Comparison

Plantminder vs Intelligent Diary

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Add plants with photos and notes
  • Watering, misting, and fertilizing reminders
  • Plant growth and health journal
  • Daily task overview
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Photo import/export
Features
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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.

About

Intelligent Diary

This private digital journal captures video, voice, photos, text, and handwriting entirely on your device. It analyzes your entries to reveal personal patterns and insights, all without sending any data off your phone. Your journal is stored as accessible files, with options to import from other apps and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • On-device data processing
  • Multimedia entry capture (video, voice, photo, text, handwriting)
  • Automatic transcription and analysis
  • Searchable text and insights
  • Data visualization (charts, map)
  • Import from Day One and Apple Journal
  • Device-to-device Wi-Fi sync
Features
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Intelligent Diary is a 100% on-device private digital journal. It captures video, voice, photo, text, and scanned handwriting. Everything is transcribed and analyzed entirely on your device: the app learns who and what you talk about and how you felt about it, then turns years of entries into searchable text, insights, charts, and a map of your own words — without one byte ever leaving your phone. There's no account, no ads, no subscription, and no advice: it surfaces your own patterns and lets you draw your own conclusions. Your diary is a normal folder of ordinary files you can open, edit, and back up with any tool you like; it imports from Day One and Apple Journal, and syncs device-to-device over your own Wi-Fi — or through iCloud if you turn it on. The basics are free, and three one-time in-app purchases (each with a 60-day free trial) let you own everything forever.

Screenshots

Plantminder4 screens
Intelligent Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plantminder at none against Intelligent Diary's 3. Plantminder also leads on ratings volume (42 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). Intelligent Diary's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Intelligent Diary sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Plantminder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Intelligent Diary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plantminder has 42 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plantminder ships an update every 5 days, Intelligent Diary weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Plantminder versus Intelligent Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlantminderIntelligent Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (42 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB3.7 GB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperStratosphere Software, LLCElise Wood

Customer experience

Plantminder

All ratings40 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral3.7%
Negative7.4%

Intelligent Diary

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Intelligent Diary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Plantminder

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Intelligent Diary

One-time3
  • Words$2.00
  • Charts$4.00
  • Hallucination Station$4.00

Questions

Is Plantminder free?
Plantminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Intelligent Diary free?
Intelligent Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plantminder or Intelligent Diary?
Intelligent Diary is rated higher. Plantminder averages 4.6 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Intelligent Diary averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Plantminder or Intelligent Diary have ads?
Neither Plantminder nor Intelligent Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plantminder or Intelligent Diary?
Plantminder ships an update every 5 days, and Intelligent Diary weekly. Most recently, Plantminder was updated on October 29, 2026 and Intelligent Diary on October 28, 2026.

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