Comparison

Veggie Garden Planner vs Fruit Patch App

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

Head to head
About

Veggie Garden Planner

Plan your vegetable garden with ease. Discover compatible plants, get sowing and harvesting times, and avoid problematic crop rotations. Visually arrange your patch with planting distances and neighbor information.

Highlights
  • Plant compatibility information
  • Sowing and harvest time overviews
  • Crop rotation warnings
  • Visual patch arrangement
  • Planting distance guidance
Features
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The Veggie Garden Planner provides you with clearly arranged information that you need to quickly compose your vegetable garden patch. Before purchase we provide a free download so you can see for yourself what value the app provides. Choose vegetables that harmonise well together. You will find information regarding good/bad neighbor plants for each vegetable. For your chosen garden composition you get tabular overviews to quickly determine sowing/harvest times, and which interactions exist between vegetables. As a purchasable bonus feature, you can visually arrange your vegetable patch with our Patch Plan Editor - with vital information regarding planting distance & good/bad neighbors at your fingertips. You will also be warned of problematic crop rotations, e.g. if you place two plants with strong soil depletion at two consecutive seasons! Note regarding the climate zone: The seedtimes and harvesttimes are adjusted to hardiness zones USDA 7-8 (e.g. Atlanta, Seattle or Central Europe). Please adapt accordingly. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Fruit Patch App

Discover easy-to-grow fruits tailored to your region with expert guidance. Select fruit bushes, trees, and companion plants for full sun or partial shade. Resources for planting and recommended nurseries are included to ensure a successful fruit-growing experience.

Highlights
  • Region-specific fruit selection
  • Easy-to-grow fruit bushes and trees
  • Companion plant suggestions
  • Planting and nursery resources
  • Full sun and partial shade options
  • Culinary and pollinator plant sets
Features
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As seen in the New York Times! Are you ready for easy-to-grow fruits right outside your door but wondering where to start? The Fruit Patch App has simplified the often-complex world of growing your own fruit by pre-selecting easy-to-grow fruit bushes, fruit trees, and companion plants suited to where you live. Please note that at this time the Fruit Patch App supports states in the Eastern USA that fall within USDA plant hardiness zones 5, 6, 7 and 8 (see our service area map in the app store image carousel for details). By leveraging expert edible landscape knowledge the Fruit Patch App is designed to guide you through a simple selection process for full sun or partial shade fruit options complete with tree and bush descriptions that highlight the ornamental and productive characteristics of fruits suited to your region. Sets of either culinary or pollinator companion plants are also included to diversify your patch. The Fruit Patch App also offers you resources on planting and recommended nurseries to help make your fruit growing experience easy and successful. Whether your goal is a single, self-fertile, disease-resistant apple tree supported by culinary herb companion plants, or native elderberry patches with pollinator habitat companions, the Fruit Patch App will guide you through the process of actualizing your fruitfull dreams. The Fruit Patch App currently guides you to select between 10 different fruiting centerpieces in one or two-patch combinations alongside of options for herbal or pollinator-focused companion plants. Future updates will include additional fruit types, combination possibilities, and new planting category options such as culinary mushrooms. When you create a fruit patch you are supporting a network of other fruit patches that are quickly forming a Food Forest Transformation Network, one patch at a time. This is an opportunity to improve your life and the world around you. Offers this easy and so rewarding rarely come along - don’t miss this opportunity to make life sweeter! Get started today on your fruit tree dreams and download the Fruit Patch App. Check back soon if you are outside of our current service area since we are always expanding. The Fruit Patch App is offered for download outside of the defined service area for informational purposes only.

Screenshots

Veggie Garden Planner4 screens
Fruit Patch App4 screens

Verdict

The call

Veggie Garden Planner and Fruit Patch App both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 81% of Fruit Patch App's written reviews are positive against 42% of Veggie Garden Planner's. Fruit Patch App also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Veggie Garden Planner's advantage is ratings volume (3.9K vs 24) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement 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. Veggie Garden Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Fruit Patch App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Veggie Garden Planner against 4.3 for Fruit Patch App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Veggie Garden Planner has 3.9K ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Veggie Garden Planner's written reviews are positive against 81% of Fruit Patch App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Veggie Garden Planner ships an update every 3 months, Fruit Patch App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Veggie Garden Planner versus Fruit Patch App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVeggie Garden PlannerFruit Patch App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3.9K ratings) — better4.3 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews42.2% of reviews81.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.9K — better24
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB125 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBento SoftwareAE Design Guild, LLC

Customer experience

Veggie Garden Planner

All ratings3,874 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.2%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews289 reviews
Positive42.2%
Neutral17.0%
Negative40.8%

Fruit Patch App

All ratings24 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.8%

Bugs and requests

Veggie Garden Planner

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Restore purchase feature not working
  • Planner feature not functioning properly
  • Layout and text issues when zooming/scrolling
  • Crashes and glitches reported

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more vegetable and herb varieties
  • Allow users to set their own growing zone
  • Improve garden layout and planning tools
  • Sync data across devices
  • Add more companion planting information
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  • Provide planting/harvesting times for different regions

Fruit Patch App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Veggie Garden Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Enhanced Product Subscription1 Year trial$1.991 Year
  • Unlimited Use Subscription$3.491 Year
One-time3
  • Unlock All Veggie Varieties$1.99
  • Unlock Patch Plan Editor$1.99
  • Unlock Everything$3.99
None

Fruit Patch App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Veggie Garden Planner free?
Veggie Garden Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fruit Patch App free?
Fruit Patch App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Veggie Garden Planner or Fruit Patch App?
Veggie Garden Planner is rated higher. Veggie Garden Planner averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while Fruit Patch App averages 4.3 from 24 ratings.
Do Veggie Garden Planner or Fruit Patch App have ads?
Neither Veggie Garden Planner nor Fruit Patch App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Veggie Garden Planner or Fruit Patch App?
Veggie Garden Planner ships an update every 3 months, and Fruit Patch App fortnightly. Most recently, Veggie Garden Planner was updated on September 22, 2026 and Fruit Patch App on June 1, 2026.

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