Fifty jars, one row.
Jars and bags from the same batch sit together in a row you can open. A full shelf stays readable, and search finds a code or a strain in a second.
The grow log for mushroom growers.
Every batch from agar plate to harvest, with its lineage, its contamination history and what needs doing today. Works offline in the grow room.
Free while in early access. Android now, iPhone later. No ads.
Or write to hello@getspora.app
From agar plate to restaurant crate.
Agar, liquid culture, grain, bulk and fruiting. Every batch keeps its lineage and generation, even spawn pooled from several parents. Six screens from the app, shown with a sample farm.
Colonisation, logged.
Log how far the mycelium has spread and the picture follows, step by step. Health, the next check and the expected ready date sit on the same page, so one glance tells you where a batch stands.
Day one
Halfway
Ready
Your week, laid out.
What to inoculate, move, check or harvest, and on which day. Add your own tasks, get one reminder in the morning, and a busy Friday does not cost you a batch.
Labels that scan back.
Print small QR labels on a Bluetooth label printer, or export a PDF for any printer. Scan a label and the jar opens.
Deliveries, covered.
Orders from your restaurants, set against what is ready in the cold room. You see what is short before the day comes.
Selling a few boxes at a market? It works the same.
Made for people who read a plate.
The records a mycologist wants, written so a first-year grower can follow them.
- Lineage and generations
- Every batch knows its parents, from the agar plate through liquid culture and grain to bulk and fruiting, as a family tree. It carries the generation (G1, G2 and on) and how many times the agar has been passaged, and warns you before you use up the last living culture of a strain.
- Contamination, with the cause
- Log it with a photo, the type and the likely cause. A built-in guide helps you tell cobweb from healthy mycelium, and trichoderma from bacteria or yeast, before you throw out a jar that was fine.
- Sterilisation runs
- Minutes at pressure, the pressure, the temperature, what went in and how many containers. Each run is linked to its batches, so a bad run is traceable to every jar that came out of it.
- Where losses come from
- Losses broken down by cause, by spawn source, by sterilisation run, by recipe, and by room and shelf. The pattern shows up before the season is over.
- Yields per flush
- Each harvest is logged per flush with its yield and biological efficiency, so strains, recipes and shelves can be compared on numbers rather than memory.
- Shelf checks
- Walk the shelves and mark a whole shelf as fine in one tap. You only stop at the jar that is not.
- Works without signal
- Every record is kept on the phone first. Basements and grow tents are fine. It syncs when you are back online.
- Your records stay yours
- Export everything to Excel or a full backup file whenever you like, and delete your account from inside the app.
- What it is not
- Spora is a grow log, not a lab LIMS: there is no freezer or cryo inventory yet. If that is what you are missing, tell us.
Built on a working mushroom farm.
Spora is made by the people who run a small gourmet mushroom farm in Oslo. Lion's mane, king oyster and blue oyster go out to restaurants every week, and this is the log we keep.
Every screen is something we do ourselves: the Monday inoculation, the Thursday check, the Friday delivery. When a jar turns green, we log it and the cause. When a chef calls, we look at the cold room on the phone.
Lion's mane Hericium erinaceus
King oyster Pleurotus eryngii
Blue oyster Pleurotus ostreatus, blue strain
Try it while it's new.
A small group of growers is using Spora before it opens on Google Play. It's free while we test, from a shelf of jars to a full grow room.
- Write to us
- Send a short email: tell us what you grow and the Gmail on your Android phone.
- Get the invite
- You receive a Google Play link that installs Spora like any other app. Updates arrive the same way.
- Grow as usual
- Add your first strain or batch and keep the log for a few weeks. Tell us what is confusing or missing.
No ads, no card, and your data is never sold. Your records are yours to export at any time. hello@getspora.app
Questions
Does it work offline?
Yes. Everything is kept on the phone first, so you can log, scan and check in a basement or a grow tent with no signal. When you are back online and signed in, it syncs to the cloud and to your other devices.
Who owns my records?
You do. Settings holds an export to Excel and a full backup file, and you can take either whenever you like. We never sell data, show ads or track you across other apps.
Can I delete my account?
Yes, from inside the app under Settings, and it takes effect straight away. If you cannot open the app, email us and we delete it within 30 days. What gets removed.
What does it cost?
Nothing while in early access. There will always be a free plan; paid plans for bigger farms come later, and you will hear about them before anything changes. Your data stays exportable either way.
When is it coming to iPhone?
It is being built. Send a short email with the subject "Spora iPhone" and you will hear from us the day it is on the App Store. Nothing else, and no list to leave.
Which languages?
English, Norwegian and Polish. The app follows your phone's language, and you can change it in Settings.
Which label printers?
Small Bluetooth label printers of the Phomemo kind, down to 30 by 20 millimetres, straight from the phone. For any other printer, export a PDF sheet.
Is it only for farms?
No. A tent with six jars gets the same lineage, contamination log and weekly plan as a grow room with six hundred. The orders and cold-room parts only matter once you sell.
Keep the log on your phone.
Write a line about what you grow and we will send the invite.
Ask for an invite