PlantDo vs Yearbound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlantDo
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식물을 쉽고 재밌게 키우고 싶다면? PlantDo로 오늘도 식물하세요. *식물관리 - 물 주기 알림: IoT 식물습도계와 연동하면 식물의 종류와 생육 환경에 맞춰 물 줄 시기를 알려줍니다. - 식물관리 기록: 물 준 날, 식물영양제, 분갈이, 가지치기 등의 날짜를 기록할 수 있습니다. - 식물일지 기록: 식물 일지를 통해 식물이 어떻게 얼마나 컸는지 알 수 있습니다. *커뮤니티 - 식물일상: 내가 키운 식물 공유, 나랑 같은 식물을, 내가 키우고 싶은 식물을 다른 사람은 어떻게 키우고 있을까? - 식물스토리: 식물과 관련된 이야기를 자유롭게 올리고 공유할 수 있습니다. - 식물병원: 식물에 관해 궁금한 것을 물어보고 식물을 키우면서 생기는 모든 문제를 해결해 보세요. *식물백과 - 다양한 식물의 상세한 정보를 제공하고 있으며 식물정보는 지속적으로 업데이트됩니다.
Yearbound
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A space where a promise to yourself becomes a record of quietly witnessing one another. Write your daily intentions in Manifesto. Invite a Witness to quietly watch over your journal, become a Witness for someone you care about, or write alongside a Co-Writer who shares the same stretch of time. Every entry is encrypted and kept as something deeply, enduringly yours. HOW IT WORKS What did you write three days ago? What feeling lingered last month? What did the you from a year ago believe, fear, or hope for? You don’t have to go searching for your past. Yearbound brings it back to you—quietly, and at exactly the right time. 9 Volumes One life, seen through nine lenses: Journal —What from today would you want to meet again later? Growth —What kind of person are you slowly becoming? Gratitude —What precious thing is already here beside you today? Love —Who is resting most deeply in your heart right now? Mindful —In this moment, are you truly here? Letters —Who are your unspoken words reaching for? Work —Where is this work leading you? Abundance —What does “enough” feel like to you right now? Challenge —What effort today will your future self be grateful for? Manifesto Write your daily intentions in Manifesto. They do not need to be long or polished. A single honest sentence, a quiet promise, a hope you are not ready to let go of—those are enough. Over time, these lines become more than notes. They become a trace of who you want to be and what you want to remain true to. Co-Writer Write on the same page together and share time, feeling, and memory. When one person’s record meets another person’s words, something new takes shape—something neither could have made alone. Co-Writer is not only a feature for writing together, but a way of making shared time visible. Witness Invite a Witness to quietly keep watch over your journal, or become a Witness for someone you care about. It does not require many words. Some days, what we need is not advice or judgment, but simply someone who stays near, remembers, and sees us through. Yearbound makes room for that kind of tender connection. Time Capsule Some feelings need to travel farther, to be met again only after enough time has passed. Time Capsule is a place for those moments. Leave a message from who you are now for who you will be later. When it opens again, it may bring back the air of a forgotten season, along with the beliefs, fears, and hopes you once carried. My Yearbound My Yearbound is where scattered entries gather into a single flow. Daily intentions, returned pages, shared writing, and time capsules begin to connect here as one life. It is not simply where records are stored, but a quiet map that helps you understand the shape of the time you have lived. Privacy and Encryption Every entry is protected with end-to-end AES-256 encryption. From the briefest note to the feelings you could not easily show anyone else, your words remain yours to the end. Yearbound is not made for display, but for honesty. Even your most fragile sentence is held quietly and securely in your own time and language. Tiers Free — 1 volume · 3 lines a day · 1 year of past cards · join as a Witness · invite 3 Witnesses Plus ($29.99 lifetime) — unlimited volumes · full archive · local recordings · join as a Witness · invite 5 Witnesses Pro ($4.99/month · $39.99/year) — write together with 1 invited Pro member · Manifesto · cloud sync · unlimited Witnesses Family ($9.99/month · $79.99/year) — everything in Pro · up to 6 Pro members · 5 additional people · shared volumes Languages Some feelings only reveal themselves fully in a certain language. Every prompt in Yearbound was written separately in English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, German, and French. They are not translations, but lines born in the grain of each language itself. Three lines are enough. Begin in the language closest to your heart. Terms of Use: https://www.yearbound.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.yearbound.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Yearbound at every 10 days against PlantDo's every 6 weeks. Yearbound also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PlantDo ships an update every 6 weeks, Yearbound every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlantDo | Yearbound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GeekFriends Co.,Ltd. | Yearbound Studio LLC |
In-app purchases
PlantDo
No in-app purchases
Yearbound
No in-app purchases








