Verdejar vs Blossom: which plant app should you choose?
Verdejar chose to think hard about what matters most: the right rhythm for every plant, with no limits and no cost. Blossom wants to do everything in one app.
Verdejar works out, with no limits and no cost, when and how much to water each plant where it lives, learns from what you tell it about the soil and adds a seasonal care plan, a journal and a diagnosis guide. Blossom combines photo identification, reminders and a sowing calendar, and keeps unlimited use for Premium.
Verdejar is a new app, launched in 2026 on the App Store, in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese, and it works in any country. This comparison is by the Verdejar team; what we say about Blossom comes from its App Store listing, its release notes and reviews by TechRadar and iGeeksBlog, checked in November 2026.
How Verdejar thinks
Verdejar doesn’t hand you a calendar: it does the sums. Its engine uses evapotranspiration, the FAO’s scientific method for knowing how much water a crop loses, and applies it to each plant with the species, the light in that corner, the pot (material, size and drainage hole), the compost and the season. If you share your location, it adds your real local weather, and a heatwave changes the rhythm of your balcony plants without you doing anything. The weather data is real and current: your area’s temperature, air humidity and rainfall feed into the sum every day.
Each time you water, you say how the soil felt, and the app learns. An aloe vera needs far less water in winter than in summer, and the sum follows that change; a Boston fern, which likes compost that’s always slightly moist, gets a very different rhythm.
Included for every plant
- Water to suit each pot: the date and the amount, counted in glasses.
- Care that follows the calendar: feeding in the growing season, turning, cleaning, keeping pests away.
- A view of the day with what’s slipped and the month ahead, plus notifications.
- Help when symptoms appear, organised by part of the plant.
- Photos, notes and measurements kept on each plant’s page.
- Progress you can see: ranks, achievements, a pot collection and friends.
No trial period, nothing to unlock, no ads and no sign-up. The only thing on sale is decorative pots, with no effect at all on the sums.
What if you have lots of plants?
In a home with twenty or thirty plants, Verdejar sorts them by thirst: you see at a glance which ones want water today and how much. Each has its own rhythm and its own page, and adding the fortieth works just like the first, up to 200 plants per account.
And Blossom?
Blossom identifies plants from a photo, detects diseases, has a chat assistant, gives watering recommendations by plant type and pot size, sets reminders and has a sowing calendar. With Premium, identification, disease detection, water calculations and reminders become unlimited.
Verdejar and Blossom side by side
| Verdejar | Blossom | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free and complete | Limited free + subscription |
| Watering calculations | ✓ free and unlimited | Paid (unlimited) |
| Takes your local weather into account | ✓ | — |
| Learns from the state of the soil | ✓ | — |
| Journal with notes and photos | ✓ | — |
| Problem diagnosis | ✓ free | Paid (unlimited) |
✓ included · “Paid” means Premium · — not confirmed on the official page.
Who is Verdejar for?
For people who want an app to think about watering for them, for every plant indoors and on the balcony, without paying and without limits. And for anyone who enjoys watching their plants grow, season after season, in the journal.
Quick questions
Is Blossom free? It’s free to download, but identification, disease detection, water calculations and reminders are only unlimited with Premium.
Does Verdejar work for balcony plants? Yes: the catalogue includes balcony plants such as rosemary and basil, and the watering accounts for them being outdoors.
How many plants can I have in Verdejar? Up to 200 active plants per account, for free.
And the other apps?
Verdejar sits alongside Planta, Greg and PictureThis in the best plant care apps. To see right now what Verdejar would say about your plant, use the preview below.
Sources: App Store (Blossom listing and release notes) · TechRadar · iGeeksBlog. The days between waterings come from the Verdejar watering engine.