Garden vs PlantTrack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Garden
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GardenDiary: Your Ultimate Succulent Plant Journal & Care Tracker Do you often forget when you last watered your succulent? Do you want a beautiful way to document your plant's growth journey? GardenDiary is the perfect journaling app designed for all plant enthusiasts! Effortlessly track every detail of your plants, care activities, and essential information. Key Features: Daily Photo Journaling: Easily add photos for your succulent plants, with storage in the App Sandbox. Choose between taking a Photo or selecting from your Photo Library. View photos in full screen and Save to Photo Library for easy sharing and backup. Smart Care Reminders: The app automatically tracks your watering and maintenance history. If a plant hasn't been watered for over 7 days or maintained for over 14 days, a prominent Red Reminder will appear on the plant card. Priority: Watering Reminder (7 Days) > Maintenance Reminder (14 Days). Calendar View: All your diary entries are organized in a dedicated calendar, allowing you to quickly review daily care schedules。 Tap on any date to see which plants were watered, fertilized, or pruned。 Plant Data Management: Add & Edit Plants: Record essential details like Name (required), Nickname, Family, Species, Purchase Date/Location, and Notes。 Cover Photo: Set a representative photo for each plant to quickly identify them in the Garden list and detail views。 Validation: All fields have character limits, with real-time word count and required field checks。 Diary Entry Features: Multiple Activities: Besides photos and notes, you can log up to five care activities: Fertilizing (施肥), Weeding (除草), Pest Control (除蟲), Watering (澆水), and Pruning (修剪)。 Entry Editing: Modify existing diary entries at any time, including the date, photos, activities, and notes。 Notes: Support up to 500 characters for detailed textual observations。 Download GardenDiary now to organize your plant care journey and witness every beautiful moment of growth! https://github.com/xing0501/GardenDiary/blob/main/PrivacyPolicy.md https://github.com/xing0501/GardenDiary/blob/main/TermsofUse.md
PlantTrack
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Create multiple angles for each plant, such as “Overview,” “Close-up,” “Back,” “Roots,” and “Flowers,” and organize photos by angle. You can shoot while overlaying the previous photo, or fine-tune alignment after shooting, making it easier to keep records suited for growth comparison. Main features: - Photo records for each plant - Organization by angle - Shooting with previous-photo overlay - Post-shoot alignment adjustment - Time-lapse style photo preview - Video export - Import from photo library - Edit shooting date and time - Switch plant list views - iCloud sync - Backup - App icon customization With PlantTrack Plus, you can increase the number of plants and angles, use iCloud sync, backups, outline-based alignment, free transform, still-image ZIP export, and shooting assist tools. Record the changes of your precious plants more easily, more beautifully, and with greater peace of mind. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/plant-track Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlantTrack at none against Garden's 3. PlantTrack also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Garden sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. PlantTrack asks for nothing beyond the download.
Garden ships an update every 4 days, PlantTrack every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garden | PlantTrack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YU HSIN CHENG | REMI ARAIWA |
In-app purchases
Garden
- GardenDiary Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Quarterly$2.993 Months
- GardenDiary Pro - Yearly$12.991 Year
PlantTrack
No in-app purchases









