“False advertising — Before you download the app it gives a few options for the subscription. One being lifetime premium plant care for $49.99. After you download the app it only gives two options a 3 day trial and then $17.99 weekly or…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 537 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★229,463 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
224 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
PlantIn is always there for you! With our care plans, you will learn how to identify a plant, how often to water your trees, or why the leaf on your flower turned brown.
We have a wide variety of features that every green thumb would fall in love with:
► Watering Calculator
This feature will help to figure out the right amount of water your green pet needs. You just need to answer several questions regarding your plant’s conditions, and voila!
► Light Meter
Here is another helpful tool that calculates the correct lighting level for your greens! Just click the Light Meter button and point the camera at the plant. Our AR-based technology will automatically scan the nearest environment, measure the amount of light, and tell if you need to move the plant to a brighter or shadier spot.
► Care Plans
Plantkeeping will become even more effortless with our Personalized Care Plans.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 5.62.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.62.0, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.3% of 537 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“False advertising — Ad says it’s free than requires a fee.”
“False advertising cost money — Is a subscription based app to do anything usefully must pay money”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.62.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$6.99
Highest$49.99
Weekly Premium Plant Care$6.99
Premium Access Weekly$7.99
Premium Access Weekly$8.99
Premium Weekly$17.99
Premium Access Yearly$29.99
Show 4 more purchases
Season Pass$19.99
Lifetime Premium Plant Care$49.99
Lifetime Special Offer$19.99
Premium access$7.99