Features & Capabilities

The Reference Guide app is the portable, user-friendly guide to Young Living®* essential oils and products. You’ll get quick information on-the-go to support better health and an essential oil lifestyle.

Now updated with the full contents of the Reference Guide for Essential Oils Handbook!

With a subscription, you’ll receive more detailed information on Young Living® supplements and personal care products. Plus, with “Everyday Essentials” tips and recipes, you can confidently incorporate essential oils into all aspects of daily living.

This app combines information from the authoritative Reference Guide for Essential Oils (by Connie and Alan Higley) with convenient search, easy navigation, and personal note-taking features. Use the app anytime, anywhere to quickly find and confidently use recommended single oils and blends for hundreds of health conditions and wellness solutions.

The Reference Guide app will become your go-to source for personal essential oil use and for sharing your love of essential oils. The app features a personal guide section that details hundreds of health topics for which essential oils can be used to help support the body’s natural ability to heal itself. Additionally, key information on over 100 single oils and over 100 proprietary oil blends will help you better understand and use essential oils.

The app also provides essential oil application instructions—including detailed information about auricular internal body points, the digestive tract, the autonomic nervous system, and the olfactory system. For nearly 25 years, our team has: Reviewed thousands of research articles; Scoured hundreds of books and lectures by essential oil experts, scientists, medical professionals, historians, and other authorities; Gained practical experience using essential oils for ourselves and our families; Prepared to distill all of the essential information for you in one amazing app! (This convenient app runs on the Apple family of iPhones and iPads.)

*Abundant Health™ is a true third-party company that does not profit from the sales of essential oils and is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any essential oil company. We offer this material as a third-party, unbiased presentation about oils and products sold by one of the leading essential oil suppliers and producers in the world. Product names throughout this app are trademarks or registered trademarks of Young Living® Essential Oils. Abundant Health™ is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Young Living® Essential Oils.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this app is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or otherwise reduce the effects of any disease or ailment. Consult a licensed, qualified health care provider for diagnosis, medical care, and treatment.

Price are in U.S. Dollars (USD). Pricing in other currencies and countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence.

Subscription payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours befire the end of the current period at the purchase price of .

 Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel at any time within your iTunes account settings. 

 Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to the app. 
 
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User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Abundant Health
Rating:
4.00
(46)
Version:
3.6.1 Last updated: 2026-04-12
Version code:
884416839
Creation date:
2015-01-15
Compatible devices:
Size:
44.91MB
Price:
4.99
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
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Data ingested on:
2026-06-06
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User Reviews

Users praise the app as a rich, easy-to-use mobile reference with extensive oil descriptions, practical uses, and accessible research references. However, recurring issues include opaque pricing and an in-app subscription model after an upfront purchase, incomplete access to features, and content that is often outdated or missing new oils. Additional complaints cover missing recipes, quality concerns, and several technical glitches (broken links, broken support options, and UI problems). Overall, it's valuable for info and convenience but needs better updates and clearer pricing.
Pros
  • Contains rich, comprehensive information about essential oils, including detailed descriptions and uses.
  • Easy to use and a handy reference you can access on the go.
  • Includes research references and study links (e.g., PubMed) for deeper reading.
  • Perceived as a long-standing, trusted resource that users rely on.
Cons
  • Pricing model: upfront price plus required in-app purchases or a subscription to access full content.
  • Content often not updated with new oils; missing oils and outdated entries.
  • Recipes and certain features are incomplete or missing; some sections require extra purchases.
  • Content quality concerns (possible copy-paste, outdated or inaccurate listings; some items no longer offered).
  • Technical issues and maintenance problems (broken support links, nonfunctional reports/bug tools, UI/layout issues).
Recent reviews
This is the first time I have ever left a review for an app. I purchased this app to be able to use it for skincare and recipes. After paying for and downloading the app, I click on the recipes to browse through it and it says I have to purchase another app to access it. Same with the skincare. What a waster of money, as if money grows on trees these days and we can afford to keep purchasing these apps! Don’t buy this app! If I could give it zero star rating I would!
by JG*****, 2026-05-02

I love this app!!! I am a book person but this is nice to have at your fingertips wherever you are.
by #i*****, 2026-01-29

Love this app. Guide to the colors symbols etc.- there is a ? mark at the top left above oils and personal care that opens the key guide to letters, colors etc. Also, about 10 or so years ago Rosewood was on hold due to being scarce (endangered, maybe?). Young Living created a blend that when mixed very approximately and proportionally contained a replication of the many constituents contained in rosewood EO. Since inspiration contained rosewood, this might be why other oils appeared on the labels after this blend was substituted for rosewood. I think the blend had geranium, maybe spruce, not sure what else. Idk if there are updates to this app for such, or for new oils as they become available. I know the disappointment when an oil is not in the app. I do like that the app retains a lot of info from the old days that seems lacking in other resources. Also a plus that there are research study references. Searching pub med can bring up many more and recent studies. My teacher taught : if an oil smells good to you, your body is telling you you need it. If an oil doesn’t smell good to you, your body is telling you you really need it! As in, something might need to be brought into harmony and balance, as often an oil starts to smell better, after awhile, for people, than it did originally. Peace be to your days.
by Tk*****, 2026-01-27
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