Questions, answered.

Percy is a voice-first garden companion that tracks your garden for you. You hold a button, say what you planted, harvested, noticed, or need to deal with, and Percy organizes it, remembers it, and builds a searchable, visual history of your garden across seasons. Ask Percy a question three weeks later and it just knows.

It also does something no garden tool has ever done: it captures the full texture of your season. Not just the plantings and the harvests, but the first bloom, the pest you’re battling, the afternoon light, the thing your kid said about the strawberries. The moments that make a season feel like a season, and that every other tool has missed entirely. Snap a photo of something you can’t identify and Percy tells you what it is, drawing on your garden’s own history. Over time, all of it adds up to a complete picture of your garden that you can ask questions, find patterns in, and actually use.

You talk. Percy does the rest. The more you share, the more extraordinary it becomes. See how it works in four steps.

Yes — that’s the whole idea behind Percy.

Most garden apps remember what you planted, technically. The problem is what they ask you to do first. There’s a form to fill out. A database to build. Dropdown menus for plant varieties, bed locations, planting dates, spacing. It starts to feel less like gardening and more like managing a small logistics operation. Most people set it up once, enter a few things, and quietly stop.

Percy works differently. You hold a button and say what you noticed — “put the Sungolds in along the south fence” — and Percy handles everything else. No forms, no dropdowns, no dashboards to maintain. It sorts out the plant, the date, the location, the action, and appends the weather conditions automatically. You garden. Percy writes it down.

And months later when you ask “when did I plant the Sungolds and where?” you just get the answer.

But Percy remembers more than plantings. It remembers the pest you mentioned in June and follows up in July. It remembers what worked last season and what didn’t. It remembers the things that never had a place in any spreadsheet — the afternoon you stayed out later than you meant to, the first thing that ripened, the moment you noticed something was wrong before you could name it. Over time that memory compounds into something no planting app has been able to show you: the complete story of your garden, season by season.

Percy isn’t a chatbot that happens to know about gardening. It’s a garden memory you can have a conversation with. That’s a different thing.

ChatGPT can tell you general gardening advice. So can Google. But neither of them remembers your garden specifically, across seasons.

Every garden has its own microclimate, its own soil, its own successes and frustrations.

ChatGPT doesn’t know that your tomatoes did better in the west side of the bed, that the aphids show up on your roses every May, or that the milk spray worked on the powdery mildew after two applications. Percy knows all of that, because you told it. When you ask a question, whether it’s general gardening knowledge or something specific to your beds, Percy draws on what it knows about your situation and labels the answer “From your garden.” Which is accurate, because even the general advice has been shaped by what you’ve told it.

Show ChatGPT a photo of a damaged leaf and it might identify the problem. Show Percy the same photo and it tells you it’s the same issue you dealt with last August, what worked, and that it’s the same bed and the same time of year. Next season, Percy brings that forward before you even have to ask. That’s not a search result. That’s a garden that learns.

Generic gardening advice is everywhere. Advice that knows your garden doesn’t exist anywhere else.

Yes. And the AI is what makes Percy different from anything that’s existed before — not because AI is interesting, but because of what it makes possible. It turns what you say into structured observations, finds patterns across seasons, reads your photos, and answers questions based on your specific garden history rather than advice written for everyone in your zone. That’s the part that hasn’t been possible before. Not just remembering what you told it, but understanding what it means across time. The record it builds is one no gardener has ever had.

What changes when nothing gets lost is harder to describe. You start noticing more. You slow down in the garden instead of rushing through it. The small things feel worth saying out loud because you know they’ll be there when they start to matter. That’s what Percy is actually for. A gardener who’s more present, more curious, more willing to notice the small things because nothing is going to get lost. The AI is just how it works.

Yes. Percy uses AI in a few ways. First, to understand what you say, parsing natural speech into organized observations without requiring you to use the right terminology or fill out a form. Second, to answer your questions and surface patterns. That’s how Percy turns a season of voice notes into something you can actually have a conversation with.

The AI behind parsing and answering is Claude, built by Anthropic. It works entirely on what you’ve told Percy about your garden, not generic gardening databases, not what tomatoes do “in general.” Your history, your beds, your seasons. Claude is what makes it possible for Percy to answer “what did I do about the squash bugs last year” with something more useful than a list of results to scroll through.

For speech recognition, Percy uses OpenAI’s Whisper to convert your voice to text. Your audio is transcribed and discarded. It’s not stored or used to train models. Percy only hears you when you’re holding the button.

AI has an energy cost. That’s real, and we’d rather acknowledge it than deflect.

The real question isn’t whether to use AI, it’s whether a specific use of it makes things better or worse. Percy is a bet that using AI in service of making gardeners more attentive to their land — more likely to learn organic practices, more likely to leave the goldenrod for the caterpillars, more likely to discover their backyard is part of something larger — produces far more good in the world than the energy it costs.

On the energy cost — the truth is, Percy uses a very small amount of it. It has been carefully designed to choose small, efficient AI models for what it does (parsing observations, answering questions, organizing what you’ve told it). The exception is plant identification from a photo, where the accuracy needs a more capable model. The difference between identifying a critically important host plant and a dangerous invasive is worth the tradeoff. Percy relies on a few external services for transcription and plant identification, which add a small amount of energy use on top. We pick the smallest model that does each job well, and we batch scheduled work instead of running it in real time.

For a full growing season, if someone makes roughly 150 interactions including observations, photo IDs, weather checks, and questions, Percy uses about the same amount of energy it takes to leave a single LED bulb on for an evening. For context: one round trip to the garden center in an average car produces hundreds of times more carbon than Percy uses in an entire season.

Whether the bet pays off is the real question, and we don’t fully know yet. But the alternative isn’t a world without AI. It’s a world where AI gets used for things that don’t particularly matter. Percy is an attempt to point some of it at something that does.

If you want the math behind these estimates, read our energy methodology.

Yes. Percy is a voice-first AI garden journal — you talk about what you’re noticing and Percy handles the rest. It tracks plantings, harvests, pests, and the small moments most garden tools miss entirely. Over time it learns your garden’s patterns across seasons, so when you ask a question weeks later, the answer comes from your actual history, not generic advice written for your zone.

Available on iOS and works the same on any web browser (desktop or mobile) at percy.garden.

We’re a little biased on this one, but here’s why we think Percy is the answer.

Most garden tracking apps feel like filling out a timesheet. Percy doesn’t. You hold a button, say what you noticed, and it handles the rest. There aren’t any dashboards, dropdowns or forms. You talk about your garden the way you’d tell a friend about it and Percy just understands. And then does all the organizing and logging for you.

Percy also tracks more than most apps. Not just plantings and harvests, but the weather conditions (automatically appended at the time of every observation), your sun exposure and local microclimate, the soil conditions specific to your beds and what the trees and structures around them actually do to the light. The kind of context that makes the difference between generic advice from the internet and advice that knows your garden.

It also captures the things that make a season feel like a season that have never had a place in any spreadsheet or planning app: when your kids found the first firefly of the season and tried to feed it a cheeto. The tomato you watched for two weeks, the moment you realized something was wrong before you could name it. Those observations live alongside the practical ones, and over time they tell a story no spreadsheet ever could.

When you have a gardening question, you ask it the way you’d ask Google or post to a forum, except the answer comes from your own garden history, not advice written for someone else’s zone. Snap a photo of a leaf, a pest, something you don’t recognize, and Percy identifies it and tells you what to do. Then remembers it, so next season you’re not starting from scratch.

At the end of the season, your Migration Report pulls everything together. The plantings, the harvests, the weather, the moments worth keeping, into a complete story of your garden, season by season.

If that’s what you’re looking for, there’s nothing else quite like it.

A garden journal only works if you actually keep it. Most people don’t — and it’s not a discipline problem. Writing by hand with a trowel in your other hand is a losing proposition. By the time you’re back inside, the details are already softening.

Percy removes the writing entirely. You hold a button and talk about your garden the way you’d tell someone about it, and Percy journals it for you — the plantings and harvests, the first bloom, the quality of the light that afternoon, the thing your kid said about the strawberries. All of it becomes a searchable, visual record that builds across seasons without you ever picking up a pen.

The other thing most garden journals can’t do: answer questions. Weeks later, when you can’t remember what you planted where or why something isn’t thriving, Percy already knows. It’s been keeping track.

At the end of the season, your Migration Report pulls everything together into the complete story of what happened out there. Which turns out to be more than most gardeners expect.

Percy. The concept is the same as an AI scribe in any field. You speak naturally about what’s happening and Percy converts it into an organized, searchable record that builds across seasons. You don’t have to fill in any forms or manage any dashboards. You just talk about what’s going on in your garden and Percy organizes it for you.

The difference is what Percy is listening for. It captures all the clinical facts like plantings, harvests, and pest issues, but it also captures much more than that. The things you noticed that didn’t fit anywhere in a spreadsheet. The afternoon you stayed out to keep planting during a sunshower. The questions you asked and what the answers turned out to be. It automatically keeps track of the weather conditions and the amount of sunlight. The full texture of a season. Over time it adds up to something no garden scribe has ever been able to produce: a complete record of your garden that actually understands what it’s looking at.

You garden. Percy writes it down for you. But then it starts connecting the dots. So it becomes not just a captured memory of your garden, but a deeper understanding of it.

With Percy, it works in three stages, though it doesn’t feel like stages when you’re doing it.

First, it listens. You hold a button and say what you noticed in plain speech. “First ripe tomato.” “Aphids on the roses again.” “Planted the cucumbers this morning during a cold snap I’m already regretting.” Percy understands all of it. You can also share a photo if you have a question and Percy will take a look and tell you what it sees and what to do about it if it’s a pest or disease issue.

Second, it organizes. The AI parses what you said into structured observations. It sorts out the plant, date, location, action, and appends the weather and sunlight conditions automatically. You don’t decide what gets filed where. That part just happens.

Third, it remembers. Weeks or seasons later, you ask Percy something you’d normally Google and get an answer based on your actual garden history. So it’s not generic internet advice written for your zone. It’s advice written for your garden because it knows everything you’ve shared about it. Percy also identifies plants, pests, and problems from photos and remembers what it found, so next season you’re not starting from scratch.

At the end of the season, your Migration Report pulls it all together into the complete story of what happened out there. Which turns out to be more than most gardeners expect.

Yes, and in ways that are different from what most people imagine when they hear “AI.”

The most useful things Percy does aren’t the things that sound most impressive. It’s not the photo ID analysis and diagnosis or the microclimate weather pattern tracking or the sunlight exposure awareness, (though those are real and pretty cool if you really like to geek out about data).

It’s that you can talk to Percy about your garden like you’d talk to a friend and it just understands you, and builds a record of your garden across time. And then actually understands what’s in it. So when you ask why something isn’t thriving, Percy already knows what you planted nearby, what the weather was doing that week, what happened in that bed last season. The answer comes from your garden, not from the internet.

The practical help is real. Percy identifies plants and pests from photos, tracks your harvests, follows up on problems you mentioned weeks ago, and warns you when frost or heat is coming. It captures weather conditions automatically with every observation, understands your sun exposure and local microclimate, and builds a searchable record of everything you’ve done and noticed. The things most gardeners try to track in a notebook and eventually stop tracking because it’s too much work.

But the more surprising thing — the thing that’s harder to explain until you’ve used it — is what happens when nothing gets lost. You start noticing more. The small things feel worth saying out loud because you know Percy will be there when they start to matter. A gardener with Percy tends to spend more time in the garden and less time trying to remember what happened in it.

There’s a certain irony in an AI product whose actual goal is to get you off your phone and back into the dirt. A gardener with Percy tends to be more present in the garden, more curious, more willing to slow down. That’s not what most people expect from an AI tool. It’s also exactly the point.

At the end of the season, your Migration Report pulls everything together: the plantings, the harvests, the weather, the moments worth keeping. And turns it into the complete story of your garden.

So yes. AI can help home gardeners. Percy is what that actually looks like.

Most garden tools ask you to maintain them. Dashboards to configure. Plant profiles to fill out. Logs to update in a system that wanted structured data from someone standing in the dirt with their hands full of cucumbers. They took something you love and quietly infused it with all the richness and joy of timesheets.

Percy handles the same information, tracking plantings, harvests, pest issues, plans, varieties, locations, and does it from a sentence instead of a form. You talk. Percy organizes, remembers, and connects the dots. No dashboards, no plant profiles, no data entry. You’re the gardener. Percy is the one taking notes.

And when you snap a photo of a pest or a plant you can’t place, Percy tells you what it’s looking at and what to do about it, drawing on your garden’s history. Every identification becomes part of the record, which means Percy gets better at anticipating problems the longer you use it.

And then Percy goes further. It captures the things you notice along the way, the moments that make a season feel like a season, that no spreadsheet column has ever had a place for. It tracks the actual weather conditions every time you make an observation. And it builds all of this into a living, visual portrait of your garden that gets richer every week.

The result is something no garden tool has ever produced: a complete picture of your garden across seasons, one you can ask questions, spot patterns in, and actually use to grow better next year.

A plant-ID app answers one question — “what is this?” — gives you the Latin name and a Wikipedia summary, and then forgets you asked.

Percy answers it too. But the answer is different. You snap a photo of a leaf, a pest, something you don’t recognize, and Percy tells you what it is, what it means for your garden specifically, and what to do about it — not a generic encyclopedia entry, but advice grounded in what you’re actually growing, where you’re growing it, and what’s been happening in that bed. If it’s a pest, Percy tells you how to deal with it organically. If it’s a disease, Percy tells you what conditions likely caused it and what to watch for next.

And then it remembers. The identification doesn’t disappear when you close the app. It becomes part of your garden’s record. Next season, when the same spots appear on the same roses at the same time of year, Percy already knows what it was and what worked. You’re not starting from scratch.

That’s the difference. A plant-ID app gives you a fact. Percy gives you a garden that remembers — one that gets more useful every season because everything it learns stays in your garden.

Not at all. Percy works whether you’ve been gardening for twenty years or just planted your first tomato (congrats! Don’t stress too much about pruning the suckers, just make sure to feed it when it starts to flower).

You don’t have to know any special terminology or hard-to-pronounce Latin names. “Something’s eating my basil” works just as well as “flea beetles on the Genovese basil.” Percy figures out what you meant either way.

The less experience you have, the more valuable Percy becomes over time. Percy is building a knowledge base about your specific garden that you haven’t had time to develop yet. It starts catching up fast.

If you can send a text message, you can use Percy. Hold a button, talk, tap “That’s right.” That is genuinely the whole thing. No setup, no configurations, no tutorial required. Percy does all the work for you.

If you get stuck, email hello@percy.garden. We’re happy to help.

Nope. Use Percy when something notable happens: when you plant something, notice a problem, or harvest something that made you unreasonably happy. Even twenty or thirty observations across a season gives you more to work with next year than most gardeners have ever had. No streak to maintain. No guilt if you miss a week. Percy just picks up where you left off, without comment or guilt trip.

Anything you’d notice. Just talk the way you’d talk to a friend who asked what’s going on in the garden.

• “I planted the Roma tomatoes in the west bed.”
• “The roses are going bonkers.”
• “Something’s eating the kale.”
• “Pulled the garlic. Biggest bulbs yet.”
• “Tried neem oil on the aphids today. Fingers crossed this works.”
• “Zinnias are stunning this year. I’ve been cutting bouquets like every week.”

There’s no wrong way to say it. The more you share, the more Percy can help. But even occasional, casual observations add up to something useful over time.

Yes. And this is one of the things that makes Percy different from anything else. You can ask Percy questions about your garden and get real answers.

“When did I sow the marigold seeds?” “Which tomatoes were worth growing again?” “What did I do about the squash bugs?” “How did the onions do in the raised bed?”

Not searching through entries. Not scrolling a timeline. Asking a question and getting an answer, based on what you’ve actually told Percy. Three weeks into your first season, you’ll ask something you’ve already forgotten. Percy will know.

Yes. Just say it the same way you’d say anything else. “Remind me to fertilize the grow bags in two weeks.” “I should start the next round of lettuce seeds before this batch bolts.”

Percy surfaces a reminder card when the time is right. Not a push notification at 7am, but a card that says “You wanted to do this. Ready?” You tap it, do the thing, tell Percy. This is how succession planting becomes something you actually do rather than something you keep meaning to do.

After every voice note, Percy plays back what it understood and asks you to confirm. If something’s wrong, you correct it right there. Nothing saves until you say it’s right. If it’s noisy outside and voice isn’t working well, you can type instead.

No. Percy only records when you’re holding the button, that’s the entire recording window. There’s no background listening, no always-on microphone, no passive data collection of any kind. Percy has no idea what you’re saying unless you’re actively holding the button and saying it to Percy.

The one nuance worth knowing: when you release the button, there’s a half-second grace window before recording stops. This is intentional, it exists so your last word doesn’t get clipped if you release the button a beat early. If you press again within that half-second, recording continues seamlessly. If you don’t, it stops, and what you said gets sent for processing.

That’s the whole thing. No creepy social media platform behavior. Just a microphone that’s only on when you tell it to be, with a 500ms cushion so you don’t have to be precise about it.

Yes. Voice is faster when you’re in the garden with dirty hands, but typing works exactly the same way. Use whichever suits the moment.

Yes. Snap a photo of a plant you don’t recognize, a leaf that looks wrong, or a pest you’ve never seen, and ask Percy what it is. Percy looks at the image and gives you an identification along with advice on what to do about it.

The answer isn’t just a species name from a database. Percy draws on what it knows about your garden: what you’ve planted, what pests you’ve dealt with before, what treatments worked. “That’s a cabbage looper. You had these last July. Row cover worked.” If Percy isn’t confident, it’ll say so and might ask for a closer shot or a different angle.

Every identification gets saved as an observation. That means your garden’s memory now includes everything Percy has helped you figure out. Identify a pest this season and next year, when the same conditions line up, Percy already knows what to look for and what to tell you.

Yes, automatically. Every time you tell Percy something, it captures the actual weather conditions at that moment: temperature, humidity, wind speed, precipitation, cloud cover. You don’t do anything to make this happen. Percy looks up the conditions based on your location and attaches them to the observation.

Over time, this builds a weather-correlated history of your garden that no gardener has ever had access to before. Percy can connect your best harvests to the conditions that produced them. It knows what the temperature was the week your tomatoes dropped their blossoms. It knows whether your garlic did better in a wet spring or a dry one. By your second season, this becomes genuinely powerful.

Percy also watches the forecast and gives you a heads-up when something that matters is coming: frost, hard freezes, heat waves, heavy rain, extended dry stretches. Not a generic weather alert. A note from something that knows what you have growing.

Percy can also track how sunlight moves across your specific garden through the seasons. If you share your garden layout and optionally your garden address, Percy calculates estimated sun hours for each growing area based on the time of year. This is how Percy knows that your east bed gets five hours of direct sun in March but eight in June, and adjusts its advice accordingly.

Yes. Photograph the pages, upload them, and Percy will transcribe your handwriting and turn it into structured observations — plant names, dates, locations, and categories pulled out automatically. It works with neat dated entries and messy margin notes alike, which is most gardeners’ actual situation.

This also works with screenshots from other garden apps — Seedtime, Gardenize, Planta, or anything else. If it has plant names and dates on the screen, Percy can read it.

Percy shows you everything it found and flags anything it wasn’t sure about before a single thing imports. Five seasons of a spiral notebook become searchable garden history in a few minutes. Every plant Percy finds in your notes is a plant Percy already knows about when you start talking to it.

Percy can read them. Upload a spreadsheet, paste text from your notes app, or photograph your handwritten journal pages. Percy reads through everything, extracts the observations, and shows you what it found before anything saves. You review, remove anything that looks off, and import the rest.

This matters more than it sounds. A gardener who imports even one previous season gives Percy something to work with immediately — not just a head start, but an actual history. When your first Migration Report arrives, Percy can compare your imported seasons against your current one: what improved, what patterns are emerging, what the weather did differently. That’s the kind of year-over-year picture that no notebook ever assembled on its own, because it couldn’t.

You can import from your account settings anytime. Everything Percy imports is removable if you change your mind.

Your first season, Percy captures your observations, remembers your plans, answers your questions, and gives you a garden memory you can actually have a conversation with. At the end of the season, you get your first Migration Report: a visual year-in-review of everything that happened in your garden.

Percy is useful from day one. It becomes irreplaceable over time.

Percy can answer questions about your garden in year one. But starting in year two, once Percy has a full season of observations, it can really start connecting dots. Percy reminds you when seasonal patterns line up with last year, flags recurring issues, and suggests what worked before. It can also correlate your outcomes with the actual weather conditions that shaped them. By year three, with multiple seasons of data, the pattern recognition gets genuinely powerful.

At the end of each growing season, Percy creates a visual year-in-review of your garden: your most-mentioned plants, your seasonal timeline, the challenges, the wins, the varieties worth growing again and the ones we shall never speak of again. The Migration Report is your garden’s story, written automatically, from a season of voice notes.

Starting in year two, Migration Reports include year-over-year comparisons: what improved, what patterns are emerging, what the data suggests you do differently.

First Migration Report coming this winter.

Percy surfaces two kinds of timely information. First, reminders based on your garden’s patterns: “Last year cabbage worms showed up the first week of June. Might be worth adding row cover this week.” Second, weather alerts when something that affects your garden is in the forecast: frost warnings, heat waves, heavy rain. Both appear as quiet cards in the app. Gentle suggestions, not demands. Easy to dismiss. Helpful, not nagging.

Yes. Your observations are yours. No ads, no selling your data. Percy is a private tool for you and your garden. Read the full privacy policy.

Securely in the cloud, so it syncs across devices. You can export or delete everything anytime.

No. Your observations are used only to help you: to understand what you said, surface patterns in your garden, and generate your Migration Report. We don’t use your observations to train models or share them with third parties.

Percy captures weather conditions (temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation) based on your general location to enrich your garden’s history. It does not track your precise location or collect personal data beyond what’s needed to look up local weather. The weather data is part of your garden’s record and is subject to the same privacy protections as everything else. If you choose to share your garden address, Percy also uses it to calculate sun positions and estimate daylight hours for your growing areas through the seasons. The address is geocoded through OpenStreetMap and is never shared with anyone else.

Your data is always exportable. If we ever had to shut down (we don’t plan to), we’d give you plenty of notice and make sure you can take everything with you. Percy is being built as a sustainable business, not a venture-backed startup racing toward an exit. The goal is to be around for decades.

Yes. After Percy plays back what it heard, you’ll see a prompt to attach a photo before you confirm the note. One photo per observation, the garlic you just pulled, the hole in the basil leaf, the dahlia that came back against all reasonable expectations. It takes a few extra seconds and adds something a voice note alone can’t.

The photos don’t just sit in a folder somewhere. They appear in the Nest alongside the observation they belong to, building a visual timeline of your garden as the season progresses. A single photo feels modest in the moment. Twelve tomato entries with photos and you’re watching fruit go from green to gold. That’s the kind of thing you’ll open in November when the garden’s asleep, just to remember what it looked like.

Photos also work as input. Snap a picture of a mystery plant, a damaged leaf, or an uninvited insect, and ask Percy what it is. Percy identifies the plant, pest, or disease and gives you advice based on your garden’s own history. The identification saves as an observation, so everything Percy helps you figure out becomes part of the record and part of what Percy draws on next season.

Yes. Once you’ve told Percy about a few different spots in your garden, it’ll invite you to show it the lay of the land. Upload a rough sketch, photos of your space, or both. Percy figures out which beds get sun, what’s near what, and how the whole thing is oriented. After that, when you mention a location, Percy knows the conditions there and can give you more specific advice than it could from a description alone.

You can also optionally share your garden address so Percy can track actual sunlight for each area through the seasons: how many hours of direct sun each bed gets at different points in the year, accounting for trees, fences, and anything else casting shade. Both the layout and the address live in your account settings and can be updated or removed anytime.

The Nest is Percy’s visual view, a living, scrollable portrait of your garden as it’s happening. It has three layers.

At the top, a narrative header that Percy writes automatically: a title for the current month (“March, Everything at Once”), a featured photo from your recent observations, and a written summary of what’s been going on. Below that, your Highlights, every observation worth featuring, with photos and botanical illustrations woven through. Below that, your full plant roster: every plant Percy has heard you mention, with its most recent note, its entry count, and its full photo timeline when you expand it.

You don’t build the Nest. You just talk about your garden, and the Nest appears. By mid-season, it becomes the kind of thing you open for no reason in particular, just to see what’s there.

Yes. Percy works in any browser at percy.garden — on Android, desktop, or iPhone. Sign in once and everything in your account stays in sync.

iPhone users can also download Percy from the App Store; everything from your account transfers automatically when you sign in. On iPhone, you can also add the web version to your home screen from Safari for an app-like icon without the App Store.

Yes. Percy runs in any browser — Android, iPhone, or desktop — at percy.garden. Everything syncs, nothing is reduced. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an installed app: full voice capture, photo identification, your complete garden history.

iPhone users have an optional App Store download too. Android users aren’t waiting on anything.

Not yet. Multi-garden support is on the roadmap. In the meantime, if you have multiple spaces, raised beds, containers on the deck, a community plot, just mention the location when you talk: “south bed,” “pots on the patio,” “the community garden.” Percy organizes by location automatically.

Not yet. Percy is currently designed for one gardener. If you garden with a partner, you can share an account for now. Collaborative access may come later, depending on what people actually want.

Voice input needs an internet connection because Percy uses OpenAI’s Whisper API for transcription. If your signal is spotty, you can type observations and they’ll sync automatically when you’re back online. Percy will always respond to your notes so you can tell if it was understood and give you a chance to confirm it or correct it.

• Migration Report, coming this winter
• Garden planner (building on layout data), 2027
• Multi-garden support, coming soon

Yes please. Founding members have real influence. Feedback gets read, and the product gets built around what real gardeners actually need rather than what seemed good in a meeting. (That’s the benefit of being a solo founder, there are no meetings. Unless…everything is a meeting. Oh god, that’s depressing. I think I need to sit down.)

Have ideas? hello@percy.garden.

Free for your first growing season. Full access, nothing locked, no credit card required. Sign up anytime in 2026 and you’re free through December 31st.

After that, it’s $39/year, locked in for Founding Members for as long as you stay subscribed. The price will rise as Percy grows. Yours won’t. No credit card required. Your data is yours regardless.

That’s about what you’d spend at the garden center before you’ve made it past the annuals. See full pricing details.

Percy delivers your first Migration Report and invites you to subscribe as a Founding Member. If you’re not ready, your observations don’t disappear, you’ll have read-only access to everything you captured and can export it anytime. Come back when you start planting in the spring and pick up exactly where you left off.

Then the honest answer is that a handful of observations isn’t enough to show you what Percy can do. We’d rather invite you to try again next spring than ask you to subscribe based on an incomplete picture. Still free.

Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Export your data and go.

Email us at hello@percy.garden. We’ll work something out.

Percy was built by Brian, a home gardener who wanted a better way to hold onto what happens in the garden, and it remains, for now, a one-person operation. No venture capital. No board of directors. No streaks or scores. No pressure to add a notification that says you haven’t logged in for eleven days in a tone that implies disappointment.

Just an attempt to build something genuinely meaningful for people who would rather be outside than in front of a screen. Which is, of course, the particular irony of building an app.

Percy isn’t venture-backed. Your subscription supports one person doing careful, deliberate work to support his family (and his seed catalog habit). No ads, no data mining, no pressure to add features that serve retention metrics over gardeners. When you pay for Percy, you’re voting for the kind of gardening tools you want to exist.

If you have ideas, feedback, or something growing that you want to tell someone about, we’d genuinely like to hear it. Especially if you know what to do about the slugs.
hello@percy.garden