Most plant apps guess. Leafed works out the light your plants actually get — using the geometry of your flat, the sun's real position, and today's sky.
Every feature in Leafed is built on a measurement — not a generalisation. Here's how each one actually works.
Every plant care guide says "bright indirect light." That phrase means something different in a south-facing flat in Chennai versus a north-facing apartment in Delhi. Leafed replaces the label with a number — the Daily Light Integral your plant actually receives at that window, that month.
The calculation is only as good as what you told it. So while you hold the phone level at the window, the front camera reads how bright it actually is — and sets the measurement beside what the model predicted for that minute. No photograph is taken or kept, only the brightness.
Yellow leaves could be overwatering, underwatering, low light, or a dozen other things. Most apps hand you all twelve. Leafed cross-references your photo with your plant's actual light history and watering record — and gives you one plain-language answer.
A fixed schedule — water every seven days — ignores everything happening outside your window. Leafed connects to your city's live forecast and adjusts automatically. Rain coming? Hold off. Heat and dry? Water before it's asked for.
You do this once per window or balcony. Everything the app says afterwards — the light each plant gets, when it needs water, whether it will still work in October — comes out of these answers, so they are the only part that asks anything of you.
Behind glass or out in the open, and which — a balcony under a slab lets in a different sky from an open terrace or a grilled window. Point the phone at the window and the compass takes the bearing itself. While you hold it there, the front camera reads how bright it actually is.
Which floor, and what stands opposite — a building, a wall, open sky. A third-floor window facing a taller block gets a fraction of what the same window gets on the eleventh. This is the part every other app assumes away.
The light it receives month by month, in mol/m²/day, against what plants can actually live on. Every plant you put there inherits it — and a plant 30 cm from the glass and one 3 m back get different answers, because they get different light.
The houseplant industry runs on vague advice. Labels say "medium light" and "water when dry" — which means something different in every home, every season, every city. Most people who lose plants aren't neglecting them; the information they're working from is too imprecise to act on.
Leafed is built on a different premise: your phone already has everything needed to give accurate, specific plant care — a GPS for solar position, a camera to look at a struggling leaf, and a connection to your city's live weather. We built it in India, for Indian homes — the plants at Indian nurseries, the light conditions in Indian cities, the monsoon and the summer heat, all baked into how it works.
We don't show a confidence score we haven't earned. If a reading is uncertain, or a recommendation depends on data we don't have yet, we say so.
Generic advice is everywhere. We only show you something if it's specific to your window, your plant, your city, your season.
Leafed is for people who genuinely want their plants to thrive and are frustrated that the tools available don't match that ambition.
We're building Leafed the way we wished a plant app worked for us first — measuring what a home actually gets, rather than telling people to guess better.
No account required to start. Coming to the App Store shortly.
Real Daily Light Integral for each spot in your home — from its geometry, your city's coordinates, and today's sky.
Reminders built from your city's live forecast, not a fixed calendar — with the reason, every time.
Each window gets a list of plants that would thrive there, judged on its darkest month so they last the whole year.
Hold the phone level at the window and the front camera reads how bright it really is, then checks it against what the calculation expected. No photo is taken or kept.
Photo plus description, cross-referenced with your plant's light and watering history. One plain answer.
Light and care profiles for the plants Indian nurseries sell — each one sourced and honestly labelled, with more added all the time.
