Comparison

Garden Connect vs Sylvae

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

Head to head
About

Garden Connect

This app helps you plan and manage your garden with daily recommendations for watering, sowing, planting, and harvesting. It uses local weather data and agronomic models to provide personalized advice and track your garden's health.

Highlights
  • Daily garden plan
  • Garden health score
  • Smart watering
  • Sowing, planting, and harvest calendar
  • Disease and pest prevention
  • Soil moisture estimation
  • Connected device integration
Features
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Garden Connect builds your garden's plan, day by day: what to water, sow, plant, protect and harvest, calculated for your plants and your local weather with real agronomic models. Works with a Premium subscription, after a free trial period. Joining a friend's or family member's garden stays free. Available in French and English. 1. CREATE YOUR GARDEN FROM YOUR ADDRESS Your address is enough: Garden Connect pulls 10 years of local weather archives to know your real frost dates, and follows the forecast every day. 2. DRAW AND SET UP YOUR GARDEN Draw your garden's outline, then its zones. Add your plants, and set the soil, exposure and watering type of each zone. The app tells you what's missing to make its recommendations more precise. 3. FOLLOW YOUR PLAN Every day, your actions grouped by type: watering, crops, protection, harvest, care. Mark them done, the plan adjusts. Choose your goals (harvest, maintain, develop, follow) and tell the app if you garden mostly at weekends. Behind the plan: FAO-56 water balance (the UN standard) for watering, degree-days for sowing, planting and harvest dates (based on your real planting date, with succession sowing), and epidemiological models for 270 diseases and pests. 4. TRACK YOUR GARDEN'S HEALTH A score from 0 to 100 sums up water, weather, diseases and diversity. Soil moisture is estimated without a sensor. Monthly and yearly reports show your actions, water saved, weather records and disease risks. Connected sprinklers and sensors (Gardena, Netatmo) add precision and automate watering. • Daily garden plan • Garden health score • Smart watering • Sowing, planting and harvest calendar • Disease and pest prevention • Garden care • Soil moisture without a sensor • Monthly and yearly reports • Connected devices: Gardena, Netatmo • Shared gardens • Two-factor authentication • Available in French and English Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Sylvae

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Sylvae is your digital herbarium: every plant you encounter becomes a memory, preserved forever in your collection. Photograph a flower or a leaf. Sylvae automatically removes the background, identifies the plant using on-device AI, and adds it to your herbarium—a digital glass frame that grows with every walk. HOW IT WORKS — Photograph a flower or a leaf — Automatic background removal — On-device AI identifies the plant in under 100 ms: common name, scientific name, family, and flowering season — Instantly added to your collection as a digital glass specimen 100% OFFLINE. 100% ON YOUR DEVICE. All AI runs entirely on your device. No photos are ever sent to a server. No account required. AN INTERFACE THAT BREATHES Liquid Glass gives Sylvae a living, translucent feel, fading into the background so your collection takes center stage. A HERBARIUM, NOT A CATALOG Every plant keeps the date and location where you discovered it, allowing you to retrace your walks and reconnect, photo by photo, with the nature around you. WHO IT'S FOR Curious city dwellers, hikers, gardeners, nature lovers—anyone who wants to remember the plants they encounter. Download Sylvae. Every plant you encounter deserves to be remembered.

Screenshots

Garden Connect4 screens
Sylvae4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sylvae at none against Garden Connect's 2. Garden Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Garden Connect sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Sylvae asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Garden Connect versus Sylvae: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarden ConnectSylvae
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB178 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNICOLAS OLIVIER ANDRE HANQUEZCOMMAND+F

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Garden Connect

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$6.991 Month
  • Premium14 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Sylvae

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garden Connect free?
Garden Connect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sylvae free?
Sylvae is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garden Connect or Sylvae have ads?
Neither Garden Connect nor Sylvae shows ads.

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