Comparison

Love Plants vs Flower Care

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

Head to head
About

Love Plants

Easily manage your plant care with custom reminders for watering and feeding. Explore detailed plant guides, track your garden's growth with photos and notes, and connect with a community of plant enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Watering and feeding reminders
  • Detailed plant guides
  • Growth photo and journal entries
  • Personalized garden management
  • Plant community sharing
  • Care task planning
Features
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Build an everyday plant care routine with Love Plants. Set watering and feeding reminders, explore plant guides, and keep photos and notes as your garden grows. CARE REMINDERS Set reminders around your own routine and review the care tasks you have planned. Adjust watering and feeding to suit your plants and their growing conditions. PLANT GUIDES Browse and search plant profiles to learn about flowers, succulents, trees and other plants, with names, characteristics and available care information. GROWTH PHOTOS AND JOURNAL Add photos and notes to your plants. Look back at new leaves, flowers and changes over time. YOUR PERSONAL GARDEN Keep your plants, care plans and records together. Manage whether other people can visit your garden in the app. PLANT COMMUNITY Explore photos shared by other plant lovers and visit gardens their owners have made viewable. Find inspiration for your own growing days. Need help? Send feedback in the app or visit our help website.

About

Flower Care

This app helps you care for your houseplants by monitoring their environmental needs like moisture, sunlight, fertilizer, and temperature. It can identify over 3000 plant types and store your plant's growth records in the cloud for easy management.

Highlights
  • Monitors moisture, sunlight, fertilizer, and temperature
  • Identifies over 3000 plant types
  • Stores daily growth records in the cloud
  • Provides accurate light and temperature values
  • Detects soil nutrients with EC sensor
Features
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Flower Care™ speaks for plants, and accurate deliver all needs of every greenery & flowers at home, such as if the current moisture, sunlight, fertilizer and temperature are suitable for them or not, enable you to take care your plants nice and easy. Accurate value of light & temperature. Monitor the environment around your plants.EC Sensor accurate detect soil nutrients. Flower Care™'s data center will not just help you to better grow you flowers but to identify more than 3000 kinds of common plants by simple searching. Store data in the cloud, nice and easy to operate…and a bit cute. You can manage your Flower Care™ via APP which enable you to gain all growth parameters of the plants, but also to store daily growth records in the cloud.

Screenshots

Love Plants4 screens
Flower Care1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Love Plants at 74% against Flower Care's 17%. Love Plants also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). Flower Care's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume and device support 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. Love Plants sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Flower Care asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Love Plants holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 138 and 138 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Love Plants's written reviews are positive against 17% of Flower Care's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Love Plants ships an update every 5 days, Flower Care every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Love Plants versus Flower Care: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLove PlantsFlower Care
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (138 ratings) — better2.3 (138 ratings)
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews — better17.1% of reviews
Number of ratings138138
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuangzhou Aiyouhuo Information Technology Co., Ltd.北京花花草草科技有限公司

Customer experience

Love Plants

All ratings138 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative22.2%

Flower Care

All ratings130 ratings
Positive23.8%
Neutral11.5%
Negative64.6%
Written reviews146 reviews
Positive17.1%
Neutral15.1%
Negative67.8%

Bugs and requests

Love Plants

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Flower Care

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Devices fail to connect or sync
  • Sensor readings are inaccurate
  • App not compatible with newer OS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more plant varieties
  • Improve app stability and connectivity
  • Provide data export/history options
  • Add remote/internet monitoring capabilities
  • Improve user interface and notifications

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Love Plants

One-time10
  • 三个月会员免广告功能解锁$1.99
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  • 半年会员免广告功能解锁$2.99
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  • 捐助爱花草一天CDN网络消耗$2.99
  • 一年会员免广告功能解锁$3.99
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  • 捐助爱花草一天存储资源消耗$4.99
  • 两年会员免广告功能解锁$6.99
  • 三年会员免广告功能解锁$8.99
  • 五年会员免广告功能解锁$13.99
None

Flower Care

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Love Plants free?
Love Plants is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flower Care free?
Flower Care is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Love Plants or Flower Care?
Love Plants is rated higher. Love Plants averages 4.8 out of 5 from 138 ratings, while Flower Care averages 2.3 from 138 ratings.
Do Love Plants or Flower Care have ads?
Love Plants shows ads; Flower Care does not.
Which is updated more often, Love Plants or Flower Care?
Love Plants ships an update every 5 days, and Flower Care every 2 weeks. Most recently, Love Plants was updated on November 6, 2026 and Flower Care on November 2, 2026.

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