Comparison

Veggie Garden Planner vs Backgrounds

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

Backgrounds

Features
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Backgrounds for iOS allows you to visualize your music in many ways. • Display your music artwork fullscreen to enjoy the art or accompany the artwork with the title and artist or playback controls for quick access • Use the Visualizer for an incredible experience that responds to sound and adapts to your music • Sync with your Mac to accompany your experience with many more features and combinations, including syncing your Music, Web or Video wallpaper Sync your wallpaper with Backgrounds for Mac • Music - Play some music in your computer to sync your Music wallpaper across your Mac and iPad or iPhone - Sync your Video or Web items from Backgrounds for Mac that best match the current music track you are playing with Video Match • Visualizer - Use the Butterchurn / Milkdrop music Visualizer on multiple displays for breathtaking visuals • Video - Set up a video with a stream and automatically sync with your iPad or iPhone when it's running on your Mac • Web - See your web items with a url as you switch between themes on your Mac to keep both displays in sync Have any feedback or need help? Get in touch @BackgroundsMac Share your wallpaper and Backgrounds experience on Twitter / X, Reddit or Facebook @BackgroundsMac Enjoy the app and share it with your friends :)

Screenshots

Veggie Garden Planner4 screens
Backgrounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backgrounds at none against Veggie Garden Planner's 5. Veggie Garden Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). 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. Veggie Garden Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Backgrounds asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Veggie Garden Planner versus Backgrounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVeggie Garden PlannerBackgrounds
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBento SoftwareJose Lopez

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

Backgrounds

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

Backgrounds

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Veggie Garden Planner free?
Veggie Garden Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backgrounds free?
Backgrounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Veggie Garden Planner or Backgrounds have ads?
Neither Veggie Garden Planner nor Backgrounds shows ads.

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