GrowIt vs Illuminated Reflections
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GrowIt
This app simplifies home gardening with personalized guidance and expert tips for growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs. It offers customized planting calendars, garden layout planning, and step-by-step growing information. Get seasonal care tips, reminders for watering and fertilizing, and even identify plant diseases with a photo.
- Personalized planting schedules
- Garden layout planning
- Step-by-step growing guides
- Seasonal plant care tips
- Automated reminders
- Plant disease identification
- Regrowing and hydroponic tips
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Start growing your own fresh produce at home with GrowIt, your ultimate gardening app designed to simplify the gardening experience! Whether you're planting as beginner, enthusiast or professional, GrowIt offers personalized guidance and expert tips to ensure your success throughout the growing season. Designed by plant experts and supported by years of in-depth research in cultivation, GrowIt provides all the essential information for growing healthy vegetables, fruits, and herbs, from garden layout, to watering, fertilizing, soil condition, and companion planting. With customized planting calendar based on your location and climate, you'll find it easy to figure out when to start seeds, transplant, harvest and more. Key Features: ◆ Discover things to grow: Search for easy-to-grow seasonal plants and get personalized planting schedule tailored to your specific zone. ◆ Plan your garden in minutes: Organize your raised beds or patch with companion and combative plant information. Use square foot gardening layout grid for easy spacing of 80+ plants, and over 1,000 varieties. ◆ Learn how to grow, step by step: Build your garden with proper soil, fertilizer, and sunlight. Turn yourself into a green thumb with a library of growing information. ◆ Get seasonal plant care tips: Stay ahead of freezes, heat waves and other extreme weather conditions to protect your garden. ◆ Stay informed with reminders: Say goodbye to guesswork with auto-calculated sprouting and harvest dates for your specific plant and location. Know exactly when to water and fertilize to maximize your produce. ◆ Identify plant diseases effortlessly: Simply snap a photo, and get plant-specific treatment advice. ◆ Address common gardening issues: Eliminate garden weeds, pests w/o chemicals. Avoid plant diseases with proven planting strategies. ◆ Explore more to get inspired. Unlock secrets to regrowing from scraps, hydroponic growing, indoor gardening, and so much more! Make the most of your harvest with recommended recipes and preservation tips on canning, freezing and drying. Join GrowIt now and enhance your gardening skills! Learn, plan, organize and care for your vegetable garden. Enjoy a bountiful harvest with your family and friends! [About GrowIt Premium] • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription • Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off, by going to iTunes Subscriptions after purchase Terms of Use: https://app-service.growmyfoodai.com/static/user_agreement.html Privacy Policy: https://app-service.growmyfoodai.com/static/privacy_policy.html
Illuminated Reflections
Explore wisdom from Ascended Masters, Angels, and Crystal Spirits through digital card readings. This app offers various reading layouts and personal journaling to integrate ancient teachings into daily life.
- 91 beings across three lineages
- Eight reading layouts
- Full ceremonial entry for each being
- Save readings to journal
- No subscription or data collection
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Illuminated Reflections brings together three luminous lineages — 29 Ascended Masters, 29 Angels and 33 Crystal Spirits — remastered and reimagined together from the original published Pools of Light card decks, new and improved for this digital age. Entering the third millennium, the Ascended Masters and the Angels reveal themselves on a contemporary level — demonstrating their timeless wisdom and love in ways appropriate to the present stage of humanity's evolution. The Crystal Spirits bring the ancient wisdom of the earth herself, grounding the celestial into the body and into daily life. Together, all three lineages form a complete and luminous system, helping us to navigate our changing world. Each being carries a unique transmission: a teaching, an invitation, and a practice to bring their wisdom into your daily life. FEATURES · 91 beings across three lineages — Ascended Masters, Angels, Crystal Spirits · Eight reading layouts — from a single draw to a 19-card spread · Full ceremonial entry for each being — The Invitation, The Teaching, The Transmission · Save readings to your personal in-app journal · No subscription. No data collected. Yours to keep.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Illuminated Reflections at 100% against GrowIt's 46%. Illuminated Reflections also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). GrowIt's advantage is price (Free vs $7.99). On ads, 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
GrowIt is free to download; Illuminated Reflections costs $7.99 up front. GrowIt sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Illuminated Reflections asks for nothing beyond the download.
GrowIt ships an update every 2 weeks, Illuminated Reflections every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GrowIt | Illuminated Reflections |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (14K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 46.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glority Global Group Ltd. | Marilyn Day |
Customer experience
GrowIt
Illuminated Reflections
Bugs and requests
GrowIt
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes frequently when scrolling
- Issues with deleting/updating plants
- Reminders not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to add more garden beds
- Option to manually enter plant data
- Notification for watering based on rainfall
- More detailed care information for plants
Illuminated Reflections
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GrowIt
- Grow My Food Premium3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- Grow My Food Premium$14.993 Months
- Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$14.993 Months
- GrowIt Premium$19.996 Months
- Grow My Food Premium1 Month trial$29.991 Year
- Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- GrowIt Family Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Grow My Food Premium1 Month trial$39.991 Year
Illuminated Reflections
No in-app purchases
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