Comparison

NextPlant vs LeafLocus

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

Head to head
About

NextPlant

Discover the perfect plants for your garden with personalized recommendations based on your location and environmental conditions. Explore an extensive database of over 500 plant varieties with detailed information and save your favorites for future reference. Learn from expert guides and enjoy an ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Personalized plant recommendations
  • Extensive plant database (500+ varieties)
  • Offline access to plant details
  • Save favorite plants
  • Gardening learning modules
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Next Plant: Your Garden Planning Companion Simplify your gardening journey with personalized plant recommendations tailored to your garden's unique needs. Answer a few quick questions about your location, environmental conditions, and preferences, and receive a curated list of the best plants that fit your needs. Ready to get started? Let Next Plant guide you! Key Features: Extensive Plant Database: Explore over 500 varieties, including trees, flowers, cacti, and more, with detailed information. We are always adding more plants to explore! Offline Access: Browse plant details anytime, anywhere, without needing an internet connection. Ad-Free Experience: Enjoy peaceful, uninterrupted gardening insights free from annoying monetization practices. Favorites: Save and organize your top plant picks for when you are ready to get digging! Learning Modules: Boost your gardening knowledge with expert tips and guides for every part of the gardening experience.

About

LeafLocus

Visualize your garden's future with an interactive planting planner. Transform a yard photo into a detailed plan, previewing plant growth, sun exposure, and seasonal changes before you plant.

Highlights
  • Interactive planting plans from yard photos
  • Visualize plant growth and mature sizes
  • Sun and shade analysis
  • Preview seasonal garden changes
  • Offline garden access
  • iCloud syncing between Apple devices
Features
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See your garden before it grows. LeafLocus turns a photo of your yard into an interactive planting plan. Place trees, shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers where they belong, then see how the whole garden works together over time. PLAN AT YARD SCALE Calibrate a real-world distance, place plants on your yard image, and compare current and mature sizes. Track existing plants or plan new additions without losing the context of the whole landscape. UNDERSTAND SUN AND SHADE Set the yard's north direction and approximate location, then explore how the sun moves through the day. LeafLocus estimates effective sun and shade for selected plants and flags likely mismatches with their light requirements. PREVIEW GROWTH AND SEASONS Scrub through future growth and climate-relative garden phases. Plant visuals can reflect bloom timing, fall interest, evergreen foliage, and winter dormancy instead of treating every plant as a summer snapshot. Your garden remains available on your devices. LeafLocus does not require a LeafLocus login. When iCloud is available, the app can privately sync gardens between your Apple devices while keeping on-device documents as the offline source. Try everything for seven days, then just $9.99 a year after that. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

NextPlant4 screens
LeafLocus3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NextPlant at none against LeafLocus's 1. NextPlant also leads on iOS requirement (15.3 vs 18.0). LeafLocus's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. LeafLocus sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. NextPlant asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NextPlant against 5.0 for LeafLocus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NextPlant ships an update monthly, LeafLocus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
NextPlant versus LeafLocus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextPlantLeafLocus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.3 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB950 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimple Mobile Development LLCLeafLocus LLC

Customer experience

NextPlant

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LeafLocus

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

In-app purchases

None

NextPlant

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

LeafLocus

Subscriptions1
  • LeafLocus$9.991 Year

Questions

Is NextPlant free?
NextPlant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LeafLocus free?
LeafLocus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NextPlant or LeafLocus?
NextPlant and LeafLocus are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do NextPlant or LeafLocus have ads?
Neither NextPlant nor LeafLocus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NextPlant or LeafLocus?
NextPlant ships an update monthly, and LeafLocus every 2 weeks. Most recently, NextPlant was updated on October 1, 2026 and LeafLocus on October 2, 2026.

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