Bonsai: Care & Growth Journal

About this app

If you grow bonsai, you already know the frustration: every plant care app on the market treats your tree like it's any other houseplant. They remind you to water every seven days. They show you a checklist. They have no concept of pruning seasons, branch ramification, or the fact that the juniper bonsai you started in 2019 is the most-photographed thing you own. Bonsai isn't a chore — it's a years-long project in slow art. Bonsai is a photo journal and bonsai care diary built for people who actually grow them. YOUR BONSAI TREE JOURNAL Every bonsai tree in your collection gets its own beautifully designed profile. Snap a photo whenever you notice something — a new flush of growth, the first sign of back-budding, a bend that finally took after months of wiring. Add a short note, or let the image carry the moment. Your bonsai journal grows naturally, one photo at a time. It's a bonsai care log and garden journal you'll actually want to open — not a tracker that makes you fill out forms. GROWTH TIMELINE Watch your bonsai evolve over years. Every photo you add builds a visual growth timeline — swipe through seasons to see how your juniper's deadwood weathered, how your Japanese maple ramified through three pruning cycles, how a starter nursery ficus turned into a tree with real character. Full-screen immersive mode turns your collection into a slow-motion film. For bonsai growers, this visual history isn't a nice-to-have — it's the whole point of the hobby. WATERING REMINDER AND CARE CALENDAR A watering reminder and bonsai care log that doesn't nag. Bonsai watering is its own discipline — daily in summer, careful in winter, never on a fixed schedule. The care calendar shows your whole collection at a glance: what you watered last, what needs attention this week, when you last repotted, pruned, fertilized, or wired. Gentle, beautiful, and always optional. A bonsai tree doesn't want to be nagged. SPECIES-AWARE CARE Juniper, ficus, jade, pine, elm, azalea, Japanese maple — every species has its own seasonal rhythm. Tag each bonsai by species and keep notes that travel with the tree across years and owners. Mini bonsai (shohin and mame), dwarf indoor tropicals, outdoor temperate trees — all in one place. COLLAGE AND LONG IMAGE EXPORT Turn your bonsai photos into stunning collages with one tap. Create long-image summaries of your entire bonsai garden — perfect for Instagram, Reddit r/Bonsai, or sending to a friend who just asked how your tree is doing this year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED, NATIVE iOS Built as a true native iOS app — not a web wrapper. 120Hz smooth scrolling, haptic feedback, full Dark Mode, and complete Dynamic Type support. The design draws on Japanese aesthetic principles — quiet, zen-leaning, focused on the tree itself. WHO BONSAI IS FOR People who keep 1, 10, or 50+ trees and want a real home for their photos. Hobbyists tired of Planta's spreadsheet feel and Greg's constant nagging. Beginners on their first juniper or ficus, or collectors with a serious garden of finished trees. Anyone who treats bonsai as a long-term art project — or as beautiful indoor or outdoor decor. WHY NOT PLANTA OR GREG Planta and Greg are excellent general plant care tools — but they're built around watering schedules and identification, not the multi-year visual memory bonsai actually needs. A bonsai isn't a tropical houseplant. It needs an app that understands pruning, wiring, repotting, and the slow art of training a tree. PRIVACY All your photos, tree profiles, and care records stay on your device — no cloud account, no data collection. Your bonsai garden stays private unless you share a long image or collage. Free to download. Supports English, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese. The most beautiful bonsai journal ever made for tree lovers. Privacy Policy: https://elevenapril.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://elevenapril.com/terms.html

We squashed a few bugs and polished the small stuff — the app feels smoother and steadier now. Keep recording your bonsai and enjoy watching it grow.

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