Comparison

Garden Planner vs Logs

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

Head to head
About

Garden Planner

Design, track, and celebrate your vegetable garden's growth from planning to harvest. This app offers visual planning tools, a photo journal, and daily logging to help you grow your own food with confidence.

Highlights
  • Visual garden planner
  • Photo journey timeline
  • Smart space planning
  • Quick daily logs
  • Harvest records
  • Timely reminders
  • Season-smart planning
Features
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Know when to start seeds, when to transplant, and what's ready to pick, all timed to your local frost dates. Map out your beds to scale, see what's growing where all season long, and keep a record of every harvest. From your first raised bed to a big backyard plot, VegLog is the garden planner and journal for people who grow their own food. PLAN YOUR BEDS TO SCALE • Draw raised beds, in-ground beds, community garden plots, greenhouses, hoop houses, and containers in any shape: rectangle, round, L-shaped, or your own • Lay out crops in squares, blocks, or rows, with the right spacing and a plant count for each block • Slide through the year to see what's in the bed on any day, and what could go in when a crop comes out • Advice as you plan: good and bad neighbors (companion planting), crop rotation, frost risk for tender crops, crowded spacing, and crops out of season • Start from a template, like a salad bed, the three sisters, or kitchen herbs, or let VegLog suggest a plan for the crops you want to grow • Share a picture of your bed SOW AT THE RIGHT TIME • Your last spring and first fall frost dates, worked out for your town from the last few years of Apple Weather data, or enter your own • A planting chart for every crop, set to your frost dates: when to start indoors, direct sow, transplant, and harvest • Sow now: everything you can plant this month, at a glance • Crop plans with succession sowings and reminders, so there's always something coming ready (Pro) YOUR WEEK IN THE GARDEN • Today pulls together this week's sowings, to-dos, and crops ready to pick • Advice from your local forecast: cover tender plants with frost cloth on a frosty night, water early on a hot day, skip watering when rain is on the way • A roundup of the week ahead every Saturday morning • A frost alert the evening before a frost, in time to cover tender plants (Pro) • A Home Screen widget with this week's garden tasks to check off, plus Lock Screen widgets • Ask Siri what's due in your garden, or log a harvest by voice A RECORD OF EVERY SEASON • Log plantings, harvests by weight, notes, and photos • Look back through your year in the Journal, month by month • Harvest totals by crop and by bed (Pro) 114 CROPS, AND ROOM FOR YOURS • Vegetables, herbs, fruit, and flowers, each with sowing depth, spacing, hardiness, companion plants, and a growing tip • Change any crop to suit your garden, or add your own SIMPLE AND PRIVATE • US or metric units • Syncs through iCloud between your iPhone and iPad • No account to create and no ads • VegLog never asks for your location: you just choose your town • In English, German, French, and Spanish VEGLOG PRO VegLog is free for one growing space, with unlimited plantings, harvests, notes, and to-dos. VegLog Pro adds as many beds, greenhouses, and containers as you like, the planting calendar for the whole year, crop plans with reminders, frost alerts, and harvest totals. VegLog Pro is available as a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or canceled in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.veglog.app/posts/privacy

About

Logs

Streamline your daily life by integrating task management, financial tracking, and habit building. Stay organized with to-do lists, gain financial clarity with expense tracking, and build positive routines with habit monitoring. Achieve your goals and enhance productivity.

Highlights
  • Intuitive to-do list manager
  • Expense and income tracker
  • Budgeting tools
  • Habit tracking
  • Reminders and notifications
  • Progress reports
  • Sync across devices
Features
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Transform your daily routines into efficient and productive experiences. With our app, you can seamlessly integrate task management, financial tracking, and habit building into your life, empowering you to reach your goals and live your best life. Todo Feature: Effortlessly stay on top of your tasks and commitments with our intuitive to-do list feature. Create and prioritize tasks, set due dates and reminders, and enjoy the satisfaction of checking off completed items. Whether it's for work, personal projects, or household chores, our app ensures that no task falls through the cracks. Expense and Income Tracking: Take control of your finances and gain a clear understanding of your financial health. Easily track your expenses and income with our intuitive interface. Categorize transactions, set budgets, and receive insightful visualizations of your spending habits. Stay within your budget and achieve your financial goals with ease. Habit Tracking: Build positive habits and break bad ones with our habit tracking feature. Set goals for daily, weekly, or monthly habits, and receive gentle reminders to keep you on track. Our app provides detailed statistics and progress reports, helping you stay motivated and accountable. Transform your habits and create a healthier, more productive lifestyle. Key Features: Intuitive to-do list manager for seamless task management. Expense and income tracker for comprehensive financial control. Budgeting tools and insightful visualizations to achieve financial goals. Habit tracking feature to establish positive routines. Reminders and notifications to keep you organized and on track. Detailed statistics and progress reports to measure your success. User-friendly interface for effortless navigation and seamless user experience. Sync across multiple devices to access your data anywhere, anytime.

Screenshots

Garden Planner4 screens
Logs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Logs at 100% against Garden Planner's 46%. Logs also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). Garden Planner's advantage is ratings volume (48 vs 2) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Garden Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Logs asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Logs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Garden Planner has 48 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Garden Planner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Logs's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garden Planner ships an update every 8 days, Logs every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Garden Planner versus Logs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarden PlannerLogs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (48 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings48 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGruffydd JohnstonKerkar Creations

Customer experience

Garden Planner

All ratings48 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral23.1%
Negative30.8%

Logs

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Garden Planner

Subscriptions4
  • VegLog Plus7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • VegLog Plus$29.991 Year
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  • VegLog Plus7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$69.99
None

Logs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garden Planner free?
Garden Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Logs free?
Logs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Garden Planner or Logs?
Logs is rated higher. Garden Planner averages 4.3 out of 5 from 48 ratings, while Logs averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Garden Planner or Logs have ads?
Neither Garden Planner nor Logs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garden Planner or Logs?
Garden Planner ships an update every 8 days, and Logs every 4 weeks. Most recently, Garden Planner was updated on November 7, 2026 and Logs on November 3, 2026.

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