back as a plant problem with the likely causes, and an insect in the frame comes back as the pest, named and explained.
Either way the answer has the same shape: how severe and how urgent it looks, what is contributing to it, what has been ruled out, and the steps to take next. That is the gap most gardeners are in when they can see something is wrong but cannot put a name to it.
Users can submit photos of unhealthy foliage and affected areas, plus optional context about symptoms.
The result includes probable issues, severity, urgency, contributing factors, and issues that were ruled out.
Pocket Gardener returns action steps, cultural controls, and safer treatment options where appropriate.
Photograph the insect itself, or the damage it has left on the leaves, and Pocket Gardener works out what it is looking at. When a photo turns out to show a garden pest rather than a sick plant, the answer comes back as the pest: a common name, a scientific name, the life stage where that can be told, and how confident the match is.
Not every insect in a garden is a pest, so Pocket Gardener says when the one in your photo is a useful one to keep rather than sending you looking for a spray. If the photo turns out to show the plant instead of a bug, plant identification covers that, and unwanted plants have their own weed identification flow.
This is not a generic chatbot answer box. The live product has a dedicated diagnose mode inside Plant ID, with result structures for symptoms, urgency, treatment planning, and sharing.
Users can save treatment guidance back into their garden workflow, which makes the diagnosis useful after the first answer, not just in the moment of panic.
Most apps will give you a name. The useful question is whether the answer is enough to act on when you are standing over the plant with a photo on your phone. These are the things worth comparing, and how Pocket Gardener handles each one.
Upload photos of the unhealthy foliage and the affected areas, and add any notes about the symptoms you can see. Pocket Gardener comes back with the probable issues, how severe and how urgent they look, what is contributing to them, and the issues it has ruled out.
You do not need to know. Photograph the yellow leaves, dark spots, chewed holes or wilting you can see, and add when it started or which part of the plant went first if you know. The answer works back from the symptom to the likely cause, says how urgent it is, and lists what has been ruled out so you do not treat the plant for the wrong thing.
No. Pocket Gardener runs in a browser on a phone or a computer, so there is nothing to install. You do need an internet connection for the photos to be looked at.
Action steps to take, cultural controls, and safer treatment options where they apply. The result is a plan you can work through, not a single label.
Pocket Gardener covers both. A photo of a garden insect is answered as the pest, with its name and what it does to a plant, rather than being forced into a disease answer.
Pocket Gardener is one. Photograph the bug, or the chewed, curled or sticky leaves it left behind, and it comes back with the pest name, how confident the match is, the damage it usually does and the first actions to take. A sick plant with no bug in sight goes through the same photo check and comes back as the likely disease instead. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install.
Yes. Treatment guidance can be saved back into your garden records, which is what makes the answer useful after the moment you took the photo.
Yes. Upload photos of the unhealthy leaves or the affected part of the plant and it comes back with the probable diseases, how severe and urgent they look, what is contributing to them and what has been ruled out, followed by action steps and safer treatment options. It runs in a browser on a phone or a computer, so there is nothing to install.
One that handles pests and diseases in the same photo check, so you do not have to work out which you are looking at first. Then look for an answer you can act on: the name with a confidence signal, how severe and how urgent it looks, what has been ruled out, and the steps to take. Pocket Gardener does all of that in a browser on the phone you already have, so there is nothing to install.
Most people arrive here knowing only that something looks off: yellow leaves, dark spots, holes chewed through the foliage, wilting in the afternoon, or a plant dying back for no reason they can see. You do not have to name the problem to get an answer. Photograph what you can see, add anything you have noticed such as when it started or which part of the plant went first, and the answer works back from the symptom to the likely cause.
The reply is more use than a label. Severity and urgency say whether this needs doing something about now or watching for a while, the contributing factors say what to change in how the plant is being grown, and the list of things ruled out tells you what it is not. That last part matters most when you are about to treat a plant for the wrong problem.
Upload photos of the problem and get a likely diagnosis with treatment steps.
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