Carden
The Carden app icon, a small wooden filing cabinet

Your own personal database.

Keep track of the things you collect, own and care about. Plants, wine, books, receipts, anything.

Coming soon to theApp Store

For iPhone and iPad. Works fully without AI.

Carden on iPhone showing a Houseplants database as a list: Monstera, Snake plant, Rubber plant and more, each with a photo, room and watering schedule

One home for whatever you keep track of

🌿Houseplants 🍷Wine cellar 📚Books 👟Sneakers 🍝Recipes 🎲Board games 🧾Receipts 🏃Workouts 🎸Vinyl records 🗺️Places I've been
☕Coffee beans 🧸Lego sets 🏷️Warranties 🎬Films to watch 🧵Yarn stash 🐟Aquarium 🍄Foraging finds 🧴Skincare 🚲Bike parts 🎟️Concerts
Start in seconds

Keep track of what you love

Pick a template, start from scratch, or import a CSV. Browse as a table or a list, then search, filter and sort.

  • Templates
  • CSV import
  • Search and filter
  • Table or list
A Houseplants database as a list, with Table, Plant journal and Plant wall views along the top
Capture as you go

Every detail, your way

Add the fields you need: text, numbers, dates, prices, ratings, choices, photos, barcodes, locations. Change them any time without losing a record.

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Barolo 2019Piedmont · Drink 2027–2035
★★★★★
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The OverstoryRead in March · Lent to Sam
502 pp
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Espresso machineWarranty until Jun 2028
£489
A single plant record with a photo, repotting date, notes and other fields
Your collection in numbers

See it at a glance

Turn your records into totals, charts and dashboards. Count, total and compare. No spreadsheet needed.

  • Charts
  • Totals
  • Dashboards
  • Group and compare
A dashboard with totals and charts built from the records in a database
Optional

Build or refine a database with chat

Carden works fully without AI. When you'd like a hand, the optional assistant can build a database from a photo or a web page, add records in bulk and design views. Every change shows up as a card you can undo.

  • Apple Intelligence
  • Or your own API key
  • Every change can be undone
A chat with the Carden assistant, which has built a database from a photo and shows each change as a card
Views you design

Make it your own

Design your own views with HTML, from a photo wall to a quiz. Export any of them as a PDF.

  • Photo wall
  • Journal
  • Quiz
  • Export as PDF
A custom Plant wall view: a grid of plant photos with names and rooms, and an Export as PDF button
Share with a link

Send a database to anyone

Share a database as a link. It opens on their iPhone straight away, with nothing to install. The copy is encrypted, and only the link holds the key.

Two iPhones showing the same Houseplants database: one as a photo wall, one as a single plant record, joined by a link icon
Yours, on every device

Made for iPhone and iPad

Each database is a file you own. Keep it on your device or in iCloud Drive to use it on your iPhone and iPad. Edits from different devices merge, and nothing is silently lost.

Carden on iPad showing a dashboard of charts and totals
iPad, with room for the whole dashboard
Carden on the iPhone Duo inner display, showing a plant journal as cards across the wide screen
A layout made for the iPhone Duo inner display

Also in the box

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Photos and barcodes

Add a record with a photo or scan a barcode. Forms check your entries for you.

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Templates and CSV import

Start from a template or bring a spreadsheet with you.

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iCloud Drive sync

Keep a database in iCloud Drive and it follows you between iPhone and iPad.

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Export any time

CSV, JSON or PDF. Your data is never locked in.

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Undo everything

Every change the assistant makes is a card you can undo.

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Nothing collected

No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Read the privacy policy.

Carden is coming soon

Capture and organise the things you care about, on iPhone and iPad.

Coming soon to theApp Store