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Best Plant Care Apps for iPhone (2026)
PictureThis - Plant Identifier is the top-ranked of 23 plant care apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 1,120,010 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,120,010 ratings · score 99 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 114,243 ratings · score 97 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 92,387 ratings · score 96 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 230,017 ratings · score 95 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 37,958 ratings · score 94
What belongs in this list
Learn how to look after my houseplants and keep them healthy.
Not here: a plant identifier alone; a watering reminder alone; a plant journal alone; a pet care app alone; a general chatbot that could be asked about plants alone
More lists: Best Plant Diagnosis Apps
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,120,010 ratings · score 99 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 114,243 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 92,387 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 230,017 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 37,958 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 6
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 8,438 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 7
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 6,538 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 68,767 ratings · score 89 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 20,683 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 10
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 26,453 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 15,232 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 12
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,150 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 13
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 6,980 ratings · score 85 · good - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,738 ratings · score 83 · good - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 6,588 ratings · score 82 · good - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 9,367 ratings · score 82 · good - 17
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 28,431 ratings · score 81 · good - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 8,157 ratings · score 73 · good - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,510 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 20
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 3,673 ratings · score 67 · situational - 21
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,578 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 22
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,106 ratings · score 66 · situational - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 9,720 ratings · score 51 · weak
New in the last 30 days
- Planto: Plant Identifier (A)
- Plant Identifier, Plant Care (A)
- Greg: Plant Identifier & Care (A)
- Plant Identifier - PlantMe (A)
- Plantfie・Plant Care Identifier (A)
- Plant Care Guide: PlantScope (A)
- Plant Identifier & Care: Ficus (B)
- Plant Identifier: ChatPlant AI (B)
- Botan: Plant Identifier & Care (B)
- Plant Identifier: Plantiary (B)
- PlantLush: Plant ID & Care Pro (B)
- Plantify: AI Plant Identifier (C)
- Plant Guru - Plant Care Guide (C)
- Flora - Plant ID & Diagnosis (C)
- AI Plant Identifier・Care-Lily (C)
- Plantion - Plant Identifier (D)
Questions people ask
- What is the best plant care app for iPhone?
- PictureThis - Plant Identifier, S tier, ranked #1 of 23, rated 4.8 by 1,120,010 people.
- Which plant care apps are free?
- 23 of 23 are free to download: PictureThis - Plant Identifier (S), Planta: Plant & Garden Care (S), Plant Parent: Plant Care Guide (S), PlantIn: Plant Identifier・Care (S) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases.
- Which plant care app has the best App Store rating?
- PictureThis - Plant Identifier at 4.8 from 1,120,010 ratings.
- How many plant care apps reach S or A tier?
- 12 of 23. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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