First Fields vs Wild Thumb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
First Fields
Connect with your church community through sermons, event updates, and giving options. This app facilitates engagement with religious services and outreach activities.
- Sermon access
- Special event updates
- Online giving
- Community connection
- Church news
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Connect with First Baptist Church at The Fields through the First Fields App. Through our app, you will be able to connect with our church via sermons, special events, giving, and more. First Fields exists to seek God, serve others, and share the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
Wild Thumb
Discover and cultivate Texas native plants with this interactive gardening guide. It offers personalized recommendations, landscape design tools, and step-by-step instructions for planting and care. Attract pollinators and restore local ecosystems with ease.
- Native plant recommendations
- Interactive landscape design
- Step-by-step planting guides
- Caretaking reminders
- Pollinator attraction info
- Pocket prairie guidance
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Growing a few native plants or a pocket prairie is easy with this interactive step-by-step gardening guide from Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation's Pollinators & Prairies program. The mission to support pollinators & restore prairies in Texas starts here! What does the app offer? - A curated database of native plant recommendations based on your local climate & weather conditions - In-app interactive landscape design - Step-by-step preparation and planting instructions from plant selection to soil preparation to water & pruning - Watering, upcoming freeze conditions, pruning & other caretaking reminders - Curated seed mix recommendations for planting a pocket prairie - Pocket prairie planting & caretaking instructions - Info about the pollinator species your new plants are likely to attract - Tips & supplemental info from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation, Texas Native Plant Society, and other trusted sources Getting started This app is made for people living in Texas, U.S. It's free to use, thanks to our sponsors H-E-B Our Texas, Our Future and Phillips 66. We'll walk you through the process of learning to grow native plants, beginning with asking questions about your available space, light conditions, and soil moisture. Once you've designed your space, Wild Thumb will guide you through planting, caring for, and tracking your growing progress. Happy native gardening! Why plant natives? - Native plants are low-maintenance and easy to care for once established - Native plants require much less water than non-native plants - Native plants support thriving pollinator populations that contribute to local food & wildlife systems - Native plants are hardier & more resilient than non-natives - Native plants are naturally beautiful!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: First Fields at 5.0 against Wild Thumb's 4.6. Wild Thumb's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (33 vs 1). 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.
First Fields holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wild Thumb has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
First Fields ships an update every 10 months, Wild Thumb every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First Fields | Wild Thumb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 64.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | First Baptist Church Carrollton | PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS, INC. |
Customer experience
First Fields
Wild Thumb
In-app purchases
First Fields
No in-app purchases
Wild Thumb
No in-app purchases
