FYTA 2.0: Smart Fitness Tracker for Your Plants

FYTA is the first truly comprehensive plant monitoring system that works like a fitness tracker for your plants. It tracks 13 key plant health metrics and gives you everything you need to understand your plants, prevent problems, and grow confidently.

How often do you find yourself staring at a wilting plant, unsure of what went wrong?

Here’s the truth: Even experienced plant owners struggle to keep their plants healthy because plants don’t communicate their needs in a way we understand. Without real data, plant care becomes a frustrating cycle of trial and error, leading to wilted leaves, root rot, and expensive plant deaths.

This is why professional gardeners and growers don’t rely solely on experience and knowledge—they use plant sensing tools to ensure the best possible care for their plants.

Plant Care should not feel like guesswork. This is why FYTA offers an entire suite of interconnected devices that work together to monitor your plants in real time and  ensure that your plants stay healthy. 

Most plant trackers are made for just one type of setup or one plant size —but plants come in all shapes and sizes, grow in different conditions, and need different kinds of care. That’s why FYTA is designed as a modular system. With four different trackers that work together—plus interchangeable probes and different connectivity options—you can customize your setup for any plant, whether indoors, outdoors, in soil, or hydroponics.

The FYTA Mini and FYTA Sphere work as a team: the Mini monitors soil conditions for each plant, while the Sphere tracks the microclimate for all of them.
The Sphere features a reorientable dome, allowing you to adjust its angle and accurately capture direct, indirect, and diffused light from multiple directions. This flexibility makes it the perfect tool for optimizing light exposure in any environment.

Both sensors connect to the FYTA app via Bluetooth or WiFi Hub, giving you real-time insights into exactly what your plants need. If you have many plants in the same location (e.g. grow tent or window sill), this combination is the most budget-friendly option.

Our all-rounders are equipped with the same sensors, but each is designed for a different environment: The Beam (Gen 2) is compact and sleek, ideal for stand-alone indoor plants. The Outdoor Beam is built for tougher conditions—it features a sturdy design, a rechargeable battery, WIFI and (optionally) LTE-M connectivity, ensuring reliable operation even in remote locations. It works great in garden beds and lawns.

Three years ago, we launched our first product, the FYTA Beam. Since then, we’ve produced over 60,000 sensors, helping thousands of plants thrive and their owners take the guesswork out of plant care. But don’t just take our word for it:

Just like a high-end fitness tracker monitors your body’s health beyond just steps, FYTA goes beyond simple tracking — analyzing real-time data to provide actionable insights and predictions for your plants.

Our sensors adapt to any plant in any growing medium—whether it’s house plants, orchids, lawns, broccoli, or more, any sizes, in soil, hydroponics, or anything in between. With precise monitoring, every plant gets the care it deserves!Different plants have different root depths, making it essential to measure soil conditions at the right level to prevent overwatering and root rot. With FYTA, you can choose from probe lengths between 3 and 35 cm, ensuring precise moisture readings exactly where they matter most—whether for potted plants, raised beds, or deep-rooted species.

With your reward, you’ll receive probes of your choice—at no extra cost! This is a special perk, as our probes, which range from 3 to 35 cm in length, typically affect the pricing of our products. ✨

No need to choose your probes when placing your order! Instead, when it’s time to confirm shipment, we’ll send you a survey where you can select the perfect probe length for your plants.FYTA sensors connect via Bluetooth (BLE) and, with the optional WiFi Hub, can integrate seamlessly into your smart home setup. No WiFi in your garden? No problem. The FYTA Outdoor Beam connects via LTE-M at no additional cost and acts as a hub for all FYTA devices within BLE range, ensuring reliable monitoring—even in remote locations.

The FYTA App is your all-in-one hub for plant care, packed with detailed analysis, personalized recommendations, and expert tutorials to help your plants thrive. Easily organize your plant collection and manage to-do lists.

The FYTA App is for free and available for download now! Get started by meeting Günther, our office plant, and explore how the system works—no sensor required.

We’re a dedicated team of 12 people from Berlin, Germany, combining expertise in hardware, software, data and plant science to create the most advanced plant monitoring system available.

When we launched our first sensor, the FYTA Beam, we didn’t stop there. We continuously refined our hardware, app, and data model—learning from user feedback, fine-tuning our algorithms, and iterating relentlessly to make plant care smarter and more intuitive.

But we also realized that one sensor alone wasn’t enough—there were many use cases the Beam (Gen 1) couldn’t fully cover. That’s why we decided to relaunch FYTA as a complete system of sensors.

In this video, you’ll see one of our hardware developers, Nico, and our founder, Claudia, walk through the current state of our PCBA prototypes (EVT). To keep development efficient and cost-effective, we built all prototypes on the existing Beam form factor, allowing us to test new functions in the most cost-effective manner.Current Status of Our Development Process

• The Sphere is ready to move into tooling.

• The soil sensors (Mini, Beam Gen 2 and Outdoor) are nearly complete—only the new probe attachment mechanism is still being finalized. We’re currently testing several options and expect to finalize the design by the end of March.

• All Bills of Materials—aside from the soil probe—are finalized and have been thoroughly reviewed with our trusted production partner, with whom we’ve been working for over four years.

We aim to move all four new products into tooling and subsequent production trials by early April, with certification and setup costs to be covered through our regular revenue. We’re committing to a tight timeline to ensure the products ship before the gardening season winds down. This will take focus, discipline, and long hours—but we’re not new to this. Since launching our first product on Indiegogo four years ago, supply chain management and production execution have become core strengths. On top of that, we’re building on the deep experience of our long-standing, trusted manufacturing partner.

This isn’t just another prototype—it’s a product we’re ready to deliver.

Yes, FYTA is a venture-backed start-up with a growing customer base and steady revenue, but launching four new products at once is a major step that comes with its own challenges.

Crowdfunding allows us to fine-tune our product offerings in real-time—helping us answer key questions like which bundles work best, which color do you prefer and what concerns or questions potential users have when they see your product presentations. This will inform our launch strategy and ensure its success.

But Kickstarter is also about building and connecting to a community. FYTA was born out of the Kickstarter project. Many of our earliest backers from our first campaign in 2020 remain our most loyal customers today, actively shaping FYTA’s evolution. Their feedback has been invaluable in refining our app, product features, and user experience, and some have even become investors along the way.

For us, crowdfunding isn’t just about launching new products—it’s about co-creating them together with our community and ensuring we’re fully prepared for what’s ahead.