Comparison

PiggyNotes vs Phoneless Garden

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

Head to head
About

PiggyNotes

Manage and document all aspects of your guinea pigs' lives, from feeding and cleaning schedules to health logs and expenses. Create unlimited pet profiles, track their age automatically, and receive reminders for important tasks. Export data for vet visits or printouts.

Highlights
  • Unlimited pet profiles
  • Feeding and cleaning schedules with reminders
  • Health log and weight monitoring
  • Expense tracking with overviews
  • Customizable categories
  • Data backup and export (PDF, Excel)
  • Vacation mode for pet sitters
Features
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PiggyNotes – The Perfect App for Guinea Pig Owners Manage, plan, and document everything about your guinea pigs – with PiggyNotes, the app developed specifically for guinea pig lovers! Ideal for all breeds: Smooth-haired, Abyssinian, Sheltie, Rex, American Teddy, Peruvian, and many more. Keep Track of All Your Guinea Pigs • Create unlimited profiles for your pets • Save species, breed, gender, date of birth & a photo • Automatic age calculation for each pet Feeding Planner with Reminders • Create individual feeding schedules • Daily, weekly, or monthly repetitions • Push notifications for upcoming or overdue feedings Cleaning Schedule for Cage & Enclosure • Plan full or quick cleanings • Get reminders and mark completed tasks • Stay on top of all cleaning routines at all times Health Log & Weight Monitoring • Record weight and track changes over time • Log vaccinations and health events • Add personal notes for each guinea pig Easy Expense Management • Track expenses for food, supplies, vet visits & more • Add recurring costs • Monthly overviews and visual statistics Dashboard for Quick Overview • View all of today’s tasks at a glance • Direct access to all care sections • Status indicators for feeding, cleaning, and more Backup & Data Export • Backup and restore your data • Export to PDF and Excel – perfect for printouts or vet visits Vacation Mode for Pet Sitters • Create clear care plans for vacation periods • Export tasks and checklists as PDF Fully Customizable • Create your own categories for feeding, cleaning, health & expenses • Flexible to match your setup and your guinea pigs’ needs PiggyNotes is the all-in-one solution for guinea pig owners who want perfect control over care and organization. Download now for free and start your guinea pig diary today!

About

Phoneless Garden

This app helps you achieve your daily screen time goals through mindful pauses, not forceful blocking. It visualizes your progress with a growing plant and offers insights into your phone usage patterns. Designed with privacy as a priority, your data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Set daily screen time goals
  • Grow a plant to visualize progress
  • Track mood and phone use correlation
  • Journal daily reflections
  • Receive weekly usage insights
  • Customizable pauses and notifications
  • Dark mode support
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Twenty minutes in, you find out it has been twenty minutes. Phoneless Garden does not block anything. It comes back when your time is up, with the day's total and one question. Close the app, or keep going. Both are real answers. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps you want to be more mindful with. Social, video, news, whatever pulls at you. • Every time you open one, the pause comes first. It shows your time on these apps today, and asks nothing else. Close, or continue. • Continue and you choose how long. When that time is up, the pause comes back, and this time it asks what you want from the next few minutes. WHY NO BLOCKING Blockers punish you, and punishment is easy to switch off. Phoneless Garden takes the opposite approach. It puts one moment of noticing between the reach and the scroll, and leaves the decision with you. Nothing to unlock, no passes to spend, no lockout to wait out. Not all screen time is wasted time. A long call with a friend is not the same as twenty minutes you cannot account for. This app does not pretend to know the difference. It just makes sure you are the one deciding. WHAT YOU GET • A pause with one question, every time you open the apps you choose • Your own words on the pause: write what you would rather do, and the pause shows it every other time • Gentler questions on days you log your mood as Low or Hard • A pause length you can set for each app, from five to ninety seconds (Premium) • A daily screen time goal that flexes. The app asks what kind of day it is, so work days and weekends can differ • A plant that reflects your day. Under your goal it grows, over your goal it rests. It never wilts • Mood check-ins, so you can see how screen time and mood move together • A few seconds of journaling when you want it • Insights into how often you open these apps, when your pauses happen and the timers you pick • Your month as a garden (Premium) • Dark mode PRIVACY Your pauses, moods and notes stay on your phone. No accounts, no email, no tracking. Purchases go through Apple and RevenueCat. Terms of Use: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/privacy

Screenshots

PiggyNotes4 screens
Phoneless Garden4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Phoneless Garden at fortnightly against PiggyNotes's every 7 months. Phoneless Garden also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). PiggyNotes's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PiggyNotes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Phoneless Garden sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PiggyNotes against 5.0 for Phoneless Garden. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PiggyNotes ships an update every 7 months, Phoneless Garden fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PiggyNotes versus Phoneless Garden: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiggyNotesPhoneless Garden
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHRISTOPH BOTTCHERHanna Posio

Customer experience

PiggyNotes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Phoneless Garden

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PiggyNotes

Subscriptions1
  • PiggyNotes Premium$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • PiggyNotes Lifetime$19.99
2 purchases

Phoneless Garden

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly premium14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year

Questions

Is PiggyNotes free?
PiggyNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Phoneless Garden free?
Phoneless Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PiggyNotes or Phoneless Garden?
PiggyNotes and Phoneless Garden are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do PiggyNotes or Phoneless Garden have ads?
Neither PiggyNotes nor Phoneless Garden shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PiggyNotes or Phoneless Garden?
PiggyNotes ships an update every 7 months, and Phoneless Garden fortnightly. Most recently, PiggyNotes was updated on October 18, 2026 and Phoneless Garden on October 24, 2026.

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