GrowWise vs SimpleGrow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GrowWise
This intelligent garden planner simplifies square foot gardening and companion planting. It offers personalized guidance, a botanical seed library, and location-based planting calendars to help you create high-yield, low-maintenance gardens.
- Smart companion planting suggestions
- Square foot gardening grid layout
- Extensive botanical seed library
- Location-based planting calendar
- Printable garden inventory and layouts
- Seed starting and transplanting guidance
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GrowWise turns your real garden into a living plan: beds to the square foot, a seed box you actually use, and companion planting you can see. Tap a plant. See what belongs beside it. New Companion Mode lets you compare several plants at once and find seeds that work with all of them. PLAN BEDS LIKE THE REAL THING Create raised beds by width and length in feet. Plant vegetables and herbs on a 1-foot grid, undo freely, and keep multiple gardens for different yards or seasons. PLANT WHAT GROWS WELL TOGETHER Green rings mark companions. Red rings mark plants to keep apart. Filter the Seed Box to companions of a plant in the bed—or use Companion Mode to find seeds compatible with a whole grouping. PLANT ON TIME FOR YOUR ZONE Set your location to load USDA growing zone plus last and first frost dates. The planting calendar shows when to start indoors, direct sow, and transplant. Filter seeds by Start now, Sow now, or Transplant now. KEEP A GARDEN YOU CAN TAKE OUTSIDE Open inventory for a seed list, growing notes, and symbol key you can print. Track plantings from seed to harvest, and save seed for next year. GrowWise is built for home vegetable gardeners who want a plan that matches the soil they actually have. Free includes one garden bed (up to 10×10 ft) and the full seed catalog. GrowWise Premium unlocks unlimited beds, larger beds, and custom seeds.
SimpleGrow
Plan your garden with personalized schedules based on local frost dates. Design raised beds, identify plants, and diagnose issues with AI tools. Access expert courses and webinars to improve your gardening skills.
- Personalized planting schedules
- Raised bed layout designer
- AI plant identification
- Pest and disease diagnosis
- Expert gardening courses
- Companion planting suggestions
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Know exactly what to plant - and when. SimpleGrow turns your location's real frost dates into a personalized planting schedule so nothing goes in the ground too early, too late, or in the wrong spot. Used by home gardeners growing vegetables, herbs, and food for their families. SMART PLANTING SCHEDULES • Personalized to your exact zip code and frost dates • Seed starting, transplanting, and harvest reminders • Spring and fall calendars with succession planting GARDEN LAYOUT PLANNER • Visual raised bed designer with drag-and-drop • Companion planting suggestions (friends and enemies) • Auto-generates layouts based on your plant list AI-POWERED TOOLS • Identify plants and diagnose problems from a photo • Pest and disease diagnosis • Pet-safe plant checker LEARN FROM EXPERTS • Video courses on regenerative gardening • Monthly live webinars with expert gardeners • Soil health and composting guides --- Try free for 14 days --- $9.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime. Terms of Use: https://simplegrow.org/terms Privacy Policy: https://simplegrow.org/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GrowWise at weekly against SimpleGrow's every 2 weeks. SimpleGrow's advantage is ratings volume (7 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
Both are free to download. GrowWise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and SimpleGrow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GrowWise against 5.0 for SimpleGrow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleGrow has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GrowWise ships an update weekly, SimpleGrow every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GrowWise | SimpleGrow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jessie Lacey | Angel Abreu |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
GrowWise
- GrowWise Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
- GrowWise Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$69.99
SimpleGrow
- SimpleGrow Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- SimpleGrow Premium Annual$89.991 Year









