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Suggested routines carry context: hay is not just a checkbox, it keeps teeth and digestion working; dry soil is not always neglect, it can be winter rest.
Living detail pages · meals · household care
Tendlet's detail pages gather the good stuff in one place: beautiful species icons, researched facts, recommended routines, meal plans where available, records, warning signs, fun facts, and the household history of who cared for whom.
"Popcorning" — sudden vertical jumps with all four feet leaving the ground — is a guinea pig play behavior indicating happiness or excitement.
Everyday problems, calmly solved
The plant nobody watered. The leaf the cat keeps eyeing. The dog who swears nobody fed him. Most apps track pets or plants — Tendlet cares for both, with one plan the whole household shares. 216 species and counting.
Learning while taking care
Tendlet does not ask you to study before you can help. It can draft species-backed starter routines and suggested meal plans where available, then teaches in the flow of the day: a warning beside a plant, a care tip after a meal, a seasonal note when watering changes, a source when you want to read deeper.
Behind it sits a library of nearly 5,000 curated care notes across the 216 profiles — 2,680 "did you know" facts plus care tips, common mistakes, heads-ups, and emergency signs — surfaced one at a time, never as homework.
Suggested routines carry context: hay is not just a checkbox, it keeps teeth and digestion working; dry soil is not always neglect, it can be winter rest.
Meals, waterings, symptoms, repots, and photos live with the right folk, so you learn what changed instead of scrolling through a generic log.
Species pages show essentials, common mistakes, welfare flags, and sources, so everyday care can turn into real knowledge when you have a minute.
The detail page is the product
Tendlet is built around the individual care page. A guinea pig page is not a Monstera page in a different coat: each profile can surface the right researched facts, cited sources, icons, meals, warnings, setup fields, records, and shared history for that kind of life.
Weight, meds, records, symptoms, warning signs, routines, meals, and species-specific facts live with the right pet.
Light, pot, drainage, soil, humidity, seasonal care, issues, repots, progress photos, toxicity, and sources stay attached to the plant.
Dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, reptiles, and fish can start from researched meal plans, then turn them into 7-day feedings and grocery lists.
Aquatic and reptile profiles can surface unique fields: water parameters, temperature ranges, UVB, basking, shedding, and emergency flags.
Every profile earns a portrait, plain-language care notes, and small facts that make the living thing feel known.
Own-device iCloud sync is included. Premium Family Share lets invited carers see the same folk, routines, meal progress, and household activity.
i. Scene one · learn the individual
Tap any folk and get a real profile — age, weight trend, the welfare flags vets watch for, suggested routines, and the meal plan they're on when that species has one. Pierre's page tells you what Pierre needs today, not what guinea pigs need in general.
If you see these, contact a veterinarian.
ii. Scene two · a field guide in the flow
Every one of the 216 care profiles ships with what they actually need, the things even careful keepers get wrong, welfare notes written with jurisdiction in mind, and the sources we used so you can read further. The free app includes the full guide for species you've added; Premium opens Explore so you can browse all 216 before you commit.
"Quiet grazers with strict hay-first diets."
Rabbits need room to stretch, graze, and socialize — solo setups need extra enrichment.
Not eating for 12 hours is an emergency — rabbits can go into gut stasis quickly.
iii. Scene three · feedings & groceries
Suggested meal plans roll into a 7-day feeding cycle and a grocery list — preview the week first, start tracking when feeding begins, and keep shopping separate from daily feedings so the page stays calm even when the basket is full.
Plan is ready (7-day week). Start tracking when feeding begins.
Mark feeding done when you serve today's meals. 6 days left in this 7-day week.
iv. Scene four · plants too
Plants get their own care page, not just a watered/not-watered checklist. Free covers plants within the 2-folk limit with watering and essentials; Premium adds setup profiles, seasonal care, repot history, issue tracking, progress photos, and room for the growing shelf.
Check soil a little more often. Feed lightly while new leaves are active.
Monthly photo · 12 May
Plant issue · appeared after two dry periods.
Calcium oxalates throughout — keep out of reach of Pierre.
v. Scene five · household memory
When care is split between people, the page becomes the shared memory: who fed Pierre, who watered Monstera, what changed, and what still needs attention. Family Share is Premium; syncing between your own iCloud devices stays free.
Premium Family Share syncs tasks, meals, and records through iCloud.
Yellow pepper, lettuce · 08:02
Routine complete · yesterday
Detail page updated · 2 days ago
Only invited household members can see shared care.
A few of the field guide's entries
— and 200 more care profiles —
Pricing
Tendlet should be useful before you pay. Free covers up to 2 folk — enough for Pierre and a Monstera — with full daily care, suggested meal plans, grocery lists, and own-device iCloud sync. Premium is €3/month when you want more folk, Family Share, Explore, edited meal plans, and the full plant toolkit.
€0
A complete starter household — not a demo.
€3 / month
When the home outgrows two folk, or you want to tailor feeding and plant care.
Final App Store wording may change before launch. The intent is fixed: free means trustworthy daily care and own-device sync for a small home; Premium means scale, sharing, exploration, and control.
A short list of what it isn't
No feed. No followers. No one outside your household sees a thing.
No analytics, no advertising identifier, no third-party SDKs. App care data stays on-device or in your iCloud; the public beta opens directly through Apple's TestFlight.
Free covers 2 folk with full daily care and own-device iCloud sync. Premium is for more folk, Family Share, Explore, meal-plan editing, and the full plant toolkit — clear tools, clear price.
Made with care
Tendlet started with two guinea pigs named Pierre and Omer, two Monsteras that kept getting too dry, and a household where neither of us could remember who'd watered last. We wanted a calm place to keep what we'd learned about each one. Not an inbox. Not a streak.
We're a small studio in Belgium. We don't take outside money. Tendlet exists because we wanted to live with it.
— Quentin, Q10 Labs · Brussels
Questions you might be holding
Yes. Everything lives on your device by default. iCloud is opt-in. Free syncs across your own Apple devices; Premium adds Family Share for invited carers.
Free covers up to 2 folk with Today, routines, suggested meal plans, 7-day feeding cycles, grocery lists, own-device iCloud sync, and the full guide for species you've added. Premium is €3/month for more folk, Family Share, Explore (all 216 profiles), meal-plan editing, and the full plant toolkit. No in-app ads, no analytics SDKs.
Premium is for households that outgrow two folk: adding a third pet or plant, inviting family members, browsing Explore before you commit, editing meal plans instead of only using the suggested ones, and plant pages with setup, seasonal care, repot history, issues, and progress photos.
They are species-backed starting points, not veterinary prescriptions. Tendlet can suggest starter routines for each pet or plant, and meal plans where the app has a supported plan. Preview the 7-day cycle and grocery list before you start tracking; Premium unlocks editing portions, additions, and overrides.
No — Tendlet is iOS only. Own-device iCloud sync and Premium Family Share ride on CloudKit, which only exists on Apple devices. If one person in your house is on Android they won't be able to join the shared household.
iPad: yes at launch, same app, same data via your own iCloud. Apple Watch: on the roadmap — a glanceable Today complication first, full app later.
English, French, and Dutch at launch — Tendlet was made in Brussels, where the three live next to each other on every street sign. The app follows your iPhone's language; switch in Settings → Tendlet → Language if you'd like to override it.
That's Premium territory — more folk than the free 2-folk limit, plus the full plant toolkit. Plant pages keep setup, seasonal care, repot history, issue notes, and progress photos attached to the right plant, while Today groups same-species chores so a household of thirty pothos reads as one row, not thirty.
Your data lives in your own iCloud account, not on our servers. If we ever stop maintaining the app, you keep everything you've recorded and can export it through standard iOS data tools.
The terracotta paw is for animals. The green leaf is for plants. Same tending, different shapes of life.
The public iOS beta is open now. Tap through to TestFlight and install Tendlet directly.
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