Comparison

Productive Garden vs Root & Row

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

Head to head
About

Productive Garden

This app simplifies garden planning by automatically scheduling planting and tasks based on your vegetable needs, available space, and local growing seasons. It tracks plant growth, manages seeds, and provides guidance on companion planting and crop rotation.

Highlights
  • Automated garden scheduling
  • Vegetable needs planning
  • Growth tracking and task reminders
  • Seed and consumable management
  • Companion and incompatible vegetable guidance
  • Local growing season calculation
  • Crop rotation assistance
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No need to plan your garden, organize your seeds, or figure out succession planting. Just tell the app your vegetable needs, and it will plan and schedule your garden based on your needs and available space. Or, if you enjoy planning your garden yourself, you can do it manually too. • Automatically schedules sowing/transplanting based on your needs, ideal growing seasons, and available space, ensuring harvests that match your needs. • Tracks the growth of your vegetables and reminds you of daily gardening tasks. • Keeps track of seeds and other gardening consumables. • Manage GARDEN TOWERS/VERTICAL PLANTERS. • Add custom tasks to the vegetables for better care. • Add general gardening tasks to organize and manage your garden effectively. • Shows previous crops in each bed during sowing/transplanting to simplify crop rotation. • Highlights companion and incompatible vegetables to guide planting decisions. • Generates a list of materials needed for upcoming gardening tasks. • Record sun maps for better planting decisions. • Automatically calculates local growing seasons for vegetables using your location's historical temperature data. • Choose between ‘MANUAL' mode, where you plan everything yourself, or ‘BASED ON NEEDS' mode, where the app plans and schedules your garden for you based on your vegetable needs, ideal growing seasons, and available space.(Set the mode in Settings.) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XdaEMZJdXdfTjxrl662MqIXlQz3AOkLAbslqshxw3xg/edit?usp=sharing Best experienced on iPad Pro. The information of preloaded vegetables may not be accurate for your location. Please share your feedback to help us improve the app.

About

Root & Row

Features
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Root & Row was built by a gardener, for gardeners. Not by a software company that’s never had dirt under its fingernails — by someone who knows the ache of a spring backache, the heartbreak of a late frost, and the quiet triumph of the first ripe tomato. PLAN YOUR PLOTS, NOT JUST YOUR PLANTS • Draw your actual garden beds — any size, even pots • Automatic layout planning fits your chosen crops into real bed space, with pathways where you need them • Spacing, depth and quantity guidance scaled to your plot size and household size • Rearrange visually until it feels right YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR PLANTS • You don’t need a database of 10,000 plants — you need the ones YOU want to grow • Add any plant and one tap pulls everything: spacing, sunlight, sowing dates, quantities — even a hand-painted illustration (Pro) KNOW YOUR ZONE — ANYWHERE ON EARTH • Enter a zip code or any town worldwide and Root & Row finds your hardiness zone and frost dates — even south of the equator • Planting windows and reminders are anchored to YOUR climate, not a generic calendar NEVER MISS A GARDEN MOMENT • Sowing, transplanting, hardening-off and harvest reminders • A satisfying tap-to-complete flow that keeps you moving • A built-in knowledge base for most common vegetables and herbs — including Asian vegetables most apps forget ROOT & ROW PRO — THE SMART-GARDENING TOOLKIT • 7-day local forecast with soil temperature — know when the ground is truly ready • AI growing suggestions tuned to your plants, your weather and your zone: watering, pests, fertilizer schedules, succession sowing • Plant Identifier: snap up to three photos and put a name to any mystery seedling • Auto-fill growing data for any custom plant you add — one tap pulls the numbers and paints a watercolor illustration to match Root & Row Pro is $4.99/month, or $34.99/year (save 42%). Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled; manage anytime in your App Store account settings. The free version is a complete garden planner — no account, no ads, your data stays on your device. Dig in. Your best season starts with a good plan. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Productive Garden4 screens
Root & Row4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Productive Garden at every 2 days against Root & Row's every 9 days. Productive Garden also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Productive Garden sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Root & Row sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Productive Garden ships an update every 2 days, Root & Row every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Productive Garden versus Root & Row: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProductive GardenRoot & Row
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbhijit DhavateZHICONG FU

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Productive Garden

Subscriptions2
  • All Access (1 Month)$2.991 Month
  • All Access (1 Year)$24.991 Year
2 purchases

Root & Row

Subscriptions2
  • Root & Row Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Root & Row Pro Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Productive Garden free?
Productive Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Root & Row free?
Root & Row is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Productive Garden or Root & Row have ads?
Neither Productive Garden nor Root & Row shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Productive Garden or Root & Row?
Productive Garden ships an update every 2 days, and Root & Row every 9 days. Most recently, Productive Garden was updated on October 28, 2026 and Root & Row on October 25, 2026.

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