Comparison

Garden Planner vs BrianApp

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

BrianApp

Features
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BrianApp was born out of trying to keep on top of my own dog's healthcare. I had also become slightly frustrated with the repetition of either typing out an email or physically writing out feeding and exercise requirements to dog walkers and pet sitters. BrianApp provides a single location for recording all your pet's needs to ensure their health and wellbeing are maintained. When you give the care of your animal over to another simply share the required information so nothing is missed in your absence.

Screenshots

Garden Planner4 screens
BrianApp3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrianApp at none against Garden Planner's 6. BrianApp also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Garden Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 17 months). 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. BrianApp asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garden Planner ships an update every 8 days, BrianApp every 17 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Garden Planner versus BrianApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarden PlannerBrianApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (47 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGruffydd JohnstonJames Attersley

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

BrianApp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garden Planner free?
Garden Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BrianApp free?
BrianApp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garden Planner or BrianApp have ads?
Neither Garden Planner nor BrianApp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garden Planner or BrianApp?
Garden Planner ships an update every 8 days, and BrianApp every 17 months. Most recently, Garden Planner was updated on October 25, 2026 and BrianApp on October 25, 2026.

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