Plant Base for Android in now available on Google Play.
To accompany the main app, a simple and free Data File Support app has also been released. This provides three file maintenance functions that are not included in the main app. A first essential for new users who do not run the PC or Mac editions is the database file … … read more
The Beta Test release for Plant Base Mac OSX edition is now available for download.
Preliminary testing has gone well. However, please remember that this is essentially a new program for the Mac operating system and there will be further development, bug fixes and so on.
It appears there are not many choices of real plant databases for Mac, so … … read more
Over recent years there have been more requests for this than anything else! Well, it should be ready for public release quite soon.
The Mac edition of Plant Base is a direct port from the Windows program and coded in the same language – the spectacular PureBasic from Fantaisie Software. A large part of the program is exactly the same … … read more
Since the first versions, the Plant Base program has offered a function menu of large buttons at the left side of the window. These give quick access to some of the most common functions. They repeat some of the functions from the traditional top menu-bar, so some users don’t use them at all (and don’t display the side panel) while … … read more
A new version of Plant Base, 2.1.3, was released today and is available for download.
Like the last couple of versions, this is a program maintenance release. There are a number of bug-fixes and a few small changes to the user-interface, so I would recommend that any user already running Pant Base 2 updates to this version. There are no
A new version of Plant Base is available for download – 2.1.2.
This is a program maintenance release with only minor changes and no updates to the plant database itself.
As with version 2.1.1, there is no urgency to update, unless directly affected by the issues fixed. There are a couple of bug-fixes to the HTML Reporting function and also … … read more
A new version of Plant Base is available for download – 2.1.1.
This is bug-fix only release with no feature changes or updates to the database. For users already on 2.1.0 there is no urgency to update, unless directly affected by the issues fixes. The most significant resolves an issue that prevented plant list being imported from text files.
Versions … … read more
The new Plant Base 2 has finally been released as our current production version. This version is 2.1.0 and it follows on from a long sequence of Beta Test versions produced during the last year.
Though the application is broadly the same as the previous 1.6.1 version and currently has the same plant record content, it is in fact a … … read more
Another new Beta Test version of Plant Base 2 is up on the website.
This is mostly a bug-fix release, but the install file also includes the recently issued database release 23. Together with the features added in the last couple of test versions, this brings the Plant Base 2 package up to a level that is very equivalent to … … read more
An update to the plant database content has just been made available on the website – Data Release 23.
This is similar to the update released about a year ago – no change to the version of the live-product program, which remains at 1.6.1. The data for the mobile edition has been updated to match, as has the free web