Comparison

Lawn Tracker vs DIY Lawn

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lawn Tracker

Easily track your lawn's health with this app. Monitor grass growth, mowing, watering, and treatments. Plan nutrition, measure your yard, and view your progress with a calendar and journal.

Highlights
  • Grass growth tracking
  • Mowing and watering schedules
  • Treatment planning
  • Lawn measuring tool
  • Calendar and journal views
  • Reminders and weather data
  • Material and equipment calculators
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Lawn care made easy. It will track your grass growth, mowing schedule, watering schedule, and treatments to ensure your lawn is healthy, thick and green. Start logging and watch your lawn takeoff. Some of the features are: Treatment schedule to help you plan and apply needed nutrition to your lawn, Lawn measuring tool to help you get the size of your yard, Calendar view to see when you mowed last, watered last or applied a treatment last, Journal view to keep track of your progress, mowing stats, watering stats, treatment plans, calculators, set reminders, & weather data to help you know when to water or hold off for rain. There are also various calculators to help with purchasing needed material and equipment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

DIY Lawn

Features
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DIYLawn is a good tool and source of lawn care information. Snap a photo of your lawn or select one from your library, and our integrated grass type detector will analyze the image and tell you the likely grass and weed species—making it easier than ever to care for your yard. There is a customizable seasonal treatment schedule and treatment date generator. It insures that all treatment applications are implemented accurately and worry free. You can document the progress with notes and images. Save money and take pride in making your lawn look great.

Screenshots

Lawn Tracker4 screens
DIY Lawn3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lawn Tracker at Free against DIY Lawn's $1.99. DIY Lawn's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lawn Tracker is free to download; DIY Lawn costs $1.99 up front. Lawn Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month. DIY Lawn asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lawn Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, DIY Lawn fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on July 23, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lawn Tracker versus DIY Lawn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLawn TrackerDIY Lawn
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.7 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB30 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMatthew BangsYourStoreCentral.com LLC

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Lawn Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Multiple Lawns1 Month trial$5.491 Month
One-time5
  • Developer Support Level 1$2.99
  • Donate Now$3.99
  • Developer Support Level 2$5.99
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  • Developer Support Level 3$9.99
  • Ad Free Use$9.99
None

DIY Lawn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lawn Tracker free?
Lawn Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DIY Lawn free?
DIY Lawn costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lawn Tracker or DIY Lawn have ads?
Neither Lawn Tracker nor DIY Lawn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lawn Tracker or DIY Lawn?
Lawn Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, and DIY Lawn fortnightly. Most recently, Lawn Tracker was updated on July 23, 2026 and DIY Lawn on September 8, 2026.

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