Comparison

Plantminder vs Leafy

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

Leafy

Features
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Your plants deserve a home. Give them a tiny pixel one. Leafy turns a photo of your plant into a pixel plant and a photo of your room into a pixel room. Put the plants wherever you like, drag them from room to room, and let Leafy remind you when it's time to water. TAKE A PHOTO, GET A PIXEL PLANT Point the camera at your monstera, your sad little cactus, the fern you keep forgetting. Leafy cuts the plant out of the photo and redraws it as pixel art, right on your device. No upload, no waiting. YOUR OWN ROOM, IN PIXELS Photograph a corner of your home and Leafy redraws it: wall, floor, window, your couch, your shelf, your lamp — in the colours of the photo. Then rearrange everything in the room editor until it feels right. A HOME THAT FOLLOWS THE DAY The window shows the real sky. Morning light, blue afternoon, dusk, and at night the lamps glow while the rest of the room falls asleep. Nothing to set up — it just follows your clock. WATERING, WITHOUT THE GUILT Set an interval per plant. Leafy sends one gentle reminder on the day, tips the watering can, and little hearts float up. Forget for too long and the plant droops — until you make it up to it. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Everything — your rooms, your plants, your photos — stays on your device and works offline. Photos are turned into pixels locally and never stored. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Try it with one room and three plants. Unlock everything once, for 5.99 €. No subscription, ever. Available in 14 languages.

Screenshots

Plantminder4 screens
Leafy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plantminder at none against Leafy's 1. Leafy's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Leafy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plantminder asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Plantminder versus Leafy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlantminderLeafy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (42 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStratosphere Software, LLCfoodsoption UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

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
Show 4 more
  • 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)
Show 17 more
  • 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

Leafy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Plantminder

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Leafy

One-time1
  • Unlock everything$4.99

Questions

Is Plantminder free?
Plantminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Leafy free?
Leafy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plantminder or Leafy have ads?
Neither Plantminder nor Leafy shows ads.

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