User guides

Help & Getting Started

Start with one plant and one task. These guides are also bundled in the app for offline reading.

Last updated 7 October 2026

Getting started

Add your first plant and plan a garden job.

Sign in online. Use the same GardenYeah account on iPhone and web to keep your garden together.
Open Tools → Manage garden locations to name or select your garden. Locations separate gardens; spaces organise areas within a garden.
Open My Garden, choose the plant section and use the add button. Enter a name and any details you know, and optionally add a photograph. You can enter plants manually without identification.
Review the planting or sowing journal options before saving. Open the saved plant to check its details.
In the task list choose Schedule a task. Add a title, due date and optional repeat, then save. Due jobs appear on Today.

Remember: Start with one plant and one task. Add more detail later.

Plants, spaces and photographs

Organise records and keep useful plant details.

Select the correct garden location. In My Garden, use spaces to group beds, pots or other areas.
Add plants or crops and assign them to a space where useful. Open a record and choose Edit to correct its details.
Use Add progress photo on a record to open its editor. Check the photograph and date before saving.
Use Add plant label to keep nursery label photographs and information with a plant. Label photographs need an internet connection.
Open Tools → Storage and data to check your remaining photo allowance or view storage statistics.

Remember: Deleting photographs frees storage but does not reset rolling upload allowances. Each label side counts as a photograph.

Journal and completed work

Build a dated history of your garden.

Open Journal → Record an observation or activity.
Enter a title, date, activity and notes. Link a plant or space where useful, and optionally add a photograph. Save the entry.
Use Journal filters to find activities, photographs or completed tasks.
When marking a task done, review the completion prompt. Completed work is recorded in Journal. Use Undo completion on its journal entry if you completed it accidentally.

Remember: Check dates when recording older observations so your history stays in order.

Tasks and reminders

Schedule work and keep track of what is due.

Choose Schedule a task in the task list, or select a calendar date and choose Task.
Enter the job, due date and repeat setting. Link the relevant garden item where appropriate, then save.
Open a task to review details. Mark done when finished, or use the snooze, skip or edit controls.
On iPhone, configure reminders in Tools and allow notifications when requested. If previously denied, enable notifications in your phone settings.

Remember: Completing a repeating task schedules its next occurrence. Notification delivery depends on device settings; check Today for due work.

Identification and care guides

Use photographs and personalised care advice.

Connect to the internet and check Premium access in Tools → Subscription.
Choose the relevant plant, plant-health or insect identification option and provide a clear photograph with the subject in focus.
Review suggestions before saving. Correct the plant name if the suggestion is not right.
Open a plant’s Care guide and check its plant and location details. Save the guide you want to keep.
Review suggested work before adding tasks. Use follow-up questions when you need clarification.

Remember: AI identification and advice can be wrong. Do not rely on identification to decide whether a plant is edible or safe. Check product labels and local guidance before treatments.

Subscriptions and missing access

Find your plan, restore access and cancel correctly.

Open Tools → Subscription. Logbook covers garden records; Premium adds identification and personalised AI care.
If you paid but access is missing, sign into the GardenYeah account used for the purchase. Use Restore purchases on iPhone or Refresh subscription status on web.
Do not buy a second subscription to recover access. Contact Support if restoring or refreshing does not help.
Use Manage or cancel subscription and complete cancellation with the purchase provider. Apple manages App Store purchases; web purchases use the billing portal.
Web upgrades and downgrades are not enabled yet. Contact Support before changing plans or stores.

Remember: Closing checkout, signing out, uninstalling or deleting an account does not cancel a subscription. Check the currency, price and renewal terms before confirming payment.

Offline use, sync and backups

Keep records safe across devices.

Sign in online first and allow your garden to load. Previously loaded records can remain available offline; not every photograph will necessarily be cached.
Offline changes and supported photos wait to sync. Reconnect and check for errors before signing out, clearing browser data or removing the app.
On a computer, use the web app: Tools → Backup and restore → Download complete backup.
Keep the ZIP somewhere private and safe. It contains garden records, preferences, labels and optimised image files.
Use Restore complete backup in the web app when needed. Read the prompts: matching records are updated; newer records absent from the archive are not deleted.

Remember: Complete backup and restore are web-only. Identification, new AI advice and label photo uploads require internet. Sync is not a substitute for your own backup.

Account settings and support

Adjust the app, recover sign-in or get help.

Use Tools to adjust appearance and text size, manage locations or open garden calculators.
If you cannot sign in, use Reset password and check your junk folder.
While signed in, open Tools → Support. Describe what happened, the error wording and what you expected. Keep the support reference after sending.
If you cannot access the app, email support@gardenyeah.com from the address linked to your account.
Before account deletion, save a backup if wanted and cancel your subscription separately. Tools → Delete account requests permanent deletion of the account and garden data.

Remember: Never send passwords, API keys or full payment-card details to support. Account deletion cannot be undone.

Glossary: GardenYeah terms

A location contains spaces; plants belong in your garden. Tasks plan work, while the journal records what happened. Discoveries and your wishlist help you remember future possibilities.

Acquired: A discovery or wishlist item you have obtained and added to your garden. Its record can be linked to the plant created for it.
Activity: The type of work or observation recorded in a journal entry, such as planting, sowing, watering, pruning or harvesting.
Backup: A separate downloaded ZIP copy of garden records, preferences, labels and optimised photographs. Complete backups are created in the web app.
Calendar: A date-based view for browsing scheduled tasks and journal activity.
Care guide: Saved care information for a plant. Premium can generate personalised AI advice using the plant and growing details supplied. Review advice against actual conditions.
Crop: A plant record categorised as a crop, useful for organising things you grow to harvest, such as vegetables, fruit or herbs.
Discovery: A plant or find you want to remember or identify, perhaps seen on a walk or at a nursery. Saving a discovery does not mean you already grow it.
Due date: The date a task is scheduled for. It is your planned date, not a guarantee that conditions are suitable for the job.
Follow-up question: A question you ask about a care guide to get further explanation. New AI answers require an internet connection and the relevant access.
Garden calculators: Tools for working out quantities such as pot capacity or materials from measurements you enter. Check units and inputs; use product-label directions for sprays and fertilisers.
Garden Location: A separate garden or property you manage, such as Home or Allotment. Select a location to work with its garden records. It is not the same as a space within that garden.
GardenYeah account: Your sign-in for garden records and access. Use the same account across devices. It is separate from the Apple account used for App Store payments.
Identification: An online Premium feature that suggests a plant or insect identity from a photograph. Review the suggestion; it is not a guaranteed identification.
Journal: Your garden’s dated history of observations, activities, photographs and completed tasks.
Journal entry: One dated record in the journal. It can describe an observation or activity, include notes and a photograph, or record a completed task.
Linked item: The plant or space associated with a task or journal entry, so you can tell which part of the garden it concerns.
Logbook plan: The subscription tier for keeping and organising garden records, tasks, journal entries and photographs. It does not include Premium identification or personalised AI care.
Mark done: Record that you completed a task. GardenYeah adds completed work to the journal and schedules the next occurrence when the task repeats.
My Garden: The part of GardenYeah where you browse and organise your garden records, including spaces, plants and crops.
Offline: Using the app without an internet connection. Previously loaded records and supported edits can be available, but online services and uncached photographs may not be.
Overdue: A task whose due date has passed and which is still awaiting completion.
Photo allowance: The number of photographs you can upload within rolling time periods. This is separate from storage capacity; deleting photos does not reset the upload count.
Photo storage: The space your stored photographs use. Deleting photographs frees storage, but does not reset rolling upload allowances.
Plant: A record for something you grow. It can hold a name, variety, space, notes, photographs, labels and care information.
Plant health check: An online Premium photo assessment that suggests possible plant problems. It is guidance, not a confirmed diagnosis.
Plant label: A saved nursery label, with front/back photographs and details such as purchase information. Each photographed side counts towards photo allowances.
Premium plan: The subscription tier that includes Logbook features plus plant, insect and plant-health identification and personalised AI care.
Progress photo: A dated photograph used to record how a plant or garden area looks over time.
Record: A saved item in GardenYeah, such as a plant, space, task or journal entry. Editing a record updates its stored details.
Refresh subscription status: The web action that checks your latest subscription access. It does not buy a plan or restore lost garden records.
Reminder / Notification: A phone alert about scheduled work. Reminders depend on notification permission and device settings; the task remains in the app even if you do not receive an alert.
Repeat: A schedule for a recurring task. Completing or skipping a repeating task moves it to its next occurrence rather than ending the whole series.
Restore backup: Import a complete backup ZIP through the web app. Matching records are updated; newer records not in the archive are not deleted. This is different from Restore purchases.
Restore purchases: The iPhone action that checks existing store purchases to recover access. It is not a new purchase and does not restore a garden backup.
Skip: Decide not to do this occurrence of a task. A repeating task moves to its next occurrence; a one-off task is marked skipped. Skipping does not record the work as completed.
Snooze: Postpone a task to a later date without marking it completed.
Space: An area within a garden location, such as a raised bed, patio, greenhouse or border. Use spaces to organise plants and crops.
Subscription: Recurring paid access to a plan. Check the price, currency and renewal terms at checkout. Manage cancellation with the provider that took the payment.
Support reference: The reference shown after sending a private support request. Keep it for follow-up; never include passwords or full payment-card details.
Sync: Keeping account records up to date between this device and the cloud. Offline changes wait for a connection; check for errors before clearing local data.
Task: A job you plan to do, with a due date and optional repeat, such as watering a pot or pruning a rose. A task is planned work; a journal entry records an observation or what happened.
Today: Your starting view for current garden information and work needing attention, including due and overdue tasks.
Tools: The app’s area for help, subscription controls, appearance, reminders, calculators, locations, storage, backup and account settings.
Undo completion: Reverse an accidental task completion from its completed-task journal entry.
Variety: A more specific name for a plant, such as the tomato variety “Roma”. Record it when known to distinguish similar plants.
Wishlist: Plants or discoveries you would like to acquire in future. It is a planning list, not a shopping cart or an order.

Still need help?

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