Comparison

Plant with Willow vs Camping Solar for Panel Setup

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

Head to head
About

Plant with Willow

This app simplifies plant care for everyone, from beginners to experienced gardeners. It offers plant identification, personalized care guides, and the ability to track your plant's health and progress. Optional sensors and expert advice are available to further enhance your plant parenting journey.

Highlights
  • Plant identification via photo
  • Personalized plant care guides
  • Virtual plant collection and journaling
  • Plant sensor data monitoring
  • Expert horticulturist consultations
  • Disease identification and advice
Features
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Willow is here to help those without a green thumb, the serial-plant-killers, and the play-it safe cacti owners. We’re here to remove the guesswork and make plant care easy. Features: PERSONALISED CARE ACTIONS Willow gives you a simple, structured way to look after your plants, helping you understand how they’re doing, what they need, and what to do next. Regular Plant Check-ins help you spot changes and provide practical guidance based on what you observe. Willow will remind you when it’s time to check again. Our Watering Cycle guides you through checking soil moisture, deciding when to water and evaluating how well you’ve watered. Light Assessments help you understand whether your plants are getting enough or too much light in their current location. Tailored care tasks and reminders help you stay on top of each plant’s needs. Please note, we’re introducing this to new users first. Already using Willow? Your current plant care experience will stay the same for now. We’re working on a guided introduction to the new features and will release in a future update. PLANT IDENTIFICATION Plants can look alike and even share the same name. Simply take a photo and our smart engine will automatically identify your plant! PLANT CARE GUIDES Our plant library includes easy to digest care instructions for hundreds of houseplants and is growing all the time. You can discover new plants and identify which plants are best suited to your conditions. You can even request plants be added to our database. COLLECT URBAN JUNGLES Create personal profiles for your plants and organise them in a virtual urban jungle. Perfect if you have many to look after! Here you can add notes, photos, and track and record events to journal each plant’s journey. FERTILISER SCHEDULE A schedule is auto-populated for any plants added to your collection so you know when and how to best fertilise your plants all year-round. Choose between liquid or slow release fertiliser. BLOGS & TUTORIALS Enjoy the latest from our blog and fun tutorials that show you how to take better care of your plants, grow new plants and even propagate some of your faves! WILLOW SENSORS Our beautifully crafted plant sensors continuously monitor your plant’s soil moisture, ambient light, temperature and humidity and will alert you when an action is required to keep your plant happy. And of course a plant score to truly let you know how your plant is feeling. WILLOW GROW is an optional paid experience packed with features a-planty to level up your plant care: PLANT DATA Unbarred access to your Willow sensor. Take a deep dive and explore your data (light, soil moisture, temperature and humidity) and plant score over the past 30 days including daily analysis and comparisons to other Willow users. PLANT DOCTOR Consult our team of horticulturists for expert advice. Chat anything from general plant advice, treatment advice related to pests and diseases, propagation, plant pairings or plants just right for you etc. DISEASE ID Take a photo and our smart engine will identify what is ailing your plant. The symptoms, prevention and treatment advice can be saved to your plant. PLANT MATCHER Get matched with plants that suit you best in our quiz and/or have Best For You analyse your sensor data to recommend the plants best for your space Download Willow and get started today. JOIN THE WILLOW COMMUNITY https://www.facebook.com/plantwithwillowau https://www.instagram.com/plantwithwillowau/ https://www.tiktok.com/@plantwithwillowau REACH OUT Burning questions that need answers? Reach out, hello@plantwithwillow.com.au OUR TERMS https://plantwithwillow.com.au/policies/terms-of-service https://plantwithwillow.com.au/policies/privacy-policy

About

Camping Solar for Panel Setup

Optimize portable solar panel placement for maximum energy collection. This app calculates the ideal angle and direction, estimates amp hours, and helps avoid shading. Get detailed insights with visual graphs for efficient sun-powered charging.

Highlights
  • Optimal angle and direction calculation
  • Amp hour estimation for battery charging
  • Shading obstacle avoidance
  • Visual graphs for placement insights
  • Time interval sun exposure analysis
  • Panel wattage input
Features
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Harness the sun's power like never before! Camping Solar helps you get the most out of your portable solar panels. Get the sweet spot for panel placement and treat your batteries to amp hours like never before. Forget the old tilt-and-pray! Camping Solar calculates the golden angle and direction for you during a time interval ensuring the optimum amp hours collection. No more guesswork, just pure sun-powered efficiency. Set it and forget it! Input your panel's wattage, and Camping Solar provides estimates of the amp hours fed into your battery—both lithium and other battery types. Use your iPhone to guide you in setting up your panels to the recommended orientation Use the app to seek out and avoid shading obstacles, shift the panels to their best position and work out the interval the panels will be in the sun. Dive into detailed insights on panel placement with three visually striking graphs to see why the proposed direction has been recommended. Unlock the power of complex calculations with our consumable token model! Access complex calculations seamlessly while enjoying unlimited use of simpler ones. Begin with a complimentary 25-token free trial, and easily purchase more within the app. We understand you might go off-grid sometimes, so enjoy a 10% grace period before needing to top up. Privacy Policy: https://john-hall.com.au/privacy-policy.htm Terms of Use: https://john-hall.com.au/terms-of-use.htm For feedback, comments or issues contact me at: app.support@john-hall.com.au

Screenshots

Plant with Willow4 screens
Camping Solar for Panel Setup4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Camping Solar for Panel Setup at none against Plant with Willow's shown. Camping Solar for Panel Setup also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Plant with Willow's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (24 vs 4). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Plant with Willow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Camping Solar for Panel Setup sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plant with Willow holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plant with Willow has 24 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plant with Willow ships an update monthly, Camping Solar for Panel Setup fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Plant with Willow versus Camping Solar for Panel Setup: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlant with WillowCamping Solar for Panel Setup
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (24 ratings) — better4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better4
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlant With WillowJohn Hall

Customer experience

Plant with Willow

All ratings24 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative28.3%

Camping Solar for Panel Setup

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Plant with Willow

Subscriptions3
  • All Access$2.991 Month
  • All Access$7.993 Months
  • All Access$24.991 Year
5 purchases

Camping Solar for Panel Setup

One-time5
  • 10 Tokens$1.99
  • 20 Tokens$3.99
  • 50 Tokens$9.99
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  • 100 Tokens$17.99
  • 250 Tokens$39.99

Questions

Is Plant with Willow free?
Plant with Willow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Camping Solar for Panel Setup free?
Camping Solar for Panel Setup is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plant with Willow or Camping Solar for Panel Setup?
Plant with Willow is rated higher. Plant with Willow averages 4.5 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Camping Solar for Panel Setup averages 4.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Plant with Willow or Camping Solar for Panel Setup have ads?
Plant with Willow shows ads; Camping Solar for Panel Setup does not.
Which is updated more often, Plant with Willow or Camping Solar for Panel Setup?
Plant with Willow ships an update monthly, and Camping Solar for Panel Setup fortnightly. Most recently, Plant with Willow was updated on October 30, 2026 and Camping Solar for Panel Setup on October 24, 2026.

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