Comparison

Gardening Pro vs String Atelier

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

Head to head
About

Gardening Pro

This app helps you organize your home garden and track its progress for better food production. It supports universal use across Apple devices and saves your inputs automatically. No network connection is needed to use its features.

Highlights
  • Seed tracking
  • Gardening milestones
  • Email calculations
  • Universal app support
  • Automatic input saving
  • CSV export
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Thank you for using Gardening. The attention you give your plants, soil, timing, and harvests deserves real credit, and this app gives your thoughtful work an organized home. Gardening is a local-first garden planner, seed inventory, growing journal, task manager, and harvest tracker for people who want useful records without an account or a complicated online system. Follow the whole season in one place, from a seed packet and planting idea to the work you complete and the food or flowers you gather. Gardening suits vegetable gardens, raised beds, containers, herb gardens, cut flower plots, pollinator spaces, greenhouse benches, backyard orchards, and small homestead projects. PLAN YOUR GARDEN • Create a garden site and organize its active beds or growing areas. • Record size, location, sun exposure, soil type, notes, color, and hardiness zone. • Choose U.S. or metric measurements for the way you work. ORGANIZE YOUR SEED INVENTORY • Save seed name, crop or flower, variety, vendor, lot, and purchase date. • Track quantities bought, planted, and left in practical units. • Record germination rate, days to maturity, expiration year, and packet notes. • Spot low-stock and older seed lots before the next sowing session. BUILD A USEFUL PLANTING PLAN • Record sowing dates, transplant timing, locations, and expected harvest windows. • Connect plantings with the garden records and seed details that matter. • View dated garden activity together on the calendar. STAY ON TOP OF GARDEN WORK • Create tasks for watering, thinning, pruning, feeding, scouting, harvesting, and cleanup. • Add priorities, due dates, notes, and links to related garden records. • See work due today from the dashboard. KEEP A GARDEN JOURNAL • Capture observations, milestones, weather, soil notes, pest signs, and plant health. • Save dated notes about fertilizing, pruning, disease, growth, and bloom. • Add tags and mark important entries for quick reference later. • Attach local photos to supported garden, seed, and journal records. TRACK EVERY HARVEST • Log crop, variety, date, quantity, unit, quality, destination, revenue, and notes. • Connect a harvest to its garden and planting. • Record produce used in the kitchen, preserved, stored, donated, or sold. • Review practical reports that help reveal patterns across a season. FIND DETAILS FAST • Search local garden records, seeds, plantings, tasks, journal entries, and harvests. • Save useful searches for the questions you ask often. • Browse a built-in reference library covering plants, seeds, soil, weather, tools, and seasonal planning. • Open supported results directly so a useful note is never buried in a long list. LOCAL-FIRST BY DESIGN • No account is required. • Your garden records stay on your device unless you choose to export them. • Export a local backup without upgrading. • Create JSON backups, attachment packages, and per-category CSV exports. • Preview imports before adding records to your existing garden database. • Import is additive and designed to skip duplicate saved content rather than erase your records. GROW WITH GARDENING PRO Gardening includes a practical starter allowance for trying the core record tools. Gardening Pro adds room for larger gardens and unlocks Pro import and professional reporting features. Choose the option that fits your season, including monthly, annual, or lifetime access when those products are available through the App Store. Existing records remain readable, editable, searchable, and exportable if your plan changes. Gardening is made for observant growers who value good notes and steady progress. Keep the details close, learn from the season you actually had, and return next year with a clearer plan. For subscriptions: Monthly Pro is a 1-month auto-renewable subscription. Annual Pro is a 1-year auto-renewable subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

String Atelier

Transform photos into string art with guided, step-by-step instructions. Customize styles, adjust settings in real-time, and receive voice guidance for a seamless crafting experience. No account or personal data is collected.

Highlights
  • Photo-to-pattern conversion
  • Customizable styles
  • Live step-by-step instructions
  • Voice guidance
  • Search by nail number
  • Adjustable playback speed
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Turn any photo into a beautiful piece of string art — then let the app guide you through every single step of making it. String Atelier is the companion app to the String Atelier physical kit. Whether you're a first-time crafter or a seasoned maker, the app handles the complexity so you can focus on the joy of creating. STYLES & CUSTOMISATION Choose from pre-built styles or build your own. Dial in blackness, sharpness, clarity, contrast, and line density. Use the thread slider to reduce lines and shorten assembly time. See a real-time preview of your finished piece with every adjustment. Save your creations as presets to reuse any time. LIVE STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS Follow a visual preview that updates after every line, showing your portrait taking shape in real time. Voice instructions guide you nail by nail — where to tie a knot, which nail is next, and everything in between. NEVER LOSE YOUR PLACE Enter any nail number into the Search function and the app will find exactly where you are and resume from there. CUSTOMISABLE PLAYBACK Adjust line colour and thickness for clarity. Set playback speed to match your pace. KEY FEATURES 1. Photo-to-pattern conversion — processed on your device, never uploaded 2. Pre-built styles and a fully custom style builder 3. Real-time visual preview as you adjust settings 4. Save custom styles as reusable presets 5. Live visual instructions — updates after every line 6. Voice guidance nail by nail 7. Search by nail number to find your place instantly 8. Adjustable line color, thickness, and playback speed 9. No account required. No personal data collected. Requires a String Atelier physical kit with a valid access code.

Screenshots

Gardening Pro4 screens
String Atelier4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: String Atelier at none against Gardening Pro's 3. String Atelier also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Gardening Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Gardening Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. String Atelier asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gardening Pro against 5.0 for String Atelier. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gardening Pro ships an update every 2 months, String Atelier every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gardening Pro versus String Atelier: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGardening ProString Atelier
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB63 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVerosocial StudioATELIER GROUP EOOD

Customer experience

Gardening Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

String Atelier

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Gardening Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Garden Pro Unlock$1.991 Month
  • Annual Pro Unlock$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Unlock$14.99
None

String Atelier

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gardening Pro free?
Gardening Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is String Atelier free?
String Atelier is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gardening Pro or String Atelier?
Gardening Pro and String Atelier are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Gardening Pro or String Atelier have ads?
Neither Gardening Pro nor String Atelier shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gardening Pro or String Atelier?
Gardening Pro ships an update every 2 months, and String Atelier every 5 months. Most recently, Gardening Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and String Atelier on October 31, 2026.

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