Comparison

CalSnap vs GrowKeep

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

Head to head
About

CalSnap

Effortlessly track your food intake by simply taking a photo of your meal. This app provides a detailed breakdown of calories, macros, and nutrients in seconds, helping you understand your nutrition without manual entry.

Highlights
  • Photo-based food logging
  • Instant calorie and macro breakdown
  • Personalized daily targets
  • All-in-one nutrition dashboard
  • Barcode scanning
  • Smart food database search
Features
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CalSnap – Snap & Track Nutrition with AI Want a smarter way to understand what’s on your plate? CalSnap turns a single photo into a detailed nutrition breakdown—calories, macros, and key nutrients—in seconds. No endless typing, no confusing charts. Just snap, track, and move on with your day. Why You’ll Love CalSnap – Photo-First Logging – Point, snap, and your calorie counter, macro tracker, and food diary update instantly. – Personal Targets – Set daily calories and macros that fit your routine and preferences. – All-in-One Dashboard – See meals, macros, nutrients, trends, and insights in one clean view. – Barcode & Search – Scan packages or find foods fast with our smart database. – Speed & Quality – AI recognizes thousands of foods and estimates portions for accurate tracking. How It Works 1. Create your profile – Choose your focus (energy, macros, balanced nutrition). 2. Snap or scan – Take a meal photo or scan a barcode; adjust portions if needed. 3. Track & improve – Watch your daily and weekly stats update in real time, with clear insights and trends. Build better eating habits with less effort. Download CalSnap and make nutrition simple. CalSnap is free to download. Photo Logging, Personal Targets, and the All-in-One Dashboard are available with a paid subscription. CalSnap provides general wellness information only and does not offer medical advice. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

GrowKeep

Easily track plant care with detailed logs, photo timelines, and customizable reminders. AI analyzes your plant's history and photos for personalized advice. Organize gardens and beds, and receive climate-based warnings.

Highlights
  • Log care in seconds (watering, fertilizing, etc.)
  • Build photo timelines for plant history
  • Set customizable care reminders
  • Organize plants by garden and bed
  • AI-powered plant advice based on your data
  • Offline functionality for logging and photos
  • Climate and frost date information
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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 offers guidance, not a diagnosis. 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

CalSnap4 screens
GrowKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: GrowKeep at none against CalSnap's shown. GrowKeep also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). CalSnap's advantage is ratings volume (3.5K vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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. CalSnap sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and GrowKeep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GrowKeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CalSnap has 3.5K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CalSnap ships an update every 10 days, GrowKeep every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CalSnap versus GrowKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalSnapGrowKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.5K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.5K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB89 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRMGOFigrski Technology LLC

Customer experience

CalSnap

All ratings3,522 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative16.5%

GrowKeep

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

Bugs and requests

CalSnap

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

2 requests
  • Allow editing of calorie counts
  • Improve photo scanning functionality

GrowKeep

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

CalSnap

Subscriptions12
  • Weekly Without Trial$9.997 Days
  • Weekly 12.99$12.997 Days
  • Yearly and Discount 75%2 variants$19.991 Year
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  • Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • CalSnap Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Yearly Trial and Discount 75%3 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • CalSnap Three Months3 Days trial$29.993 Months
  • CalSnap Yearly Discount 50%$39.991 Year
  • Yearly Test 1$59.991 Year
  • Yearly Test 2$69.991 Year
  • Yearly Trial and Discount 25%3 Days trial$74.991 Year
  • CalSnap Yearly3 Days trial$79.991 Year
2 purchases

GrowKeep

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

Questions

Is CalSnap free?
CalSnap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GrowKeep free?
GrowKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CalSnap or GrowKeep?
GrowKeep is rated higher. CalSnap averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while GrowKeep averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do CalSnap or GrowKeep have ads?
CalSnap shows ads; GrowKeep does not.
Which is updated more often, CalSnap or GrowKeep?
CalSnap ships an update every 10 days, and GrowKeep every 11 days. Most recently, CalSnap was updated on October 22, 2026 and GrowKeep on October 10, 2026.

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