Comparison

Gardroid vs grove. The Bed Planner.

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

Head to head
About

Gardroid

This app guides aspiring gardeners through the process of growing their own vegetables. It provides essential cultivation details for various plants, including optimal sowing times, temperature requirements, and care tips. Users can track plant progress, set custom notifications, and take notes.

Highlights
  • Sowing and harvesting periods
  • Plant care tips
  • Sowing depth and spacing
  • Soil type and fertilizing
  • Track plant progress
  • Custom notifications
  • Notebook for notes
Features
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Have you always wanted a kitchen garden but you have no idea how to get started? Gardroid helps you to harvest your own crops by providing useful information about the cultivation methods of various plants. With Gardroid, you will be able to enjoy following features: • Suitable sowing and harvesting periods • The desired temperature to sow • Helpful tips for taking care of the plant • The right sowing depth, row distance and spacing between plants • Soil type & fertilizing • Track the progress of your plants • Add your own notifications to each plant in your garden • Write down your notes inside the notebook • No network required to check your plants* Premium features: • No ads • Herbs, fruits & flowers available • Organize your crops by planting them in beds Thanks for your support & Happy gardening! * Images will only be downloaded when you visit the plant, in order to save memory on your device.

About

grove. The Bed Planner.

Features
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Plan vegetable beds where the plants help each other. grove shows you good neighbours, keeps an eye on crop rotation, knows the planting times and will even plan your whole bed for you if you like. From your first raised bed to a self-sufficient garden: grove is one of the most comprehensive bed planners around and grows with your garden – and your garden with grove. WHAT IS COMPANION PLANTING? Some plants help each other along, others get in each other's way. Put the right neighbours together and you get healthier plants and a bigger harvest from the same space. Add successive and follow-on crops plus a good crop rotation, and your bed carries all year round while the soil stays healthy. That's companion planting. Working out a well-thought-out bed plan by hand takes real effort. That's exactly where grove helps you. NEW: THE GARDEN FAIRY The Garden Fairy plans for you. It fills gaps, suggests successive and follow-on crops and plants up a whole bed, several beds or your entire garden. It takes neighbours, crop rotation, plant spacing and planting times into account. Green manure is on its list too, so your beds stay covered during growing breaks and your soil gets better year after year. TWO WAYS TO PLAN - Free planning: You see your bed from above and place plantings wherever you want. Just like the classic bed plans you know. Ideal for raised beds, smaller gardens and anyone who likes to design freely. - Row-based companion planting: You plan with rows of plants, either completely freely or following the proven systems of Gertrud Franck or the Langerhorst family, where the crop sequence is set years in advance. Methods from experienced vegetable growing that hardly any other bed planner offers. WHAT GROVE CAN DO - Year-round planning: successive, main and follow-on crops month by month, perennials included - Companion planting knowledge right in the bed plan: neighbours, crop rotation, spacing and planting times - Wishlist: set out what and how much you want to grow, and see what's still missing - Tasks: created automatically for pre-growing and transplanting, plannable by drag & drop - Harvest forecast: spot harvest gaps while you're still planning - Garden plan: all your beds in one graphical plan - Plant database with smart filters - Print your bed plan with plant profiles - Offline reading mode - and much more FOR EVERY GARDEN You have two raised beds and simply want everything to grow well? Let the Garden Fairy plan and follow the tasks. You feed your family from the garden all year or look after a community garden? With grove you keep track even with many beds and across many years. Give grove a try and see how easy good bed planning can be. Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Gardroid4 screens
grove. The Bed Planner.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: grove. The Bed Planner. at none against Gardroid's shown. grove. The Bed Planner. also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Gardroid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and grove. The Bed Planner. sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gardroid ships an update every 2 weeks, grove. The Bed Planner. every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Gardroid versus grove. The Bed Planner.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGardroidgrove. The Bed Planner.
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDimitri De KerfLooking4Cache UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gardroid

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99
2 purchases

grove. The Bed Planner.

Subscriptions2
  • Kleiner Garten7 Days trial$17.001 Year
  • Großer Garten7 Days trial$35.001 Year

Questions

Is Gardroid free?
Gardroid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is grove. The Bed Planner. free?
grove. The Bed Planner. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gardroid or grove. The Bed Planner. have ads?
Gardroid shows ads; grove. The Bed Planner. does not.
Which is updated more often, Gardroid or grove. The Bed Planner.?
Gardroid ships an update every 2 weeks, and grove. The Bed Planner. every 9 days. Most recently, Gardroid was updated on November 4, 2026 and grove. The Bed Planner. on October 31, 2026.

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