Comparison

Project Power vs RootBase

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

Head to head
About

Project Power

This program helps adults and youth identify and lower their risk for type 2 diabetes or manage the disease. It offers education, support, and digital tools to promote healthy lifestyle changes, including diet, exercise, and stress reduction.

Highlights
  • Diabetes risk assessment
  • Healthy lifestyle education
  • Weight management support
  • Food diary
  • Activity tracker connectivity
  • Secure discussion forum
  • Animated educational videos
Features
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Project Power by the American Diabetes Association in partnership with CVS Health is an innovative type 2 diabetes risk reduction program. The American Diabetes Association® (ADA) is the nation’s leading voluntary health organization fighting to bend the curve on the diabetes epidemic and help people living with diabetes thrive. The American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) Project Power in partnership with CVS Health is an initiative with the aim to help adults and youth identify and lower their risk for diabetes or manage the disease. Offered in-person or virtually by HabitNu, Project Power is an innovative program from the ADA that raises diabetes awareness and provides diabetes risk reduction education and services to people with diabetes and prediabetes nationwide. Project Power program promotes making healthy food choices, increasing physical activity, and building family and peer support. Participants will focus on reducing weight through a highly interactive environment that incorporates positive lifestyle modification support, including stress reduction. Health coaches will work closely with participants in small groups to help them break old habits, create new ones, set attainable goals, and keep them motivated. Project Power participants will access highly engaging digital tools such as the Project Power app to monitor their progress and help them stay on track. The app includes an easy-to-use food diary, weight and activity tracker connectivity, a secure discussion forum, short animated educational videos, coach/participant communication, and automated alerts and notifications. Project Power is here to help make living healthy second nature for those living with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The Project Power App is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have seen or heard on the Project Power App.

About

RootBase

Organize and manage your plant collection with smart watering schedules that adapt to your habits. Track propagations, view a complete care timeline, and keep your plant data backed up.

Highlights
  • Adaptive smart watering schedules
  • Propagation tracking
  • Comprehensive care timeline
  • Organized plant collection management
  • iCloud auto-backup
  • Offline functionality
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RootBase keeps every plant you own watered, healthy and on schedule, from a single windowsill pothos to a shelf full of aroids and a jar of cuttings. YOUR PLANTS, ONE GLANCE Home shows exactly what needs you: what's past due, what's due today and what's coming up. Log a watering in one tap, or tap Not Yet when the soil's still damp and RootBase checks back later. SMART SCHEDULING THAT ADAPTS TO YOU No generic "water every 7 days." RootBase learns each plant's rhythm from when you actually water it, then adjusts as seasons and habits change. The more you log, the better it gets. Misting, soaking and self-watering refills get their own schedules too. TREAT PROBLEMS ON SCHEDULE Spotted thrips, rot or a nutrient problem? Open a health issue, add a treatment like neem oil, and RootBase tells you when the next application is due, on a fixed interval or with every watering. Resolve the issue when it clears and the record stays with the plant. PROPAGATE AND WATCH THEM ROOT Follow cuttings, leaves, divisions, offsets, seeds and more through every stage, and log water changes along the way. When a propagation is established, turn it into a plant in your collection, photos included. TRACK EVERY MOMENT OF GROWTH Watering, fertilizing, repotting, treatments and notes all land in each plant's care history. The Gallery lays out every photo by month, so you can see how far your plants have come. YOUR WHOLE COLLECTION, ORGANIZED Group plants by room, note pot size and growing medium, and find anything fast with search across plants, propagations, rooms and photos. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The RootBase widget shows today's care at a glance, in light, dark or green. YOURS, AND PRIVATE No account and no sign-up. RootBase works fully offline, keeps a week of automatic daily snapshots on your device, and exports a complete ZIP backup, photos included, whenever you want one. Care reminders are optional and fully in your control. FEATURES • Adaptive watering schedule that learns from your habits • One-tap logging, with Not Yet for plants that aren't ready • Health issues with scheduled treatments • Propagation tracking from cutting to established plant • Fertilizing, repotting, misting and care notes • Photo gallery for every plant and propagation • Rooms, pot size and growing medium • Search across your whole collection • Home Screen widget • Optional daily care reminders • Light and dark themes • Daily on-device snapshots and full ZIP export • Works offline, no account required

Screenshots

Project Power4 screens
RootBase4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RootBase at weekly against Project Power's every 4 weeks. RootBase also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Project Power's advantage is ratings volume (58 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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

RootBase holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Project Power has 58 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Project Power's written reviews are positive against 100% of RootBase's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Project Power ships an update every 4 weeks, RootBase weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Project Power versus RootBase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProject PowerRootBase
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (58 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings58 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmerican Diabetes AssociationRootBase Labs LLC

Customer experience

Project Power

All ratings58 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive89.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.8%

RootBase

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Project Power

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Cannot log in after update
  • Videos are AI computer generated and difficult to decipher
  • Captions blend into graphics and cannot be seen
  • Computer generated voice is hard to decipher
  • App has extreme focus on weight
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  • Cannot hide relevant factors like smoking
  • Latest update is awful
  • Non weight based gains/milestones no longer matter
  • Giant 'winners circle' focused solely on weight loss
  • Tedious meal logging and weigh-ins required
  • Garbled indecipherable inaccessible cartoon videos
  • Cannot click links in notifications
  • In app help requests don't get answered

Requested features

10 requests
  • Improve accessibility of videos and captions
  • Make AI-generated voice clearer
  • Reduce overemphasis on weight as the sole health indicator
  • Address issues caused by recent app updates
  • Fix non-clickable links in notifications
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  • Ensure timely responses to help requests
  • Re-evaluate the 'winners circle' and 'stop light' system for motivation
  • Add dark mode option
  • Allow easier modification of goals
  • Enable adding frequent foods all at once

RootBase

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Project Power

No in-app purchases

None

RootBase

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Project Power free?
Project Power is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RootBase free?
RootBase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Project Power or RootBase?
RootBase is rated higher. Project Power averages 4.8 out of 5 from 58 ratings, while RootBase averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Project Power or RootBase have ads?
Neither Project Power nor RootBase shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Project Power or RootBase?
Project Power ships an update every 4 weeks, and RootBase weekly. Most recently, Project Power was updated on October 15, 2026 and RootBase on October 8, 2026.

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