Comparison

DrainMaster Plus vs ChloroFile

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

Head to head
About

DrainMaster Plus

Features
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DrainMaster Plus is your companion for healthy plants. Every plant gets its own dashboard with measurements, history and recommendations that match its growth stage. MEASURE • Guided measurement in a few steps or quick measurement • EC, pH and temperature for input and runoff • Bluetooth: live values directly from Apera meters (e.g. PC60-Z, PH60-Z, EC60-Z) • Display in µS/cm, mS/cm or PPM UNDERSTAND • Recommendations per plant to spot overfeeding, salt buildup and pH problems early • History and charts for every plant • Timeline with germination, stage changes, photos and notes • AI assistant: ask questions about your plant, the answers take its measurements into account (uses coins) TOOLS • VPD, DLI and EC/PPM calculators • Nutrient mixer COMMUNITY • Blog with posts and comments, translated automatically • Report content, block users, moderation with the option to appeal YOUR DATA • Works offline too, measurements and plants are stored on your device • Backup export and import • Optional DrainMaster Cloud: sync and automatic backup on up to 5 devices, 5 GB of storage for photos and 60 coins per month for AI features In 10 languages: German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Arabic. Suitable for houseplants, hobby gardens, hydroponics and small professional setups. DRAINMASTER CLOUD (SUBSCRIPTION) DrainMaster Cloud is a monthly subscription that renews automatically. The price is shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews unless it is cancelled in your account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: Apple's standard Terms of Use (EULA) apply: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://drain-master.de/datenschutz/

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 reference database of plant varieties. It works offline and offers advanced environmental tracking.

Highlights
  • Full plant lifecycle tracking
  • Detailed metric logging (temp, pH, EC, etc.)
  • Extensive plant variety reference
  • Environmental tracking (VPD, rooms)
  • Harvest and yield recording
  • Offline functionality
  • Data export to CSV
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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

DrainMaster Plus4 screens
ChloroFile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ChloroFile at every 4 days against DrainMaster Plus's fortnightly. DrainMaster Plus's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. DrainMaster Plus sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrainMaster Plus ships an update fortnightly, ChloroFile every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
DrainMaster Plus versus ChloroFile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrainMaster PlusChloroFile
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB29 MB
Age rating12+12+
Developerkobosil.me DevelopmentChad DeMenge

In-app purchases

1 purchases

DrainMaster Plus

Subscriptions1
  • DrainMaster Cloud Monthly$3.991 Month
2 purchases

ChloroFile

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

Questions

Is DrainMaster Plus free?
DrainMaster Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChloroFile free?
ChloroFile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DrainMaster Plus or ChloroFile have ads?
Neither DrainMaster Plus nor ChloroFile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrainMaster Plus or ChloroFile?
DrainMaster Plus ships an update fortnightly, and ChloroFile every 4 days. Most recently, DrainMaster Plus was updated on October 10, 2026 and ChloroFile on October 14, 2026.

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