Comparison

Leafolio vs GreenFolio

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

GreenFolio

Easily catalog, organize, and care for your plant collection. Create cinematic stories from your plant photos, set care reminders, and track your collection's growth. Share your plants with others or keep your data private on your device.

Highlights
  • Catalog plants with photos and details
  • Create cinematic plant stories
  • Set watering and feeding reminders
  • Track propagation lineage
  • Generate printable pot labels
  • Identify plants from photos
  • Offline access for cataloging
Features
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GreenFolio is the easiest way to catalog, organize, and care for your entire plant collection — from a single windowsill succulent to a whole greenhouse. Snap a photo, add a few details, and GreenFolio gives every plant a tidy home with its own ID, type, notes, and tags. Browse your collection as a photo grid or grouped by type, search instantly, and filter down to exactly what you're looking for. BLOOMS — YOUR PLANTS, AS A STORY • GreenFolio builds cinematic little films from photos you already have — a type collection, one plant's growth over a year, a cutting beside the plant it came from, or the anniversary of the day something joined you • They play full-screen with music, motion, and your plant names as captions • Make your own from any plants you choose, or edit the ones GreenFolio suggests • A year in review with your real numbers woven through the photos • Export as a video — story, square, or widescreen — or share it as a link • On an Apple Intelligence device, GreenFolio writes the title for you • Built on your device from your own collection — nothing new is uploaded, and you can turn the whole thing off in Settings CATALOG YOUR COLLECTION • Add plants with multiple photos and choose the cover shot • Automatic plant IDs organized by type (e.g. C40-24) • Notes, tags, acquisition year, and custom plant types • Grid view or grouped-by-type view, with instant search and filters • Import an existing collection from a CSV file CARE LOG AND REMINDERS • Log watering, feeding, and repotting with one tap • Set a reminder interval per plant and get a notification when it's due • Reminders are delivered by your phone, so they arrive with or without a connection • Define your own care types to match how you actually look after your collection KEEP WORKING WITHOUT A SIGNAL • Add, edit, and delete plants with no connection — even attach photos • Your changes are saved on the device and sent the moment you're back online • A badge tells you when anything is still waiting PROPAGATION LINEAGE • Record which plant a cutting came from • See the parent and its cuttings on the plant's page PRINTABLE POT LABELS • Export a label with the plant's ID, name, and a QR code • Scanning it opens that plant's share page — ideal for a tray of seedlings that all look alike MILESTONES AND INSIGHTS • Collection stats at a glance • Anniversaries, collection size, care volume, and logging streaks SMART PLANT TOOLS • Identify a plant from a photo • Optional online lookup via Pl@ntNet, run by French research institutes, for a stronger species match — off by default, and honest with you when it isn't sure • On an Apple Intelligence device, GreenFolio also diagnoses common health problems and answers watering, light, and soil questions — privately, on the device itself SHARE WHAT YOU GROW • Share a plant or your whole collection with a link that previews its name and photo • Follow a community of plant lovers and see what others are growing • Report and block controls keep the community respectful BUILT FOR YOUR DEVICES • Native iPhone and iPad app • System, Light, or Dark appearance — the whole app is tuned for dark mode • Home Screen widget featuring a plant from your collection • Spotlight search — jump straight to any plant • Syncs with the GreenFolio web app so your collection is everywhere PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your collection is yours — no third-party ads, no tracking, no selling your data • Delete your account and data any time, right from Settings Whether you're a casual houseplant keeper or a serious collector, GreenFolio keeps your plants organized, healthy, and beautifully documented.

Screenshots

Leafolio4 screens
GreenFolio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GreenFolio at none against Leafolio's 2. GreenFolio also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Leafolio's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. GreenFolio 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 Leafolio against 5.0 for GreenFolio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Leafolio ships an update every 3 weeks, GreenFolio weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Leafolio versus GreenFolio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeafolioGreenFolio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (14 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Two Trees LLCTaylor Addison

Customer experience

Leafolio

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

GreenFolio

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 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
None

GreenFolio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Leafolio free?
Leafolio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GreenFolio free?
GreenFolio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Leafolio or GreenFolio?
Leafolio and GreenFolio are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 14 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Leafolio or GreenFolio have ads?
Neither Leafolio nor GreenFolio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Leafolio or GreenFolio?
Leafolio ships an update every 3 weeks, and GreenFolio weekly. Most recently, Leafolio was updated on October 31, 2026 and GreenFolio on October 31, 2026.

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