The method

Know exactly where each plant belongs

Not "bright indirect light." The actual window, in your actual home, rated for every season.

THE PROBLEM

Generic advice doesn't know your home

Generic advice vs Plant Compass
Generic advice Plant Compass
"South-facing windows are bright. Great for sun-lovers." "This window gets 2.8 hrs direct in December. A pothos would be happy here year-round. Sun-lovers will struggle from October to March."
"East windows give gentle morning sun. Good for most plants." "Your east window gets 3.1 hrs in summer, 1.4 in winter. A snake plant will thrive. A fiddle leaf will sulk by January."
TWO APPS, ONE ENGINE

Same sun, different way in

Pro maps your whole home. Lite checks any spot on the fly.

Plant Compass Pro: satellite view of a home with sun hours rated at each window
Pro

Trace your home. See every window's sun

Search your address, place each window and garden bed on the satellite map, and get real sun hours for every season. Then match your plants to where they'll actually be happy.

  • Real sun hours per window and bed, summer to winter
  • Every plant matched to its best spot
  • Photo ID and per-plant watering reminders
Plant Compass Lite: live compass reading sun direction and rating plants thrive, cope, or avoid
Lite

Point. Read. Place

Aim your phone at any window or bed. The live compass reads the direction and tells you instantly which plants will thrive, cope, or struggle there.

  • Works anywhere: your place, a nursery, a rental
  • Instant results, no setup or account needed
  • One-time unlock for unlimited plants
THE RATINGS

Every plant gets a clear verdict

We compare what your window delivers against what each plant actually needs, season by season.

Thrive

The window matches the plant's ideal range across all four seasons, including its hardest.

Bird of paradise in a window with 4 to 6 hrs direct sun
Cope

Survivable but not ideal. The plant will stay alive but won't grow fast or flower well.

Pothos in a window with 5 or more hrs of direct summer sun
Avoid

The mismatch is big enough that the plant will decline. Too dim for a sun-lover, or too intense for a shade plant.

Maidenhair fern in a south-facing window

The rating shown is always the hardest season, not an average.

Stop guessing. Start placing

Plant Compass is on the App Store for iPhone. Free to try, no account needed.

Download on the App Store