Greel App 1.4 release notes

Version 1.4 is built around a simple idea: your home is not a static label, and plant care is not a fixed calendar. This release adds a plant journal, brings weather into care suggestions, tightens how schedules adapt, lets you save and compare home environment profiles, introduces cultivar-aware identification helpers, expands sign-in with Apple and Google, adds dependable manual-entry fallbacks where automation cannot reach, and refreshes surfaces with Liquid Glass styling on supported platforms.

Plant journal

Care memory matters. Weekly photos, watering notes, and quick observations turn “I think something changed” into a timeline you can trust. Greel App 1.4 introduces journaling so you can capture what happened, when it happened, and what you did next—not as busywork, but as a readable history when leaves shift color, growth slows, or a new cutting roots.

Journal entries shine when troubleshooting. If you rotated a pot, bumped fertilizer, swapped soil, or moved closer to glass, logging the date prevents you from rewriting history when symptoms appear five days later. That single habit often separates “I watered on Tuesday” guessing from reproducible reasoning.

Photographs staged in one direction also help comparisons: similar framing, consistent distance, neutral white balance indoors. Greel organizes those moments so you swipe through growth spurts instead of digging through albums.

If you are unsure what belongs in an entry, see What is worth recording in a plant journal. The goal is selective signal: fewer lines that still explain three weeks later why you watered late or moved a pot.

Weather-driven care and smarter schedules

Humidity spikes when it rains for days; evaporation changes when HVAC runs harder; light quality shifts seasonally indoors and out. Greel uses local weather signals to soften rigid reminders and steer you toward substrate-driven checks instead of blindly following the same interval.

Rainy stretches are a classic failure mode for calendar watering: the air feels wetter, pots dry slower, and foot traffic past the windowsill drops. App 1.4 links those patterns to guidance that resists overwatering without abandoning structure. For a walkthrough in plain language, read How to adjust watering during a rainy week.

Smarter schedules mean fewer pings when context says “probably not thirsty yet,” and clearer prompts when the environment pushes faster dry-down or slower recovery. Combined with journaling, you can see whether deferring water matched how the soil actually behaved.

Seasonal dormancy indoors can also masquerade as underwatering. When growth slows legitimately, schedules should not nag you into compensating with extra drinks. That is where weather plus plant state beats a dumb timer—see How to tell when an indoor plant is dormant for how to read those signals.

Home environment profile: save and compare

Many growers have more than one “spot”—a east window sill, a few feet back under a skylight, a winter grow corner. Saving environment profiles lets you label those spaces with measured or estimated light patterns, revisit them months later, and compare how placements feel for humidity and temperature rhythms.

Pair profiles with practical measurement habits from Indoor light assessment guide. When light readings and notes live next to schedules, relocating a plant stops being guesswork.

Cultivar identification

Identification upgrades lean on cultivar-level hints where they improve care specificity—so recommendations match the plant you actually grow, not just the genus on a faded shop tag.

When two cultivars differ in leaf thickness, variegation load, or natural compact habit, generic advice can mis-rank light and water priorities. Clearer ID reduces “works on average” guidance and moves you toward ranges that fit the specimen in front of you.

Apple and Google sign-in

Account access now supports Sign in with Apple and Google where available, lowering friction when you reinstall the app or set up journaling on a new device.

Manual entry fallback

Automation should never strand you without a path forward. Manual entry pathways cover cases where scanning, lookups, or network steps fail: you can still define a plant, set care intent, log journal notes, and keep schedules running.

Travel, basement corners, and rare species are common places where cameras and cloud catalogs hesitate. Manual capture keeps your care graph continuous so you return online without a blank slate.

Liquid Glass

On supported builds, Liquid Glass visuals refresh hierarchy and readability for cards and navigation chrome. Behavioral logic is unchanged—you get the same care engine with a cleaner surface tuned for daylight glances.

Recommended reading alongside 1.4

• Plant journal basics—what is worth capturing.
• Indoor plant watering frequency guide—soil-aware rhythm instead of a blind calendar.
• New plant acclimation guide—first-weeks logging that complements journal entries.

What is next

Continuing focus: quieter notifications, richer context linking journal entries to reminders, and further polish for environment workflows as more homes save multiple profiles. We will keep expanding manual-first paths whenever cloud assist is uncertain, so your records stay honest and your plants stay on track through every season.