We have spent most of the time since 1.0.1 on the website. The care content that ships inside Raychis is going across to Guides, where we reformat it for a browser and publish it in waves.
Read the guides before you download the app
If you have not installed Raychis, you should still be able to read the care content. We have put the same material on the web so you can judge it before you download the app.
What is on the site now
250 species guides sit at /guides, one per plant. Each covers light, water, feeding, soil and temperature, the problems that turn up on that species, and whether it is safe around cats, dogs and children. We check toxicity against ASPCA, the RHS harmful plants list or NC State Extension, and every claim on a page links to the source it came from.
Another 67 pages cover problems, from aphids and vine weevil to blossom end rot. Each names the lookalikes it gets confused with and the character that separates them. Control advice runs in the order you should try it, so prevention and hand removal come first and a sprayed product comes last, with a reason given for reaching for it. Six further pages start from a symptom rather than a diagnosis, for when all you know is that the leaves have gone yellow or something is chewing holes in them.
Twelve monthly hubs answer what to plant now, including August. Every photograph comes from Wikimedia Commons under a licence that permits commercial reuse, credited to its author on the page.
More over the coming weeks
The plan runs to 601 species guides and we are 250 in, so there is plenty still to come. We publish each batch as soon as it is finished rather than to a schedule. Watch News or take the RSS feed if you want to know when.
Meanwhile, in the app
We read everything that arrives through support and the store reviews. Most of it is about how the app feels to use rather than whether the identification works, so that is where the next release goes. We have written several of those changes already, and we are fixing the bugs you have reported alongside them.
Keep sending them. A short note naming the screen that frustrated you is the fastest way to get it changed.