Leafsight vs Bloom for a sick plant

Bloom, by Gama Tech Apps Ltda, is a plant companion app: it identifies plants from a photo, checks a photo for diseases and suggests treatments, and adds care plans and reminders that follow the local weather, a light meter, a photo journal and a mascot called Pip. On the App Store it is called Plant Identifier: Bloom; it came out on 20 February 2026 and had 200 US ratings at 4.8 stars on 8 November 2026. Leafsight does one thing: it assesses a plant that looks wrong. If you are choosing between them for a sick plant, this is the honest comparison.

This page is written by the maker of Leafsight. The facts about Bloom come from its US App Store page and its website on 8 November 2026 and may have changed since; Leafsight is not affiliated with it.

Who each one is for

Bloom is for looking after a collection over time: naming plants, watering, fertilizing, misting, pruning, rotation and repotting schedules, several gardens in one app, a growth journal and a wishlist, with disease checks and weed detection beside them. Its store page lists 20 languages, most of them European. It runs on iPhone and iPad; its website lists Android as coming soon.

Leafsight is for the moment a plant looks wrong. You photograph the leaf and get an assessment of the likely problem, how serious it looks, how sure the model is, and what to try first, with non-chemical steps first. It does not identify species and has no care schedules. It runs on iPhone and iPad only, in 9 languages.

What each does when a plant looks sick

	Leafsight	Bloom
The main question	What is wrong with this plant?	What plant is this, and how do I look after it? (disease checks are one feature)
Names the species	No	Yes
Shows how sure the model is	On every result	Not listed on its store page
Says what it cannot see	On every full result (roots, soil, the room)	Not listed on its store page
A second photo compared with the first	Yes: it says whether the plant looks better in the new photo	A photo journal to log growth is listed; a photo compared with the last one is not
Care steps	Non-chemical first, product types rather than brands, never a dose	Suggested treatments
Reminders	Check-in reminders and a Home Screen widget; no watering schedules	Watering, fertilizing, misting, pruning, rotation and repotting, adjusted to the weather
A published accuracy figure	None	Its website states it is around 93% accurate on common plants
Devices	iPhone and iPad	iPhone and iPad; its website lists Android as coming soon
Languages	9, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean	20, including Dutch, Polish and the Nordic languages

What each costs (US App Store, 8 November 2026)

Bloom: free to download, with premium plans listed on its store page from $9.99 a week to $39.99 a year. Its store description says Premium adds unlimited plant identifications, personalized care reminders and expert tips; its website says Premium also makes the disease checks unlimited.

Leafsight: Leafsight is free to download with free assessments every day, and with a free account the first result's care steps are free with a free account. After that, Leafsight Pro is $5.99 a week with a 3-day free trial, $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $49.99 once, or one result's steps for $2.99, one time. The price is on the screen before any trial starts.

When Bloom is the better choice

You want reminders for watering and feeding a whole collection, adjusted to the weather.
You want to know what a plant is, or whether something is a weed. Leafsight will not tell you.
You want a light meter in the app. (For a rough answer without an app, the free window light check on this site works by window direction.)
You read a language Bloom has and Leafsight doesn't, such as Dutch, Polish or Swedish.

When Leafsight is

One plant looks sick and you want to know how sure the answer is before you act on it.
You want to take a second photo in two weeks and be told whether it looks better.
You read Chinese, Japanese or Korean, which Bloom is not in.
You want the first result's care steps without paying (with a free account), and one result's steps for a one-time price without a subscription.

The two can work side by side: a care app for the routine, and a photo assessment for the day something looks wrong.

Leafsight is new (its first version was released in September 2026) and has no ratings shown on its US App Store page yet. Every result shows how sure the model is, the full result says what one photo cannot show, and a photo assessment can be wrong: for a valuable plant, or anything you might eat, ask a garden centre or a plant clinic.

Try it on the plant in front of you

Leafsight is free to download. Take a photo of the leaf and read the assessment; with a free account, the first result's care steps are free with a free account. How the photo assessment works explains what a result shows, and the plant problem guides explain the common problems in plain words, in 8 languages.