GrowIt vs Pollinator Patch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Personalized planting schedules
- Garden layout planning
- Step-by-step growing guides
- Seasonal plant care tips
- Automated reminders
- Plant disease identification
- Regrowing and hydroponic tips
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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
Pollinator Patch
This app helps you care for your yard and plants by providing region-specific guidance on watering, seasonal care, and freeze protection. It also helps you identify plants, discover native species, and find local rebates for landscaping projects.
- Region-specific plant care reminders
- Native plant identification
- Customizable planting plans
- Yard redesign previews
- Local rebate finder
- Organic lawn care timing
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Outdoor plant care that knows your yard. Pollinator Patch tells you what each plant needs and when: watering while it establishes, cover before a freeze, and seasonal care matched to your exact region. CARE FOR EVERY PLANT YOU OWN Add the plants already growing in your yard, native or not, or paste in a whole list during setup. Seasonal guidance is free and tied to where you actually garden, not generic tips. YOUR LAWN, TOO Add your lawn like any other plant and get organic care timing for your region, starting with Texas. Not sure what grass you have? Answer three questions or snap a close-up. REMINDERS THAT DO THE THINKING Watering reminders timed to how established each plant is, and if rain already did the job, we tell you to skip it. Freeze alerts before cold nights tell you what to cover and when to uncover. Alerts arrive batched into one calm daily note. KNOW WHAT TO PLANT NEXT Browse 4,600+ verified native species filtered to your region, with pet-safe and HOA-friendly filters. Every plant profile flags toxicity to dogs, cats, and horses, with each claim citing its source, including the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, NC State Extension, and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. GET A PLAN THAT LOOKS INTENTIONAL Set your filters: sun, yard size, HOA status, pets. Pollinator Patch builds a planting plan with native species suited to your region and a layout with defined borders and clear cues of care. Built for HOA-conscious homeowners who want a calm, low-risk way to make the change. SEE YOUR YARD REPLANTED Take a photo of your front yard and see a version of it replanted with native plants that fit your region. You get 2 free previews a day, and you can try one before you make an account. FIND REBATES Many cities and water utilities pay homeowners to replace thirsty lawns with native plants. See the turf-replacement and native-landscaping programs in your area, what each covers, and whether pre-approval is required before you start. IDENTIFY ANY PLANT Point your camera at a plant to identify it and find out whether it's native to your area. Free accounts get 25 plant IDs a day. Handy at the nursery or in your own yard. Ask Patch answers your gardening questions along the way, from plant care to HOA expectations. Pollinator Patch is free to download. Pro adds more Patch Vision redesigns, unlimited plant ID scans, more Ask Patch questions, unlimited garden plans, and the full HOA project packet. From first plant to a yard that thrives, season after season. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://thepollinatorpatchgarden.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://thepollinatorpatchgarden.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pollinator Patch at 100% against GrowIt's 46%. Pollinator Patch also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). GrowIt's advantage is ratings volume (14K vs 8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. GrowIt sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Pollinator Patch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pollinator Patch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GrowIt has 14K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of GrowIt's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pollinator Patch's.
GrowIt ships an update every 2 weeks, Pollinator Patch weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GrowIt | Pollinator Patch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (14K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glority Global Group Ltd. | Pollinator Patch LLC |
Customer experience
GrowIt
Pollinator Patch
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
Pollinator Patch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GrowIt
- 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
Pollinator Patch
- Monthly Pro$5.991 Month
- Founding Member7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Annual Pro7 Days trial$44.991 Year








