Toxicity warnings
It knows your plants and your pets
A plant app cannot warn you about your cat, because it does not know you have one. This is the feature that only exists because both live in the same app.
Every plant reference will tell you a monstera is toxic to cats. That is useful in the way an encyclopaedia is useful: only if you already thought to look. Kounts Care holds your plants and your pets in one household, so it does the looking for you, at the two moments it matters. When a plant arrives it is checked against the animals you own. When an animal arrives, every plant already in the house is checked again.
How it works
Checked when you add a plant
Identify or pick a plant and it is cross-referenced against the cats and dogs on your profiles before it is saved. The warning names the animals: not toxic to cats, but toxic to Nala and Biscuit.
Re-checked when you add a pet
Adopt a kitten and the app quietly rescans the plants you already own. This is the case people never think of, and it is the one where a shelf that was fine last week is not fine any more.
Severity decides how loud it gets
A severe result, a true lily or a sago palm, gets a full-screen dialog you have to explicitly acknowledge. Moderate and mild results get an inline card and a badge that stays on the profile rather than appearing once and vanishing.
Roughly 1,900 species covered
The 148 hand-authored plants carry their own toxicity notes, and the app also ships the factual core of the ASPCA Toxic and Non-Toxic Plants list: around 560 species rows plus 360 genus rows. A plant identified online that is not in the catalogue can still raise a warning.
The details that matter
Where the data comes from
The ASPCA's Toxic and Non-Toxic Plants list. The catalogue was audited against it, with the specific result that no plant marked pet-safe is one the ASPCA lists as toxic. Where the ASPCA does not cover a species by name, the app says unknown rather than guessing in either direction, because a false all-clear is the worst possible failure for this feature.
What the warning actually says
Not just toxic. It describes the reaction in plain language, what to watch for, and what to do: offer water and call your vet if symptoms do not settle, or for a severe plant, go now. That is written to be read by someone who is worried, not by someone browsing.
It is not paywalled and never will be
Toxicity warnings are free at every tier, including the free one, and they are not A/B tested. Selling a safety feature back to someone would be a bad way to make money.
What it is not
It is not veterinary advice and it does not know your animal. It tells you a plant is listed as dangerous and tells you to call someone qualified. It cannot tell you whether the amount eaten matters, and it will never try.
What this costs
Free at every tier, including on the free five-profile plan. It is not counted, limited, or used as an upsell trigger.
Questions, answered
How do I know if a plant is safe for my cat?
In the app, add the plant and the answer appears immediately for your specific animals. On this site, the A to Z lists 74 common houseplants with their severity for cats and dogs, and the pet-safe page lists 49 the ASPCA confirms as non-toxic.
Does it cover plants that are not in the catalogue?
Often, yes. Because the app ships the ASPCA list itself, a plant identified online by its botanical name can be matched against it by species or by genus even if the catalogue does not stock it.
What happens if a plant is not on the list at all?
The app says so rather than implying it is safe. Unknown means unknown, and that is a genuinely different answer from non-toxic.
Can it tell me what to do if my pet ate something?
It tells you to call your vet or an animal poison line, and for severe plants it tells you to do that immediately rather than waiting for symptoms. It does not estimate doses or suggest treatment, because that is a veterinary decision and an app has no business making it.
Keep everything alive.
One calm app for the plants on your shelf and the animals on your sofa. Five profiles free, no account.
See also: Toxic plants A to Z · Plants and cats together · Pet-safe houseplants