Comparison

GrowIt vs The Sun's Path

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

Head to head
About

GrowIt

This app simplifies home gardening with personalized guidance and expert tips for growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs. It offers customized planting calendars, garden layout planning, and step-by-step growing information. Get seasonal care tips, reminders for watering and fertilizing, and even identify plant diseases with a photo.

Highlights
  • Personalized planting schedules
  • Garden layout planning
  • Step-by-step growing guides
  • Seasonal plant care tips
  • Automated reminders
  • Plant disease identification
  • Regrowing and hydroponic tips
Features
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Start growing your own fresh produce at home with GrowIt, your ultimate gardening app designed to simplify the gardening experience! Whether you're planting as beginner, enthusiast or professional, GrowIt offers personalized guidance and expert tips to ensure your success throughout the growing season. Designed by plant experts and supported by years of in-depth research in cultivation, GrowIt provides all the essential information for growing healthy vegetables, fruits, and herbs, from garden layout, to watering, fertilizing, soil condition, and companion planting. With customized planting calendar based on your location and climate, you'll find it easy to figure out when to start seeds, transplant, harvest and more. Key Features: ◆ Discover things to grow: Search for easy-to-grow seasonal plants and get personalized planting schedule tailored to your specific zone. ◆ Plan your garden in minutes: Organize your raised beds or patch with companion and combative plant information. Use square foot gardening layout grid for easy spacing of 80+ plants, and over 1,000 varieties. ◆ Learn how to grow, step by step: Build your garden with proper soil, fertilizer, and sunlight. Turn yourself into a green thumb with a library of growing information. ◆ Get seasonal plant care tips: Stay ahead of freezes, heat waves and other extreme weather conditions to protect your garden. ◆ Stay informed with reminders: Say goodbye to guesswork with auto-calculated sprouting and harvest dates for your specific plant and location. Know exactly when to water and fertilize to maximize your produce. ◆ Identify plant diseases effortlessly: Simply snap a photo, and get plant-specific treatment advice. ◆ Address common gardening issues: Eliminate garden weeds, pests w/o chemicals. Avoid plant diseases with proven planting strategies. ◆ Explore more to get inspired. Unlock secrets to regrowing from scraps, hydroponic growing, indoor gardening, and so much more! Make the most of your harvest with recommended recipes and preservation tips on canning, freezing and drying. Join GrowIt now and enhance your gardening skills! Learn, plan, organize and care for your vegetable garden. Enjoy a bountiful harvest with your family and friends! [About GrowIt Premium] • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription • Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off, by going to iTunes Subscriptions after purchase Terms of Use: https://app-service.growmyfoodai.com/static/user_agreement.html Privacy Policy: https://app-service.growmyfoodai.com/static/privacy_policy.html

About

The Sun's Path

Features
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The Sun's Path app shows you the path the sun takes across the earth. You can show the sun's path for your current location, selecting a city, or by searching for a specific address. You can choose to view the Sun's Path over 12 months, 52 weeks, or for one specific day. You can view the following Solar Data: The Sun's Position This gives you the position of the sun, for you to know it's location at the selected date and time. The Sunlight Intensity This feature shows you how much of the sunlight shines into the direction your map or your device is facing, for the selected time of the day. The Sunlight Duration This shows you the percentage of how much sunlight the selected direction will get during the day. ---- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://app.projectdevante.com/privacy_policy/TheSunsPath.html

Screenshots

GrowIt4 screens
The Sun's Path4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: GrowIt at none against The Sun's Path's shown. The Sun's Path's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GrowIt sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and The Sun's Path sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
GrowIt versus The Sun's Path: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrowItThe Sun's Path
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings14K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlority Global Group Ltd.Damien Devillian

Bugs and requests

GrowIt

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes frequently when scrolling
  • Issues with deleting/updating plants
  • Reminders not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to add more garden beds
  • Option to manually enter plant data
  • Notification for watering based on rainfall
  • More detailed care information for plants

The Sun's Path

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

GrowIt

Subscriptions10
  • Grow My Food Premium3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Grow My Food Premium$14.993 Months
  • Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$14.993 Months
  • GrowIt Premium$19.996 Months
  • Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Grow My Food Premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • GrowIt Family Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Grow My Food Premium1 Month trial$39.991 Year
4 purchases

The Sun's Path

Subscriptions4
  • 1 Month Subscription$0.991 Month
  • 3 Month Subscription$2.993 Months
  • 6 Month Subscription$5.996 Months
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  • 1 Year Subscription$12.991 Year

Questions

Is GrowIt free?
GrowIt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Sun's Path free?
The Sun's Path is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GrowIt or The Sun's Path have ads?
The Sun's Path shows ads; GrowIt does not.

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