# YardStick: Lawn & Garden Care — Monitor, Identify, Log & Share > Monitor, Identify, Log & Share (iPhone/iPad app by Scott Brookes.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yardstick-lawn-and-garden-care/id6793178429 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Scott Brookes](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793178431) - Category: Lifestyle, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 26.5 · 15 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), European Spanish - Released: 2026-07-31 - Data updated: 2026-09-01 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yardstick-lawn-and-garden-care/id6793178429/reviews.md ## What is YardStick? YardStick is your all-in-one companion for maintaining a healthy lawn and thriving garden — track every mow, watering, and feeding, plan ahead each season, and never lose sight of what your yard needs next. YARD TRACKING • Photo progress tracking to watch your lawn transform over time • Log waterings and fertilizer applications with a tap • Fertilizer and soil amendment tracking with a depleting progress bar showing when you're due to feed again — fully customizable to any fertilizer or amendment type • Weed control tracker with the same countdown-style indicator for your next application • Weed Identification (Pro) • Mechanical maintenance tracking for overseeding, aeration, and dethatching • A fully customizable maintenance section — enable only the trackers you actually use • Fertilizer Calculator: enter what's printed on the bag and your yard's area (calculated automatically with Property Mapper) to get the exact "pounds on the ground" needed for your lawn, adjusted for the season • History Timeline: a full record of everything you've done to your yard this year, with editable dates, progress photos, and an end-of-season report to help you plan next year PLANT TRACKING YardStick isn't just for your lawn — it's just as capable for your garden. Log individual plants across the most common categories: fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees, shrubs, and houseplants. • Plan ahead from winter through harvest with customizable seed-starting and outdoor-planting dates (Pro users get reminder notifications so nothing slips through the cracks) • Succession planting support — track each successive planting independently • At-a-glance indicators for each plant's location, fertilizer type, quantity, and sun profile, so you always know what needs shade, sun, or a feeding • Soil moisture tracking via connected Ecowitt sensors (Pro) • Log fertilizer applications, waterings, and harvests throughout the season, complete with progress photos in each plant's own History Timeline • Generate an end-of-season report for every plant to help plan next year's garden PLANNING Turn ideas you have throughout the year into next season's plan. • Build shopping lists, checklists, and notes for future projects and purchases • Companion Planting Helper — discover which plants help each other thrive (and which ones you should keep apart), with the ability to generate a shopping list directly from the results • Pest & Disease Tracker — log sightings with photos across both your yard and individual plants, so you can spot patterns over time • Garden Calendar — an at-a-glance view of everything coming up next for your lawn and garden • Photo History— Look back at the progress of all your plants to see how they have progressed over the season • Cost Calculator — How much have you spent on your passion this year? YARDSTICK PRO Unlock smart integrations and hands-free tracking across your whole property: • Ecowitt — automatically track soil moisture and rainfall, with live updates reflected right on your tracker pills • Rachio — sync your smart sprinkler system to automatically log lawn watering • OpenWeatherMap — track local rainfall automatically • Property Mapper — draw custom zones directly on a map of your property, perfect if different sections need different care or run on different schedules; zone areas calculate automatically and feed straight into the Fertilizer Calculator • Garden Mapper — Drop pins on the map or your picture to help keep plan & track of where plants are. • Identify Plants and Weeds • Connect your Ecowitt sensors or Rachio zones to individual property zones for hyper-local tracking • Customizable notifications — choose exactly which reminders you want and when they fire, so you're always on top of your yard automatically Ecowitt, Rachio, and OpenWeatherMap are trademarks of their respective owners. YardStick is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these companies. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | YardStick Pro | $7.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4.1 — 2026-08-23 Bug Fixes - Diseases Logged to Plant History Refinements - Save Photos to Album - Pre-Season Information Update - Spending Tracker Report ### 1.4 — 2026-08-16 Improvements - Plant / Weed Identification (Pro) - Localization (French, Spanish, German) - UI Changes - Watered Threshold Control ### 1.3.9 — 2026-08-14 Bug Fixes - Property Mapper Unlock (Yard) Improvements - Report Include Succession Planting - History Timeline Changes (Yard/Plants) - Growing Season (Settings) - UI Changes (Yard) - Harvest Trigger Photo Prompt - Delete Photos (Planning) - Soil Temperature Weed Notification - Lawn Type Suggestions ### 1.3.5 — 2026-08-10 Bug Fixes - Notifications - UI Refinements - Fertilizer Calculator (Tips) - Season Reset Update Improvements - **New - Spending Tracker - Rain Logging in History - IAP Dialog improvements (iPad Mini) - WeatherKit Integration - Restructured App Backup - Updated Summary Report ### 1.3 — 2026-08-08 Bug Fixes - Fixed thumbnail sharing (Photo History) Improvements - **New - iPad Specific Layout (Yard/Plants) - **New - Garden Mapper View (Plants) PRO - Improvements to onboarding (All) - UI changes (All) - Current weather logged with Waterings --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*