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sprooty

Your plants have someone watching over them.

A hand-painted green frog peeking out of a red 3D-printed plant pot, half hidden by dry grass.

every face is painted by hand, so no two frogs quite match

Sprooty is a small hand-painted frog you push into the soil. It keeps an eye on how wet, warm and bright things are down there — and tells your phone before your plant starts to sulk.

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What it does

Three things, and it does them without being asked.

  1. It notices before you do.

    Soil looks identical whether it is perfectly damp or bone dry an inch down. Sprooty is down there measuring it, day and night, so nobody has to poke a finger in and guess.

  2. It says what is actually wrong.

    Too dry, too wet, too cold, not enough light. You get one clear sentence about one plant — not a wall of graphs for you to interpret.

  3. And you can just ask it things.

    Why are the leaves going yellow? Sprooty knows your plant, your room, and the last two weeks of readings, so the answer is about your plant rather than a generic article.

On your phone

Open it when you feel like it.

Most days you will not need to. Sprooty gets in touch when something needs doing, and otherwise stays quiet — which is the entire point of handing the job to a frog.

  • A card for each plant, and nothing else on the screen.
  • A nudge when one of them actually needs you.
  • Somewhere to ask why a plant is behaving badly.
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Your plants

One of them needs you today

Monstera

Happy

Living room

Fiddle fig

Thirsty

Bedroom

Peace lily

A bit wet

Kitchen

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Mira holding a Sprooty frog with its shell opened, showing the small circuit board inside.

that is Mira, holding the inside of a frog

Under the paint

There is a real circuit board in there.

We print the shells, solder the boards and paint the faces ourselves, at two kitchen tables about two thousand kilometres apart. That is why the smiles are all a little different — and why we are not shipping ten thousand of them next month.

  • a probe that reads how wet the soil is
  • a sensor for light and warmth
  • a small Wi-Fi board
  • a battery, and quite a lot of paint

The frogs so far

Every one is a slightly different frog.

painted one at a time, badly on purpose

Questions

The things people ask first.

All the questions

The four of us presenting Sprooty to a room of people, with plants and a frog on the table.

Who made this

Four of us, two countries, a lot of dead plants.

Mira, Saad, David and Adrian. It began as a university project between Vienna and Lapland and simply did not stop when the project was handed in.

Meet the team

The list

Be there when the frogs are ready.

We will write when there is something real to say — a date, a price, a chance to actually get one. That is the whole list. No newsletter, no drip campaign, no growth hacking.

No spam, no sharing with anyone. Two or three emails a year, at most.