Green Thumbometer vs Farmly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Green Thumbometer
This app helps gardeners plan and track their tasks with customizable monthly checklists, a gardening journal, and a shopping list. It provides seasonal task guidance based on hemisphere and includes a map to find local gardening stores.
- Customizable monthly gardening checklists
- Gardening journal with notes and photos
- In-app shopping list
- Gardening store locator map
- Seasonal task customization by hemisphere
- Task sharing and integration with other apps
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Green Thumbometer The Gardening App Not sure what to do when to keep your yard and garden beautiful? Enter Green Thumbometer, the combination gardening to-do list, calendar, journal and information source that helps you know what to do when to achieve green thumb status. With a few swipes of your thumb, Green Thumbometer gives you simple monthly gardening checklists that you can customize to meet your own garden’s needs. This app is for gardeners who: Want a beautiful yard and fruitful garden but aren’t sure what to do and when to do it to make that happen. Green Thumbometer takes out a ton of the guesswork. Want to combine a gardening calendar and to-do list with an on-going record of their gardening complete with notes, photos and handy links to YouTube videos and other gardening information. Don’t want to waste time figuring out what they need to do on Saturday morning to maintain their yard and garden. They just want a handy list they can plow through before going on with the weekend. Want to keep all of the information about their garden handy in their smartphones so they can consult it while they’re out working in the yard. Green Thumbometer has these features: MONTHLY LISTS OF EASY GARDENING TASKS Each month has a standard checklist of easy seasonal gardening tasks as well as tasks needed to grow specific vegetables and fruits. You can customize the tasks by adding, deleting and editing them. Add handy notes, links and photos for your future reference. For tasks specific to particular plants, you can add one of our custom icons so it’s simple to spot that task in your checklists. Your checklists are a gardening journal that you can continue to use and customize from year to year. They are a rich customizable source of gardening information about growing the plants you love. SHARE TASKS WITH OTHERS, SET REMINDERS, ADD TO OTHER PRODUCTIVITY APPS You can share your tasks with other people via email, text messages and social media. You can add tasks to your Reminders and to other productivity apps. SHOPPING LIST You can add plants, gardening tools and supplies that you need to buy to an in-app shopping list. FIND A GARDENING STORE NEAR YOU ON A MAP Green Thumbometer’s map is customized to show the locations of gardening stores near you so you can pick up the items you need. CUSTOMIZED FOR SEASONAL TASKS Most gardening tasks are seasonal. Green Thumbometer allows you to designate in the settings whether you live in the northern or southern hemisphere so that seasonal tasks will appear during the appropriate months for your location. STATS Green Thumbometer’s Stats section helps you track over a year’s time how you are doing in maintaining your yard and garden. It’s your own Green Thumbometer. Green Thumbometer was invented by busy amateur gardeners who get it that you want to keep your yard and garden in good shape, not spend your time frustrated because you don’t want to do next. We’ve tried to get gardening down to the simplest level possible so you can enjoy it and your yard. We’re committed to providing you with a reliable app that you can use on an on-going basis and can depend on to be updated as needed to meet your needs.
Farmly
This app connects neighbors to grow, share, and eat fresh food locally. It simplifies farming with technology, fosters community around shared harvests, and promotes fitness and nutrition through gardening activities.
- Log garden activities and observations
- Review journal for actionable insights
- Learn from and mentor garden communities
- Share chores and harvests
- Organize gardens hierarchically
- Annotate journal entries with photos
- View charts and graphs from journal data
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A neighborhood gardening experience that uses technology to make farming easy for anyone, creates communities around shared harvests of local, fresh food, while improving fitness and nutrition. What can you do with the Farmly app? - Log activities and observations in your gardens and your community's gardens. - Review your journal of activities and observations to gain actionable insights. - Learn from and become garden mentors in your communities including Farmly's garden mentors. - Share chores and harvests with family, friends, and neighbors. - Build and organize your gardens in a hierarchy of Yards, Gardens, Beds, and Plantings. - Include, organize, and annotate photos as part of journal entries. - Review charts and graphs informed by journal entries to gain actionable insights.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Farmly at 100% against Green Thumbometer's 0%. Farmly also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Farmly is free to download; Green Thumbometer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Farmly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Farmly has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Green Thumbometer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Farmly's.
Green Thumbometer ships an update every 3 months, Farmly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Green Thumbometer | Farmly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forrest Anderson | Farmly Inc. |
Customer experience
Green Thumbometer
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In-app purchases
Green Thumbometer
No in-app purchases
Farmly
No in-app purchases
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