Comparison

Tonal vs Gardyn

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

Head to head
About

Tonal

This app provides a smart home gym experience with digital weight that adapts to your workouts. Access programs, track progress, and enjoy a variety of on-the-go exercises led by expert coaches. Connect with a community for motivation.

Highlights
  • Adaptive digital weight
  • Expert coach-led workouts
  • Personalized fitness programs
  • Progress tracking by muscle group
  • On-the-go workout library
  • Custom workout creation
  • Community motivation features
Features
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With the Tonal mobile app you can be your strongest—from home, on your own schedule. Tonal is the smartest home gym and personal trainer. Unlike traditional dumbbells, barbells, and exercise equipment Tonal uses advanced digital weight that continually adapts workouts so they’re most effective for you—all led by our expert coaches. Loved by beginners, exercise enthusiasts, and professional athletes alike, Tonal is reimagining the landscape of at-home fitness. Get stronger, faster with the Tonal app - Join a program: No matter where you are in your fitness journey, Tonal has individual workouts and multi-week programs to help you reach your goals. - Track your progress: See your strength grow. Tonal’s A.I. keeps track of your workouts, measuring your progress and breaking it down by muscle group and workout type. - Work out on-the-go: From high-intensity, to restorative yoga flows, Tonal has hundreds of workouts for you to try. Filter by focus, trainer, or time. - Create your own workout: Work out your way with Custom Workouts. Choose your favorite movements, reps, sets, and advanced weight modes, like Burnout and Eccentric to maximize your results, then save for later. - Get stronger, together: Connect with friends and stay motivated to get stronger while cheering on other members in the Tonal community. Tonal uses HealthKit to export your Tonal workouts into the Health app and to sync your weight and height.

About

Gardyn

This app acts as your personal AI gardener, monitoring and optimizing plant growth for healthy, tasty food. It provides detailed advice, remote viewing, and manages your plants even when you're away. Enjoy fresh produce with minimal effort.

Highlights
  • AI-based private gardener (Kelby)
  • Detailed plant growth monitoring
  • Adjustable growing conditions
  • Remote plant viewing
  • Personalized plant care advice
  • Automated plant management
  • Order seed refills (yCubes)
Features
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The Gardyn™ App is the perfect companion who takes care of all your plants, optimizes their growth for you, and gives you all the necessary advice along the way. Just enjoy healthy, tasty food and save time! Once paired with a compatible Gardyn device*, the Gardyn App fully manages all the aspects of it. It brings to life Kelby™, your AI-based private gardener, who takes care of your plants 24 hours a day and lets you know everything you need to know about them. The Gardyn App is packed with useful features, including the ability to: - Get a detailed monitoring of your plants’ growing conditions: temperature, humidity, water level, lighting and watering schedules, etc... - Adjust the growing conditions of the plants to suit your needs - Remotely view your plants in crisp details by leveraging your Gardyn’s embedded vision system - Get detailed advice on how to take care of each of your plants and know more of the goodness it brings to you - Let Kelby, your smart private gardener, take care of your Gardyn and optimize it for you - Let Kelby manage your plants when you are away or tell you when some are ready for harvest - Order all the yCubes™ you need to refill your Gardyn from our broad portfolio of seeds The future of food is now. We have the technology to reclaim our produce supply chain, restoring flavor and quality to our plates, time on our calendars, and nature in our lives. We are busy parents, professionals, cooks, and food-lovers. We care about what we eat, how we live, and where our food comes from. Check more on www.mygardyn.com . Let’s Grow Healthy, Live Tasty! * See www.mygardyn.com for compatible devices

Screenshots

Tonal4 screens
Gardyn4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tonal and Gardyn both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Tonal's written reviews are positive against 39% of Gardyn's. Gardyn's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tonal against 4.8 for Gardyn. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11K and 9.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Tonal's written reviews are positive against 39% of Gardyn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tonal ships an update every 3 weeks, Gardyn every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tonal versus Gardyn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTonalGardyn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (11K ratings) — better4.8 (9.1K ratings)
Positive reviews70.9% of reviews — better39.1% of reviews
Number of ratings11K — better9.1K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size187 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTonal Systems, Inc.Gardyn Inc.

Customer experience

Tonal

All ratings10,833 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews175 reviews
Positive70.9%
Neutral10.3%
Negative18.9%

Gardyn

All ratings9,131 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral2.1%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews225 reviews
Positive39.1%
Neutral8.9%
Negative52.0%

User reviews

Tonal

From 11K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient and effective workouts
  • 👍 Variety of workouts and programs
  • 🚀 Convenient home gym experience
  • 👍 Motivating and engaging coaches
  • 👍 Comprehensive fitness tracking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Connectivity and syncing issues
  • 💡 Lack of personalization options
  • 💡 Limited custom workout capabilities
  • 💡 Lack of language and accessibility options
  • 🔒 Facebook integration required for profile photo

Gardyn

From 9.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌱 Grows fresh produce
  • 🔍 Helpful app features
  • 🕰️ Automated system
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🌱 Variety of plants

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App issues (crashes, bugs, unreliable)
  • 💰 Expensive to maintain
  • 🔍 Limited app functionality
  • 🔍 Confusing app interface
  • 🔍 Poor customer support

Bugs and requests

Tonal

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Membership activation and login issues
  • Inconsistent performance and app crashes
  • Syncing problems with Apple Health and other devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Calendar function to plan workouts
  • Ability to track and filter custom workouts
  • Customizable movement options and exercise libraries
  • Injury/condition-specific workout recommendations
  • Ability to use without subscription or disable features

Gardyn

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Water level indicator inaccurate
  • Light controls not working properly
  • App crashes when changing light schedule
  • Compatibility issues with newer phones

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add microgreen tracking
  • Improve light schedule customization
  • Allow multiple Gardyn units under one account
  • Add temperature and humidity to dashboard
  • Improve time-lapse feature
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  • Provide more plant care guidance

In-app purchases

None

Tonal

No in-app purchases

None

Gardyn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tonal free?
Tonal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gardyn free?
Gardyn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tonal or Gardyn?
Tonal is rated higher. Tonal averages 4.9 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Gardyn averages 4.8 from 9.1K ratings.
Do Tonal or Gardyn have ads?
Neither Tonal nor Gardyn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tonal or Gardyn?
Tonal ships an update every 3 weeks, and Gardyn every 10 days. Most recently, Tonal was updated on October 20, 2026 and Gardyn on October 19, 2026.

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