Flower Care vs Third Reality
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flower Care
This app helps you care for your houseplants by monitoring their environmental needs like moisture, sunlight, fertilizer, and temperature. It can identify over 3000 plant types and store your plant's growth records in the cloud for easy management.
- Monitors moisture, sunlight, fertilizer, and temperature
- Identifies over 3000 plant types
- Stores daily growth records in the cloud
- Provides accurate light and temperature values
- Detects soil nutrients with EC sensor
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Flower Care™ speaks for plants, and accurate deliver all needs of every greenery & flowers at home, such as if the current moisture, sunlight, fertilizer and temperature are suitable for them or not, enable you to take care your plants nice and easy. Accurate value of light & temperature. Monitor the environment around your plants.EC Sensor accurate detect soil nutrients. Flower Care™'s data center will not just help you to better grow you flowers but to identify more than 3000 kinds of common plants by simple searching. Store data in the cloud, nice and easy to operate…and a bit cute. You can manage your Flower Care™ via APP which enable you to gain all growth parameters of the plants, but also to store daily growth records in the cloud.
Third Reality
Control your home's lights and switches remotely with smart devices. This app allows you to configure hubs, add smart switches and bulbs, group devices for easy control, and set lighting schedules. Voice assistant integration is also supported.
- Remote control of lights and switches
- Configure smart home hubs
- Add and manage smart switches and bulbs
- Group devices for unified control
- Create lighting schedules
- Voice assistant integration (Alexa, Google Home)
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THE SIMPLIEST PATH TO A SMARTER HOME Take complete control of your home or apartment’s switches and lights from anywhere with the Reality Series of Smart Home devices. RealityAdapter connects all your Third Reality devices to your home network RealitySwitch turns any existing switch into a smart switch Set lights to reflect your mood with SmartBulbs Use RealityApp to configure and control your Smart Home RealityApp FEATURES Configure RealityAdapter hub to communicate with your home network and connect all Third Reality devices Add, name and configure RealitySwitches and RealityBulbs Group multiple devices to control from your smartphone with one button Create timers to control lighting schedules Connect Amazon Alexa or Google Home voice assistants to manage all your devices with voice commands Apple Notes: The app utilizes Location Services to record the location of your Remote Plus when you add it to your account and also when you ring it. Continue use of GPS or Bluetooth running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Flower Care at every 2 weeks against Third Reality's every 3 months. Flower Care also leads on ratings volume (130 vs 26) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 13.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.3 for Flower Care against 2.2 for Third Reality. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flower Care has 130 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 17% of Flower Care's written reviews are positive against 12% of Third Reality's.
Flower Care ships an update every 2 weeks, Third Reality every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flower Care | Third Reality |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (130 ratings) — better | 2.2 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.4% of reviews — better | 11.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 130 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 北京花花草草科技有限公司 | Third Reality, Inc |
Customer experience
Flower Care
Third Reality
Bugs and requests
Flower Care
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes frequently
- Devices fail to connect or sync
- Sensor readings are inaccurate
- App not compatible with newer OS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add more plant varieties
- Improve app stability and connectivity
- Provide data export/history options
- Add remote/internet monitoring capabilities
- Improve user interface and notifications
Third Reality
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flower Care
No in-app purchases
Third Reality
No in-app purchases
Questions
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