Comparison

Croppa vs ZoneSprout

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

Head to head
About

Croppa

Plan and track your vegetable garden from seed to harvest. Design your garden layout, log progress, record notes, and access a growing guide for over 100 crop types. Supports various gardening methods and local planting zones.

Highlights
  • Visual garden layout design
  • Plant progress tracking
  • Harvest logging with photos
  • Customizable planting calendar
  • Growing information for 100+ crops
  • Cloud backup for data safety
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Croppa is a vegetable garden planner and journal that helps you plan your garden layout, record what you plant and where, track plants progress from seed to harvest, record notes and harvests, and learn when and how to grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, grains and flowers in your zone. KEY FEATURES Garden Planner & Journal • Design a visual layout of your garden with multiple garden beds • Record what you plant and where • Track plant progress from planting to germination and harvest • Log harvests with weights and photos • Keep notes on watering, fertilising, and observations • View your garden at any time — past, present, or future • Plan succession planting to grow more food in the same space • Review previous seasons to improve yields and crop rotation • Secure cloud backup keeps your data safe across devices Planting Calendar & Growing Guide • Growing information for 120+ types and 1,300+ varieties of vegetables, fruits, herbs, grains & flowers • Planting calendar covering all USA, UK, and Australia zones • Custom planting dates using your local frost dates • Supports square foot gardening and traditional row spacing • Localized plant names for your country • Imperial or metric units Croppa is built by gardeners, for gardeners, no matter where you live. Grow with confidence with Croppa!

About

ZoneSprout

Features
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Most planting calendars ask for your USDA zone and stop there. But a zone only describes one thing: how cold it gets on the worst night of winter. It says nothing about when your season actually starts, how long it lasts, or whether your July will cook a lettuce. Savannah, Georgia and Coos Bay, Oregon are both zone 9a. Their last frosts are seven weeks apart, and one gets 75 more days above 90°F than the other. Any calendar that treats them the same is going to disappoint one of those gardeners. ZoneSprout works out your dates from your state AND your zone together. WHAT GOES INTO A DATE • Last frost, averaged over 20 years • First frost, averaged over 20 years • Summer heat — days above 90°F, over 30 years • Winter chill • Days to maturity for that specific plant • Chill hours the plant needs Every date is calculated from weather records. None of it is written by a chatbot. PLANTING CHARTS FOR YOUR EXACT LOCATION See when to start seeds indoors, when to transplant, when to direct sow, when it will bloom, and when you will be picking — for more than 2,600 plants, laid out across the year. Open a chart for one plant, for a whole category like vegetables or herbs, or for everything you grow. Print any chart, or save it as a PDF to send to whoever is watering while you are away. SEARCH BY WHAT THE PACKET SAYS Seed packets say Sun Gold, Cherokee Purple, Blue Lake — not Tomato and Bean. ZoneSprout knows more than 4,400 named varieties, so the thing in your hand is the thing you look up. WHAT IS THIS PLANT? Photograph anything you cannot name and get the likeliest matches, with reference pictures to check against. If it is one of ours, you also get whether it is native where you garden, whether it is a problem there, and when to plant it. A GARDEN BED PLANNER THAT FITS REAL GARDENS Lay out the beds you actually have, not the tidy rectangle most planners assume. Set the size in feet and inches, choose rectangular or round, and plant it square by square. Seed trays too — 72-cell, 50-cell, whatever you sow into. Spacing is worked out for you: drop in a tomato and it knows how much room it needs, and what will not fit. WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK See only what is due now — sowing, planting out, pruning, feeding, harvest — in the order your season reaches them. No scrolling twelve months to find today. NATIVE PLANTS, CHECKED PROPERLY Plants genuinely native to your state, verified against USDA records rather than guessed from a hardiness zone. Filter by what each one feeds: honeybees, native bees, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, songbirds, ladybugs, bats and more. A JOURNAL THAT REMEMBERS Record every sowing, every harvest and every failure, with photographs. Next spring starts from what actually happened in your garden last year, rather than from memory. BUILT FOR THE UNITED STATES ONLY Every date comes from US frost records, US heat history and USDA hardiness zones. A garden outside the US would get confidently wrong answers, so we would rather say plainly that this app is not for you than take your money. WHAT IT COSTS Try everything free for seven days. After that, ZoneSprout Pro is $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year — one subscription with every feature included, no adverts and nothing sold on the side. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings, including during the free trial, at no charge. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Cancelling never deletes anything. Your beds, plantings, journal and photographs stay exactly as they are, and are waiting when you come back. Terms of Use: https://zonesprout.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://zonesprout.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Croppa4 screens
ZoneSprout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ZoneSprout at every 3 days against Croppa's weekly. On price, ads, 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. Croppa sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.00 per year and ZoneSprout sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Croppa ships an update weekly, ZoneSprout every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Croppa versus ZoneSprout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCroppaZoneSprout
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCroppa Pty. Ltd.Faruque Ahamed Mollick

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Croppa

Subscriptions1
  • Croppa Subscription$24.001 Year
2 purchases

ZoneSprout

Subscriptions2
  • ZoneSprout Pro7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • ZoneSprout Pro7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Croppa free?
Croppa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ZoneSprout free?
ZoneSprout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Croppa or ZoneSprout have ads?
Neither Croppa nor ZoneSprout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Croppa or ZoneSprout?
Croppa ships an update weekly, and ZoneSprout every 3 days. Most recently, Croppa was updated on September 23, 2026 and ZoneSprout on September 11, 2026.

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