Comparison

Link App vs Plant Factory

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

Head to head
About

Link App

This app assists coffee roasters by recommending ideal roast profiles based on detailed coffee input. It offers advanced features for various coffee types and roasting conditions, ensuring optimal results.

Highlights
  • Algorithmic roast profile selection
  • Altitude calibration
  • Arabica advanced input
  • All species mode for non-Arabica
  • Advanced roast details
  • Heirloom cupping for landrace varieties
Features
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The Link App is the accompanying mobile application for the Link Sample Roaster by Nucleus Coffee Tools and Kaffelogic. Utilising this app, Link users can input a range of information about the coffee they wish to roast, and the app’s algorithmic profile selection will provide the most ideal recommendation for roast Profile Pack, Power Curve/Roast Profile, Suggested Development Range, Fan Action (fan speed), and the Expected First Crack for each coffee. The Link App also has several features to accommodate different coffee roasting scenarios, including Altitude Calibration, Arabica Advanced to input the screen size of coffees, All Species Mode for non-Arabica coffees, Advanced Roast Details for roast batch size, and Heirloom Cupping for landrace varieties.

About

Plant Factory

This app provides a smart indoor vertical farming solution for growing leafy greens, herbs, and flowers year-round. It offers remote control of lighting, temperature, and water systems, along with nutrient monitoring and seed ordering capabilities.

Highlights
  • Remote control of lighting and temperature
  • Monitor pump speed and water quality
  • Order seeds and consumables
  • Pesticide-free growing
  • Modular hydroponic growth platform
  • Year-round produce supply
Features
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Plant Factory is a revolutionary indoor vertical farming solution that can produce a sustainable supply of living leafy greens, herbs, and flowers in any season. We create urban growing solutions delivering high quality produce ready for supply or consumption when it’s freshest and most nutritious. Our modular hydroponic growth platform’s unique design is so versatile it can be used at home, in food service industries or retail applications. Sleek, compact, and packed with innovative and practical features, plants can be grown pesticide-free under optimal conditions, producing a steady, predictable supply in any season. Whether you’re growing fresh greens for your family, micro herbs for your restaurant, or selling many kilograms of living vegetables a day, Plant Factory has the perfect solution. Whether you have one Plant Factory or ten, the Plant Factory app gives you total control of lighting, temperature, pump speed and other variables across all your systems from the convenience of your smartphone or tablet via WiFi and Bluetooth. You can also monitor nutrients and water quality and order seeds and consumables from right in the app.

Screenshots

Link App4 screens
Plant Factory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Plant Factory at 5.0 against Link App's 4.6. Plant Factory also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). Link App's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plant Factory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Link App has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Link App ships an update every 3 months, Plant Factory every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 4, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Link App versus Plant Factory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLink AppPlant Factory
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamuel CorraPlant Factory Group Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Link App

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Plant Factory

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Link App

No in-app purchases

None

Plant Factory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Link App free?
Link App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plant Factory free?
Plant Factory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Link App or Plant Factory?
Plant Factory is rated higher. Link App averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Plant Factory averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Link App or Plant Factory have ads?
Neither Link App nor Plant Factory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Link App or Plant Factory?
Link App ships an update every 3 months, and Plant Factory every 4 weeks. Most recently, Link App was updated on September 4, 2026 and Plant Factory on June 9, 2026.

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