Comparison

Minoston vs GrowKeep

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

Head to head
About

Minoston

Connect your body fat scale data to Apple Health to track key health metrics like BMI, weight, and fat percentage. Get a comprehensive view of your well-being by syncing directly with your device.

Highlights
  • Integrates with HealthKit
  • Syncs body fat scale data
  • Tracks BMI, weight, and fat percentage
  • Stores data in Apple Health body measurements
  • Provides a comprehensive health picture
Features
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Minoston has integrated with HealthKit. It allows you to seamlessly connect your health records using the body fat scale to Apple Health, where BMI, weight, height, fat percentage, and more can be found in Apple Health's body measurements, giving you a clear and comprehensive picture of your health. You'll need to enable health privacy permissions for Minston.

About

GrowKeep

Easily track plant care with detailed logs, photo timelines, and customizable reminders. AI analyzes your plant's history and photos for personalized advice. Organize gardens and beds, and receive climate-based warnings.

Highlights
  • Log care in seconds (watering, fertilizing, etc.)
  • Build photo timelines for plant history
  • Set customizable care reminders
  • Organize plants by garden and bed
  • AI-powered plant advice based on your data
  • Offline functionality for logging and photos
  • Climate and frost date information
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Your plants don't come with a memory. GrowKeep is one. Log a watering in two taps. Attach a photo. Add a note about the leaf that's curling. Six weeks later, when something's wrong, it's all still there — and so is the answer to "wait, when did I last feed this?" WHAT YOU CAN DO • Log care in seconds — watering, fertilizing, pruning, repotting, harvests, and anything else worth recording, with notes and photos. • Build a photo timeline — every entry adds to a visual history of each plant, so you can see growth, or trouble, over months rather than moments. • Set reminders that fit the plant — every few days, weekly, monthly, or on specific days. Mark care done early and the schedule adjusts. • Handle a reminder without opening the app — mark care done or skip it right from the notification. • Organize gardens and beds — group plants into a garden, lay out its beds, and log care for a whole bed in a single entry. • Run a season start to finish — plant it out, log the year, archive the season, then start the next one with your history intact. • Know your climate — GrowKeep works out your growing zone and your average first and last frost dates from your location, and tells you when the season is turning. • Get warned before a frost — an overnight freeze heading for your tender plants is worth knowing about the evening before, not the morning after. AI THAT HAS ACTUALLY READ YOUR NOTES Most plant apps hand you generic species advice. When you ask GrowKeep about a plant, it sends that plant's real history first — every log entry, every note, its age, its season, your climate — so the answer is about your plant, not the species in general. Attach a photo of the problem and it looks at that too. Or just dictate the question — the compose bar takes voice. Ask about a whole garden and it reads across beds and seasons: what grew here last year, what struggled, what to plant next. It reads your records. It never changes them. FREE AND PREMIUM Free, no trial and no card: • 5 plants, 1 garden, 5 active reminders • 5 AI questions a month • Full care logging, photos, and the photo timeline • Overnight frost warnings, your growing zone and frost dates • Export all of your data, any time GrowKeep Premium: • Unlimited plants, gardens, and reminders • 50 AI questions a month • Photos attached to AI questions • Garden-wide AI and planting advice • Past gardens and seasons — your full history WORKS WHERE YOU ACTUALLY GARDEN Add a plant, log care, and take photos with no signal at all. Everything saves on your phone and syncs when you're back in range — kneeling in a bed at the far end of the yard is exactly where this app gets used. A NOTE ON THE AI GrowKeep's AI offers guidance, not a diagnosis. For a valuable, unusual, or seriously struggling plant, check with a local expert or extension service. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS GrowKeep Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, available monthly or annually. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage your subscription or turn off auto-renewal in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://growkeep.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://growkeep.app/terms

Screenshots

Minoston4 screens
GrowKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minoston at none against GrowKeep's 2. Minoston also leads on ratings volume (61 vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). GrowKeep's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 9 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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. GrowKeep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Minoston asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GrowKeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minoston has 61 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minoston ships an update every 9 months, GrowKeep every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Minoston versus GrowKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinostonGrowKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (61 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings61 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size195 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjiangbo NieFigrski Technology LLC

Customer experience

Minoston

All ratings61 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.3%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

GrowKeep

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Minoston

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

GrowKeep

Subscriptions2
  • GrowKeep Premium$4.991 Month
  • GrowKeep Premium$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Minoston free?
Minoston is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GrowKeep free?
GrowKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Minoston or GrowKeep?
GrowKeep is rated higher. Minoston averages 4.7 out of 5 from 61 ratings, while GrowKeep averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Minoston or GrowKeep have ads?
Neither Minoston nor GrowKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minoston or GrowKeep?
Minoston ships an update every 9 months, and GrowKeep every 11 days. Most recently, Minoston was updated on October 6, 2026 and GrowKeep on October 10, 2026.

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