Comparison

Hubitat Elevation vs GrowKeep

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

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About

Hubitat Elevation

Control your smart home devices from anywhere with this mobile application. Customize your home screen for quick access to favorites, manage lights, locks, and thermostats, and automate tasks using geofencing. Receive push notifications for important events and monitor your home's security remotely.

Highlights
  • Customizable home screen
  • Remote device management
  • Grid-based dashboards
  • Geofencing presence detection
  • Push notifications and alert history
  • Remote home monitoring
Features
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Hubitat Elevation Mobile App: Seamless Smart Home Control Welcome to the future of smart home management. With the Hubitat Elevation Mobile App, you can effortlessly control your connected devices, whether you're at home or on the go. Simplify your experience, enhance automation, and enjoy the convenience of mobile control. Key Features: - Home: Customize your home screen to quickly access notifications and favorite devices for instant control. - Devices: Manage lights, locks, thermostats, and more from anywhere. Our app supports a vast range of devices from various manufacturers. - Dashboards: Enjoy a user-friendly, grid-based interface that offers quick access and easy customization for all your smart devices. - Geofence: Use your phone as a presence sensor. Enable geofencing to automate tasks based on your arrival or departure. - Notifications: Get push notifications for events and view alert history directly in the app. - Monitoring: Remotely monitor your home and manage security modes effortlessly with the Hubitat Safety Monitor app. Discover the difference with Hubitat Elevation and take control of your smart home like never before!

About

GrowKeep

Track plant care with detailed logs, photo timelines, and smart reminders. An AI analyzes your plant's history and photos to provide personalized advice for your garden.

Highlights
  • Log care in seconds with notes and photos
  • Build a visual photo timeline for each plant
  • Set plant-specific care reminders
  • Organize plants by garden and bed
  • AI plant doctor analyzes plant history and photos
  • Climate and frost date information
  • Offline functionality
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A care journal for your plants and garden. Log watering, feeding and harvests in two taps, get reminders that fit each plant, and ask an AI that has read your plant's whole history before it answers. 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 gives you its best read on what's happening and what to try — a starting point, not the final word. 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

Hubitat Elevation4 screens
GrowKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GrowKeep at 5.0 against Hubitat Elevation's 4.1. Hubitat Elevation's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 4). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Hubitat Elevation asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GrowKeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hubitat Elevation has 1.2K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Hubitat Elevation versus GrowKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHubitat ElevationGrowKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (1.2K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.2K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHubitat, Inc.Figrski Technology LLC

Customer experience

Hubitat Elevation

All ratings773 ratings
Positive73.5%
Neutral4.7%
Negative21.9%
Written reviews152 reviews
Positive23.7%
Neutral7.9%
Negative68.4%

GrowKeep

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

Bugs and requests

Hubitat Elevation

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on selecting hub
  • Home screen not updating
  • Unable to add devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Restore old app functionality
  • Better customization options

GrowKeep

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Hubitat Elevation

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

GrowKeep

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

Questions

Is Hubitat Elevation free?
Hubitat Elevation 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, Hubitat Elevation or GrowKeep?
GrowKeep is rated higher. Hubitat Elevation averages 4.1 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while GrowKeep averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Hubitat Elevation or GrowKeep have ads?
Neither Hubitat Elevation nor GrowKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hubitat Elevation or GrowKeep?
Hubitat Elevation ships an update every 3 weeks, and GrowKeep every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hubitat Elevation was updated on November 4, 2026 and GrowKeep on October 31, 2026.

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