Comparison

Zipato vs Garden Me

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Zipato

Control and manage your smart home devices, including security alarms, thermostats, lighting, and video monitoring. Create custom automations and schedules for a personalized living experience. Integrates with a wide range of smart home standards and devices.

Highlights
  • Device management for multiple systems
  • Professional security alarm features
  • Customizable smart thermostat control
  • Video intercom and monitoring
  • Lights and power management
  • Advanced automation rules and geofencing
  • Fully customizable dashboard
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Some features of Zipato APP: Device manager > creating and managing multiple Systems > managing servers and configuring multi-server Systems > integrating Systems into other Systems as SubSystems > pairing, configuring and monitoring devices based on different standards > support for Z-wave, KNX, ModBus, EnOcean, ULE, Zigbee, PhIlips Hue, Sonos... Professional Security Alarm > multi-partitions, cross zoning, user roles > intruder, smoke, water leak, CO detection and alerts Smart thermostat > create you own thermostat by using system devices, > multiple zones, schedulers... > integration with other popular thermostats based on supported standards Video Intercom > DoorPhone for entrance control > video and Voice enabled > integration with Zipato SIP server and other popular SIP servers Lights and power management > dimming, switching, rgbw, consumption monitoring > motor controls for curtains, roller shutter and valves > IR control for A/C and AV devices > door locks control with access codes management Video monitoring > IP cameras live view > event based recording and messaging > multi-camera monitoring views > timeline and Gallery views for watching recorded video and snapshots Automation > mobile rule creator for creating simple rules > geofencing for creating rules based on mobile user’s location > customizable scheduler with advanced configuration options > scenarios and grouping of devices > integration with rules made by online Rule Creator Dashboard > fully customizable > create containers with device widgets by type, room, scene or custom > scrollable or listed container views > special home page info widgets for easier monitoring > powerful but intuitive widgets with multiple controlling options for all System devices > vertical and landscape mode supported for tablets Knowledge base > News and Announcements with latest information about the platform > Articles with demo videos about specific functions --- note --- For using Zipato APP it’s necessary to have at least one Zipato controller, preferably Zipabox2 or Zipatile2. — note for existing zipato users --- This Zipato APP is based on Zipato v3 backend. Zipato v3 is the whole new Zipato backend and each System needs to be made from scratch. To use this APP with your current controller, it is necessary to unregister your existing controller from the Zipato v2 environment and register it within a System in Zipato v3 environment through this APP.

About

Garden Me

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Your plants are pleading. You simply cannot hear them. Garden Me is an AI gardener: photograph anything green, learn what it is, what it wants, and — before you hand over your money in the garden centre — how much work it will actually be. IN THE SHOP Photograph it on the shelf. You get the species, often down to the cultivar, what light and soil it wants, and an honest answer on whether it is a joy or a second job — plus what to carry to the till alongside it, in the right quantity, so you are not back tomorrow. AT HOME Tell us what sort of garden this is — open ground, terrace, balcony, greenhouse, allotment, a shared plot, or a windowsill indoors — and where the plant stands in it. Every piece of advice follows: a pot dries out in a day where the border holds water for a week, and a communal bed is tended twice a year by whoever turns up. Then the reminders begin, year after year, suited to where you live and the season. WATERING, WITHOUT THE NAGGING Garden Me works out how often each plant wants water, from the pot or ground it stands in, the light it gets, and how much it forgives. A small pot in full sun is every other day; a snake plant on a windowsill once a fortnight; an established tree in open ground gets nothing, because it needs nothing. And if it has rained on something standing outside, the reminder simply does not come. GARDEN GUESTS Gremlins arrive uninvited and eat your plants. Heroes arrive uninvited and eat the ones eating your plants. Photograph the culprit — or the damage it left — and learn which of the two you have. Never harmful chemicals: the slugs do not deserve a war crime, and the ladybird deserves better than a spray. There is an Employee of the Month, chosen by season and by your kind of garden, with the one thing worth doing for them while they are on duty. TWO PHONES, ONE GARDEN Share it with the person you actually share it with. One code of twelve characters — no account, no email, nobody to sign up as. Both phones hold the whole garden, photographs and all, and work without a signal. WHILE YOU ARE AWAY The neighbour who waters gets a web page instead: what wants doing this week, and which plant is which. Nothing to install. IT ADMITS WHEN IT IS WRONG Disagree with an identification and say so. Garden Me reasons again from scratch, never offering the same answer twice. It costs you nothing — it rather ought not to. ALSO INSIDE • Light Check — photograph a corner, learn what would thrive there • Sow now — what to sow this month where you live, that you have not planted yet • A wishlist, for the plant you cannot yet fit, afford or find time for • A harvest log, year by year, so you know if the tree gave more than last year • Illnesses worth knowing: what you will see, and the test that settles it • Shopping and equipment lists that write themselves • Weather alerts for frost, drought and heat • A garden journal with photographs • Toxicity notes, for a household with a cat, a dog or a curious child • Garden centre finder • Several gardens — home, cabin, allotment, balcony, indoors — each its own thing • In ten languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English, German, Dutch, French, Polish, Finnish and Italian WHAT IT COSTS Free to download. You begin with ten actions. One action is one identification, one question or one light check. The garden itself, the year wheel, watering reminders, the journal, the harvest log and weather alerts are never counted. The shopping and equipment lists come with the subscription, or you can buy a single list for one action. Gardener on hand is 49 kr a month, or 499 a year, for sixty actions — enough that you stop counting. Or simply buy actions when you need them: they never expire, and there is nothing to cancel. Plants never complain. So we do it for them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gardenme.app/privacy

Screenshots

Zipato4 screens
Garden Me4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zipato at none against Garden Me's 9. Zipato also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). Garden Me's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Garden Me sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Zipato asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zipato ships an update every 2 months, Garden Me daily. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Zipato versus Garden Me: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZipatoGarden Me
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews9.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTri plus grupaMagnus Bjelkerud

In-app purchases

None

Zipato

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Garden Me

Subscriptions6
  • Garden Me Bronze$1.991 Month
  • Gardener on hand$3.991 Month
  • Garden Me Gold$5.991 Month
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  • Garden Me Bronze$22.991 Year
  • Gardener on hand$39.991 Year
  • Garden Me Gold$69.991 Year
One-time3
  • 20 Actions$3.99
  • 60 Actions$9.99
  • 150 Actions$19.99

Questions

Is Zipato free?
Zipato is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Garden Me free?
Garden Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Zipato or Garden Me have ads?
Neither Zipato nor Garden Me shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zipato or Garden Me?
Zipato ships an update every 2 months, and Garden Me daily. Most recently, Zipato was updated on October 26, 2026 and Garden Me on October 25, 2026.

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