Comparison

Grow Guide vs ChloroFile

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

Head to head
About

Grow Guide

This app helps users track their cannabis grows from seed to harvest. It offers AI-powered advice, a community forum for knowledge sharing, and professional tools like a VPD calculator and light meter. Create time-lapse videos of your plants and learn from experienced cultivators.

Highlights
  • Daily grow tracking journal
  • AI-powered plant advice
  • Time-lapse video creation
  • Active grower community
  • Professional growing tools (VPD, light meter)
  • Nutrient and environment tracking
Features
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Grow Smarter, Not Harder Join thousands of cannabis growers tracking their grows, sharing knowledge, and getting AI-powered expert advice. Whether you're a first-time grower or a seasoned cultivator, Grow Guide is your all-in-one cannabis tracking app and community. What Makes Grow Guide Different: Complete cannabis grow journal with daily tracking AI Plant Doctor for instant growing advice Time-lapse video montages (exclusive to Grow Guide!) Active community of helpful growers Professional growing tools (VPD, light meter, feeding calculator) Track nutrients, environment, and growth stages Privacy controls for sensitive grows Key Features: Grow Journal - Log every detail from seed to harvest Community Feed - Connect with growers worldwide AI Chat - Get instant answers to growing questions Time-Lapse Creator - Turn your grow into stunning videos Grower's Toolbox - 15+ professional tools in one app Courses & Q&A - Learn from experienced cultivators Contests & Giveaways - Win prizes from sponsors What Growers Say: "Between Reddit, other grow apps, and Discord, this app is far superior. You genuinely listen to users and make it better every update. I believe this community will thrive!" — TheWookalarKing "I was just looking for a way to track my grow, but the social aspect is a game changer! As a retired programmer, I appreciate the attention to detail. You saved me from writing my own app!" — CodePirate Download now and join the fastest-growing cannabis community! Terms: https://growguide.app/terms

About

ChloroFile

This app helps you meticulously track the entire lifecycle of your plants, from germination to harvest. Log key metrics, add photos, and access a vast database of plant varieties. It works offline and offers advanced features for environmental monitoring and yield tracking.

Highlights
  • Full plant lifecycle tracking
  • Detailed metric logging (pH, EC, temp, humidity)
  • Photo logging and timeline visualization
  • Extensive plant variety database
  • Environment and VPD monitoring
  • Harvest and yield tracking
  • Offline functionality
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ChloroFile is a grow journal that keeps the whole record of a plant, from the day it breaks soil to the jar it ends up in. Most plant apps are a notes field with a leaf icon. This one is built around how a grow actually runs: the things you check daily are one tap away, and the things you only care about at harvest stay out of the way until then. THE WHOLE LIFE OF A PLANT Track each plant through germination, seedling, vegetative, flowering, harvest and curing. ChloroFile keeps the date of every stage change, so the timeline builds itself and you can see exactly how long that phenotype spent in veg without trying to remember. Log what you measure: temperature, humidity, pH, EC, water, height, and notes in your own words. Add photos to any entry and watch a plant fill out week by week. A REFERENCE THAT COMES WITH THE APP 12,667 varieties from 333 breeders and seed banks, on the device, with no account and no connection required. Pick one when you add a plant and it fills in type, seed type, flowering time, potency and lineage where they are known. Many records also carry parent varieties, grow traits, reported effects, and for 593 of them, cannabinoid results from publicly published lab samples, kept clearly apart from what the breeder claims. Browse by type, by autoflowering, by flowering time, or by breeder, and search the whole catalog by name. ENVIRONMENTS AND VPD Describe your tents and rooms once, with their equipment, and attach plants to them. Readings then belong to a space rather than floating loose. VPD is calculated from leaf temperature rather than air temperature, with an offset you set to match your lights, so the numbers line up with the target ranges you find published rather than being quietly wrong under LED. HARVEST AND YIELD Record wet and dry weight and keep them attached to the plant that produced them, alongside the stage lengths it took to get there. Over a few runs that becomes the only honest answer to whether a change actually helped. IT WORKS OFFLINE, AND IT IS YOURS Every feature works with no account and no connection. Nothing leaves the device unless you sign in, and photos never leave at all. Sign in with Apple if you want a backup and want your plants in step across devices. Signing out leaves your grows where they are. Deleting your account removes what was synced and the copies on the device, and it says so plainly before you do it. Export everything as CSV whenever you like: a row for every plant with its stage lengths and yield, and a row for every log. Free, always, and it never needs an account. FREE AND PRO Free covers a single tent properly: 4 active plants, 10 recent archives, 1 environment, and temperature charts. ChloroFile Pro removes the caps: unlimited plants, your whole history rather than the last 10, unlimited environments, and every metric charted rather than temperature alone. All 12,667 varieties are on both plans, with unlimited logs, photos and reminders. Nothing about the reference data is behind the subscription. Pro is $3.99 per month or $24.99 per year. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. ChloroFile is a record-keeping tool for growers cultivating legally where they live. It does not sell, supply or source anything, and it is not a substitute for knowing the law where you are. Privacy policy: https://www.chlorofile.app/privacy Terms: https://www.chlorofile.app/terms Questions: support@chlorofile.app

Screenshots

Grow Guide4 screens
ChloroFile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ChloroFile at none against Grow Guide's shown. Grow Guide's advantage is ratings volume (130 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Grow Guide sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and ChloroFile sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Grow Guide against 5.0 for ChloroFile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grow Guide has 130 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Grow Guide's written reviews are positive against 100% of ChloroFile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grow Guide ships an update every 9 days, ChloroFile every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Grow Guide versus ChloroFile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrow GuideChloroFile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (130 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings130 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB31 MB
Age rating17+12+
Developerphannafest llcChad DeMenge

Customer experience

Grow Guide

All ratings130 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive96.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.1%

ChloroFile

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Grow Guide

Subscriptions2
  • Grow Guide Pro7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Grow Guide Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Grow Guide Pro (LTD)$149.00
2 purchases

ChloroFile

Subscriptions2
  • ChloroFile Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • ChloroFile Pro Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Grow Guide free?
Grow Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChloroFile free?
ChloroFile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Grow Guide or ChloroFile?
ChloroFile is rated higher. Grow Guide averages 4.9 out of 5 from 130 ratings, while ChloroFile averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Grow Guide or ChloroFile have ads?
Grow Guide shows ads; ChloroFile does not.
Which is updated more often, Grow Guide or ChloroFile?
Grow Guide ships an update every 9 days, and ChloroFile every 5 days. Most recently, Grow Guide was updated on November 4, 2026 and ChloroFile on November 6, 2026.

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