Comparison

OhmPlug vs Gardenory

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

Head to head
About

OhmPlug

Control smart plugs remotely to save energy and add convenience. Automate your home with routines, voice commands, and group devices by room. Earn rewards for energy savings through an optional connected service.

Highlights
  • Remote appliance control
  • Voice control integration
  • Smart home routines
  • Device grouping by room
  • Energy saving alerts
  • Earn rewards for energy savings
Features
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The official app to control OhmPlug smart plugs, designed to help you save energy while adding convenience to your home. • Easily set up OhmPlug smart plugs using bluetooth and Wi-Fi. • Remotely control appliances from anywhere so you don’t waste energy when you’re out. • Voice control your lights and entertainment.* • Give your OhmPlug a nickname (“air purifier”) that works with voice control.* • Create smart home routines to automate your home.* • Group your OhmPlugs based on which room they are in. • Remotely turn lights on and off while on vacation to increase home security. * Functionality is available via Amazon Echo and Google Home. You must connect your OhmPlug to your Amazon Echo or Google Home accounts. Information may be shared in accordance with OhmConnect’s Privacy Policy at https://www.ohmconnect.com/privacy-policy. You may also use OhmPlug smart plugs to get paid for saving energy in conjunction with OhmConnect, a free service that you can sign up for at ohmconnect.com.* • Set up your OhmConnect account to receive timely alerts when electricity demand is spiking so you can use less when it counts. • Automatically turn off OhmPlugs to save energy and money. • Earn money and gift cards for saving energy during peak usage hours if you sign up for OhmConnect. To get paid for saving energy, sign up for OhmConnect’s demand response program and link your utility account here: ohmconnect.com If you join OhmConnect’s demand response program, your OhmPlug will automatically turn off during OhmConnect energy-savings events for your area unless you program your OhmPlug through the App to remain on or you use your OhmConnect account to opt your OhmPlug out of a specific event.

About

Gardenory

This app analyzes your garden beds to determine precise sunlight exposure and optimal planting times based on your specific location and conditions. It offers detailed horticultural information, including frost dates and sowing windows, and helps identify plants with accuracy.

Highlights
  • Precise sunlight analysis for garden beds
  • Month-by-month light computation
  • Sun travel visualization
  • Accurate plant identification
  • Detailed horticultural data (frost, sowing)
  • Daily consolidated reminders
  • Exportable garden journal
Features
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A nursery tag says "full sun" and means it for everywhere. Gardenory works out what that rating means in YOUR bed, at your latitude, on today's date. FULL SUN, HERE Tell Gardenory which way a bed faces, how big it is, and what stands near it. It computes the light that bed really receives, month by month — and it does not simply add up hours. Four hours of morning light on an east-facing bed carries roughly half the energy of four midday hours on a south-facing one, which is exactly why generic advice recommends tomatoes for beds that cannot ripen them. THE SUN RIBBON Watch the sun travel over your bed in plan view, with the shadow of your fence or maple sweeping across it. Drag through the day, or through the year. IDENTIFY A PLANT, HONESTLY Photograph a plant and Gardenory commits to an answer or tells you plainly that it is not sure. It will happily give you the genus rather than invent a species, it never guesses a variety from a photo — no photograph can separate one tomato cultivar from another — and it shows no accuracy percentage, because a number reads as certainty. It never tells you whether something is safe to eat. FOUR ANSWERS, NOT ONE ZONE Your hardiness zone describes winter cold and nothing else. Gardenory gives you winter minimum, summer heat days, season length and per-bed light as four separate answers, and says out loud what the zone cannot tell you. FROST AS A RANGE Published frost dates are probabilities, not deadlines. You get an even-money date and a safe date about a fortnight apart, and your own logged frosts replace the estimate over time. SOWING WINDOWS THAT SUBTRACT PROPERLY Indoor start including the germination lag most tools leave out, transplant, and a last safe sow date that subtracts days to maturity, the autumn slowdown AND your harvest window from first frost. ONE MESSAGE A DAY Everything due, batched into a single reminder at an hour you choose. Never one alert per plant. Reminders are scheduled on your phone; nothing is sent from a server. YOUR RECORD, EXPORTABLE Every date holds both a plan and what actually happened. Export the whole thing to CSV at any time, on any plan. FREE, ALWAYS Your beds, the sun model, the journal, the calendar, the zone card, frost dates, CSV export and 10 plant identifications a month. GARDENORY PRO (optional subscription) Rotation Guard, succession ladders, days-to-maturity learned from your own harvest dates, a variety leaderboard, the garden-centre fit check, seed-lot germination rates and unlimited identifications. - $3.99 per month or $24.99 per year, each with a 14-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID Settings. Gardenory asks for no location permission and contains no GPS. It offers horticultural information, not professional agricultural or safety advice. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/728/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/728/terms

Screenshots

OhmPlug4 screens
Gardenory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gardenory at 100% against OhmPlug's 21%. Gardenory also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). OhmPlug's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (943 vs 3). 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. Gardenory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. OhmPlug asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gardenory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OhmPlug has 943 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of OhmPlug's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gardenory's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
OhmPlug versus Gardenory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOhmPlugGardenory
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (943 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews21.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings943 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOhmConnect, IncMaitai Gordwin

Customer experience

OhmPlug

All ratings943 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral4.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews112 reviews
Positive21.4%
Neutral4.5%
Negative74.1%

Gardenory

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

OhmPlug

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login/password reset issues
  • App crashes when adding devices
  • Devices randomly disconnect from WiFi
  • Incompatible with 5GHz networks

Requested features

4 requests
  • Widget for on/off control
  • Apple HomeKit integration
  • Live power consumption stats
  • Dusk-to-dawn timer setting

Gardenory

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

OhmPlug

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Gardenory

Subscriptions2
  • Gardenory Pro Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Gardenory Pro Annual14 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is OhmPlug free?
OhmPlug is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gardenory free?
Gardenory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, OhmPlug or Gardenory?
Gardenory is rated higher. OhmPlug averages 4.4 out of 5 from 943 ratings, while Gardenory averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do OhmPlug or Gardenory have ads?
Neither OhmPlug nor Gardenory shows ads.

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