Flower Care vs 3R
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.
3R
Easily connect and control your Matter-compatible smart home devices. Customize device settings and receive software updates to enhance your smart living experience.
- Connect Matter-compatible devices
- Customize device attributes
- Manage software upgrades
- Simplify smart home setup
- Enhance smart living
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With the 3R-Matter App, you can seamlessly connect your Matter-compatible devices, eliminating complex setup procedures. Tailor your devices to your preferences by fine-tuning basic attributes to ensure they work exactly the way you want them to. Stay up-to-date with the latest features and improvements through convenient software upgrades, all managed within the App. Welcome to a world of smart living made simple. Elevate your smart home experience with the 3R-Matter App, where connectivity and control meet simplicity and convenience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 3R at 2.6 against Flower Care's 2.3. Flower Care's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (138 vs 19). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
3R holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flower Care has 138 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Flower Care's written reviews are positive against 20% of 3R's.
Flower Care ships an update every 2 weeks, 3R every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flower Care | 3R |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (138 ratings) | 2.6 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.1% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 138 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 24 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
3R
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
3R
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flower Care
No in-app purchases
3R
No in-app purchases
