Comparison

Veggie Garden Planner vs ElliesNote

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

ElliesNote

Features
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Living with CFS or ME means navigating a body that doesn't follow the same rules. Energy is unpredictable, symptoms shift day to day, and keeping track of it all can feel like another drain on what little you have. ElliesNote is a symptom and energy tracker built specifically for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. It's designed to ask as little of you as possible — because on the days when logging feels like too much, that's when it matters most. LOG YOUR DAY Rate your energy on a simple 1–5 scale and tap the symptoms you're experiencing: fatigue, brain fog, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, dizziness, nausea, or sleep disturbance. Add a note if you want. Log multiple times a day. Morning and evening reminders help you stay consistent without having to think about it. CRASH DAYS On hard days, tap "I'm Crashing Today." It's tracked separately from your regular entries and shows up clearly across your history — no need to force it into a log note. INSIGHTS The Insights screen shows how your energy and symptoms trend over 7, 14, or 30 days. Useful for spotting patterns, understanding your limits, and sharing data with a doctor or specialist. APPLE HEALTH Connect to Apple Health and ElliesNote automatically pulls in your sleep duration, resting heart rate, HRV, and step count. See how they correlate with your energy without entering a thing manually. YOUR HISTORY Browse your logs month by month. See which days you logged, which you missed, and which were crash days — all in one place. ELLIESNOTE PREMIUM Unlock the full picture: • Personalised energy insights • 14-day and 30-day trend charts • Apple Health sync (sleep, HRV, resting HR, steps) • Full calendar history, month by month • 30-day missed-day tracking Try Premium free for 7 days, then choose monthly or annual billing. Cancel anytime in App Store settings. Built with care for the CFS/ME community.

Screenshots

Veggie Garden Planner4 screens
ElliesNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

Veggie Garden Planner and ElliesNote are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 and ElliesNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Veggie Garden Planner versus ElliesNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVeggie Garden PlannerElliesNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB49 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBento SoftwareDamilola Olatunde Bada

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

ElliesNote

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
2 purchases

ElliesNote

Subscriptions2
  • ElliesNote Premium$3.991 Month
  • ElliesNote Annual Premium$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Veggie Garden Planner free?
Veggie Garden Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ElliesNote free?
ElliesNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Veggie Garden Planner or ElliesNote have ads?
Neither Veggie Garden Planner nor ElliesNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Veggie Garden Planner or ElliesNote?
Veggie Garden Planner ships an update every 3 months, and ElliesNote every 3 months. Most recently, Veggie Garden Planner was updated on October 29, 2026 and ElliesNote on October 28, 2026.

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