Garden Time Planner vs Veggie Garden Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Garden Time Planner
Plan your garden with ease. This app provides region-specific planting and harvesting schedules for vegetables and herbs. It automatically generates task lists and offers a plant database, local weather, and gardening video links.
- Region-specific planting schedules
- Automated task lists
- Plant database
- Local weather integration
- Gardening how-to videos
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The Garden Time app from Burpee is the perfect tool to help gardeners know when to sow, transplant and expect to harvest vegetables and herbs specific to their garden region. The app automatically creates a task list to notify the user when their next sow or transplant date arrives. Included within the app is a full database of plants, local weather, and links to how-to gardening videos.
Veggie Garden Planner
Plan your vegetable garden with ease. Discover compatible plants, get sowing and harvesting times, and avoid problematic crop rotations. Visually arrange your patch with planting distances and neighbor information.
- Plant compatibility information
- Sowing and harvest time overviews
- Crop rotation warnings
- Visual patch arrangement
- Planting distance guidance
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The Veggie Garden Planner provides you with clearly arranged information that you need to quickly compose your vegetable garden patch. Before purchase we provide a free download so you can see for yourself what value the app provides. Choose vegetables that harmonise well together. You will find information regarding good/bad neighbor plants for each vegetable. For your chosen garden composition you get tabular overviews to quickly determine sowing/harvest times, and which interactions exist between vegetables. As a purchasable bonus feature, you can visually arrange your vegetable patch with our Patch Plan Editor - with vital information regarding planting distance & good/bad neighbors at your fingertips. You will also be warned of problematic crop rotations, e.g. if you place two plants with strong soil depletion at two consecutive seasons! Note regarding the climate zone: The seedtimes and harvesttimes are adjusted to hardiness zones USDA 7-8 (e.g. Atlanta, Seattle or Central Europe). Please adapt accordingly. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Veggie Garden Planner at 4.3 against Garden Time Planner's 1.5. Veggie Garden Planner also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 4%) and ratings volume (3.9K vs 184). Garden Time Planner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Veggie Garden Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Garden Time Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Veggie Garden Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Veggie Garden Planner has 3.9K ratings behind it against 184, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of Garden Time Planner's written reviews are positive against 42% of Veggie Garden Planner's.
Garden Time Planner ships an update every 2 months, Veggie Garden Planner every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garden Time Planner | Veggie Garden Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (184 ratings) | 4.3 (3.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 3.6% of reviews | 42.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 184 | 3.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Burpee | Bento Software |
Customer experience
Garden Time Planner
Veggie Garden Planner
User reviews
Garden Time Planner
From 184 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📚 Helpful how-to guides and educational content
- 🌱 Growing zone finder feature
- 📅 Garden planning and task scheduling
- 📱 Mobile accessibility for gardeners
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constant crashes and freezing
- ⚠️ False internet connection errors despite active connection
- 🐢 Extremely slow and unresponsive app performance
- ❌ Login functionality broken for existing accounts
- ❌ Cannot create new accounts
Veggie Garden Planner
From 3.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Helpful companion planting information
- 🚀 Visually appealing layout
- 🚀 Great planning tool for beginners
- 👍 User-friendly interface
Room to improve
- 🔒 Limited vegetable/herb selection
- 🔒 Inability to change growing zones
- 🐛 Bugs with restoring purchases
- 🔒 Overly complicated with in-app purchases
- 🔒 Lack of customization options
Bugs and requests
Garden Time Planner
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes when attempting to create account
- Login fails with false 'no internet connection' error
- Cannot add plants to garden - screen flashes and reverts to previous page
- App freezes when scrolling or selecting options
- Garden data lost after app updates
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- Error 3 message preventing app from loading
- Buttons unresponsive or require multiple presses
- Delayed notifications from button presses
- Plant recommendations contradict growing zone
- Zip code field not recognized or saved
- App stuck on select garden screen
- Video links non-functional
- Text field selection not working on newer iOS
- App repeatedly requests data downloads on startup
- Garden list displays only one item despite multiple entries
- Support link redirects to homepage instead of help
Requested features
15 requests- Search feature for finding plants by name, color, or characteristics
- Ability to add custom plants not in Burpee catalog
- Drag-and-drop aerial garden planner with spacing visualization
- Integration with Burpee online store for purchasing
- Support for indoor seed starting with flexible planting dates
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- Comprehensive plant database matching full Burpee catalog
- Soil and nutrient requirement information
- Persistent zip code storage to avoid re-entry
- Ability to rename gardens after creation
- Functional help desk and customer support
- Plant recommendations based on growing zone accuracy
- Task list view showing upcoming to-do items
- Facebook login option for account creation
- Account questionnaire for personalized recommendations
- Export functionality for garden plans
Veggie Garden Planner
Reported bugs
4 issues- Restore purchase feature not working
- Planner feature not functioning properly
- Layout and text issues when zooming/scrolling
- Crashes and glitches reported
Requested features
6 requests- Add more vegetable and herb varieties
- Allow users to set their own growing zone
- Improve garden layout and planning tools
- Sync data across devices
- Add more companion planting information
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- Provide planting/harvesting times for different regions
In-app purchases
Garden Time Planner
No in-app purchases
Veggie Garden Planner
- Enhanced Product Subscription1 Year trial$1.991 Year
- Unlimited Use Subscription$3.491 Year
- Unlock All Veggie Varieties$1.99
- Unlock Patch Plan Editor$1.99
- Unlock Everything$3.99
Questions
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