Comparison

BonsaiDo vs Garden Keeper

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

Head to head
About

BonsaiDo

Manage your bonsai collection, track their growth with photos, and connect with a global community of enthusiasts. Discover best practices, learn from top artists, and stay updated on important bonsai events worldwide.

Highlights
  • Collect and categorize bonsai by species, style, and size
  • Track bonsai evolution with photo timelines
  • Explore works and gardens from top artists
  • Connect with fellow bonsai artists
  • Log and schedule specific bonsai care tasks
  • Discover and track global bonsai events
  • Access bonsai species information and recommended care
Features
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Many users and artists use BonsaiDo to share their bonsai works and connect with like-minded people with our social bonsai app. BonsaiDo has many users and many works logged and shares the best garden’s artists in the world, which makes BonsaiDo the largest social network and utility app for bonsai enthusiast. Your personal bonsai and works diary in one app, always connected with experienced bonsai artists. BonsaiDo is an application for manage your bonsai and plants gardens. Growing bonsai is very easy as long as you have the proper equipment like this cute App. FEATURED FUNCTIONS Here’s what you can do with BonsaiDo: • Collect in your own garden all your bonsai. You can differentiate your bonsai by species, style and size. • Add photos of your bonsai to see their evolution. Collect images of your works, follow all the works over time and store the works carried out month by month. • Explore works and the best gardens in the world: with BonsaiDo you can learn from the biggest artists the art of the most common works and when to do them during the year • Get Bonsai Friends: find fellow artists on the bonsai app, connect with people and users in your local area and everywhere • One of the main feature is the possibility to save and store a trace of works applied to your small trees. Take care to your bonsai and save all kind of works like Irrigation, Fertilizing, Pruning, Wiring, Repotting, Propagation, Fungicide, Acaricide, Defoliate, Woodwork, Grafting, and so on… • Works Calendar: step up your game by knowing when it’s most likely for do any kind of works. We cover 100+ species, incl. apple, azalea, bamboo, cypress, etc). • Timeline: use the timeline to explore all past images of your works bonsai and all its evolutions. The timeline is an amazing feature to know in details the evolutions of your plants. • Events: you can explore all the most important and great Bonsai Events in the world (like events, competitions, exhibitions and so on). This agenda lists bonsai events taking place all over the world. Click on the event to view more details. • Bonsai Information: you will be able to discover all the common and specific characteristics of your bonsai. BonsaiDo will suggest you the recommended works depending on the bonsai species. You always will know when you have to make the next Work! • Top Bonsai and Top Artists: based on real life works in the app, we’re able to provide you with live best works and gardens. • Keep Track of Bonsai Masters: know who is posting last bonsai and what they’re doing with their last works, see top works of the period. • Our free version offers a lot of cool features. For more advanced bonsai experience, BonsaiDo Premium is available. You can subscribe and pay through your iTunes account. HOW TO CONTACT BONSAIDO • For your comments, translations and suggestions about using this cute app, please use the Help Screen of the App or email us to support@bonsaido.net. We will reply to you asap. • Please Rate BonsaiDo App and give us your feedback! • Stay tuned to new features, updates and releases! By downloading this app you agree to the Term of Service at https://www.bonsaido.net/tos/

About

Garden Keeper

Features
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Your garden, your rules. Most gardening apps either tell you too little or overwhelm you with reminders you never asked for. Garden Keeper is different. It’s a smart, elegant organiser for every plant you grow — as simple or as detailed as you want it to be. For every kind of gardener Whether you’ve been gardening for thirty years or just brought home your first plant, Garden Keeper adapts to you. The experienced gardener uses it as a personal archive — storing cultivation secrets, tracking seasonal tasks, organising decades of knowledge in one place. The beginner uses the AI to understand their plants, learn what to do each month, and build confidence one log at a time. Same app. Your level of detail. An intelligent archive that works for you Plants — Every plant gets its own profile. Scientific name, family, exposure, flowering months, hardiness with temperature explained, soil, watering, pruning, propagation. Fill in what matters to you — nothing is mandatory. Then filter your entire garden by flowering month, position, plant type, or sun exposure. Find out which plants are blooming this month, which ones live in your back garden, which ones need attention. Your garden, always at a glance. Calendar — Plan every month the way you want. Add tasks manually based on your own experience, or let the AI generate a full seasonal calendar for any plant. Filter by month, track progress from To Do to Done, and never miss a pruning window or feeding schedule again. Journal — Log what you do in the garden. Watering, pruning, fertilising, treating, observing — linked to a plant, linked to a product, dated and saved. Use Quick Log to record an activity in one tap directly from your plant list. Over time, your journal becomes the most honest record of how your garden actually grows. AI Generation — Don’t know the hardiness rating of your new rose? Not sure when to prune your wisteria? Tap Generate and Garden Keeper fills in the complete plant profile — scientific name, soil type, flowering months, seasonal tasks and more. Choose Standard for a clean overview or Detailed for a full botanical profile with month-by-month care calendar. The AI speaks your language — content is generated in your device language automatically. Knowledge — Save every article, guide and link worth keeping. RHS pages, YouTube tutorials, your own notes. Link each resource to the relevant plant and find it instantly when you need it. No more lost bookmarks. Products — Track every fertiliser, pesticide and compost in your shed. Record purchase dates, add dosage notes, link each product to the activities and tasks where you used it. Over time, you build a personal record of what actually works for your garden. Built on observation, not timers Garden Keeper doesn’t tell you to water your orchid every seven days. It teaches you to read your plants instead. Log what you observe. Record what you do. Build a real history of your garden over time. No pressure to fill in every field. No reminders you didn’t ask for. No algorithm deciding what you should grow or how. Just a clean, elegant tool that grows with you — and helps you grow better. Garden Keeper. Organise, learn, grow.

Screenshots

BonsaiDo4 screens
Garden Keeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Garden Keeper at 3 against BonsaiDo's 1. Garden Keeper also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. BonsaiDo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Garden Keeper sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BonsaiDo versus Garden Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBonsaiDoGarden Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (136 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews14.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings136 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco RinaldiBitblocks Srl

In-app purchases

3 purchases

BonsaiDo

Subscriptions3
  • 1 Month1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • 3 Months1 Month trial$6.493 Months
  • 12 Months1 Month trial$18.491 Year
8 purchases

Garden Keeper

One-time8
  • 20 Consumable AI Credits$2.99
  • 50 Consumable AI Credits$4.99
  • 100 Consumable AI Credits$8.99
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  • Garden Keeper Small$9.99
  • Garden Keeper Mid$14.99
  • Garden Keeper Large$29.99
  • Garden Keeper Huge$59.99
  • Garden Keeper Collector$89.99

Questions

Is BonsaiDo free?
BonsaiDo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Garden Keeper free?
Garden Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BonsaiDo or Garden Keeper have ads?
Neither BonsaiDo nor Garden Keeper shows ads.

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