Comparison

Garden AR vs TreeSmith

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

Head to head
About

Garden AR

Design your outdoor space with augmented reality. Visualize and place plants, trees, and garden features at real scale before planting. Experiment with layouts and reimagine your garden in real time.

Highlights
  • Live AR placement of plants and features
  • Object removal with AI
  • Library of models, textures, and materials
  • Tools for playful experimentation and precision
  • Real-scale layout testing
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Featured in Gardening Australia - January 2026 Device compatibility - Performance may vary depending on iPhone or iPad model. Garden AR is a new way to imagine and design your outdoor space. Garden AR guides you through living, layered spaces. Balconies, courtyards, backyards, reframed as an interactive canvas. Drop in trees, flowers and paths in augmented reality, test layouts at real scale, and nudge from one idea to the next, before planting a single seed. Guided by the principle that every garden is a story, Garden AR empowers you to explore, edit, and reimagine your space in real time. Whether you’re planning, experimenting, or simply daydreaming, Garden AR is your companion for creating worlds that feel alive, personal, and endlessly adaptable. Features include: Live AR placement of plants, trees, and garden features Object remover (inpainting AI) A growing library of models, soil textures, and materials Tools that balance playful experimentation with professional precision Garden AR is for gardeners, designers, and dreamers alike. Step into your own world of possibilities and see your garden in a whole new dimension.

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

Garden AR4 screens
TreeSmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Garden AR at none against TreeSmith's 2. On price, update cadence, ads 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. TreeSmith sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Garden AR asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Garden AR versus TreeSmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarden ARTreeSmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel PurchaseBenedict Noel

Customer experience

Garden AR

Written reviews17 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%

TreeSmith

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

In-app purchases

None

Garden AR

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

TreeSmith

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

Questions

Is Garden AR free?
Garden AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TreeSmith free?
TreeSmith is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Garden AR or TreeSmith have ads?
Neither Garden AR nor TreeSmith shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garden AR or TreeSmith?
Garden AR ships an update weekly, and TreeSmith weekly. Most recently, Garden AR was updated on October 12, 2026 and TreeSmith on October 3, 2026.

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