Comparison

Nostalgia Notes vs Garden Bed Notes

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

Head to head
About

Nostalgia Notes

Easily create, update, and delete diary entries. Review past entries sorted by day, week, month, or year. Track your progress with enriched statistical data to stay motivated.

Highlights
  • Diary creation
  • Update diary entries
  • Delete diary entries
  • Review past entries
  • Sort entries by date
  • Statistical data tracking
Features
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Main Features 1.Diary creation Simple to create a diary. 2.Update Diary You can update the contents of your diary. 3.Delete Diary You can easily delete your diary by swiping it. 4.Review You can look back on the past in various axes by displaying diaries sorted by daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Statistics As you continue to keep a diary, the statistical data will be enriched, motivating you to continue.

About

Garden Bed Notes

Features
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"Wait โ€” what did I plant in this bed last year?" You think it was tomatoes. You can't quite remember. This app is for the three minutes that question costs you, every spring, standing in front of the bed. โ–ผ It remembers every bed Bed 1, Bed 2, the south planter. Add them in the order they sit in your plot, then note what grew there last year. One allotment plot usually has three to six. โ–ผ Know on the spot whether you can plant Pick a crop and you get one of three answers โ€” ready, check first, or too soon โ€” with the reason written out: ใ€€"Tomato (Nightshade family) was planted in 2026/06. That was 0y 2m ago, and the guideline is 3โ€“4 years" Planting the same family in the same place again and again invites soil disease and poor growth. The recommended gap for 86 crops is already in the app. We count in months, not years โ€” a home garden often grows two or three crops a year, so years are too coarse. โ–ผ We show where the numbers come from Families and rotation years are taken from published sources. Where sources disagree, we show the longer (safer) figure. Where a source has nothing for the vegetable itself, the screen says "Family guideline". You can read the sources in Settings โ†’ Sources & licenses. We don't claim to know. Guidelines shift with your soil, the variety and the weather. In the end, look at the bed and decide. โ–ผ Log with or without reminders Tap a circle on Today to log watering, feeding, harvesting, weeding or spraying. You can log without setting a reminder, and attach a photo. Set a reminder only if you want one. Give summer a two-day gap and winter thirty โ€” the interval can differ for every month. The next date is worked out the moment you log. โ–ผ Taking your data with you is always free We don't charge you to export your log and import it on a new device. Photos come too. CSV export opens in Excel. โ–ผ On this device only Your beds, plantings and care log are kept on this device. The one thing that leaves it is the message you write in Contact us. No ads. No account. โ–ผ Pricing Logging, reminders, photos, export and import are free forever, with no limits. One bed is free, and the rotation check covers that one bed. Pro (a one-time payment) is only for adding more beds and checking rotation on all of them. There is no monthly fee.

Screenshots

Nostalgia Notes3 screens
Garden Bed Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nostalgia Notes at none against Garden Bed Notes's 1. Garden Bed Notes's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Garden Bed Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nostalgia Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Nostalgia Notes versus Garden Bed Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNostalgia NotesGarden Bed Notes
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasaaki KishimotoRAINBOW TREE LLC

In-app purchases

None

Nostalgia Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Garden Bed Notes

One-time1
  • Garden Bed Notes Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Nostalgia Notes free?
Nostalgia Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Garden Bed Notes free?
Garden Bed Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nostalgia Notes or Garden Bed Notes have ads?
Nostalgia Notes shows ads; Garden Bed Notes does not.

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