Garden Planner vs TrapNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Garden Planner
Plan your vegetable garden with a detailed planting calendar, bed mapping, and harvest tracking. Get timely advice based on your local frost dates and weather forecasts. Keep a private journal of your gardening seasons.
- Map garden beds to scale
- Customizable planting schedules
- Local frost date integration
- Harvest logging and tracking
- Companion planting advice
- Crop rotation suggestions
- Weather-based gardening tips
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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
TrapNote
This app helps carnivorous plant enthusiasts meticulously track their collections. Log detailed information about each plant, including feeding habits, environmental conditions, and growth over time. It's a digital replacement for spreadsheets, designed specifically for growers of Nepenthes, Venus flytraps, and more.
- Detailed plant profiles
- Photo timeline for growth tracking
- Feeding and environment logs
- Dormancy reminders
- Growth charts
- Shareable plant cards
- Wishlist functionality
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A collection app made for carnivorous plant growers. Track your Nepenthes, Venus flytraps, Sarracenia, Drosera, Heliamphora, Cephalotus and more — with fields designed specifically for carnivores: pitcher size, feeding response, water type, and humidity. Replace your spreadsheet grow list with something that fits in your pocket. 【What You Can Do】 ▷ Plant Collection Register each plant with genus, species, clone name, source, acquisition date, price, and cover photo. Every entry in your grow list, organized as a proper ledger. ▷ Photo Timeline Add unlimited photos per plant from camera or library. Watch the growth of each pitcher, leaf, or trap unfold over time. ▷ Feeding Log Record prey type (fruit fly, mealworm, cricket, bloodworm, liquid fertilizer, other), size, trap used, whether it responded, and response time. With Bulk feeding, log one feeding for several plants at once. ▷ Care Environment (per plant) Log setup type (terrarium, greenhouse, windowsill, outdoor), light source (LED, fluorescent, sunlight), and water type (distilled, rainwater, RO). Designed for carnivores — fertilizer is not on the list. ▷ Dormancy Set a dormancy start date and a target end date for each plant. A reminder on the target end date tells you it's time to check on it — handy for Venus flytrap and Sarracenia winter dormancy. ▷ Environment Log Daily records of temperature high/low, humidity percentage, and light hours. Track the seasonal conditions that matter for highland Nepenthes and Heliamphora. ▷ Growth Chart Pitcher size over time, plotted as a line chart per plant. See the trend from the day you acquired it. ▷ Share Card Generate a card with your plant's photo, species, clone name, pitcher size, growing status, and days tracked, and share it to social media. Choose Square, Portrait, Story, or Landscape. Free users get a "Tracked with TrapNote" watermark; Pro removes it. ▷ Wishlist Keep your must-have species list with source, budget, and notes. When you land one, move it to your collection. ▷ Search, Filter & Sort Search by name, genus, species, clone name, or notes. Filter by genus, status, or plants for trade, and sort by date added, name, acquired date, or price. ▷ Trade Flags (Pro) Mark plants as available for trade and add a note on what you're looking for in exchange. ▷ CSV / ZIP Export & Import Export your full collection as CSV, or as a ZIP with photos. Import CSV or ZIP to restore data. Available on the free plan. 【Who It's For】 · Nepenthes collectors with highland setups or terrariums · Venus flytrap and Sarracenia growers tracking their plants season by season · Anyone maintaining a grow list in a spreadsheet · Growers who like to share their collection on social media 【Your Data Stays on Your Device】 All data is saved locally on your iPhone. Nothing is sent to external servers. No account required. No subscription. No risk if a service shuts down. 【Pricing】 · Free: Up to 10 plants. Photo timeline, feeding logs, environment logs, growth charts, wishlist, share cards (with watermark), and CSV/ZIP export & import are all free. · TrapNote Pro (one-time purchase): Unlimited plants + trade flags + watermark-free share cards. Pay once, yours forever. ---------------------- Developer: Kore Apps Contact: support@kore-apps.com ----------------------
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TrapNote at 5.0 against Garden Planner's 4.3. TrapNote also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Garden Planner's advantage is ratings volume (48 vs 2). 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. Garden Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and TrapNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TrapNote 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.
Garden Planner ships an update every 8 days, TrapNote every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garden Planner | TrapNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gruffydd Johnston | kazuki korenori |
Customer experience
Garden Planner
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In-app purchases
Garden Planner
- 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
- Lifetime Access$69.99
TrapNote
- TrapNote Pro$6.99
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