Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide vs LearningHerbs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide
This app serves as a comprehensive reference for Chinese Medicine students, allowing them to identify over 1200 medicinal plants. It provides detailed descriptions, images, and information on their uses and effects, including genus names and applications for specific diseases.
- Identify over 1200 medicinal plants
- User-friendly search platform
- Alphabetical database access
- Plant images and detailed descriptions
- Information on importance, uses, and effects
- Genus name and disease treatment applications
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A quick reference for any Chinese Medicine student: - Identify over 1200 medicinal plants through a user friendly and powerful searching platform. - Access the database alphabetically in the form of plant images and detailed descriptions of various medicinal plants. - Understand the characteristic features provided in each record indicating the importance, uses and effects of the plant medicinal values. - Identify the genus name and use of particular plants for the treatment of particular diseases.
LearningHerbs
Access herbal courses, home remedy guides, and community support. This app serves as a mobile portal for existing HerbMentor subscribers and owners of digital products, offering training and resources to become a confident home herbalist.
- Herbal courses and training
- Home remedy guides
- Community support
- Access digital products
- Beginner herbalist guidance
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LearningHerbs makes learning about herbs and home remedies simple. Access your HerbMentor membership and all your LearningHerbs digital products (such as Herb Fairies, Apothecary, and the Herbal Remedy Kit) in this mobile app. HerbMentor provides all the training, guidance, support, community, and resources you need to become a confident home herbalist, all at a very affordable price. Please note: This app is for HerbMentor subscribers and owners of LearningHerbs products. Log in with the username and password provided to you when you joined on the LearningHerbs site. Visit our support if you need help. This app does not yet support in-app purchases. Discover HerbMentor, along with our beginner course, kid’s herbal learning system, herbal kit, and board game at LearningHerbs.com. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LearningHerbs at fortnightly against Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide's every 20 months. LearningHerbs also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LearningHerbs has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide ships an update every 20 months, LearningHerbs fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide | LearningHerbs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HKBU ARC | LearningHerbs.com, LLC |
Customer experience
Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide
LearningHerbs
In-app purchases
Chinese Medicinal Plants Guide
No in-app purchases
LearningHerbs
No in-app purchases
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