Plantminder vs ElliesNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plantminder
Easily manage your plant care with automated reminders for watering, misting, and fertilizing. Track your plants' growth and health through a dedicated journal and view all upcoming tasks in one place.
- Add plants with photos and notes
- Watering, misting, and fertilizing reminders
- Plant growth and health journal
- Daily task overview
- iCloud synchronization
- Photo import/export
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Plantminder makes it simple to care for your houseplants and keep track of your growing collection. Add your plants, organize them into rooms, schedule their care, and keep a record of how they change over time. Plantminder keeps everything synchronized privately through iCloud across your Apple devices. - Keep track of watering, misting and fertilizing schedules for every plant. - See everything that needs attention in Today's Tasks. - Snooze plant care until later without changing your regular care schedule. - Receive reminders when your plants are due for care. - Organize your collection into rooms and quickly find plants by name. - Record notes, photos and care activities in each plant's journal. - Follow your plants' history with photos and important milestones. - Choose a favorite photo for each plant and browse your journal photos full screen. - Keep track of plants that are no longer with you in the Graveyard. - Back up and restore your Plantminder collection whenever you choose. - Use Siri and Shortcuts to quickly access Plantminder. - Import photos from your Photo Library or take new photos directly in Plantminder. Plantminder is designed to keep plant care organized without turning it into another chore. Your plant data stays yours, stored and synchronized using iCloud.
ElliesNote
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Living with CFS or ME means navigating a body that doesn't follow the same rules. Energy is unpredictable, symptoms shift day to day, and keeping track of it all can feel like another drain on what little you have. ElliesNote is a symptom and energy tracker built specifically for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. It's designed to ask as little of you as possible — because on the days when logging feels like too much, that's when it matters most. LOG YOUR DAY Rate your energy on a simple 1–5 scale and tap the symptoms you're experiencing: fatigue, brain fog, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, dizziness, nausea, or sleep disturbance. Add a note if you want. Log multiple times a day. Morning and evening reminders help you stay consistent without having to think about it. CRASH DAYS On hard days, tap "I'm Crashing Today." It's tracked separately from your regular entries and shows up clearly across your history — no need to force it into a log note. INSIGHTS The Insights screen shows how your energy and symptoms trend over 7, 14, or 30 days. Useful for spotting patterns, understanding your limits, and sharing data with a doctor or specialist. APPLE HEALTH Connect to Apple Health and ElliesNote automatically pulls in your sleep duration, resting heart rate, HRV, and step count. See how they correlate with your energy without entering a thing manually. YOUR HISTORY Browse your logs month by month. See which days you logged, which you missed, and which were crash days — all in one place. ELLIESNOTE PREMIUM Unlock the full picture: • Personalised energy insights • 14-day and 30-day trend charts • Apple Health sync (sleep, HRV, resting HR, steps) • Full calendar history, month by month • 30-day missed-day tracking Try Premium free for 7 days, then choose monthly or annual billing. Cancel anytime in App Store settings. Built with care for the CFS/ME community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plantminder at none against ElliesNote's 2. Plantminder also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). ElliesNote's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. ElliesNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Plantminder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plantminder ships an update every 5 days, ElliesNote every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plantminder | ElliesNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (42 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Stratosphere Software, LLC | Damilola Olatunde Bada |
Bugs and requests
Plantminder
Reported bugs
9 issues- App crashes when trying to switch to list view
- Plant list doesn't show, requires clicking blank space
- Plant list not loading, blank spaces
- Notification issues (in-app only, not on home screen, disabled when enabled)
- App sends notification disabled message even when settings are correct
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- Cannot confirm plant information due to notification issues
- App crashes or doesn't load plant list after updates
- iPad version does not fill the screen
- App not present in iPhone notification settings
Requested features
22 requests- Add a tag field for grouping plants
- See at a glance which plants need watering soon
- Easily delay watering schedule
- Manually sort photos
- Add notes to journal entries (e.g., soil type, fertilizer used)
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- Edit logged notes
- Calendar view for watering due dates
- Add a 'prune' reminder with options
- Automatically find wiki links based on plant name
- Add customizable link types to different websites
- Interactive options for photo uploads to auto-fill plant type/care
- Snooze reminders for a certain number of days
- Rolling average of watering intervals for each plant
- Display days since watering schedule was passed
- Duplicate a plant and its journals
- Add journal entries to multiple plants at once
- Ability to upload photos from phone library
- Allow for backdated journal entries
- Journal overview for all plants
- Different colors for journal entries
- Remember main page view settings (grid/list)
- Add a donate option for developers
ElliesNote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Plantminder
No in-app purchases
ElliesNote
- ElliesNote Premium$3.991 Month
- ElliesNote Annual Premium$29.991 Year









