# simLeaf — user reviews > 54 indexed App Store user reviews of simLeaf by SL Technology Group, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 253 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simleaf/id1155857846/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simleaf/id1155857846.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 192 · 4★ 26 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 14 ## Newest reviews (17 of 54) ### 3/5 — Fix some things *2025-04-17* Definitely need to fix the trim tool 1 in never takes off what I want it to and the fact you can’t trim while the plant is in bloom is wack . Need more options for seeds and should be able to grow more than one plant at least 2 ### 3/5 — Crashes *2025-04-10* Keeps sticking me in portrait mode and then my plants dies because I can’t take care of it. ### 4/5 — Great game but needs more seeds *2024-10-30* It’s a great game but I think it would do with more seeds for you to pick from ### 2/5 — Broke after last update (removed log in) *2022-05-24* Game doesn’t even work after last update. Just crashes ### 4/5 — Please update *2022-01-15* Game would be better if devs would update more, no problem with paying for more strains if they would add them. Also not sure why flushing the plant hurts it. Overall the game is a 3.5* ### 3/5 — Not really worth it unless you grow hydro *2021-09-08* You can’t really customize your environment, and if your using soil or anything actually other than hydro it’s worthlesss. If you’re using hydro it’s interesting. Could be better. Not a lot of strains to play with. ### 2/5 — Cool design. Lacks control *2021-05-01* This is a great idea and learning tool for new growers. However, it would be better if you could control temp/humidity to the hour throughout the days as well as different pruning techniques. ### 2/5 — It’s alright.. *2021-02-25, version 1.11* Lacking far too much to call this a good grow sim. Good framework however ### 3/5 — Realism: Would like to see a little more *2021-01-03* Just started my first grow and my one week old plant has two true fan leafs, one with three loves, the other with 5? We all know that’s not accurate. I’d like a little more info on the light choices as we’l well. Is the LED implied to be used for flowering only, since it emits a heavy red spectrum? Will add more comments as time passes. ### 2/5 — Expected better graphics. *2020-11-27* Not a massive deal but seeing as I pad for it I expected a bit more. The plant starts from 6 weeks are the animation is quite bad. The pre leafs on the pant are literally tiny fully formed leafs that are not even attached to the plant. Again, isn’t a massive thing as it was only £3, hopefully it gets better as it goes on ### 4/5 — Problem *2020-10-05, version 1.10.9* How do I switch to led lighting I only got 1000 watt an 600 watt ### 3/5 — Sim Leaf *2020-06-18* Not bad, not great. Constrains you to one feeding regime only using only micro and macro nutrients in deep water culture. It would be nice to be able to use a 3 part nutrient and play with the ratios. The humidity they recommend for flowering is too high. It would be nice to have more precise control of pruning and the ability to prune in flower from the bottom of the plant. The ripeness stat at the end is weird. You take the plant to the recommended day for harvest and it will say it’s only 15-25% ripe even though the chart clearly shows that THC has already degraded to cbn. This game is a neat idea but needs some work to make it a better learning tool. ### 2/5 — It’s cool and all but.... *2020-04-21* The app lacks more depth. Like you grow your bud from seedling to harvest. Ok.. Then what?? Nothing! Your left with a yield that basically had no purpose and the option to create a mother plant. If it’s someone like me who paid for the additional strains and settings I feel as though there should be better options and overall experience to the application. I want to call it a game so bad!! ### 2/5 — Big démarrage *2020-03-16* J’utilise l’application depuis peu et impossible de la démarrer elle bug à chaque fois et c’est écran noir ... Du coup je suis obligé de la supprimer et de la retelecharger sur l’App’store ...pénible ### 3/5 — Only grow hydroponic? *2020-02-13* I like it but if you want to take care of the plant at normal pace, it still skips days. I go to bed at. Igor and get up and 3 days have passed and my plants health plummets. Plus you can only grow hydroponics. If you are an actual cannabis grower, don’t waste your time. Way too frustrating. **Developer response:** Put the app in Turtle mode to grow in realtime. Rabbit mode is accelerated for those that want to grow faster. We will be adding more mediums in the future. ### 4/5 — Fun and informative... *2019-03-10* Enjoying this so far. A couple of things I noticed that could be fixed. First, the humidity value in the statistics graph seems to be following the temperature scale. Second, there is no explanation for the ripening percent, flushing or sugar values. Also, the score HISTORY doesn’t make sense as it doesn’t persist from grow to grow. That would be an awesome feature though as there’s no history of past grows once you leave that screen. As far as Rocket mode, which is totally worth the in app purchase, it’s not clear whether temperature and humidity, etc., in addition to the feeding, is adjusted automatically. I wonder, because the Rocket grows seem to come out with low scores. All in all, a nice combination of gameplay and learning. ### 2/5 — Stuck in portrait mode *2019-01-15* I keep exiting the app and re-opening it, but it won’t let me go to the main menu to do anything. I’m just stuck in portrait mode looking at the plant. **Developer response:** Portrait mode is view plant only. Turn your phone to landscape to reveal all of the controls. You may have your phone locked in portrait mode, which many people do. Hope that helps! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lame *2024-11-20, version 1.12.1* Mine no longer works just keeps closing for no reason. ### 1/5 — black screen upon opening *2023-11-30, version 1.12.1* game doesnt even work anymore, yesterday was fine now it wont load anything and has a blue question mark in top right that doesnt lead to anything or even works ### 1/5 — Don’t get it, unfinished and the developers have no intentions of updating. *2022-10-06* The games great for what it is but with a price tag and being as featureless and inaccessible as it is, it’s just not worth paying a cent for it. Also, none of this is realistic. ### 1/5 — Unverschämt! *2020-04-07* Da kauft man sich die App, dann muss man sich registrieren, sehr fragwürdige AGBs zustimmen und dann soll man mehr zahlen um das gekauft Spiel voll spielen zu dürfen. Einfach nur mies! Gebe ich direkt zurück. ### 1/5 — Waste Of Money Do Not Make The Same Mistake! *2020-03-27* This game only works the first time you play it. Once you exit the game it will not let you open it again. ### 1/5 — Won’t even start *2020-02-21, version 1.05* I bought this game yesterday and played one day and enjoyed it even planned on buying the extras now my game won’t start how do I get a refund ### 1/5 — Don’t buy *2019-10-28* Don’t buy this sim. It’s broken, it will only open the first time you play. Then when you go back to try and play again, all you get is a black screen. **Developer response:** Please email us at support@simleaf.com and we can help figure out the issue. Thanks! ### 1/5 — Not my game. *2018-08-18, version 1.05* I thought it was more fun than automatic idle. ### 1/5 — Review *2017-03-05, version 1.03* App has potential, but in my opinion is not worth the $2 at all, which I wasn't aware of when I downloaded it, I thought the app was free. Lots of faults and too little to do, poorly developed in my opinion. Save your money! ### 1/5 — App freezes after grow *2017-02-16, version 1.03* Was a cool app till after first grow it's stuck on the buds starting and doesn't give me an option to exit and start a new one or anything I'd save my money ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Game is abandoned now *2024-02-02* This has the potential to be the best and only realistic we grow simulation on mobile but seems like the developers abandoned it too early. Please come back a continue to develop the game! 🙏🏾 ### 5/5 — A1 *2022-06-03* Very good best 1 49 I have ever spent ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2020-06-12* Love the app so far. One suggestion for improvement tho. Give us the ability to type in exact numbers for the nutrients (1ml vs 7 and so on). Using the slider on the smaller iphones (the non pluses) like mine can be really difficult when trying to give an exact amount of nutrients. It ends up wasting a decent amount of time trying to get the number to not change when lifting my finger up from adjusting the amount of nutrients to give the plant. ### 5/5 — Review *2020-04-19, version 1.10.9* Really enjoy this game!! ### 5/5 — Amazing details. Would love to watch the app grow *2019-09-23* The way the plants react is just amazing. The amount of detail to light exposure to nutrient burn is so cool. I’d love to manually prune fan leaves to defoliate. The ability to set timer for the heaters would be cool as well as the use of LEDs and playing with the different light spectrums. Aaaaanyways. TL;DR: great simulator, high detail . No ads ### 5/5 — Great! *2018-08-24, version 1.05* How do I exit Portrait mode? ### 5/5 — Amazing ! *2018-04-28* Wow genius I love this it's really addicting lol but aye simLeaf you should update other game modes where you can grow indoor soil, and organic outdoor with tips for each method as well 10/10 **Developer response:** Thank You and Noted! ### 5/5 — ? *2018-04-08* Love the game but honestly I paid $3 for the game and $4 for the rocket speed growth and bud tender but the $4 dollars was worthless no ripeness to the buds considering I have a bud tender tried flushing herb like real life kills health of plant ruins yield.. how? I actually recommended this game but I’m mad I spent extra money to not get gains in yield the bud tender doesn’t really do much an don’t tip that milky trichomes are best if your game harvests all red and orange trichs on most strains ### 5/5 — Educational and fun *2017-07-20, version 1.04* I just loved how a game gives you so much of knowledge.. I have been using this app everyday, since it updates me what to do next and it takes only a min or 2 to grow my marijuana plant ... so much I didn't know ... and now I know so much... loved the app!! ### 5/5 — I've been waiting for this! *2017-07-20* Really loving this! I am getting pretty good at growing now. Love the little messages I get in the morning. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*