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Planty is a gentle iPhone app for tracking the variety of plants you eat, including fruit, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and herbs. The premise is simple: aim for thirty different plants every week. Planty tracks them for you, shows you patterns over time, and skips the parts of other food apps that ask you to weigh, calorie-count, or feel bad about a missed day.

Planty lives on iPhone through the App Store, and if you enable iCloud sync your data also rides across to your iPad through your own iCloud account. An Android version sits outside our current roadmap, though we would love to hear from you if it would matter for your household.

Planty is a one-time purchase. You unlock the full app once and keep it for the lifetime of your Apple ID, with no subscription and no ads.

Yes. All of your food logs and plant data live on your device. If you turn on iCloud sync, that data syncs through your own iCloud account, encrypted by Apple. The developers behind Planty never see, collect, or store anything you log, and the full details live in our Privacy Policy.

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Each unique plant you log inside a calendar week counts once toward your variety total. A spinach salad and a spinach smoothie still register as one (spinach), while a bowl of kale alongside that spinach lifts you to two. The thirty figure traces back to the American Gut Project, whose research suggested that people who ate thirty or more different plant species per week had measurably more diverse gut microbiomes. Treat it as a friendly target that bends to your life.

Planty is built around whole plants, because that is where the fiber and the intact plant structure live, and fiber is the part your gut microbes actually feed on. Processing tends to break that fiber down and concentrate sugar or salt, so a spoonful of ketchup carries far less of the gut benefit than the whole tomato behind it, and a cup of smooth applesauce sits somewhere between a fresh apple and apple juice. Whether to log these is your call. A homemade applesauce that is essentially blended whole apples is reasonable to count, while something that is mostly sugar with a trace of plant is usually worth leaving off. A simple guide: the closer a food stays to its whole plant form, the more it contributes to the variety and fiber that the thirty-plants idea is really about. Planty shows you the portion and fiber estimate for each plant, so you can make the call that fits your day.

No. Every plant in the catalog ships with a sensible default portion such as a 'normal' apple or a 'normal' bowl of lentils, plus quick presets like a pinch, a side, or a hearty bowl. Weighing and measuring sit completely outside the experience. The fiber and water numbers are estimates designed to be directionally useful at the level of a week or a month, rather than precise to the gram.

Targets are personalized based on the biological sex, weight, and (optionally) age you entered during onboarding, using public dietary reference intakes as the underlying source. You can update any of these values at any time from the You tab, and your targets recalculate immediately.

Yes. From the Plants tab, you can add a custom plant with your own portion size and fiber estimate, and it behaves exactly like the built-in ones from there forward. If you think a plant belongs in the default catalog for everyone, send us an email and we will add it in the next update.

Every plant in the catalog has its own detail screen with two small writeups designed to lower the barrier to actually eating it. 'Easy prep' is a short suggestion for turning the plant into a meal in a few minutes, often with whatever you already have in the fridge. 'Easier ways in' is for days when adding variety feels hard or when a particular texture or taste feels off-putting, and it offers a softer way to get the plant onto your plate, for example by blending it into something familiar, roasting it until the texture changes completely, or pairing it with a flavor you already love.

Yes. The You tab has a 'Quiet Mode' toggle that disables confetti, weekly milestone celebrations, and other game-flavored feedback. With Quiet Mode on, Planty behaves like a plain log book for as long as you want it to.

No. Planty exists for general wellness and personal curiosity. It sits alongside, never in place of, advice from a doctor, dietitian, or other qualified professional. If you have a specific medical or eating-related concern, please bring it to a clinician you trust before changing how you eat.

Please email us at dbtdiaryapp@gmail.com. For bugs, a quick description of what you were doing when the issue appeared helps us reproduce it much faster. For feature ideas, keep them coming, and please know we read everything that arrives, even when a reply takes us a little while.