HortusFox
Self-hosted collaborative plant management and tracking system
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Last commit 31 Jul 2026.
HortusFox is an open-source, self-hosted plant management and tracking system designed for collaborative use by households, friends or communities. It provides a web-based dashboard and mobile-friendly interface to add, catalogue and journal plants, photos and care activities.
Key Features
- Plant management with attributes, photos, gallery and tags.
- Custom locations and collaborative user management for shared workspaces.
- Tasks, recurring reminders and calendar integration to track plant care.
- Inventory system with export options and item tagging (PDF/JSON/CSV in recent releases).
- Group chat and history/logs for collaborative notes and actions.
- Weather forecast and plant identification integrations (OpenWeatherMap, Pl@ntNet) and GBIF for plant data.
- REST API, theming, multi-language support, backups and an admin dashboard.
Use Cases
- Home plant collections: catalog plants by room/location, track watering and maintenance.
- Shared households or community spaces: collaborate on tasks, inventory and group chat for maintenance coordination.
- Hobbyist record-keeping: photo galleries, logs, and plant identification tied to external biodiversity services.
Limitations and Considerations
- Some features depend on external APIs: plant identification (Pl@ntNet), weather (OpenWeatherMap) and biodiversity lookups (GBIF); these require separate API keys and are opt-in.
- System requirements include modern PHP and MariaDB versions and Docker support; plan for PHP 8.x and MariaDB 11+ in production.
HortusFox is actively developed and distributed under an MIT license; releases and a public demo workspace are provided for evaluation. The project is community-discussed on selfhosted channels and documented in its repository and site.
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