My Aveda vs MossLight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Aveda
This app lets you manage your loyalty program, discover new beauty products, and access exclusive offers. Track your points, redeem rewards for free items or services, and find nearby Aveda locations. It's your digital pass to Aveda's rewards and product catalog.
- Manage loyalty points and rewards
- Redeem points for free products/services
- Digital membership card
- Discover new hair, skin, and body products
- Find nearby Aveda locations
- View location services and hours
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Aveda Pure Privilege℠ is now Aveda Plus Rewards℠. Download our mobile app to experience the benefits of our loyalty program, Aveda Plus Rewards℠, discover new products for hair, skin, and body, and check out exclusive offers and stories. The Aveda Plus Rewards℠ app is a convenient way to: Manage Points and Rewards Aveda Pure Privilege℠ is now Aveda Plus Rewards℠. Connect your membership and check your current point balance and reward tier. Redeem points for rewards such as free products, services, and experiences. Use your digital membership card to earn points for Aveda product purchases at participating locations. Find a Location See stores, salons, and spas near you. Get directions, view location services and hours.
MossLight
This app helps you manage your plant collection with a detailed journal, care tracker, and an illustrated encyclopedia of plant species. It offers a calm, ad-free experience designed for both new and experienced plant enthusiasts.
- Garden journal for logging notes and care history
- Care tracker for watering, fertilizing, and repotting
- Species encyclopedia with science-based care guides
- Cloud sync across devices
- Ad-free experience
- Illustrated botanical companions
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MossLight is a quiet plant care companion, built to help you actually notice your plants, not just manage them... all with ZERO ads, ZERO exceptions to my rules on AI use, and ZERO requirements to pay for the knowledge within. Track watering and fertilizing with a real, ongoing care history for every plant, not just a single date that gets overwritten. Keep a garden journal. Explore a growing catalogue of real, hand-researched species with honest care guidance instead of generic advice. Identify a plant you’re unsure about. Set reminders that fit how your plants actually grow, not a rigid schedule. MossLight also includes a small, cozy ambient scene that shifts with real weather and time of day, along with companion critters who keep you company as your garden grows. EVERYTHING YOU NEED, INCLUDED MossLight’s core plant-care tools work completely on their own. You can track your plants, log care, keep a journal, explore botanical information, and tend your garden without paying for features you need just to use the app for its actual purpose. OPTIONAL WAYS TO GROW YOUR GARDEN FURTHER If you’d like to expand how many plants your garden can hold or unlock additional cosmetic companions and themes, MossLight offers optional Greenhouse tiers. There’s no pressure to subscribe. Plenty of people use MossLight fully and happily without adding one. If you want more room to grow or a few extra ways to make your garden feel like yours, that option is there when you want it, not before. A NOTE ON ACCESSIBILITY MossLight includes several built-in themes designed around real accessibility needs, including high-contrast options and color-vision-friendly palettes, because a plant app should work for as many people as possible. PRIVACY AND YOUR DATA You can use MossLight as a guest, with your garden data kept on your device, or sign in to sync your garden across devices. Your guest garden is not uploaded unless you choose to create an account and back it up. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION MossLight offers optional, auto-renewing subscription tiers. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, will be forfeited when a paid subscription is purchased. Privacy Policy: https://quietgrovebotania.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://quietgrovebotania.com/policies Cultivate wonder, then keep going.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: My Aveda at Free against MossLight's $0.99. My Aveda also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (10K vs 2). MossLight's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, ads and device support 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
My Aveda is free to download; MossLight costs $0.99 up front. MossLight sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. My Aveda asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for My Aveda against 5.0 for MossLight. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Aveda has 10K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Aveda ships an update every 2 months, MossLight every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Aveda | MossLight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (10K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GAD Developer LLC | Michaela Walcott |
Customer experience
My Aveda
MossLight
Bugs and requests
My Aveda
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes on launch
- Unable to log in or access account
- Rewards not properly tracked or redeemed
Requested features
4 requests- Expand reward item selection
- Allow redeeming multiple rewards at once
- Integrate app with Apple Wallet
- Improve app stability and performance
MossLight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Aveda
No in-app purchases
MossLight
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Questions
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