The garden journal
that remembers.
Percy remembers everything, so you can enjoy your garden.
Free for your first growing season. No credit card.
What it is
Just talk.
Tell Percy about your garden like you’d tell a friend: the plantings, the harvests, the questions and all the moments you want to hold onto. It turns it all into a gorgeous living record of your season.
Your NestThe Perch: today’s one thingYour Migration Report ↓
How it works
How Percy works
Listens.
Just hold the button like a walkie-talkie.
Remembers.
Your whole season, beautifully captured.
Notices.
Remember all the moments that tend to fade.
Reminds.
Keep track of what you want to do next.
Kinda geeks out.
Percy logs the weather with every note you share (temperature, rain, humidity and daylight) and warns you before a frost. Weather has never been this exciting.
Answers.
It's like having a personal garden expert who knows your garden.
Identifies.
Friend or foe? Mystery plant? Yellowing leaf? Share what you're seeing. Percy can help. It even knows what’s native or invasive where you garden.
Writes your season.
At the end of the season, Percy writes your garden's year in review.
See one below ↓Migration Report
Arrives January 2027
A keepsake of your whole season: your garden’s year in review.
At the end of the season, Percy writes your Migration Report. Your garden as you’ve never seen it. A whole year of weather in a single ring. Every plant you grew on one page, each with its own chapter in your own words. The visitors, the highlights, and the small moments that would have faded. Laid side by side, you finally see how your season fit together.
- Weather
- Plants
- Moments
- Visitors
- Next year
Every report comes with a digital edition.
Your whole season, laid out like a coffee table book, as a digital edition you download and keep. It’s the story of your season, written from every note you made in your own words, with your own photos. Your garden, kept like this.
You don't do anything to make this happen. Percy has been building it since spring, and your first Migration Report is part of your free season. Then it becomes your plan for next year: the varieties worth growing again, and the ones we shall never speak of again.
In the garden
Ten seconds, and you're back in the garden.
Say what you planted. Share what you noticed. Ask for advice. Add a photo if you like. And Percy figures out the rest.
It's made to be used with dirty hands out in the sunshine. Percy does the work, then gets out of the way, so you can stay present in the garden instead of on your phone.
Garden journal
The Nest
A garden diary that writes itself.
The Nest is like a coffee table book about your garden that writes a new page every time you share a note. It remembers the plantings and the harvests, but also all the moments in between.
The best moments open the story.
Highlights from your season live at the top: important garden updates, wildlife sightings, family moments. The ones worth a full-page spread.
Each plant gets its own chapter.
Every note, every photo, the whole arc from seed to harvest (or seed to a series of increasingly concerned observations, also a valid arc). It assembles itself.
Field Notes for everything in between.
The questions you've asked, IDs you requested, and anything more curious than decisive. Like the notes in the margin of your season's story.
Garden planner
Twigs
A garden planner that remembers what you want to do next.
Tending holds your gardening to-dos. Just hold the button and say “I need to transplant the seedlings this weekend” or “Remind me to water the garden every 3 days.” Percy will remember it for you and nudge you on your home screen.
Someday is the place to save your garden inspiration. It's a private shelf for the maybe-one-day ideas: the plant you spotted on a dog walk, the new bed you're dreaming up, the varietals you want to try next year.
Garden advice
The garden advisor you've always wanted.
Everything you tell Percy becomes knowledge about your garden. So when you ask for advice, the answer comes from your actual garden. And Percy doesn’t wait to be asked. It gives you a heads-up before a frost or a dry week, and suggestions based on your own garden.
You ask
- What's eating my collard greens?
- Is this a weed or a wildflower?
- Which tomato did best for me this summer?
- What should I plant where the beans were?
- What can I plant to bring in more butterflies?
Organic first. When something's eating your collards, Percy starts with the gentlest fix that works, tells you when the culprit is actually a friend, and knows which plants are native or invasive where you garden.
How Percy gardens with the local ecosystem →“What's eating my collard greens?”
Percy keeps an eye out
A heads-up when it matters.
Open Percy and it shows you one thing worth knowing today: frost tonight, a task that's due, or a check-in on the peas you planted two weeks ago. Every page comes from your garden, your weather and your list.
Percy to meyour first frost usually lands around oct 18
Your garden sends you letters.
Every couple of weeks, the Garden Letter arrives by email with your weather, the wildlife you spotted, the moments you captured in your own words, and what's on your list.
From a gardener
“I've been using Percy for a few weeks and I love it. It personalizes answers based on what I've told it about my garden, and it's literally like having a little garden expert in my pocket.”Haley L. · Goldsboro, NC
The film
Your garden has always had a story.
Percy is the first thing that's ever been able to tell it.
Who it's for
Percy is for gardeners who'd rather be gardening.
If you've tried garden apps
and found yourself maintaining the app instead of the garden, Percy is not that. There are no forms, Gantt charts or dashboards. You just talk about your garden, then put the phone away. So you can stay present instead of staring at a screen.
If you keep a paper journal,
you already know the value of writing things down. Percy gives you a garden memory that writes itself, talks back, and gets more extraordinary every season. Everything you love about journaling, plus the part where it actually does something with what you've told it. Plus, zero risk of paper cuts.
If you don't track anything currently,
Percy shows you what it feels like when nothing is lost. And if you're new to gardening, you don't need to know what to track: just talk about what you see.
You don't need to use it every day. There are no streaks to keep or garden points to earn. Percy won't nag or guilt-trip you. Just share something when it feels notable: when you plant something, notice a problem, or harvest something that made you unreasonably happy.
Percy works beautifully if all you ever do is talk to it. But if you really want to geek out, you can tell it your location, your soil type, your garden layout, and it starts doing things no garden tool has ever done.
Who's behind it
Private by design.
Your garden is yours. Percy doesn't sell your data. Ever.
Support independent software.
Percy is built by Brian, a home gardener in New York with an unreliable memory and a small army of aphids who know it.
Questions
Questions gardeners ask
- What it is
- The garden journal that remembers
- Best for
- Gardeners who want to remember every season without filling in forms
- How it works
- You just talk to it. Typing works too. Add photos.
- Includes
- Garden journal, planner and reminders, plant, pest and disease ID, weather log, Migration Report, native or invasive where you garden (US, UK, Canada, Australia)
- Price
- Free for your first growing season, then $39/year. No credit card.
- Works on
- iPhone and Android apps, plus any web browser on desktop
What is Percy?
Percy is the garden journal that remembers, so you can enjoy your garden. You talk to it about what you plant, notice, and plan, and it turns that into a complete record of your garden, then into knowledge: answering your questions, connecting what happened from one season to the next, and giving advice based on your own garden's history. You never have to log anything by hand.
How is Percy different from other garden journal apps?
Most garden journal apps are logs: you fill in forms, and you get a record you can search later. Percy keeps the same detail, but you just say it, and then it does something a log can't: it turns your record into knowledge. It connects what happened across seasons, spots patterns you'd miss, answers questions from your own garden's history, and comes to you with advice when it matters. A log tells you what happened. Percy helps you understand what it means for next season. And at the end of every season, it writes your Migration Report: your garden’s year in review.
Is Percy a garden diary app?
Yes. Garden journal, garden diary: same idea (in the UK and Australia it’s usually called a diary). Percy is a garden diary that writes itself, and in the US, UK, Canada and Australia it knows which plants are native or invasive where you garden.
Is Percy a garden planner?
Yes. Tell Percy what you need to do and when, and Tending remembers it and nudges you on your home screen. Someday holds the plants and ideas you're saving for later.
Can Percy identify plants, pests, and diseases?
Yes. Show it a photo and Percy tells you what it is, whether it's native or invasive where you garden, and what to do about it. Then it remembers the ID.
Does Percy recommend organic methods?
Yes. Percy suggests organic options first, recognizes beneficial insects before you spray them, and in the US, UK, Canada and Australia tells you whether a plant is native or invasive where you garden. Our stewardship
Is Percy good for beginners?
Yes. There's nothing to set up and nothing to learn: you just talk to it. Percy is the easiest way to start, and because its advice comes from your own garden, it gets more useful the longer you use it.
How much does Percy cost?
It's free to start, with no credit card required. After your free season, it's $39 a year. Percy has native apps on iPhone and Android, and works in any browser on desktop.
Enjoy your garden. Percy remembers it.
Free for your first growing season. Then $39/year as a Founding Member, locked in 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.
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