Veggie Garden Planner vs Omlet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Plant compatibility information
- Sowing and harvest time overviews
- Crop rotation warnings
- Visual patch arrangement
- Planting distance guidance
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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/
Omlet
Transform your chicken coop into a smart coop. Remotely control your automatic coop door, adjust settings like opening and closing times, and monitor battery life and light timings via Wi-Fi. Stay connected to your flock from anywhere.
- Remote coop door control
- Wi-Fi connectivity
- Adjust open/close times
- Monitor battery life
- Control light timings
- Share coop access
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Keep smart with the Omlet app. Control your chicken coop door remotely and connect with your flock from anywhere in the world. Make your coop a smart coop with a few clicks, and control your automatic chicken coop door over Wi-Fi. Change settings including open and close times, battery life and light timings. Add friends and family, so they can also get alerts and help manage your coop devices remotely. With the Omlet Smart Automatic Door for chickens, you can stay connected to your flock, whether you're round the corner or on another continent.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Veggie Garden Planner at 4.3 against Omlet's 2.6. Veggie Garden Planner also leads on ratings volume (3.9K vs 110) and review sentiment (42% vs 32%). Omlet's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Veggie Garden Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Omlet asks for nothing beyond the download.
Veggie Garden Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Veggie Garden Planner has 3.9K ratings behind it against 110, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Veggie Garden Planner's written reviews are positive against 32% of Omlet's.
Veggie Garden Planner ships an update every 3 months, Omlet fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Veggie Garden Planner | Omlet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3.9K ratings) — better | 2.6 (110 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.2% of reviews — better | 32.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.9K — better | 110 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bento Software | Omlet Ltd |
Customer experience
Veggie Garden Planner
Omlet
User reviews
Veggie Garden Planner
From 3.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Helpful companion planting information
- 🚀 Visually appealing layout
- 🚀 Great planning tool for beginners
- 👍 User-friendly interface
Room to improve
- 🔒 Limited vegetable/herb selection
- 🔒 Inability to change growing zones
- 🐛 Bugs with restoring purchases
- 🔒 Overly complicated with in-app purchases
- 🔒 Lack of customization options
Omlet
From 110 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Door works well
- 👍 App is useful
- 👍 Convenient for remote control
- 👍 Protects flock
- 👍 Notifications are helpful (when working)
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is garbage
- 🐛 Horribly inconsistent app
- 🐛 App says offline when connected
- 🐛 Remote control missing for feeder
- 🐛 Wonky UX
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
Omlet
Reported bugs
83 issues- App is horribly inconsistent
- App says offline when connected
- Remote control missing for feeder
- App is wonky
- Latest update removed remote open/close button
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- App often doesn't connect correctly
- System locks up
- Takes 7-15 minutes to open door
- Light sensor doesn't function
- Light sensor to open never works
- Constantly tells wrong notification
- Takes 24 hours for new time cycle to register
- Notifications stop working
- App is worthless
- App gets stuck on loading screen
- Coop coming offline
- App doesn't reconnect remotely after power outage
- Latest update leaves app saying door is offline
- App says door is offline when it is not
- Door keeps disconnecting from app
- Delay in opening/closing door
- App is buggy
- App is very ordinary
- WiFi enabled door drops connection
- Batteries drain quickly
- Not dependable
- Drops connection easily
- App shows door status as pending
- App gets stuck in pending status
- No control of door
- Unreliable
- Buggy app
- Light sensor history limited
- Inconsistent readings
- Light sensor value too high
- App loses sync with control panel
- System does not behave as settings indicate
- Needs improvement
- Does not wake from sleep mode
- Times out when trying to control
- Notifications are hit or miss
- Horrible and unreliable
- Buggy and bad
- Smart panel is stupid
- New smart panel issues
- Controller not connecting to WiFi
- Not ready for release
- Update caused more issues
- Dangerous for chickens
- App is very buggy
- Cannot see light levels
- Very buggy app
- App bugs out with (pending)
- Smartdoor without more code bug checks
- Remote part of app only works occasionally
- Coop light won't work at all when using the app
- App gets stuck as pending
- UI code had bugs
- Smart panel would not connect to app
- Lost connection and would never connect again
- Disconnect from WiFi occasionally
- Do not reconnect automatically
- Controller not so well
- Won't connect to WiFi at all
- Restarts when trying to connect
- Factory reset doesn't work
- Drops wifi for no reason
- Often says in sleep mode when plugged in
- Door opening automatically after closing
- App is horribly buggy
- Goes into pending mode
- Door opens/closes and status update is hours later
- App is unreliable
- App remains incredibly buggy
- Light sensor history only shows two hours
- Light sensor readings inconsistent
- Light sensor never outputs value below 14
- App sometimes loses sync
- Device must be removed and readded
- Does not resync on its own
- System does not behave as settings indicate
- App informed light on at wrong time
- Cannot form coherent mental model of app
Requested features
10 requests- Incorporate into Apple HomeKit/Shortcuts
- Set open/close X minutes before/after sunrise/sunset
- Set an open time without a close time
- Apple Watch app
- More scheduling options (different days)
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- Set coop light automatically independent of door
- Allow user to adjust auto-stop resistance
- Enhance technical details view with more granular data
- Separate page for reports with adjustable time frames
- Allow zooming in on time by the minute for light levels
In-app purchases
Veggie Garden Planner
- Enhanced Product Subscription1 Year trial$1.991 Year
- Unlimited Use Subscription$3.491 Year
- Unlock All Veggie Varieties$1.99
- Unlock Patch Plan Editor$1.99
- Unlock Everything$3.99
Omlet
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Veggie Garden Planner free?
Is Omlet free?
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