Comparison

New York Wildflowers vs SparkCards

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

New York Wildflowers

Identify plants in New York with this offline app. Provide details like location, flower color, and season to quickly find matching species. It covers thousands of plant types, including wildflowers, trees, grasses, and more.

Highlights
  • Offline plant identification
  • Search by location, color, season
  • Database of 3,972 New York plant species
  • Categorized plant types (wildflowers, trees, grass-like, etc.)
  • Quick matching based on user input
Features
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This App, which operates without an internet connection, helps find and identify plants. When you give the App information about a plant, such as its location, flower color and the time of year, the App will quickly show you which plants match your selections. The App includes 3,972 species of plants found in New York. Overall, 1,855 are "Wildflowers", 363 are shrubs, 258 are broadleaf trees, 44 are conifers, 69 are vines, 579 are grass-like, 107 are fern-like, 415 are moss-like, 87 are seaweed and 357 are lichen.

About

SparkCards

This app uses research-based learning methods to help you memorize information effectively. Create flashcards with text, drawings, images, and audio, and study them offline. Sync across devices and track your progress with advanced statistics and motivational tools.

Highlights
  • Intelligent study algorithm
  • Offline flashcard creation and study
  • Support for drawings, images, and audio
  • Paper flashcard import
  • iCloud Sync across devices
  • Advanced statistics and progress tracking
  • Deck sharing
Features
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SparkCards is a flashcard app built from the ground up to be powerful and effective yet simple and easy to use. The app automatically and intelligently chooses your cards to study by using learning methods based on research into efficient and long-term memorization concepts. You can create and study flashcards offline anytime, anywhere. SparkCards gives you a great study experience with an advanced study algorithm and customization options to fit your needs. You can create great flashcards easily with advanced features including drawings, images, and audio recordings. The option to import paper flashcards makes it easy to convert your existing paper flashcards to digital ones. Stay up to date on all your devices with iCloud Sync, and view your streak to motivate you to study every day. All these features and more for one price, with no ads. ▶ Great Study Experience An advanced study algorithm that intelligently chooses your cards to study, customizable study modes to fit your needs, monthly study reports, and the all-new custom study plan make for a great study experience. View your streak and set daily study goals to motivate you to study every day. ▶ Easy Card Creation with Support for Drawings, Images, and Audio Create great flashcards quickly and easily. Add drawings to your cards by drawing in the app with a wide selection of tools and colors. Upload images or take photos to add to your cards. Record audio onto your cards, right from the app, and play it back in Study and Test. ▶ Import your Paper Flashcards Scan and import paper flashcards, making it easy to convert your existing paper flashcards to digital ones. ▶ iCloud Sync Sync your decks, mastery, folders, settings, and more across all your devices. ▶ Advanced Statistics View advanced in-depth statistics on your decks and cards such as which cards you miss most, a card mastery heat map, your average time per card, your deck mastery, card recall strength, and much more. ▶ Organize your Decks With Folders Create folders to organize your decks, and easily switch between them on the Decks screen. ▶ Share Your Decks Share your decks as a file, text, or encoded in a QR Code with others via AirDrop, messages, mail, and more. Anyone with the SparkCards app on their device can import the deck. ▶ Motivation Streaks and daily study goals motivate you to study every day and encouraging messages and confetti make studying rewarding. ▶ Study Offline An internet connection is not required* so you can study offline anytime, anywhere. ▶ Widgets View your streak right from your Home and Lock Screen. ▶ Smart & Customizable Tests Take a test on your deck and customize it with advanced options. ▶ And Much More Deck backups, card themes, deck search, tips, a simple in-app tutorial, support for dark mode, and more. * iCloud cannot sync offline, so your decks will sync automatically when you are back online.

Screenshots

New York Wildflowers4 screens
SparkCards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: New York Wildflowers at Free against SparkCards's $6.99. New York Wildflowers also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.3). SparkCards's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

New York Wildflowers is free to download; SparkCards costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for New York Wildflowers against 5.0 for SparkCards. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New York Wildflowers ships an update every 5 months, SparkCards every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
New York Wildflowers versus SparkCards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew York WildflowersSparkCards
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.3
Further details — not scored
Size829 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWildflower SearchJason Johnson

Customer experience

New York Wildflowers

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SparkCards

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

New York Wildflowers

No in-app purchases

None

SparkCards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is New York Wildflowers free?
New York Wildflowers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SparkCards free?
SparkCards costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, New York Wildflowers or SparkCards?
New York Wildflowers and SparkCards are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do New York Wildflowers or SparkCards have ads?
Neither New York Wildflowers nor SparkCards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New York Wildflowers or SparkCards?
New York Wildflowers ships an update every 5 months, and SparkCards every 10 days. Most recently, New York Wildflowers was updated on June 5, 2026 and SparkCards on September 17, 2026.

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