Your apple tree will outlive any label you tie on.
Prune it, spray it, thin the fruit — say what you did from up the ladder, and the tree keeps the record. Years on you can still name the variety, the rootstock and exactly how it's cropped, long after a tied-on label has weathered off.
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What you capture
- A spoken note at the tree — what you pruned, sprayed or picked, hands still full
- Photos through the years: spring blossom, the June drop, this autumn's crop
- The variety, rootstock and planting year — with the date and spot captured for you
Tap the tree's tag and its whole journal opens on your phone — every photo, voice note, spray and harvest, in the order the seasons happened, nothing to install to read it.
Fruit tree labels rarely outlast the trees by more than a few seasons. A metal marker corrodes, a plastic tag snaps, and the variety becomes a guess — awkward when pollination groups, pruning and spray timing all depend on knowing exactly what you planted. Stick a little tag on the trunk and it points instead to a permanent record: the variety, the rootstock, the year it went in, and a photo of the nursery label you'd otherwise lose by the first hard winter.
From then on the tree keeps its own logbook. Speak a line each time you prune, thin, spray or pick and it lands on a dated timeline, so a fruit tree's whole history — every harvest, every winter wash, the year it finally fruited — builds itself season after season. Set a reminder against the tree and it prompts you in the right week — winter-prune the apples, summer-prune the trained forms, get the grease bands on, or pick before the wasps do. And because the record lives in the app, not on the bark, the day a tag gives out you move the whole story to a fresh one and lose nothing of the decades behind it.
Stick a tag on it
A cheap NFC tag on a stake, lid, box — anything.
Tap & add
Photos, notes, voice. Date and place captured automatically.
Tap to recall
Tap again, anytime, to see everything. No app to install.
Questions
- Can I add a note with my hands full?
- Yes. Up a ladder or mid-prune, speak the note aloud and it's saved straight to that tree's timeline — hands-free, no typing and no notebook to find later.
- Will it really build a useful history over the years?
- Yes — every entry is dated, so pruning, spraying and harvest notes accrue into a season-by-season record you can scroll back through, year after year.
- What happens when a tag finally fails after a few years?
- The tree's record lives in the app, not on the tag. If one is damaged or lost you move the whole history to a new tag and carry on — the tree never loses its story.