SoilX vs Crop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SoilX
This smart soil monitoring application connects to a sensor device to provide real-time data on soil moisture, temperature, and pH. It offers insights for gardeners, farmers, and plant enthusiasts to improve plant health and growing decisions.
- Real-time soil condition monitoring
- Bluetooth device connection
- Data visualization and trend analysis
- Intuitive user interface
- Supports multiple devices
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SoidX is a smart soil monitoring app designed to help you understand and improve plant health with real-time data. With SoidX, you can easily connect to your soil sensor device and monitor key parameters such as soil moisture, temperature, and pH levels. Whether you are a home gardener, farmer, or plant enthusiast, SoidX provides accurate insights to support better growing decisions. Key Features: • Real-time monitoring of soil conditions • Bluetooth device connection • Data visualization and trend analysis • Easy-to-use and intuitive interface • Supports multiple devices SoidX helps you optimize watering, improve soil quality, and grow healthier plants with confidence. Note: This app requires a compatible soil sensor device.
Crop
This app calculates hydroponic nutrient recipes for various plants and growth stages, citing primary research sources. It helps growers determine salt weights for specific reservoir volumes and track EC/pH levels.
- Plant and stage-specific nutrient targets
- Cited primary source recipes
- Branded nutrient solution recipes
- Target to salt-weight solver
- Reverse calculation for used salts
- Multi-reservoir EC/pH logging
- Shareable mix sheets
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Crop is a hydroponic nutrient calculator for greenhouse vegetable growers, leafy-greens hobbyists, herb gardeners, and microgreen producers. Every plant + stage target cites a primary source — Cornell CEA, Penn State Extension, UF/IFAS, or Produce Grower — so you can verify the published recipe behind every number. WHAT'S INSIDE • Plant + stage targets — lettuce (seedling + mature head), tomato (seedling, vegetative, fruiting), basil, leafy herbs (cilantro, parsley, mint, chives), cucumber, pepper, strawberry (fruiting), leafy greens (kale, chard, spinach, arugula), and microgreens. Lettuce, tomato, and herbs are the fully cited core; the rest is surfaced as broad guidance with explicit "per-stage tables are thinner for this crop" framing. • Branded recipes — MasterBlend Tomato 4-18-38 (2:2:1 with calcium nitrate + Epsom), MasterBlend Lettuce 8-15-36 (the Cornell CEA leafy recipe), Jack's 3-2-1 (Jack's 5-12-26 + 15-0-0 calcium nitrate + Epsom), and the General Hydroponics Flora trio (Lite Feeding and Aggressive Leafy ratios). • Twenty cited salts — calcium nitrate tetrahydrate, KNO₃, KH₂PO₄, K₂SO₄, MgSO₄·7H₂O, ammonium nitrate, monoammonium phosphate, magnesium nitrate, iron EDTA and DTPA, MnSO₄, ZnSO₄, CuSO₄, boric acid, sodium borate, sodium molybdate, calcium chloride, potassium chloride. Every percentage is derived from the chemical formula using IUPAC 2021 atomic weights. • Target → salt-weight solver — the Resh / Mattson sequential satisfy textbook method. Enter your reservoir volume and a target ppm or pick a plant + stage, and Crop calculates the grams of each salt to mix. • Reverse calculation — enter the salt weights you actually used and see the delivered ppm per element. • Multi-reservoir EC + pH log — track a separate reservoir per crop or per zone, log readings over time, and surface drift warnings cited to the published source ("Per Cornell: lettuce mature 1.4–1.8 mS/cm; you logged 2.3 — dilute or top up plain water"). • Share-sheet mix sheet — export the day's reservoir target + salt weights + EC/pH range + named-source citation as plain text. Send it to yourself, paste it into your shop notebook, or print it. • Unit flexibility — US gallons or liters, grams or ounces, EC scale 500 / 640 / 700 (matches Hanna, Bluelab, Cornell tables, or European meters). DISCLAIMER Crop presents Cornell CEA, Penn State Extension, UF/IFAS, and Produce Grower guidance for educational purposes. Verify recipes against current publications and your own meter readings before mixing at scale. CITATIONS Plant + stage recipes are sourced from Cornell CEA (Mattson & Lieth), Penn State Extension, UF/IFAS, and Produce Grower. Branded product analyses come from the manufacturer's published guaranteed-analysis labels and feeding charts. Method references are Resh, Hydroponic Food Production (7th edition), and Mattson & Lieth's hydroponic recipe calculation notes. Salt elemental percentages are derived from IUPAC 2021 atomic weights and CRC Handbook (100th edition) formula masses. NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. Crop does not collect any personal data. Everything stays on your device. One-time purchase, lifetime updates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crop at 5.0 against SoilX's 1.0. Crop also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). SoilX's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Crop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SoilX asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
SoilX ships an update monthly, Crop every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SoilX | Crop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Hongjiayi Network Technology Co.,Ltd. | Roman Kopaliani |
In-app purchases
SoilX
No in-app purchases
Crop
- Crop Pro (lifetime)$4.99









