HortusFox

HortusFox revolutionizes plant care by providing a structured, privacy-focused digital platform for managing houseplants and gardens. As plant collections grow beyond a few specimens, tracking care requirements, watering schedules, and growth patterns becomes challenging with traditional methods like spreadsheets or handwritten notes. HortusFox solves this by offering a purpose-built application that combines plant cataloging, task automation, inventory management, and collaborative features into a cohesive system that respects user privacy through self-hosting.

Common Use Cases

Indoor plant collectors use HortusFox to manage dozens or hundreds of houseplants across multiple rooms, setting location-specific reminders for watering and fertilizing while tracking growth patterns and health issues through photos and notes. Outdoor gardeners leverage the weather integration to adjust care schedules based on rainfall and temperature, maintaining detailed records of planting dates, harvest yields, and seasonal maintenance tasks for perennials and vegetables. Plant shops and nurseries deploy HortusFox to track inventory, care requirements, and customer care instructions for retail plants, using the collaborative features to coordinate staff responsibilities. Botanical enthusiasts utilize the plant recognition feature to identify unknown species from cuttings or gifts, building comprehensive catalogs with scientific names, growing conditions, and propagation notes for rare or unusual specimens.

Key Features

• Comprehensive plant cataloging with species names, custom attributes, care notes, and photo galleries
• Location-based organization for managing plants across different rooms or outdoor spaces
• Recurring task system with reminders for watering, fertilizing, repotting, and custom care activities
• Inventory management for pots, fertilizers, tools, and other gardening supplies
• Weather data integration for aligning outdoor plant care with environmental conditions
• Built-in plant recognition to identify unknown species from images
• Group chat functionality for collaborative plant management across households or teams
• Customizable themes for personalizing the interface aesthetic
• Backup and restore functionality for protecting plant data and configuration
• Multi-user support with individual accounts and shared plant collections
• Responsive design for seamless access from desktop computers and mobile devices
• Open-source codebase allowing customization and community contributions

Why deploy HortusFox on Hostinger VPS

Deploying HortusFox on Hostinger VPS ensures your plant collection data remains under complete control without dependence on third-party cloud services that may discontinue or change pricing. The dedicated server environment provides reliable access to care reminders and plant information from anywhere, allowing you to check watering schedules while traveling or access plant photos during nursery visits for comparison shopping. With persistent storage, years of growth records, care histories, and plant photos are preserved as a valuable long-term knowledge base documenting your gardening journey. Self-hosting on VPS infrastructure allows running HortusFox alongside other self-hosted services, with sufficient resources to handle image storage for large plant collections, backup retention for data protection, and responsive performance for mobile access during active gardening sessions.