What's new in Fern.

Fern is on Apple Watch! See which plants need water or feeding today right on your wrist and log care with a tap. Complications, Smart Stack and a Control Center button keep it close, and a shortcut can water everything that's due in one go. New: Staghorn Q&A with AI. Premium members can ask any staghorn care question and get answers drawn from our curated growing notes — with multiple chats, history, and a thumbs-down to tell us when an answer misses. Ready for the new iPhone Duo: open it up for four plants per row on Home, a two-page plant view with the profile on one side and the growth log on the other, and layouts that keep clear of the fold. Care reminders on Home are more compact and color-coded by care type, and coming back from a plant page keeps your place in the list. On Fern Wall, select several plants and share all their profiles at once. Plus smoother zooming in the photo viewer and other fixes.

Siri and Spotlight now know your plants. Search a plant's name or scientific name in Spotlight to jump straight to it. Ask Siri "which plants need care today", "when did I last water it", "show me a random plant" or "open Fern Wall" — you'll get an answer right away, and can log the care in the same breath. The home screen gets a bottom tab bar: alongside Home, add up to three more tabs (Batch Care, Fern Lab, Fern Stats or Settings) and change them anytime in Settings › Appearance. The "+" button has moved to the top right, and filter and sort now live in the "More" menu, leaving the toolbar cleaner. Widgets support the new full-page extra-large portrait size on iOS 27 — Random Plant and Fern Wall can fill an entire screen.

Fern Wall is now free for everyone — arrange your plants into a wall, drag them around, and add notes and text. Batch actions feel better too: finishing one action no longer drops you out of multi-select, so your selection stays put for the next one. We've also fixed a handful of issues and polished the experience along the way.

This update makes editing in bulk actually pleasant. Select multiple plants on the home screen and tap Edit Fields to change 14 fields at once — group, species, growth stage, acquisition date, price and more. After applying, you land back on the field list, ready for the next one. Group pages and drill-down lists now support multi-select, Select All and batch actions too, and Select All after filtering only picks the plants you filtered for. We also fixed memberships occasionally dropping after a brief network hiccup, and moved Growth Replay into the More menu for a cleaner photo viewer.

A round of bug fixes this time. We cleaned up the issues you reported, so logging, browsing, and syncing all feel smoother. Thanks for writing in — happy growing.

This update is all about fixes. We tracked down a batch of issues so logging, browsing, and syncing all feel more reliable. Thanks to everyone who wrote in — keep the feedback coming, and happy growing.

We fixed a handful of small issues and polished a few rough edges, so logging and browsing your plants feels a little smoother. Here's to your ferns growing well — tell us anytime if something could be better.

We've fixed a few bugs and polished a lot of small details, so everything feels smoother and more reliable. Thanks for growing with us — we'd love to hear your ideas anytime.

We've fixed a few bugs and polished a lot of small details, so everything feels smoother and more reliable. Thanks for growing with us — we'd love to hear your ideas anytime.

We've fixed a few bugs and polished the little details, so everything feels smoother and more reliable. Thanks for growing with us

This update fixes a few issues and polishes some details for a smoother, more reliable experience. If anything ever feels off, we'd love to hear from you via Settings → Feedback — we read every message.

Immersive detail page with automatic dominant color extraction. Long-press Live Photos to play. 3:4 crop preview camera. Fixed photo black edges. Pin plants to top in groups. iPad landscape improvements. Backup & restore Live Photo support. Crash fixes.

New Collage feature: combine multiple photos into beautiful collages with various layouts, border styles, and aspect ratios. Live Photo support: capture and play back Live Photos in your records. Optimized long image sharing with smaller file sizes.

New sorting options: sort by acquisition date or latest timeline record. Landscape photo hint when adding photos. QR code share button with plant name display. Save photos from full-screen viewer. Fixed backup import not syncing groups/species options. Group order on home follows Group Management order.

Calendar View Browse your plant acquisition history in a beautiful calendar layout. Each day shows featured plant thumbnails — tap any day to see which plants joined your collection.

• QR Code Generator: Create QR codes for your plant tags to quickly identify and share them.
• NFC Tag Writer: Write plant information to NFC tags and attach them to your plant labels.

Haptic Feedback Feel subtle vibrations when interacting with buttons and actions throughout the app. Spotlight Search Search your plants directly from the iOS home screen using Spotlight.

• Home Screen Widget. Add widgets to your home screen to display a random plant from your collection.
• Scan Plant Tag. Automatically recognize plant names by scanning the tag when adding a new plant.

• Family Tree — View parent-offspring relationships and explore your plant lineage visually.
• Nearby Share — Share plant records with friends nearby using peer-to-peer connection.

• Support sharing longshot
• Improved loading performance
• Bug fixes

iPad Supported

Initial release.