Shared calendars are here
Small news, big feature: you can now share your plant care calendar with someone else.
If you live with a partner, or a sister, or the friend who's always over anyway, you don't have to be the only one who remembers the fern needs water. Invite them, and I hand them the same calendar you're looking at.
How it works
When you share your calendar, the person you invite:
- Sees the same plants and the same schedule
- Gets their own gentle reminders — not yours, not a copy of yours, their own
- Can mark things done when they water for you
- Shows up in the care history with their name, so you can see who watered what and when
You stay the owner. You can revoke access at any time from the same screen where you invited them. If your relationship with plant-watering frequency changes, so does theirs.
For the person invited
If someone shares their calendar with you, it lands under Follow on your Calendar tab. You get the schedule, the reminders, and the ability to mark care done — but not the ability to change what's in the plan. That's still the owner's call.
You can follow more than one calendar. If your parents share theirs and your partner shares theirs, both show up in the dropdown on the Calendar tab and you can switch between them.
Also in this release
A few smaller improvements that landed alongside:
- Care history now shows both the expected date and the completed date for each entry — useful for figuring out whether a plant is actually being watered on schedule or drifting.
- Completion tracking is more consistent across devices. Mark something done on one phone, and the other doesn't get confused.
- The invite flow for shared calendars is sturdier — fewer surprises when you send or accept.
- Small UI fixes across the Today, Calendar, and Plants screens.
When this really matters
The obvious answer is vacation — if you're away and someone else is stopping by to water, this is what makes the handoff painless. The Going on vacation post talks about that case at length.
The less obvious answer is everyday. In a household with two people and a dozen plants, the person who happens to walk past the parched pothos first is the one who should water it. Shared calendars mean "who's on watering this week" stops being a conversation.
How to try it
Open the app (or install it if you haven't yet), go to the Calendar tab, tap Share, and send the invite. Your person taps the link, joins the calendar, and it's done.
You're both watering the fern now. Coordinate accordingly.
— Bloombi