Understand Your Plants
Like Never Before
Snap a photo, and Sproutcast shows you what's changing — leaf color, bloom health, watering signs, and growth over time. Like a plant diary that actually pays attention.Snap a photo and see what's changing — leaf color, bloom health, and growth over time.
Sproutcast detects what you'd miss with the naked eyeDrag to compare — original vs. analyzed
What One Photo Reveals
Sproutcast's open CV pipelines extract petal counts, geometry, depth maps, and radial distributions — all from a single image.
Built for How You Grow
Whether you're nurturing a windowsill herb or running a 10-acre greenhouse, Sproutcast adapts to your world.
Turn any phone into a plant health tracker
Snap a photo and instantly see what's changing — bloom health, leaf color shifts, watering needs, and growth over time. No experience necessary.
Any Camera Works
Use your phone, an old phone as a dedicated cam, or any webcam.
Guided Setup
Pick your plant category, environment, and notifications in under a minute.
Smart Alerts
Get notified when plants need water, show stress, or hit growth milestones.
Care Guides
Personalized tips from a 7,400+ species database powered by PLANTalytics.
From Camera to Insight
Three simple steps to professional plant monitoring. All processing stays local — your data never leaves your network.
Any Camera, Anywhere
Connect old smartphones, USB webcams, Ring cameras, RTSP streams, or any video source. Works over WiFi or USB.
- Old phones become monitors
- USB & network cameras
- RTSP/RTMP streams
- Ring & security cameras
Local CV Processing
Traditional computer vision with OpenCV — HSV color analysis, contour detection, and morphological operations. No cloud, no LLMs.
- HSV/LAB color-space analysis
- Contour & edge detection
- Runs on Raspberry Pi
- 100% offline capable
Real-Time Insights
Get instant plant metrics: leaf count, health scores, growth stage, disease detection — all visualized in a live dashboard.
- Leaf count & area
- Health & vigor scores
- Growth stage tracking
- Disease early warning
Open Source Plant Care for All
Whether you're nurturing a windowsill herb garden or managing commercial greenhouses, Sproutcast grows with you.
For Gardeners
Home & hobby growers
Turn your old phone into a garden cam. Track your plants' health, catch problems early, and learn what makes them thrive.
- Free for up to 100 plants
- Works with any old smartphone
- Simple setup with Docker
- Community support & guides
For Farmers
Commercial operations
Scale your monitoring across fields and greenhouses. Reduce crop loss with early disease detection and growth tracking.
- Unlimited cameras & sites
- Commercial licensing available
- Multi-site cloud sync
- Email support with SLA
For Researchers
Academic & scientific
Reproducible plant phenotyping with transparent algorithms. Export data, customize detection, publish with confidence.
- 50% academic discount
- Free for published research
- Full data export (CSV/JSON)
- Open source algorithms
For Makers
DIY & tinkerers
Build your own plant monitoring station with Raspberry Pi. Customize, extend, and contribute to an open source project.
- Runs on Raspberry Pi
- Docker deployment
- Extensible architecture
- Active GitHub community
See What Sproutcast Sees
Compare original photos with Sproutcast's analysis — detecting petal count, color variation, and more.
Dahlia — Original
High-resolution capture before analysis
Petal Measurements
Precise dimensional analysis of each petal
Built in the Open
No hidden algorithms, no data harvesting, no surprise costs. Just honest plant monitoring.
100% Transparent
Every line of code is open source — audit it yourself on GitHub.
Privacy First
Private Edition never sends data anywhere. Your plants, your data, your device.
No Black-Box AI
Classical computer vision you can understand — not opaque neural networks.
Green Powered
Community Edition runs on 100% renewable-energy servers via UpCloud.
Sproutcast is fair-code licensed and community-driven
Free for personal use — open source on GitHub
Free for Plant Lovers
Growing plants should never cost extra. Sproutcast is free for personal and educational use — always. Sustainable pricing only applies for commercial operations.
Community
For plant lovers, hobbyists, and learners
- Up to 100 plants
- 5 cameras max
- Community support
- Free forever — no catch
Small Commercial
Small operations and startups
- Up to 100 plants
- 5 cameras, 3 sites
- Commercial use ✓
- No advanced features
Commercial
101-500 plants • Commercial operations
- Unlimited plants & cameras
- Email support (5d SLA)
- Cloud sync & analytics
- 100% renewable servers
Enterprise
Large farms, nurseries & commercial projects
- Everything in Commercial
- 24h priority support
- Custom integrations & API
- White-labeling available
- Dedicated account manager
Academic & Research
50% discount on Commercial licenses • Free Enterprise for published research
Non-Profit Organizations
40% discount on all paid tiers
Academic Research Requirement
Academic and research users receiving discounted or free licenses must contribute any resulting plant analysis data back to the Sproutcast public dataset. This helps improve plant health monitoring for everyone. All contributed data is anonymized and openly available to the research community.
Running a farm, nursery, or commercial greenhouse?
Enterprise Edition includes custom integrations, API access, white-labeling, and a dedicated account manager. Let's build something that fits your operation.
Talk to SalesSee full pricing details at LICENSE_PRICING.md
Quick Answers
The top things new visitors ask before trying Sproutcast.
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Built by a Plant Enthusiast
Tahri T.
Software Engineer & Creator of Sproutcast
I believe technology should help us connect more deeply with nature, not replace it. Sproutcast started from a simple question: what if I could understand my plants the way they understand their environment?
With a background in computer vision and a passion for sustainable gardening, I'm building open-source tools that make plant care more accessible, data-driven, and rewarding for everyone — from balcony gardeners to commercial farmers.