# Dibble: Garden Planner — Planting calendar & plant care

> Personalized garden planting calendar and plant care assistant. (iPhone/iPad app by Handler Labs LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dibble-garden-planner/id6788356547 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Handler Labs LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6788356549)
- Category: Lifestyle, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 6 App Store ratings · 5 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-07-31
- Data updated: 2026-10-27
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dibble-garden-planner/id6788356547/reviews.md

## What is Dibble?

Know when to plant, wherever you garden. Dibble works out your local frost, heat and rain and builds a planting calendar for every crop, with a reminder when each task is due. No account, no forced trial, no plant limit on the free calendar, and your garden stays on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Say where your garden is: use your location, search for your town or enter a postal code. Dibble works out when to start seeds indoors, direct sow, transplant and harvest each crop.

PERSONALIZED PLANTING CALENDAR
• Your local climate, your frost dates and a per-crop calendar in seconds
• 78 crops: vegetables, herbs, flowers, berries and fruit trees, from tomatoes and garlic to dahlias and strawberries
• Start-indoors, sow, transplant and harvest windows for your location
• With Premium, the calendar adapts when this year's frost runs early or late, and shows you the evidence
• Plans from your garden's exact location rather than a broad zone
• Where frost only comes some years, Dibble says so and gives you a safe date for tender plants. Where it never freezes, it finds your cool or dry season instead

SEASONAL REMINDERS
• "Start tomatoes indoors now," "time to transplant," "time to harvest"
• Mark a task done straight from the notification
• One free frost warning a season, the evening before

AT A GLANCE
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with today's tasks, tickable without opening the app
• Today's tasks on your Apple Watch
• Find any crop or planting from iPhone search

GARDEN JOURNAL
• Note what you planted and how it is doing
• Garden Wrapped, a recap of everything you grew this season

ASK DIBBLE
Quick planting answers in all eight app languages, worked out on your device from your own garden and its climate.

GROW DEEPER (Premium)
Try it first: choose a photo and Dibble suggests the most likely plant, pest or disease, as a best guess. Three a season are free.
• Adaptive calendar: your dates start from the 30-year average and shift with this year's actual weather
• Bed planner: one crop per square, with a neighbor check that flags clashes
• Succession planting and crop rotation
• Varieties and labels
• Harvest and yield tracking, plus a seed inventory that reads packet photos
• Perennials and fruit trees followed across years
• Houseplant care, with watering, feeding and repotting reminders
• Multiple gardens
• Photos on journal entries
• Live frost and rain alerts for your garden, with a frost Live Activity when you open Dibble on a frost night
• Find the likely plant disease or pest from a photo you choose, with organic treatment steps, entirely on your device
• Identify plants from a photo you choose, entirely on your device

IN THE OFF SEASON
Dibble switches to planning mode: a countdown to your next planting season, one tap to plan your best crops again, and a list of seeds to order.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Arabic and Traditional Chinese, and available in many more countries.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Dibble is local-first: everything lives on your device and syncs only through your own iCloud. No account, no ad-tracking, no servers holding your data. Plant, pest and disease identification run entirely on-device, so your photos are never uploaded. Export a JSON backup (no photos) or a CSV of your plantings whenever you like, and restore a backup as a new garden on any device.

Free includes the full personalized calendar, reminders, the complete crop library, journal notes, widgets, the Apple Watch app and one frost warning a season. Premium adds everything in the list above, as a monthly plan, a yearly plan with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time Lifetime purchase.

Planting dates are estimates based on your garden's climate and typical local frost dates. Results vary by microclimate and weather, so always verify with your local cooperative extension before planting.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://dibblegarden.com/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://dibblegarden.com/privacy/

## Key features

- Personalized planting calendar by ZIP code
- Seasonal planting and harvest reminders
- Garden journal with photos
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Plant and disease identification
- Bed layout planner
- Houseplant care reminders

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| Premium Yearly | $29.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dibble Lifetime | $69.99 | one-time |


## Is Dibble safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Dibble.

## Is Dibble legit?

Dibble: Garden Planner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dibble is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (5 of 5)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dibble-garden-planner/id6788356547/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Best gardening app I’ve found!

*2026-10-24*

By far the easiest to use and most foolproof gardening app I’ve found! Definitely recommending to friends.

### 5/5 — Game-Changing

*2026-09-24*

Dibble is a grassroots app focused on users who have experienced pain from the other “planting apps from the past” 

This application works for the home gardener to large scale farming, no frills or fluff. 

Tons of bugs and issues with other apps, this is just plain simple and easy to use. 


Seen success already, to which I’ll say it’s a bingo bango.

### 5/5 — Right on schedule

*2026-09-10*

With Dibble I’m always right on time to take care of my little garden

### 5/5 — Finally, a gardening app that makes sense!!

*2026-08-08*

I’ve tried several gardening apps, but Dibble is the first one that I’ve found quite useful for planning my garden. I really like that it takes your location and growing zone into account and turns that information into an actual planting calendar, rather than giving you vague advice about when you might want to plant something. Usually, I end up uninstalling gardening apps; but this one has everything I’ve been looking for!

### 5/5 — Love having everything in one place!!!

*2026-08-03*

I honestly didn’t realize how much I was overthinking planting times until I started using Dibble. You just put in your location, and it tells you when to start seeds, transplant, and harvest for each crop. It’s made planning my garden so much easier.

I also love having my planting schedule, garden layout, and notes all in one place instead of bouncing between different apps. The app is clean, easy to use, and the free version has way more than I expected. Definitely worth downloading if you’re planning a garden this season.

## Frequently asked questions about Dibble

### What is Dibble?

Dibble is a gardening app that generates a personalized planting calendar based on your location's hardiness zone and frost dates. It provides timely reminders for planting, transplanting, and harvesting, and includes a garden journal to document your gardening journey.

### How does Dibble personalize my planting calendar?

Dibble uses your ZIP or postal code to determine your hardiness zone and local frost dates. It then calculates optimal planting windows for 78 different crops, including vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit trees.

### Does Dibble have ads?

No, Dibble is ad-free. The app is designed with privacy in mind, and your garden data never leaves your devices. Plant and disease identification also run entirely on-device.

### What are the premium features in Dibble?

Dibble Premium unlocks advanced features such as a bed layout planner with companion planting warnings, succession planting, crop rotation, harvest and yield tracking, houseplant care reminders, multiple garden management, and live frost/rain alerts.

### How much does Dibble Premium cost?

Dibble Premium offers a monthly subscription for $4.99, a yearly subscription for $29.99 with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time Lifetime unlock. The free version includes the core planting calendar, reminders, and journal.

### What devices does Dibble support?

Dibble is available on iPhone and Apple Watch. It also offers Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access to today's tasks and frost warnings.

### Can I export my garden data from Dibble?

Yes, you can export your entire garden data as JSON or CSV files whenever you wish. This allows you to back up your information or use it in other applications.

### How often is Dibble updated?

Dibble was last updated on August 12, 2026, with version 1.0.1. The app is designed to be reliable and is actively maintained by Handler Labs LLC.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1.1 — 2026-10-27

A small maintenance update. Everything works as before.

### 2.1.0 — 2026-10-26

Dibble 2.1.0 is made for iPhone Duo.

• Open the phone and Dibble fills the big screen, in portrait and landscape. When the phone is partly folded, the buttons stay clear of the crease. Close the phone and you are right where you were.
• It also works side by side with another app.
• On iOS 26 and later, the Cancel, Save and Done buttons on sheets are now the system's icons: an X and a checkmark.
• If frost reaches your garden only in some years, Dibble now says so everywhere, and its frost warnings cover your garden too.
• Everything else works as before.

### 2.0.4 — 2026-10-21

Dibble 2.0.4 has a new icon.

• The new icon is a ring for the year: frost in blue, planting in green and harvest in orange, with a leaf in the middle.
• The same mark now appears on your garden card and on the welcome and tour screens.
• Everything else works as before.

### 2.0.3 — 2026-10-20

Dibble 2.0.3 adds a tour of the app.

• A new app tour walks you through every screen: your calendar, plants, garden, journal, reminders and settings. It also shows where to report a bug or request a feature. Find it any time in Settings, under Help & feedback.
• On Apple Watch, a long garden name now fits instead of being cut off.
• On the App Store, the app is now called Dibble: Garden Planner.

### 2.0.2 — 2026-10-14

Dibble 2.0.2 makes the free trial clearer.

• The free trial now appears only if you can still get it. If you have used a trial before, you see the plain price instead.
• When you start the yearly trial, Dibble reminds you 2 days before it ends (with notifications on), so the first charge never comes as a surprise.

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