Comparison

Home+ 6 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

Home+ 6

This app enhances smart home control and management through advanced automation capabilities. It allows users to access all accessory characteristics, utilize widgets for quick control, and customize their smart home environment with wallpapers. The app also offers backup and restore functionality for HomeKit configurations.

Highlights
  • Powerful automations beyond the native Home app
  • Access all accessory characteristics
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Smart home customization with wallpapers
  • Backup and restore HomeKit configuration
Features
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Home+ 6 is a full-featured HomeKit app which makes working with HomeKit easier. Home+ lets you control, manage and automate your smart home like never before.  - You can create powerful automations which are not possible with the Home app.  - You can access all characteristics of an accessory - You can control your accessories from your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets. - You can customise your smart home with wallpapers. - You can backup and restore your HomeKit configuration in case you need to. Home+ is a one-time purchase for your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

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

Home+ 64 screens
Flower Care1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flower Care at Free against Home+ 6's $14.99. Flower Care also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 18.0). Home+ 6's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 2.3) and review sentiment (57% vs 17%). On update cadence, ads 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

Flower Care is free to download; Home+ 6 costs $14.99 up front. Home+ 6 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Flower Care asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Home+ 6 holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home+ 6 has 1K ratings behind it against 138, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Home+ 6's written reviews are positive against 17% of Flower Care's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Home+ 6 ships an update monthly, Flower Care every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Home+ 6 versus Flower Care: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHome+ 6Flower Care
Price$14.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (1K ratings) — better2.3 (138 ratings)
Positive reviews57.2% of reviews — better17.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1K — better138
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthias Hochgatterer北京花花草草科技有限公司

Customer experience

Home+ 6

All ratings1,005 ratings
Positive85.8%
Neutral4.0%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews341 reviews
Positive57.2%
Neutral12.6%
Negative30.2%

Flower Care

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

Bugs and requests

Home+ 6

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

3 purchases

Home+ 6

One-time3
  • Nice Tip$1.99
  • Kind Tip$4.99
  • Generous Tip$14.99
None

Flower Care

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Home+ 6 free?
Home+ 6 costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Flower Care free?
Flower Care is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Home+ 6 or Flower Care?
Home+ 6 is rated higher. Home+ 6 averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Flower Care averages 2.3 from 138 ratings.
Do Home+ 6 or Flower Care have ads?
Neither Home+ 6 nor Flower Care shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Home+ 6 or Flower Care?
Home+ 6 ships an update monthly, and Flower Care every 2 weeks. Most recently, Home+ 6 was updated on November 11, 2026 and Flower Care on November 2, 2026.

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