Comparison

Gratsy vs The Plantry

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

Head to head
About

Gratsy

Discover new products tailored to your preferences through personalized samples and offers. This community-driven app connects you with brands and helps you find items you'll love, all for free.

Highlights
  • Personalized product samples
  • Tailored offers
  • Community connection
  • Product discovery
Features
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Gratsy is a community where you can connect and find your new favorite products! We get to know you, so that we can send you personalized samples and offers we think you will enjoy - for free.

About

The Plantry

Identify houseplants from a photo with an AI botanist. Get honest, confidence-scored results, check pet safety, and track plant growth. Discover new plants based on your environment and pets.

Highlights
  • Photo-based plant identification
  • Confidence-scored results
  • Curated pet safety list
  • Plant growth journal
  • Personalized plant recommendations
  • Explorer's Passport with badges
Features
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Meet Mr. Phileas Plant — your houseplant guide, part Victorian botanist, part good friend. Snap a photo and Phileas will identify it, tell you exactly how confident he is, and never sugarcoat what's dangerous. Every identification is checked against a curated pet-safety list — not just guessed by AI — so "Winston Approved" actually means something. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Identify any houseplant, cutting, wild find, or kitchen-garden crop from a photo • Get honest, confidence-scored identifications — Phileas tells you when he's not sure • Check pet safety before it matters, backed by a curated safety list, not a guess • Keep a growth journal for every plant, so nothing gets lost or forgotten • Ask Phileas anything — care, yellow leaves, pests — in his own voice • Find Your Perfect Plant: answer a few honest questions about your light, your watering habits, and your pets, and Phileas will recommend real plants — including ones we don't carry, honestly labeled • Fill your Explorer's Passport: badges, travel stamps, and a record of where your collection comes from • Real plants, real prices: when we carry what you're looking for, we'll show you and link you straight to the greenhouse ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY Location is used only to note the rough region where you were exploring, for passport stamps, and only when you identify a plant. You can leave it switched off entirely and everything else works. Free to use. No adverts. Your garden belongs to you.

Screenshots

Gratsy4 screens
The Plantry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Plantry at 100% against Gratsy's 42%. The Plantry also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Gratsy's advantage is ratings volume (2.6K vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Plantry holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gratsy has 2.6K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Gratsy's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Plantry's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Gratsy versus The Plantry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGratsyThe Plantry
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.6K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.6K — better3
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB58 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGratsy LLCJon Michael Mac Murdo

Customer experience

Gratsy

All ratings2,536 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive41.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative52.1%

The Plantry

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

Bugs and requests

Gratsy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Login issues
  • Compatibility problems
  • Delayed or missing offer updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improve notification system
  • Increase availability of offers
  • Add more ways to track orders
  • Enhance app stability and performance

The Plantry

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gratsy

No in-app purchases

None

The Plantry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gratsy free?
Gratsy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Plantry free?
The Plantry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gratsy or The Plantry?
The Plantry is rated higher. Gratsy averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.6K ratings, while The Plantry averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Gratsy or The Plantry have ads?
Gratsy shows ads; The Plantry does not.

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