iGarden USA vs Time Progress Gauges
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iGarden USA
This gardening app provides climate-specific planting instructions, pest remedies, and plant compatibility information. Track your garden's progress, set future planting dates, and access an integrated wiki for more details.
- Climate-specific planting instructions
- Custom seed information with photos
- Plant compatibility and incompatibility
- Pest identification and remedies
- Integrated gardening wiki
- Garden tracking and harvest estimation
- Integrated weather with alerts
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Know exactly when to plant, where you live. iGarden USA builds your planting dates from the frost dates for your yard, then helps you plan the beds, track what's in the ground, and watch the weather that matters. PLANTING DATES FOR YOUR YARD • 91 vegetables, herbs, and flowers, each timed to your local frost dates • Frost dates from NOAA climate normals, 1991 to 2020, for your location • See what to plant this week, indoors or outdoors, spring and fall • Spacing, depth, soil temperature, pH, and days to harvest for every crop • Good and bad companions, plus the pests to watch for • Add your own custom seeds with their own planting windows PLAN YOUR GARDEN • Lay out a garden in rows or a square foot raised bed • iGarden spaces every plant for you • See the plan as rows or a to scale map with width and length rulers • Plant straight from the plan and every row gets a check mark MY GARDEN • Everything in the ground, grouped by the garden you planted it in • Collapse a garden and it still tells you what's ready • Progress bars count down the days to harvest • Mark plants as picked with a tap or a swipe • A calendar of every planting and harvest, with garden names on each event • Today's brief: frost warnings, rain, and what's ready to pick FROST ALERTS AND HARVEST REMINDERS • A 4 PM alert when tonight's low hits 34°F or colder, with the plants to cover • NWS Freeze Warnings and Frost Advisories for your location • A morning reminder the day your plants should be ready to pick • Mark as covered or Mark as picked right from the notification APPLE WATCH • Tonight's low, what to cover, and what's ready to pick at a glance • Complications for your watch face and a Smart Stack widget WEATHER.GOV FORECAST • 7 day forecast and alerts from the National Weather Service GARDEN JOURNAL • Notes with photos for every bed and every season • Log pest sightings and what you did about them AI GROW GUIDE (OPTIONAL) • Ask anything about your plants • Diagnose a sick plant from a photo • Scan a seed packet to add it as a custom seed • Dictate voice notes and get a season recap Requires your own account with a supported AI provider. Your key is stored in the Keychain on your device and never sent to NanoSoft. ICLOUD SYNC • Your gardens, plans, notes, picks, and custom seeds stay in sync on iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Data lives in your private iCloud database. NanoSoft can't see it. BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES • iPad two column layouts, and runs on Apple silicon Macs • Full dark mode support Made by NanoSoft. Questions or ideas? Email support@nanosoft1.com.
Time Progress Gauges
This app helps you visualize your life's progress and manage your time effectively. Track your life, year, and month as percentages, and create custom gauges for personal goals or projects. Utilize widgets and Apple Watch complications for constant motivation.
- Track life, year, and month percentages
- Create custom time period gauges
- Lock screen widgets
- Apple Watch complications
- Customizable gauge labels and colors
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Life moves forward a little each day. Time Progress Gauges visualizes the progress of your life, this year, this month, and any meaningful period you choose as simple progress gauges. ⌚ On Apple Watch and iPhone See your gauges through Apple Watch complications, the Apple Watch app, iPhone Lock Screen widgets, and Home Screen widgets. You do not have to open the app. A glance at your watch or phone shows where that time stands now. - Time you can turn into gauges Your life progress. Time left in the year. This month's progress. A project deadline. The days until an exam. A family milestone. Any period that matters to you can become a gauge and stay visible in the places you already look. Main Features - Preset gauges for Life, Year, and Month - Custom gauges with your own start and end dates - Days elapsed, days remaining, and progress percentage - Apple Watch complications - Apple Watch app - iPhone Lock Screen widgets - iPhone Home Screen widgets - Custom labels and colors for gauges Supported Places - Apple Watch faces with complications - Apple Watch app - iPhone Lock Screen widgets - iPhone Home Screen widgets Premium Premium is a one-time upgrade that includes: - Up to 50 custom gauges - Color customization for the preset Life, Year, and Month gauges This app is not meant to make time feel stressful or urgent. It is a small tool for keeping meaningful time quietly visible: a way to notice, at a glance, that the time you care about has moved forward again today. It is more than a countdown. You can see how much time is left, but also how far the whole period has progressed. Time Progress Gauges helps you see life and goals as time you can keep in sight.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Time Progress Gauges at Free against iGarden USA's $4.99. Time Progress Gauges also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). iGarden USA's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, monetization model and device support 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
Time Progress Gauges is free to download; iGarden USA costs $4.99 up front. Time Progress Gauges sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iGarden USA asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time Progress Gauges holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
iGarden USA ships an update every 3 months, Time Progress Gauges every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iGarden USA | Time Progress Gauges |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NanoSoft, LLC | INCREDIBLE FOX, Inc. |
Customer experience
iGarden USA
Time Progress Gauges
In-app purchases
iGarden USA
No in-app purchases
Time Progress Gauges
- LTL Premium$4.99
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