# Rise Gardens — Hydroponic Gardening

> Hydroponic garden management app with smart care and community features. (iPhone/iPad app by Harvest2o, LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rise-gardens/id1475531395 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Harvest2o, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1448596329)
- Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.65/5 from 352 App Store ratings · 52 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 115 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2019-08-17
- Data updated: 2026-09-04
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rise-gardens/id1475531395/reviews.md

## What is Rise Gardens?

Your garden’s friendly companion

Our friendly companion app makes it easy to manage your abundant garden from guidance on when to add water and nutrients to a connection to our helpful growing community. Our app unlocks the power to make gardening easy for everyone.

We make gardening easy with suggested guidance based on plant type and age so you can harvest large yields all year round. 

Explore

Use our explore function and see ee how rise gardeners around the world are using their gardens to build themselves and the world towards a happier, healthier, more delicious future. 

Reminders to perform garden care tasks like feeding, pruning, pollinating, and harvesting!

Plants, just like humans, need regular care and love. Our app gives you friendly reminders to feed, water, and nourish your plants and when to harvest and pollinate. Use the companion app to track all your plants and get the best guidance for successful growing.

Smart Care or Sensor Care

We’ve built Smart Care an AI nutrient algorithm that uses plant stage data from your app to calculate how much nutrients and water your plants need.

Do you like to use EC and pH sensors, because we do!

At Rise Labs, we know gardeners like to be precise. We’ve made it easy for you to care for your plants with a sensor suite. Use sensor care!

Alexa, how’s my garden doing? 

Connect your Rise Garden to Alexa for a complete smart home experience. She makes it easy to turn your garden’s lights off when watching a movie with your family and can give you reminders to prune or harvest your plants.

## Key features

- Plant care reminders
- AI nutrient algorithm
- Sensor integration
- Community exploration
- Alexa integration
- Harvest guidance

## What do users think of Rise Gardens?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy-to-use interface for beginners
- 🌱 Helpful plant care guidance and reminders
- 💡 Remote control of lights and water monitoring
- 🎯 Accurate nutrient tracking and recommendations
- 🛒 Convenient in-app store for supplies
- 📱 Intuitive plant movement between nursery and garden
- 🏆 Excellent customer support (historical)
- 🌿 Comprehensive plant information and recipes
- 📊 Plant age tracking and growth stage estimation

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing
- 🔌 Persistent connectivity and login issues
- ⚠️ Outdated product information and nutrient recommendations
- 😤 Poor customer service responsiveness
- 🔄 Cumbersome UI requiring excessive clicking
- 📦 Incomplete product listings in app store
- 🚫 Missing notifications for care tasks
- ⚙️ Slow app performance and loading
- 🔧 Inconsistent error messages and unclear guidance
- 📱 Compatibility issues with newer devices

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App won't load or stays on loading screen indefinitely
- Login failures with Google account integration
- getActiveCampaign: no_network error message
- Plant selection screens fail to load
- Server connection errors when viewing plant details
- Suggested recipes link to irrelevant non-English websites
- App crashes after recent updates
- Light schedule randomly turns on/off
- Water level sensor malfunction
- App freezes when moving plants between trays
- Scrolling resets to top after planting action
- New level placement moves existing levels downward
- Nutrient recommendations overflow system capacity
- Plant information caching issues
- Incompatibility with iPhone 14 Pro

**Most requested features**

- Push notifications for care tasks (nutrients, watering, harvesting)
- Search functionality across multiple gardens
- Plant history and activity log
- Crop planning and automation features
- Web browser version of app
- Multi-user sharing capabilities
- Customizable light schedules by day of week
- Bulk planting and harvesting operations
- Plant height warnings during nursery setup
- Delete/undo functionality for mistakes
- Ability to select specific garden model
- Temperature and humidity sensors
- pH and EC monitoring integration
- Harvest combination suggestions (recipe pairing)
- Plant notes and custom information storage
- Algae prevention and treatment guidance

## Recent user reviews (10 of 52)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rise-gardens/id1475531395/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Very good

*2026-01-23, version 3.3.17*

I love this app

### 1/5 — Poor customer service

*2026-01-23, version 3.3.17*

The product an app seem to be fine but my experience has been bad to say the least. My garden arrive without the power supply, nutrients, PH balance and it felt like I had to beg customer support to send me what should’ve been included. That took a few weeks of delayed back and forth emails to get figured out.  The next issue I’ve had is the seeds that I ordered still haven’t arrived after a month and a half when their website said they would ship in 2-3 days. Reaching out to support which seems to be one person, has not helped figure this out or offered any resolution to this point. So if you’re interested in this brand, pray that you don’t have any issues because the only way to reach someone is through a delayed email and it may or may not be helpful.

### 2/5 — Quit working

*2025-09-14, version 3.3.15*

I used my google account to login. It kicked me out and now I can’t log back in.

### 1/5 — 9/13/25 App won’t let me log in

*2025-09-14, version 3.3.15*

Hadn’t used the app in a while. Tried to log in so I could set up the garden, before logging in, showed an error message: “getActiveCampaign: no_network”. Can’t access anything in the app. I can log in just fine to My Account on the website, but the app is unusable. Deleting and reinstalling the app didn’t work either. PLEASE FIX ASAP!

### 4/5 — Needs a little bit of work

*2025-06-02, version 3.3.14*

Love the fact that I don’t have to guess as to what to do next. I do not like that when I open the app on several occasions and tap on a specific vegetable that is growing currently in my garden that either 1. gives a error message about connecting to the servers or 2. the suggested recipes take me to websites that have nothing to do with gardening and are not in English. I hope this gets fixed asap. One of my main reasons for getting this system was so I can the information for successful growing at my finger tips.

### 4/5 — The app disagrees with current Rise Gardens products and nutrients

*2025-01-28, version 3.3.8*

The app is super helpful in helping someone just getting into hydroponics. Being able to remotely control lighting and water flow has been fantastic. Its tracker for the plants and sprouts is great for someone with ADHD. 

However, 

Its diagrams, set up, and nutrient suggestions for feedings are outdated. It constantly references previous versions of the gardens without the ability to select which model you are using and it recommends feedings from nutrient formulas that are unavailable everywhere, turning customers to hydroponic forums to find solutions. Not world ending, but a little short sighted.

### 3/5 — The 1/3/25 update made it unusable

*2025-01-26, version 3.3.8*

I went to add plants to my garden today and it is now impossible. The app tries to load the plant selection screens until it gives an error message, then it tells you there are no plant types that meet your search (when you never typed in a search to begin with, that screen used to just load all plant types). This app has always had issues and it has always run rather slow, but now it is entirely unable to be used for its purpose. Fix this!

### 4/5 — Great but not easy.

*2024-10-18, version 3.3.4*

I wish it was easier to clean all of the pipes and water flow areas. Love the herbs.

### 5/5 — Greats Upgrades to the app

*2024-08-17, version 3.3.2*

Rise Gardens always looks for ways to update the app and make it work for their users.

### 5/5 — Wow!

*2024-07-28, version 3.3.2*

I love my rise garden! And it gives you points which you can get up to 50% off with all you have to do is well.. leave a review! Your mainly granted to have a nice garden from radishes to strawberries! Really nice kit but the real garden is a little pricey but its worth it *I got it free from someone though*

## Frequently asked questions about Rise Gardens

### What does the Rise Gardens app do?

The Rise Gardens app acts as a companion for your hydroponic garden. It provides guidance on when to add water and nutrients, offers reminders for plant care tasks like feeding and harvesting, and connects you to a community of other growers.

### What are the key features of the app?

Key features include AI-powered Smart Care for calculating nutrient and water needs based on plant stage, optional Sensor Care for precise EC and pH monitoring, reminders for all garden care tasks, and an Explore function to see how other users are gardening.

### Is the Rise Gardens app free to use?

Based on the provided information, the app is free to use. There are no mentions of subscription fees, paid downloads, or in-app purchases.

### What kind of plants can I manage with this app?

The app offers suggested guidance based on plant type and age, implying it can manage a variety of plants suitable for hydroponic growing. It provides specific reminders for tasks like pollinating and harvesting, which are relevant to many common garden plants.

### Can I integrate the app with smart home devices?

Yes, the app allows for integration with Alexa. This enables smart home experiences, such as controlling garden lights and receiving voice reminders for plant care tasks.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.3.17 — 2025-11-22

Bugfixes and improvements

### 3.3.16 — 2025-10-15

Bugfixes and improvements

### 3.3.15 — 2025-07-11

Recently added crop feature

### 3.3.14 — 2025-04-24

Bugfixes and improvements

### 3.3.13 — 2025-04-07

Bugfixes and improvements

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