Comparison

Leafolio vs Canopy Plant Care

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

Head to head
About

Leafolio

This app is a premium plant collection journal for serious growers and collectors. It helps you organize plant details, photos, sources, and care notes. An optional premium subscription adds advanced breeding records for documenting crosses and traits.

Highlights
  • Catalog plant collection with details and photos
  • Preserve photo history and milestones
  • Save favorite vendors and nurseries
  • Build a wishlist for future acquisitions
  • Track orders from purchase to arrival
  • Record care observations
  • Document breeding records and parentage
Features
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Leafolio is a premium plant collection journal built for serious growers, collectors, and plant lovers who want more than a simple watering reminder. Most of Leafolio is yours to use with the app, with optional Leafolio Premium adding advanced breeding records for growers who document crosses, parentage, traits, and harvest timing. Keep your plants, photos, sources, vendors, orders, wishlists, care notes, and records organized in one beautiful place. Whether you grow orchids, Japanese maples, roses, carnivorous plants, hoyas, aroids, rare houseplants, or anything in between, Leafolio helps you preserve the full story behind every plant in your collection. Track where each plant came from, when you acquired it, what it was purchased as, which vendor supplied it, how it has changed over time, and what details matter most to you. For growers who breed plants, Leafolio Premium adds a dedicated place to document crosses, parentage, observed traits, dates, and expected harvest timing — so breeding records stay connected to the plants they came from. With Leafolio, you can: • Catalog your plant collection with names, photos, categories, sources, and notes • Preserve photo history and milestones over time • Save favorite vendors, growers, nurseries, and sellers • Build a wishlist for future plant acquisitions • Track orders from purchase to arrival • Record care observations and plants that need attention • Document breeding records, parentage, crosses, traits, and harvest timing with Leafolio Premium • Keep important plant history together instead of scattered across notes, photos, messages, and spreadsheets Leafolio is designed for collectors who care about where their plants came from, how they grow, what they become, and the details that make each one worth remembering. Your plant collection is a masterpiece. It deserves more than a list. Your breeding work deserves more than scattered notes. Leafolio keeps the full story together. Subscription Terms: Leafolio Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew at the same price unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://leafolio.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Canopy Plant Care

This app helps you care for your houseplants by identifying them, creating personalized care profiles, and offering flexible care windows. Track watering, add notes, and get AI-powered advice for healthier plants.

Highlights
  • Smart plant identification
  • Personalized care profiles
  • Flexible care windows
  • Watering and care logging
  • Photo and note history
  • AI-powered care assistant
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Caring for houseplants shouldn't just feel like managing a chore. Canopy identifies your plants, builds a simple care profile for each one, and gives you flexible care windows instead of rigid deadlines, so you stop guessing and start noticing what each plant needs. Use it to keep your collection organized, remember what happened when, and get better context when something changes. CANOPY PALS Canopy Pals are optional NFC smart-tag stakes sold separately that live inside your plant pot. Tap one with your iPhone to open that exact plant in Canopy, then log care, add a photo, write a note, or check its history while you're already there. It turns care into a small physical ritual: see the plant, tap the Pal, log the moment. Canopy works as a full care tracker on its own and you do not need a Canopy Pal to use the app. SMART PLANT IDENTIFIER + CARE PROFILES Add a plant with a few clear photos. Canopy will suggest a species match using smart ID technology, then help you set up a care profile based on the plant and how you currently care for it. Already know the name? Search manually and build the profile yourself. CARE WINDOWS FOR REAL LIFE Canopy uses care windows instead of rigid deadlines. A care window is a flexible stretch of time when your plant may be ready for care instead of a deadline you're already late for. See upcoming windows for watering, fertilizing, and repotting. If the soil is still damp, wait. If your plant dries out sooner than expected, log it. Over time, your care history makes the pattern more useful for your plant. TRACK WATERING, PHOTOS, NOTES + HISTORY Log watering, fertilizing, pruning, repotting, photos, and notes for each plant. You can also log the ordinary moments that matter: checking the soil and deciding not to water, noticing a yellow leaf, spotting new growth, or watching it recover after a repot. Each plant gets its own detail page with care windows and journal history to look back on. CARE QUESTIONS, WITH CONTEXT Some plant questions don't fit neatly into a care schedule. Maybe the leaves are yellowing only at the bottom. Maybe the soil is staying wet longer than usual. Maybe your plant looks different and you're not sure why. The Canopy AI Assistant can help you think through what might be happening, using your plant's profile and care history. The more context you build over time, the more useful those conversations become. FREE + CANOPY PLUS Canopy is free to download. The free app includes unlimited plants, care logging, notes, and a limited photo allowance. Canopy Plus is $2.99/month and includes unlimited photos plus ongoing access to Canopy Assistant with no annual lock-in and no tiered plans. The total cost of the purchase will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period with the same amount unless cancelled; manage or cancel anytime in your subscription settings. Read more in Privacy Policy https://canopyplantcare.com/privacy and Terms of Use https://canopyplantcare.com/terms. MADE IN SEATTLE Canopy is made by two plant people in Seattle. Our Canopy Pals are designed, printed, cut, assembled, and packed by us in small batches. We built Canopy because plant care should feel easier to notice, remember, and learn. Not perfect, just better connected to the plants you already love.

Screenshots

Leafolio4 screens
Canopy Plant Care4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Leafolio at every 3 weeks against Canopy Plant Care's every 2 months. Leafolio also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Leafolio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Canopy Plant Care sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 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 — 5.0 for Leafolio against 5.0 for Canopy Plant Care. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Leafolio ships an update every 3 weeks, Canopy Plant Care every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Leafolio versus Canopy Plant Care: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeafolioCanopy Plant Care
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (14 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Two Trees LLCYellow Door Studios LLC

Customer experience

Leafolio

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Canopy Plant Care

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Leafolio

Subscriptions2
  • Leafolio Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Leafolio Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Canopy Plant Care

Subscriptions1
  • Canopy Plus$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Leafolio free?
Leafolio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Canopy Plant Care free?
Canopy Plant Care is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Leafolio or Canopy Plant Care?
Leafolio and Canopy Plant Care are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 14 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Leafolio or Canopy Plant Care have ads?
Neither Leafolio nor Canopy Plant Care shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Leafolio or Canopy Plant Care?
Leafolio ships an update every 3 weeks, and Canopy Plant Care every 2 months. Most recently, Leafolio was updated on October 24, 2026 and Canopy Plant Care on October 23, 2026.

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