Lawn Care Journal vs TreeSmith
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lawn Care Journal
This app helps serious homeowners meticulously track all lawn care activities, from mowing and watering to fertilizing and product application. It offers advanced features like weather data, AI-powered advice, and integration with smart devices, with various subscription tiers for enhanced functionality.
- Track mowing, fertilizing, watering
- Growing Degree Days (GDD) and weather data
- AI lawn advice
- Rachio and Tempest integrations
- Lawn plans
- CSV export
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Track every lawn care task—mowing, fertilizing, watering, and products—in one journal built for serious homeowners. • Growing Degree Days (GDD) and detailed weather when your plan unlocks them • Local conditions in Tools—free regional lawn pages from lawncarejournal.app for journals in the US, Canada, and Australia (country and region only; availability depends on location) • Rain Tracking for rainfall and connected sprinkler or irrigation activity when available • AI lawn advice (network required). Unlimited plan includes unlimited Assistant answers; Essentials and the free tier use pay-per-answer for Assistant where applicable—see in-app pricing • AI lawn plans where purchased or included with your subscription • Rachio, Hydrawise, Tempest, and Ambient Weather station integrations when your plan includes them • JSON data export—free for all users • Zones, favorites, and more depending on tier Subscriptions (Essentials, Unlimited) and consumables are sold in the app. Free tier includes core journaling with limits (including how many lawns you can track). Pricing and terms are shown before you buy. Privacy: Journal data syncs via iCloud. https://lawncarejournal.app/privacy Lawn Care Journal does not provide medical, legal, or professional advice. AI answers depend on your question and context and may be incorrect—verify important decisions.
TreeSmith
This app helps fruit tree collectors and propagators meticulously track every graft, scion, and activity for their plants. It features a photo journal, activity log, and an interactive GPS map of your garden. Manage your entire collection with detailed cataloging and export options.
- Graft tracking with photos and source details
- Photo journal for plant growth over seasons
- Activity log for watering, fertilizing, and more
- Interactive GPS garden map
- Detailed plant cataloging
- Data export to CSV/JSON
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TreeSmith is the plant app built for collectors, propagators and orchard keepers, not just houseplant care. Track every graft, scion, photo and activity for every plant in your collection, and pin them to an interactive GPS map of your garden. WHY COLLECTORS CHOOSE TREESMITH Most plant apps assume you have ten succulents and forget to water them. TreeSmith assumes you have a hundred fruit trees, know exactly when each one was grafted, and want to remember which rootstock came from where. GRAFT TRACKING Record each graft with its own photos, scion source, rootstock, date and status. Search by source nursery, cultivar or year. The feature serious propagators have been asking plant apps for, for years. PHOTO JOURNAL Capture growth over time. Photos auto-organise by stage: flowering, fruiting, harvest and beyond. Look back across seasons in a single tap. ACTIVITY LOG Watering, fertilising, pruning, repotting, pest treatments, pollination, harvesting. Log what you did, when, and on which plant. Build a real record instead of relying on memory. GPS GARDEN MAP Drop every plant on an interactive map of your garden. Reposition by tap. Find that one cultivar you planted last winter without walking the whole block. CATALOGUE PROPERLY Scientific names, common names, source nursery, acquisition date, status and notes. Export everything to CSV or JSON whenever you want. Your data stays yours. FREE OR PRO Free: up to 30 plants, one location, photos, activity log, GPS map, local backup and export. Pro, a one-time purchase: unlimited plants, multiple locations, reminders and bulk operations. Cloud Backup is an optional yearly subscription that requires Pro: automatic backups and restore on a new device. Invited members of partner gardening clubs unlock Pro automatically when they sign in. BUILT BY AND FOR THE RARE FRUIT COMMUNITY TreeSmith is built by a Perth rare-fruit grower and shaped by feedback from collectors who actually use it. If you have ever wished a plant app understood what a scion exchange was, this one does. Get TreeSmith free, add your collection, and never lose track of a graft again. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Cloud Backup is a yearly auto-renewing subscription (A$9.99/year in Australia, prices vary by region and are shown in the app before you buy). It requires TreeSmith Pro, a separate one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://treesmith.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://treesmith.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TreeSmith at 5.0 against Lawn Care Journal's 4.6. TreeSmith also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Lawn Care Journal's advantage is ratings volume (393 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). 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. Lawn Care Journal sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per year and TreeSmith sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TreeSmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lawn Care Journal has 393 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Lawn Care Journal ships an update every 2 days, TreeSmith weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lawn Care Journal | TreeSmith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (393 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 393 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lawn Care Journal LLC | Benedict Noel |
Customer experience
Lawn Care Journal
TreeSmith
Bugs and requests
Lawn Care Journal
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notification issues (duplicates, can't dismiss)
- Calendar display not aligning properly
- Crashes after recent updates
- Zoomed screen display issues
Requested features
6 requests- Add water tracking/rainfall data
- Integrate with smart sprinkler systems
- Add more lawn care tips and recommendations
- Allow searching and filtering journal entries
- Improve notification management
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- Add support for tree and shrub maintenance
TreeSmith
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lawn Care Journal
- Essentials2 Months trial$34.991 Year
- Unlimited$69.991 Year
- Single Lawn Question$0.99
- Single Lawn Plan$19.99
TreeSmith
- Cloud Backup$5.991 Year
- TreeSmith Pro$24.99
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