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Growing App

— Growing Art · handcrafted terrariums (Florence)

year
2025—2026
sector
app · plant care
role
product, design and development
status
● live
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Growing App — project preview

01   brief

The context.

Growing Art makes handcrafted terrariums in Florence. They wanted to give customers an app to care for their terrarium and explore the collection: not just an object in glass, but a small ecosystem with a digital companion.

02   challenge

The challenges.

Make caring for a living ecosystem simple — light, pruning, maintenance — for people who aren't experts. Let people discover the collection and the shop, and deliver an app as crafted as the terrariums themselves, on iOS and Android.

03   solution

The answer.

Native app (React + Capacitor + Supabase): the collection of handcrafted terrariums with botanical photography, care guides for every plant, a light meter (lux) to tell whether the spot is right, plus news and shop. Dark theme, green accent, living material front and center.

Digital that extends the physical object: anyone who buys a terrarium isn't left alone — they have the guides, the right light and the collection in their pocket.

The app is published on the App Store and Google Play, with backend, authentication and content owned by the client: they publish news and it shows up in the app, without going through us.

04   measurable results

The numbers that count.

iOS + Android

platforms

App Store + Play

on the stores

built in

light meter

per plant

care guides

06   tech stack

What's underneath.

services delivered

  • art direction
  • UX/UI
  • development
  • iOS + Android app
  • content

technologies

  • React
  • Capacitor
  • Supabase