SPL Mobile vs Backyard Garden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SPL Mobile
Access library services on the go with this mobile app. Search the collection, place holds, renew items, and discover new titles. Download eBooks and eAudiobooks, and stay updated on library information.
- Search library collection with filters
- Browse bestsellers and new releases
- View title details and community reviews
- Place and manage holds
- Renew borrowed items
- Download eBooks and eAudiobooks
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Take Sunnyvale Public Library wherever you go! The new Sunnyvale Public Library free mobile app makes it easy to find and discover titles, place holds, renew items, rate titles, create lists and get information about our library. Features: • Quickly search the collection, with filters to zero in on the kinds of titles you’re seeking • Browse bestsellers and new material • Get the details on any title, anytime and anywhere, including descriptions, community reviews and commentary • Check a title’s availability • Check to see if your holds are ready for pick up • Find and download eBooks and eAudiobooks • Instantly check due dates and renew your items
Backyard Garden
This app helps users plan, organize, and grow a productive garden with confidence. It features an AI planner to decide what to grow and where, a layout tool for visual garden design, and a guide for compatible plant pairings.
- AI Plant Planner
- Garden layout tool
- Companion planting guide
- Plant selection based on goals
- Visual garden design
- Spacing requirement visualization
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Backyard Garden is an all-in-one gardening app that helps users plan, organize, and grow a productive garden with more confidence. Whether you are planting your first raised bed or refining a larger seasonal layout, the app makes it easier to decide what to grow, where to place it, and which plants work best together. The app includes an AI Plant Planner that helps users build a garden plan based on what they want to grow, their goals, growing zone, and available space. Users can select priorities such as maximum yield, low maintenance, culinary herbs, continuous harvest, pollinator support, drought tolerance, and more. From there, the planner helps turn ideas into a practical garden setup. A built-in garden layout tool allows users to place plants visually within their garden space while reflecting real spacing requirements. This helps users organize beds more effectively, avoid overcrowding, and make better use of available room. The app also features a Companion Planting Guide that shows which plants grow well together and which should be kept apart. Users can quickly search plants, view helpful pairings, and identify potential problem combinations to support healthier growth and better harvest results. In addition, the app is designed to support gardening decisions in a simple, visual way, making it easier to: plan garden layouts, choose plants based on goals and conditions, understand spacing needs, explore companion planting relationships, and build a more productive and beautiful garden. Backyard Garden is ideal for home gardeners, raised-bed growers, herb gardeners, and anyone looking for a smarter, easier way to plan and manage their garden.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SPL Mobile at Free against Backyard Garden's $1.99. SPL Mobile also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
SPL Mobile is free to download; Backyard Garden costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SPL Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SPL Mobile has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | SPL Mobile | Backyard Garden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 193 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Sunnyvale | Danielle Clay |
In-app purchases
SPL Mobile
No in-app purchases
Backyard Garden
No in-app purchases





