ShopTansy vs GLOWRIUM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShopTansy
Discover unique, one-of-a-kind art and home décor inspired by nature and creativity. This app offers succulent arrangements and allows you to create your own, bringing bright, cheerful colors and handmade items from global artists into your home.
- Unique art and home décor
- Succulent arrangements
- DIY succulent creation
- Handmade global items
- Nature-inspired designs
- Joyful home inspiration
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Tansy is about a warm home, celebrating nature and creativity. We are an eclectic collection of unique, one-of-a-kind art and home décor pieces. Tansy brings a love for plant-life to your home-life, offering succulent arrangements and the opportunity for you to create your own. Tansy believes in the creation of a joyful home, bringing bright, cheerful colors from around the world together with nature. We want to share in the joy of growing a vibrant home. Thinking globally, we sell handmade items from individual artists across cultures. We hope to share in their creativity and inspire your imagination.
GLOWRIUM
Control smart lighting devices via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Customize colors, set scenes, and simulate natural light changes throughout the day. Requires iOS 13.0+ and specific Bluetooth/Wi-Fi versions.
- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi control
- Intelligent multi-area control
- Spectrum setting and automatic operation
- Independent color channel customization
- Multi-scene preset lighting
- Phased ecological simulation
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Smarter Plant Assistant Starts with Better Light. GLOWRIUM APP is newly upgraded to deliver a smarter and more convenient lighting experience for indoor plants and modern homes. By connecting with GLOWRIUM smart grow lights, you can easily control brightness, timer schedules, Circadian Mode (Sunrise and Sunset mode), and multiple plant lighting types to create a better light environment for every plant. With the upgraded Plant Assistant feature, GLOWRIUM APP provides lighting suggestions and plant care references based on plant type, helping you care for indoor plants in a smarter and more scientific way. From a single plant to an entire room, and from daily routines to everyday well-being, GLOWRIUM APP brings smart lighting naturally into your life. GLOWRIUM—Where Innovation and Quality Shine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ShopTansy at 5.0 against GLOWRIUM's 2.4. ShopTansy also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). GLOWRIUM's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (35 vs 1). On price 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.
ShopTansy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GLOWRIUM has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ShopTansy ships an update every 3 weeks, GLOWRIUM every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | ShopTansy | GLOWRIUM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.4 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 47.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tansy | Xingyang Hicent Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
ShopTansy
GLOWRIUM
In-app purchases
ShopTansy
No in-app purchases
GLOWRIUM
No in-app purchases
