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GrowIt: Vegetable Garden Care
Glority Global Group Ltd. · 4,165 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 46 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"free"
10 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "poor ai generated advice. the first thing it told me to do was water my plants at NOON. It's 90+ degrees out and it wants me to scald my plants because "water freezes at night". what the actual hell?!" - Christina Murray
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"give"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "incorrect watering schedules, and constant connectivity issues. this app wanted me to water my indoor plants EVERY SINGLE DAY and it was harming them. for reference, they were primarily herbs. considering the poor functionality of the app a…" - Vin Farnworth
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"subscription"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "it says the app is free with in-app purchases. in reality it's a by month subscription that you have to have in order to use the app." - Chris Fraser
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"paid"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "at first is was great. As my garden grew, I realized I needed more support. Also my phone changed and now nothing that I do will give me access to the paid account. I have asked for my yearly subscription to be refund." - Tamaya Wilson
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"plants"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "incorrect watering schedules, and constant connectivity issues. this app wanted me to water my indoor plants EVERY SINGLE DAY and it was harming them. for reference, they were primarily herbs. considering the poor functionality of the app a…" - Vin Farnworth
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"information"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "incorrect watering schedules, and constant connectivity issues. this app wanted me to water my indoor plants EVERY SINGLE DAY and it was harming them. for reference, they were primarily herbs. considering the poor functionality of the app a…" - Vin Farnworth
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"trial"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Time for some consumer precautions. A free trial should nean we can use it for free THEN give you CC information if we want to keep it. If you go into a grocery store giving samples, do you have to give them your cc information to taste a s…" - Barbara Kangas
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"location"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "its pretty cool, there are a few bugs. id love to be able to set the location to wherever i want, Im only able to set it to my actual location in the moment. edit: it now wont let me set any location and because of this its absolutely usele…" - clay c
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Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
poor ai generated advice. the first thing it told me to do was water my plants at NOON. It's 90+ degrees out and it wants me to scald my plants because "water freezes at night". what the actual hell?!
could not even identify properly a plant. while chat gpt easily can 🥴
it says the app is free with in-app purchases. in reality it's a by month subscription that you have to have in order to use the app.
to pricey
the price is little expensive
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP! I signed up for the free trial and was FALSELY told it would notify me one day before it expired. they charged my card $40 bucks for this useless app WITHOUT a warning! absolutely ridiculous! 👎🏽 horrible horrible experience
You download it and then makes you pay a monthly fee to use the app
at first is was great. As my garden grew, I realized I needed more support. Also my phone changed and now nothing that I do will give me access to the paid account. I have asked for my yearly subscription to be refund.
so something you need to know about this app is that the images that are used to advertise it don't actually appear in the app. there is a paid version, a subscription that you pay monthly. the free version lists about three things that you can either plant indoors or plant outdoors. tomatoes and cukes. there, that is the free version. anything beyond that you have to pay a subscription. skip this. there is more information in a single Google search than in the free version of this app.
It's a paid app, it's free for 7 days and then it's 40 bucks a year. Learn to make the important parts of your app pay walled, everything else free so people actually want to use it. I'm not paying for something I won't need all of.
BAIT AND SWITCH - DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!! Only gives you a 7 day trial then makes you pay. If you're unsure, just download an updated hardiness zone map, confirm what zone you're in and that'll give you a good idea about final frost and when to plant. Buy plants/seeds compatible to this zone ONLY! Lastly, NEVER PAY FOR APPS LIKE THESE TRYING TO ROB YOU WHEN ALL THE NECESSARY INFO POPS UP WITH A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH!!! Bunch of crooks.
not free at all.
I was really excited about this app and I even paid the ridiculous price for gold membership, only to realize that everytime you open the app it says "lost connection", none of my "plan to grow" or "growing" selections are there. It doesnt save anything which defeats the purpose of the app for me.
not good couldn't find any of my plants and they are very common and for the ones I was able to find lots of incorrect advice
$2.99 a month or nothing
need bank details to look before starting 7 day trial.. deleted straight away
Requires paid subscription. This should be mentioned in the description.
you have to subscribe
not what I was looking g for
only free for a few days
please i want a refund i accidentally subscribe 😭😭
2.99 a month
goes through a setup then doesn't let you use the app unless you pay a subscription that isn't mentioned anywhere. save your time and money and get something else EDIT: In reply to this was told there are many core features available for free. It was not clear at all that was an option and does not give any indication of that when the app is demanding money. To be clear, things cost money to make and maintain. Thats acceptable. what I think isn't is hiding the cost until the last minute.
free download but have to subscribe $2.99/mo to use it.
I can't figure out how to cancel the subscription!
Literally the first thing it did was ask me some questions and then try to get me to subscribe. Uninstalled instantly. At least give me a few hours or days to test before you push me to a purchase. Always uninstall something that hides pay to use rather then unlocking later.
I don't like it, you need to pay.
This app would not let me choose my location. When I let it use my gps, it put me in a city that is zone 5A. I live 60 miles north in zone 3A, making this app useless to me. I guess it's back to pen and per for me, thanks.
won't allow to set location unless access given and even so it is wrong
very general information and no prompt for the trial ending !
just someone making an app to over complicate gardening to make a quick buck don't bother
incorrect watering schedules, and constant connectivity issues. this app wanted me to water my indoor plants EVERY SINGLE DAY and it was harming them. for reference, they were primarily herbs. considering the poor functionality of the app and its inability to give accurate information, it feels like the reviews are overinflated
might be ok if can get past all the initial b.s.
Time for some consumer precautions. A free trial should nean we can use it for free THEN give you CC information if we want to keep it. If you go into a grocery store giving samples, do you have to give them your cc information to taste a sample? Also, we used to be able to buy apps. Now greediness means we pay forever...just renting them. Usually easy to start but not so easy when you want them to stop grabbing money directly from your bank.
$4.89 a month! I'm wanting to save money, not waste it on an app. Plus it wants far too much information. Nah, uninstalled!
boring
its pretty cool, there are a few bugs. id love to be able to set the location to wherever i want, Im only able to set it to my actual location in the moment. edit: it now wont let me set any location and because of this its absolutely useless. please fix asap!
"Almost useful" sums it up. It's a good encyclopedia for plant data, but it fails as a planner. After inputting my entire garden, I realized there's no way to see a high-level calendar or schedule. Had to resort to pen and paper to build a timeline... If it had a timeline view of my garden, it would be a great tool.
I've ran into this issue multiple times. On app launch, you must be fetching the data in the background after the app launches, meaning I'm getting into states where it shows my garden as empty, and no veg. The first time it happened I assumed the app reset. So I created another garden and added all my veg again. Then on the next app launch it must've sync'd properly, and now I had duplicated everything.
good app but could be better. says based on location but clearly that's not true and half my veggies aren't appearing on the app
I'm liking it though
seems like a nice app but doesn't have common/heirloom vegetable plants that I grow. (early girl tomatoes, mortgage lifter tomatoes, galletta strawberries) I stopped searching after this so there may be more but for $30/year it's def not worth it.
works only for US and US metric system
even I paid, can't find lots of flowers, vegetables and fruits. it's a shame. lots of free similar apps have much more functions.
surely it depends on the climate in different areas.
I really don't find it useful at all. Nothing new in it, nothing that you can't find with 10 sec search in Google. It doesn't let me change the units of measurement - I am stuck at °F. Probably it is made for USA only, because even with location on, it doesn't recognize my location.
Sentiment summary
89%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
8%
Negative (1-2★)