Seedling vs Seed Keep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seedling
Document your plant's journey with notes, photos, and growth stage milestones. Organize gardening tasks with a categorized to-do list. Designed for simplicity, it lets you focus on the joys of gardening.
- Plant journaling with notes and photos
- Track plant growth stages
- Record plant care requirements
- Categorized gardening to-do list
- Simple and distraction-free interface
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Seedling is a simple garden journal for tracking your plants from seed to harvest. Journal - Photos and notes for every plant, all in one timeline. Growth Milestones - Mark key moments, from sprouting to first bloom to harvest. Plant Care - Sunlight, water, temperature, humidity, soil, and fertilizer — all in one place. To-Do List - Categorized garden tasks, so nothing falls through the cracks.
Seed Keep
Organize your seed collection with this garden management tool. Scan packets to automatically log details, track growing information, and add personal notes and photos. Manage your entire seed inventory efficiently.
- Scan seed packets for automatic data entry
- View growing details (DTM, storage life)
- Add photos and personal notes
- Track performance of varieties
- Organize seeds into groups
- Export collection to CSV
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Organize your garden seeds. - Scan your seed packets with your phone. Seed Keep automatically enters the details it finds. - Add photos and notes. Keep track of how each variety performs in your garden with your own notes and photos. - Quickly view growing details including suitability for seed saving, days to maturity (DTM), and estimated remaining storage life for each packet. Know your climate. - Growing seasons and frost dates, built from 15 years of local weather history. Less searching. More gardening. - Essential growing information for over 200 garden plants. Works offline, right in the garden. Manage your collection. - Add seeds to groups. - Mark your favorites. - Archive seeds you don't grow anymore. - Export your collection to a spreadsheet (CSV file).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Seed Keep at 100% against Seedling's 50%. Seed Keep also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0). Seedling's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Seed Keep holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Seedling's written reviews are positive against 100% of Seed Keep's.
Seedling ships an update monthly, Seed Keep every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Seedling | Seed Keep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Laurie Cai | Sunkroft, LLC |
Customer experience
Seedling
Seed Keep
In-app purchases
Seedling
No in-app purchases
Seed Keep
No in-app purchases
