Gardyn vs Instafarm
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
Instafarm
Control and monitor your smart farm devices remotely. Schedule lighting, adjust watering, and update your farm's software for optimal performance. Enhance your home farming experience with advanced features.
- Remote device control
- Operation monitoring
- Night mode scheduling
- Watering fine-tuning
- Software upgrades
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Take your Instafarm lifestyle to the next level by using our new Instafarm app to control, monitor, and upgrade your Instafarm! Use the app to connect one or more Instafarms to Wifi, monitor their operation, schedule the lights to turn off at night (night mode), fine tune watering and upgrade the Instafarm to new software versions with even more features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gardyn at 39% against Instafarm's 0%. Gardyn also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (9.1K vs 4). 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gardyn has 9.1K ratings behind it against 4, 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 0% of Instafarm's.
Gardyn ships an update every 10 days, Instafarm every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gardyn | Instafarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.1K ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9.1K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gardyn Inc. | Instafarm, LLC |
Customer experience
Gardyn
Instafarm
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
Instafarm
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gardyn
No in-app purchases
Instafarm
No in-app purchases








