Comparison

Ferment Pro vs Sunpatch

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

Head to head
About

Ferment Pro

Features
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Ferment Pro makes it easy to create your favorite fermented foods at home โ€” from yogurt and kombucha to sourdough, kimchi, tempeh, and more. Designed with smart technology and doctor-led innovation, our all-in-one fermentation system gives you perfect results every time. Just choose your recipe, set your preferences, and let Ferment Pro do the rest. Enjoy natural, homemade foods that support your gut health, energy, and well-being โ€” all with the tap of a button. Ferment Pro โ€” Smart, simple, and good for you.

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Sunpatch

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Every seed packet and plant label is written in hours of direct sun. Almost nobody knows what their own garden actually gets โ€” so the tomatoes go in the shady corner and never ripen. Sunpatch answers the question with a number. MEASURE YOUR OWN SKYLINE Other sun apps show you where the sun is. That is the easy half. The half that decides whether anything grows is what stands in the way: the fence, the garage, next door's lime tree. Point your phone at the top of each one, or enter its height and distance, and Sunpatch builds the skyline around that exact spot. REAL HOURS, ANY DAY OF THE YEAR The app walks the day minute by minute and counts only the light that actually reaches you. You get the total, the first and last sun, the longest unbroken stretch โ€” and the same figures for every day of the year, so you can see the bed that bakes in July sit in shadow from October. FULL SUN OR PART SHADE, SETTLED Sunpatch classes each spot the way plant labels do: full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade. Then it matches 135 plants โ€” vegetables, herbs, fruit, flowers, shrubs, houseplants and lawn โ€” against the light you actually have, and tells you plainly what will not work. WHAT IF YOU CUT THAT TREE BACK Tap any obstruction and see exactly how many hours removing it would give you. Sometimes it is two hours. Often it is nothing at all โ€” which is worth knowing before anyone reaches for a saw. DECIDUOUS TREES ARE HANDLED PROPERLY A bare lime tree in February is not the same obstruction as the same tree in July. Sunpatch drops it to a bare canopy outside the leaf season, and counts dappled light at what it is worth instead of rounding it to nothing. THE SUN COACH Ask what to plant, why something is struggling, or how to win back an hour. It answers from the numbers you measured, not from generic advice. The Coach is the one part of Sunpatch that runs on a server instead of your phone, so it needs Pro and a free account. WORKS OFFLINE, AND WITHOUT SIGNING IN Every calculation runs on your phone using the NOAA solar algorithm, so measuring, the charts, the whole year and the plant library all work in aeroplane mode with no account at all. Signing in is optional and does one thing: it backs your spots up, so a lost phone is not a lost season. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. SUNPATCH PRO The free app measures one spot completely. Pro adds unlimited spots, the Sun Coach, what-if on every obstruction and the full year on any date. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Sunpatch Pro is offered as a monthly or a yearly auto-renewable subscription. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://szymdzie.github.io/sunpatch/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://szymdzie.github.io/sunpatch/privacy.html

Screenshots

Ferment Pro4 screens
Sunpatch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ferment Pro at none against Sunpatch's 2. Ferment Pro also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, 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. Sunpatch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Ferment Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ferment Pro ships an update weekly, Sunpatch monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Ferment Pro versus Sunpatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFerment ProSunpatch
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size88 MB67 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBLUE BIRD MEDIA & MARKETING SOLUTIONS, INC.Szymon Dziedzic

In-app purchases

None

Ferment Pro

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Sunpatch

Subscriptions2
  • Sunpatch Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Sunpatch Pro Yearly$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Ferment Pro free?
Ferment Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sunpatch free?
Sunpatch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ferment Pro or Sunpatch have ads?
Neither Ferment Pro nor Sunpatch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ferment Pro or Sunpatch?
Ferment Pro ships an update weekly, and Sunpatch monthly. Most recently, Ferment Pro was updated on October 18, 2026 and Sunpatch on October 14, 2026.

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