Comparison

Seedtime vs Shiny Pebbles

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

Head to head
About

Seedtime

Manage your garden tasks, notes, and planting schedule all in one app. Visualize your planting calendar, track daily tasks, and record observations with photos. Access educational videos and get gardening advice from an AI assistant.

Highlights
  • Personalized gardening calendar
  • Daily and weekly task checklists
  • Garden journal with photo uploads
  • Masterclass video lessons
  • AI gardening assistant (Sprout Bot)
  • Crop planning and succession planting
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With the Seedtime companion app you finally have a place to track your garden tasks, noteA smoother Seedtime: harvest Records for everyone, search that handles any crop name, and forms that stay clear of the keyboard.s, and observations - all in one simple place on your phone. Use your own personal calendar, task list, journal, and more to turbocharge your growing experience like never before! CALENDAR Add crops to your gardening calendar to easily visualize when to seed, transplant, harvest and more - all based on your local area. With your Seedtime Calendar you’ll be able to: - Add and edit crops in your growing calendar with just a few taps - Choose between spring or fall plantings and add succession plantings to plan a continual harvest all year round - Adjust your plantings on the fly with simple drag and drop editing - Sort, filter, and view your calendar in different ways to maximize your productivity TASKS Tasks will auto-compile from your Seedtime Calendar plan with a daily or weekly checklist so you never fall behind again. Just plan your garden out in the web-app and then use the mobile app to stay on track through the gardening season. With the task list you’ll be able to: - View your daily or weekly task list - Mark tasks as complete as you do them in the garden (syncs with the calendar) - Edit task dates if you need to adjust them - View “what to do” and “how to do it” information for tasks - Quick links over to the Seedtime Classroom to watch short masterclass videos for tasks JOURNAL Your task list is awesome - but it doesn’t stop there. Use the Seedtime Journal to keep track of your notes or observations in the garden. With the journal you’ll be able to: - Add pictures to your journal entries to track your garden progress over time - Tag entries with related tasks - Link your notes to specific plantings - Search all of your notes for anything you’ve written about - Filter all your entries by crop plantings, tags, or dates CLASSROOM You’ll also have access to our entire masterclass video lesson series walking you through each step and phase of the garden to grow an abundance of fresh food right in your backyard. With the classroom you’ll be able to: - View short masterclass video lessons with step-by-step instructions - Discover how to do various tasks in your garden - Learn how to get to desired end results in your garden like how to keep your garden weed free without spending hours on your knees pulling weeds, how to deal with pests and diseases in a natural and organic way, how to extend your season into the winter without breaking your pocketbook, and more… ASK SPROUT With the Seedtime Sprout Bot, you can ask any of your gardening or Seedtime questions and get answers on the fly. Or push your questions to our team to connect directly with us. - Ask about which crops to companion plant together - Get answers about pest or disease problems - Ask about how to trellis your plants or care for them - And more… (really ask just about anything!) STORE Quick and easy access to hundreds of non-GMO seeds, natural fertilizers, and other garden supplies to quickly and easily get what you need to grow your best garden ever. And believe it or not, this is just the beginning! Coming soon you’ll be able to plan your garden layout directly in the mobile app as well - making it the easiest place to make changes on the fly in your garden. Until then, you can use the web-app to layout your garden, and more. Then you can use this companion app to easily stay on track with your garden plan while out in the field. Enjoy! And let’s grow your best garden ever this year! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Shiny Pebbles

A private digital journal for parents to capture and cherish childhood memories and milestones. Record everyday moments, track significant firsts, and create individual stories for each child, all securely stored on your device.

Highlights
  • Save notes and memories
  • Track milestones
  • Add multiple children
  • Private and secure storage
  • No account or login required
Features
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Kids grow up fast. One day they're curling their tiny fingers around yours, and the next they're taking their first steps. Shiny Pebbles is the simple, heartfelt way to make sure none of those moments slip away. Whether it's a funny thing they did at breakfast, a milestone worth remembering, or just a feeling you want to hold onto, Shiny Pebbles gives you a quiet place to write it all down. What you can do: - Save notes and memories about your little one as they happen. - Track milestones so you always remember the firsts. - Add multiple kids so every child has their own story. - Keep everything completely private, just for you. Built for parents, not platforms: There's no account to create, no login to remember, and no subscription to manage. Your notes stay on your device, private and secure. Shiny Pebbles can not see, share, or sell your family's memories. Just you, your kids, and the moments that matter.

Screenshots

Seedtime4 screens
Shiny Pebbles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shiny Pebbles at none against Seedtime's 4. Shiny Pebbles also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (3 vs 1). Seedtime's advantage is ratings volume (448 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Seedtime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Shiny Pebbles asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shiny Pebbles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seedtime has 448 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Seedtime versus Shiny Pebbles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeedtimeShiny Pebbles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (448 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings448 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSeedtimeKyler Patterson

Bugs and requests

Seedtime

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Issues with marking tasks as complete on mobile app
  • Difficulty adding established fruits/veggies

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to view garden layout on mobile app
  • Crop-specific reminders and notifications
  • Export tasks/data to digital calendars
  • More comprehensive plant database
  • Optimization for iPad and tablets

Shiny Pebbles

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Seedtime

Subscriptions4
  • Basic Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Unlimited Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Basic Yearly$83.991 Year
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  • Unlimited Yearly$167.991 Year
None

Shiny Pebbles

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Seedtime free?
Seedtime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shiny Pebbles free?
Shiny Pebbles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Seedtime or Shiny Pebbles?
Shiny Pebbles is rated higher. Seedtime averages 4.7 out of 5 from 448 ratings, while Shiny Pebbles averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Seedtime or Shiny Pebbles have ads?
Neither Seedtime nor Shiny Pebbles shows ads.

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