Comparison

Garden Planner vs Grateful For

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

Grateful For

This app encourages daily gratitude by allowing users to record their thankful moments. Witness a live global feed of appreciation and track your personal journey through an intuitive calendar. It aims to boost happiness and reduce stress through simple reflection.

Highlights
  • Record daily gratitudes
  • Reflect on thankful moments
  • Live global gratitude feed
  • Intuitive calendar for history
  • Community sharing of thanks
Features
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At GratefulFor, we believe in the transformative power of gratitude to reshape lives and minds. Every day, people everywhere share moments of thanks — big and small — creating ripples of positivity that connect us all. Our app lets you witness gratitude unfold live worldwide. From the bustling streets of New York to the serene landscapes of New Zealand, every thankful message lights up a spark on our global map. Experience real-time appreciation from every corner of the world, inspiring connection and mindful reflection. Practicing daily gratitude is proven to boost happiness, reduce stress, improve sleep, and enhance well-being — all through simple moments of reflection. GratefulFor makes it easy to record your daily gratitudes, revisit your journey on a calendar, and join a growing community sharing thanks across the globe. Join GratefulFor today — where every gratitude counts, every moment matters, and together, we light up the world with appreciation. Key Features: • Record and reflect on your daily gratitudes • Navigate your gratitude history with an intuitive calendar • Witness the live global gratitude feed on gratefulfor.com

Screenshots

Garden Planner4 screens
Grateful For4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grateful For at 100% against Garden Planner's 42%. Grateful For 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 1). 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. Grateful For asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grateful For 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Garden Planner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Grateful For's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garden Planner ships an update every 8 days, Grateful For every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Garden Planner versus Grateful For: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarden PlannerGrateful For
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (48 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings48 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.014.0.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGruffydd JohnstonJames Godwin

Customer experience

Garden Planner

All ratings47 ratings
Positive83.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative10.6%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral25.0%
Negative33.3%

Grateful For

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 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

Grateful For

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garden Planner free?
Garden Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grateful For free?
Grateful For is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Garden Planner or Grateful For?
Grateful For is rated higher. Garden Planner averages 4.3 out of 5 from 48 ratings, while Grateful For averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Garden Planner or Grateful For have ads?
Neither Garden Planner nor Grateful For shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garden Planner or Grateful For?
Garden Planner ships an update every 8 days, and Grateful For every 2 days. Most recently, Garden Planner was updated on November 5, 2026 and Grateful For on November 3, 2026.

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