NIIM vs GardenDial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NIIM
This app helps organize your home with label inspiration and printing. Connect to compatible printers to customize labels with various fonts, symbols, and images for a neater living space.
- Home assortment inspiration
- Label editing and printing
- Bluetooth printer connection
- Font, symbol, and border customization
- User plaza for inspiration
- Assortment management
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NIIM is an APP that provides home assortment inspirations and label editing and printing services. Connect NIIM with NIIMBOT smart label printers via Bluetooth and you can choose fonts, symbols, borders, icons, pictures, doodles, and other editing tools to get all those interesting and neat labels, and it also comes with useful functions like user plaza and assortment management, bringing you a more orderly and comfortable life.
GardenDial
This app simplifies mixing ratios for hose-end sprayers, supporting popular models like Ortho Dial N Spray. It accurately calculates concentrations for fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides, eliminating manual math for home gardeners.
- Mix ratio calculation for sprayers
- Supports multiple sprayer models
- Input product label concentration
- Adjustable strength slider
- Supports various measurement units
- No ads or login required
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GardenDial helps you get the mix right every time—specifically designed for Hose-end mix sprayer. Supports sprayer model: • Ortho Dial N Spray • Bonide Auto Mix & Spray • RL Flo-Master Chameleon Simply input your product’s label concentration, select strength, or enter a ratio directly. GardenDial handles the math so you can confidently fill your sprayer. Features: • Fast, accurate calculator for soluble fertilizer, weed killer, insecticide, and fungicide. • Supports tsp, tbs, oz, gram, and ratio input • Adjustable strength slider • Clean interface, no ads, no login • Optional tip jar to support the developer Perfect for home gardeners and lawn care enthusiasts. Always follow your product label and sprayer safety instructions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GardenDial at 100% against NIIM's 48%. GardenDial also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). NIIM's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. GardenDial sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. NIIM asks for nothing beyond the download.
GardenDial holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NIIM has 1.9K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of NIIM's written reviews are positive against 100% of GardenDial's.
NIIM ships an update every 3 weeks, GardenDial every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NIIM | GardenDial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.9K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WUHAN JINGCHEN INTELLIGENT IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD | Mingyue Zhang |
Customer experience
NIIM
GardenDial
Bugs and requests
NIIM
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to login or register
- Printer not recognized in app
- Labels printing off-center
- App crashes on launch
Requested features
4 requests- More free design templates
- Ability to save custom designs
- Multilingual support
- Improved label alignment
GardenDial
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NIIM
No in-app purchases
GardenDial
- Tip Developer$1.99
- Tip Developer$4.99
- Tip Developer$9.99
