Comparison

Gardenstead vs TreeSmith

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

Head to head
About

Gardenstead

Connect with fellow plant enthusiasts, share gardening tips, and discover local communities. Track your garden's progress, get inspired by design ideas, and learn sustainable growing practices from real gardeners.

Highlights
  • Connect with gardeners worldwide
  • Track gardening progress
  • Get practical gardening tips
  • Join local gardening communities
  • Swap seeds with neighbors
  • Explore garden design inspiration
Features
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Gardenstead – Your Gardening Community Gardenstead is more than just a gardening app. It’s a place to connect with gardeners everywhere. Whether you’re growing vegetables in your backyard, planting flowers on your balcony, or keeping herbs on your windowsill, you’ll find ideas, advice, and community support to help your plants thrive. Grow your garden, your way From sowing seeds to harvesting vegetables, Gardenstead makes it easy to track your gardening life and get practical tips from real people. Learn how to care for your lawn, design your yard, grow indoor plants, or plan a vegetable patch with the same simplicity you’d expect from a trusted gardening guide. Connect with your neighborhood Join local communities and discover nearby gardeners who share your passion. Gardenstead helps you meet like-minded people, swap seeds, and even find community projects. You can also create your own group tailored to your needs. Whether that’s balcony gardening, organic vegetables, lawn care, or sustainable growing. Build a community around the plants you love and invite others to join. Tools and inspiration - Explore gardening feeds from friends, neighbors, and global gardeners - Get inspired by garden design, deck planner layouts, yard design projects, or balcony gardening ideas - Browse curated events and seasonal tips tailored to your zone Sustainable & ecological growing Gardenstead is all about mindful gardening. Learn how to grow your plants in sustainable, ecological ways. Whether it’s vegetables, herbs, flowers, balcony gardens, or even a small adorable garden, you’ll find tips that help you grow greener and smarter. Real advice from real gardeners The questions platform lets you ask anything! From “How do I sow burpee seeds indoors?” to “What’s the best way to keep plants healthy on a balcony?” You’ll get real answers from practitioners who know the challenges firsthand. Why Gardenstead? - Social platform for gardening content - Content feeds: friends, neighborhood, and global gardening news - Seed Swap & gardeners around you: find & exchange seeds with people in your location - Q&A with gardeners in your community - Local groups and events for inspiration - Create your own groups and communities for the plants and topics that matter to you - Support for everything: lawn care, seed sowing, planter ideas, balcony gardening, yard planning, vegetable growing, and more Gardenstead works whether you’re caring for indoor plants, experimenting with balcony gardening, starting with one planter, or planning a full landscape design. It’s built for people who want to grow, share, and make gardening part of everyday life. Join the global gardening community Millions of people use gardening apps, but Gardenstead focuses on real connections and local communities. Find gardeners near you, share your plant journey, create your own group, and grow together. Download Gardenstead today, plant the seeds of connection, and let’s grow together. Privacy Policy: https://www.gardenstead.com/privacy-policy/ Terms: https://www.api.gardenstead.com/static/termsOfService/

About

TreeSmith

This app helps fruit tree collectors and propagators meticulously track every graft, scion, and activity for their plants. It features a photo journal, activity log, and an interactive GPS map of your garden. Manage your entire collection with detailed cataloging and export options.

Highlights
  • Graft tracking with photos and source details
  • Photo journal for plant growth over seasons
  • Activity log for watering, fertilizing, and more
  • Interactive GPS garden map
  • Detailed plant cataloging
  • Data export to CSV/JSON
Features
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TreeSmith is the plant app built for collectors, propagators and orchard keepers, not just houseplant care. Track every graft, scion, photo and activity for every plant in your collection, and pin them to an interactive GPS map of your garden. WHY COLLECTORS CHOOSE TREESMITH Most plant apps assume you have ten succulents and forget to water them. TreeSmith assumes you have a hundred fruit trees, know exactly when each one was grafted, and want to remember which rootstock came from where. GRAFT TRACKING Record each graft with its own photos, scion source, rootstock, date and status. Search by source nursery, cultivar or year. The feature serious propagators have been asking plant apps for, for years. PHOTO JOURNAL Capture growth over time. Photos auto-organise by stage: flowering, fruiting, harvest and beyond. Look back across seasons in a single tap. ACTIVITY LOG Watering, fertilising, pruning, repotting, pest treatments, pollination, harvesting. Log what you did, when, and on which plant. Build a real record instead of relying on memory. GPS GARDEN MAP Drop every plant on an interactive map of your garden. Reposition by tap. Find that one cultivar you planted last winter without walking the whole block. CATALOGUE PROPERLY Scientific names, common names, source nursery, acquisition date, status and notes. Export everything to CSV or JSON whenever you want. Your data stays yours. FREE OR PRO Free: up to 30 plants, one location, photos, activity log, GPS map, local backup and export. Pro, a one-time purchase: unlimited plants, multiple locations, reminders and bulk operations. Cloud Backup is an optional yearly subscription that requires Pro: automatic backups and restore on a new device. Invited members of partner gardening clubs unlock Pro automatically when they sign in. BUILT BY AND FOR THE RARE FRUIT COMMUNITY TreeSmith is built by a Perth rare-fruit grower and shaped by feedback from collectors who actually use it. If you have ever wished a plant app understood what a scion exchange was, this one does. Get TreeSmith free, add your collection, and never lose track of a graft again. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Cloud Backup is a yearly auto-renewing subscription (A$9.99/year in Australia, prices vary by region and are shown in the app before you buy). It requires TreeSmith Pro, a separate one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://treesmith.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://treesmith.app/privacy

Screenshots

Gardenstead4 screens
TreeSmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TreeSmith at 5.0 against Gardenstead's 4.2. TreeSmith also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Gardenstead's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, monetization model, device support 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. TreeSmith sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Gardenstead asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TreeSmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gardenstead has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gardenstead ships an update fortnightly, TreeSmith weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Gardenstead versus TreeSmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGardensteadTreeSmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGardensteadBenedict Noel

Customer experience

Gardenstead

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral12.5%
Negative18.8%

TreeSmith

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Gardenstead

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

TreeSmith

Subscriptions1
  • Cloud Backup$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • TreeSmith Pro$24.99

Questions

Is Gardenstead free?
Gardenstead is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TreeSmith free?
TreeSmith is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gardenstead or TreeSmith?
TreeSmith is rated higher. Gardenstead averages 4.2 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while TreeSmith averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Gardenstead or TreeSmith have ads?
Gardenstead shows ads; TreeSmith does not.
Which is updated more often, Gardenstead or TreeSmith?
Gardenstead ships an update fortnightly, and TreeSmith weekly. Most recently, Gardenstead was updated on October 8, 2026 and TreeSmith on October 3, 2026.

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