Gardyn vs HoMedics Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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)
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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
HoMedics Drift
Control your HoMedics Drift sandscape with this companion app. Create custom playlists of sand patterns, set the mood with millions of LED color options, and use the scheduler to wake up to a new design daily. This app is required to operate the sandscape device.
- Control sandscape patterns
- Create custom playlists
- Over 10,000 LED color options
- Built-in scheduler
- Pre-created playlists
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The official HoMedics drift app is designed to be used to control the drift sand scape. The app is required to use the drift sand scape. ****** THIS APPLICATION REQUIRES A DRIFT SAND SCAPE TO USE****** Get yours at www.homedics.com drift is a companion app to the drift sand table. This app allows you to take full control of your drift sand scape. From creating playlists with your favorite drift patterns to setting the mood with over 10,000 led color options drift will be sure to impress. Use the built in scheduler to wake up every day to a new design. Relax and Unwind with pre-created playlists
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gardyn at 4.8 against HoMedics Drift's 2.4. Gardyn also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (9.3K vs 176). HoMedics Drift's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gardyn holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gardyn has 9.3K ratings behind it against 176, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Gardyn's written reviews are positive against 25% of HoMedics Drift's.
Gardyn ships an update every 10 days, HoMedics Drift every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gardyn | HoMedics Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.3K ratings) — better | 2.4 (176 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.1% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9.3K — better | 176 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gardyn Inc. | HoMedics |
Customer experience
Gardyn
HoMedics Drift
User reviews
Gardyn
From 9.3K App Store ratingsWhat 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
HoMedics Drift
From 176 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Mesmerizing device
- 👍 Easy to use app
- 🎨 Variety of patterns
Room to improve
- 🐛 App issues (crashes, glitches, unresponsive)
- 🔍 Lack of new pattern updates
- 🔧 Unreliable features (scheduling, pausing)
- 📱 App not intuitive/user-friendly
Bugs and requests
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
HoMedics Drift
Reported bugs
4 issues- App not connecting to device
- Patterns not downloading/loading properly
- Firmware update issues
- Saved settings not persisting
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to create/upload custom patterns
- More holiday/seasonal patterns
- Improved scheduling/timing options
- Search/filter patterns
- Notifications for new pattern releases
In-app purchases
Gardyn
No in-app purchases
HoMedics Drift
No in-app purchases
