Plant Light Meter
For houseplants
For houseplants
Total Ratings
United States
Description
After excessive watering, lack of light is the second most common cause of death of indoor plants.
Better light conditions will keep your plants healthy.
Measure your plants’ ideal light levels for the price of a cup of coffee!
How to use:
- Launch the application
- Point the camera toward the plant’s leaves
- Press the “Measure” button
How to interpret the measurement:
- Very low light: Difficult conditions for plants to survive.
- Low light: For plants that can tolerate low levels of light, such as the aglaonema, parlor palm, and philodendron.
- Medium light: For the majority of indoor plants, such as the Dracaena, Pothos, and spider plant.
- High light: For plants that love light, such as the zebra plant, areca palm, and croton.
Features:
- Detection of natural light & artificial lights
- Compatible with rear camera only
Notes:
This application allows you to measure the light levels of indoor plants. However, if you need very precise measurements, the use of professional equipment is recommended.
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Version History
Last version released 831 days ago.
Correction of a spelling mistake
Adjusted light values for 3 plants: African Violet, English Ivy, Moon Valley.
UI update for "leaf mode"
- Design update
- Share App: Fixed link
Guide: Added Monstera plant
Guide: Plants can be added to Favorites group
Welcome screen for new users.
New: Added "Fun" tab. It contains a small free game about houseplants.
Settings tab: app link can be shared.
New: Basil, Tomato, Oregano, Mint
Guide tab: Added alphabetical index
Measure tab: The plant wheel is back.
UI update
Added support for artificial lights such as LED, T5, and grow lights.
To test this new feature, go to the settings tab and select the “artificial & natural lights” mode.
Fixed plant name for: Tradescantia zebrina / Walking Dude
Full-screen support for the latest iPad mini
Minor UI and text update
Fixed black screen issue
Improved plant light descriptions:
Creeping Fig, Delta Maidenhair Fern, Heart-leaf Hoya, Peacock Plant, Cylindrical Snake Plant, Emerald Ripple Peperomia, Christmas Cactus, Corn Plant, Crown of Thorns, Donkey’s Tail.
Improved plant light descriptions:
Baby’s Tears, Bird’s Nest Fern, Chinese Jasmine, Chinese Money Plant, Bird of paradise, Cardboard palm, Bunny Ear Cactus, Bush Lily, Cat Palm, Cathedral Bells.
New plants: American Century Plant, Ball Cactus, Cobweb Houseleek ,Crinkle Leaf Plant, String of Dolphins, Easter Lily Cactus, Horse’s Teeth, Living Stones, Pink Jelly Bean Plant, Kitten Ears
Calathea Ornata: Light level
Improved guide for the following plants: Air Plant, Baby Rubber Plant, Autograph Tree, Artillery Plant, Aluminium Plant, Banana-Leaf Fig, Polka Dot Plant.
New plants:
Angel Wings, Stromanthe, Five Holes Plant, Mediterranean Bonsai, Geranium, Coleus, Common Olive.
Minor update, updated screenshots
Fixed picture: Watermelon Peperomia
- Added zoomable pictures to the plant guide pages
- Minor fixes
- Added rosemary (requested by a user)
- Fixed swiss cheese plant description (requested by a user)
- Minor fixes
Minor update
Lighting recommendations for 60 additionnal house plants
- Added new light detection mode : window mode.
It is useful for measuring light when no plants are present, or when the leaves of the plants are difficult to access.
- Added 'Southern Hemisphere' option so notes relating to plant orientations reflect the hemisphere set by the user. For example, north facing is best light in the Southern Hemisphere as opposed to south facing in the northern hemisphere.
- Lighting recommendations for 7 additionnal house plants: crispy wave fern, cast iron plant, guzmania, moon orchid, money tree plant, flamingo flower, lucky bamboo.
- Lighting recommendations for 6 additionnal house plants: aloe vera, african violet, lemon tree, split-leaf philodendron, spineless yucca, zz plant.
- Major update
- Lighting recommendations for around thirty house plants
- Improved light detection for dark places
- Better low light calibration
- Minor UI update
- Better light calibration
- Minor UI update
- Better light calibration
- Fixed camera issue when device is upside down
- Major version update, more user friendly.
- To measure the light, simply position the camera toward the leaves.
Dark mode is available for users on iOS 13
iPad compatibility
Minor user interface update
Native screen resolution support for the iPhone X, XS, XS Max and iPhone XR
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