Fern Pilot is a plant-care notebook that runs entirely on your device. It has no accounts to create, no adverts, and nothing it needs from anywhere else in order to work.
The short version. Everything you type into Fern Pilot — your plants, their schedules, your care history and your growth notes — stays in the app's own storage area on your phone. We do not gather it, and we never see it.
What the app records
Only the things you enter yourself: the plants you add, their nicknames, rooms, pot sizes and light positions, the care actions you log, the growth measurements you record, and your display name and chosen avatar.
The app may also keep a device identifier on the device for basic app functionality, together with your in-app preferences. That identifier is used on the device and nowhere else.
How it is used
Your entries are used for one purpose: to work out when each plant should next be watered or fed, and to draw the charts, calendar and badges you see in the app. Nothing is used for marketing, profiling or measurement.
Where it is stored
In the app's private storage area on your phone — a small database file plus a handful of saved preferences. Both are protected by the sandbox your operating system gives every installed app.
How long it is kept
For as long as you keep the app installed. Nothing expires on its own and nothing is archived elsewhere.
Sharing
We do not share your plant records with anyone, because we never hold them. There are no advertising partners, no analytics partners and no measurement partners involved in this app.
Permissions
Fern Pilot asks for no runtime permissions at all. It does not use the camera, the photo library, your location, your contacts, your microphone or your calendar, and it does not display notifications.
Your control over your data
- Change or correct anything from the plant screen at any time.
- Remove a single plant and its whole history from that plant's menu.
- Delete every trace by uninstalling the app — the storage area goes with it.
Because nothing leaves your phone, there is no copy of your garden for us to export or erase on your behalf.
Children
Fern Pilot is suitable for all ages. It is not directed at children specifically, and because it gathers no personal information from anyone, it gathers none from children either.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever changes in a way that affects this page, the text here is rewritten and the date at the top of the page is updated. Please check back after an app update if you would like to be sure.
Contact
Questions about this policy are welcome at [email protected].