Growbert vs GardenBinder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Growbert
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Growbert documents, organizes, and analyzes your entire grow — from germination to harvest and curing. No account, no trackers, no compromises. TODAY: YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE The start screen shows what's due: watering, phase changes, reminders. "Water all" handles everything due with one tap. Plus a notice inbox, your grows, and the latest photos. QUICK LOG IN SECONDS Water, feed, photo, or note — from the plant list, the detail page, or the journal, with undo. "More actions" opens the full form: pH/EC, fertilizer with dosage, climate, repotting, training, inspection, light change. Batch entry documents several plants at once. GROWS WITH ENVIRONMENT Light, substrate, light cycle, and room belong to the grow. Plants inherit the environment automatically and can override it individually. Create plants in two steps — step 1 is enough to save, several at once if you like. 5 GROWTH PHASES Follow your plants through seedling, vegetative, bloom, ripening, and harvest. Automatic day counting, a phase strip that suggests the next phase, and harvest countdown included. JOURNAL: LIST, CALENDAR, PHOTOS All entries in one tab — as a list, in a calendar, or as photos, with a shared filter by grow or plant. The same views live in each plant's journal, while the profile bundles strain, environment, planning, harvest, and statistics. 10 TRAINING METHODS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS Topping, FIM, LST, ScrOG, SOG, mainlining, supercropping, defoliation, lollipopping, and schwazzing — with stress level, difficulty rating, and recommended phase. HARVEST & CURING Record wet and dry weight, quality rating, and tasting notes. The 4-phase curing timer automatically reminds you to burp your jars. The harvest archive compares your grows. EXTENSIVE CATALOGS Over 900 strains with genetics, THC, CBD, and bloom time. Plus grow lights, fertilizers, substrates, and a pest catalog. A favorite star in every row, your own products any time. AC INFINITY CLIMATE DATA Import CSV files from your AC Infinity controller. Growbert automatically aggregates temperature, humidity, and VPD into daily values. 7 EXPORT FORMATS PDF report, CSV, ZIP, HTML, printable grow book in 3 designs (Botanica, Noir, Field Notes), BBCode, and Markdown for forums. Plus QR codes for every plant. WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Three widgets show your most urgent task, all active plants, or current climate data. On Apple Watch you water and feed with one tap, including burp timer and complications. PRIVACY & SECURITY All data stays on your device. No account, no tracking, no ads. Optional iCloud sync, Face ID protection, and full backup/restore. Notices appear as a brief toast or in the inbox — never as a pop-up. 3 languages: German, English, Spanish. GROWBERT PRO Free: 2 plants, 1 grow, 1 room. Growbert Pro unlocks unlimited plants, grows, and rooms – as an auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscription or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.growbert.com/privacy.html
GardenBinder
Organize your entire garden in one place, tracking plants, beds, photos, and care tasks. Plan your seasons, map your property, and review past harvests and projects. Offers a free tier with premium subscription options for advanced features.
- Plant profiles with history and location
- Yard mapping with beds and plant placement
- Care schedule with weather-based advice
- Seasonal planning with sowing calendars
- Photo journal for harvests and projects
- Supply and purchase tracking
- Plant identification assistance
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GardenBinder is the one place your whole garden lives: every plant, bed, photo, care task, seed packet, and season, kept together and carried forward year after year. Most gardening apps identify a plant or remind you to water a houseplant. GardenBinder is for the garden outside your door — the beds you built, the hydrangeas you planted three springs ago, the tomatoes that finally came in — and for everything you'd otherwise scatter across notes, photos, and memory. REMEMBER EVERYTHING • A profile for every plant: variety, where it lives, when it went in, how it's doing • Areas and beds that match your actual yard, so every plant has a place • A photo journal that files each harvest, bloom, project, and observation to its plant and bed • Growth and bloom tracking that becomes a history you never had to write SEE YOUR WHOLE PROPERTY • Draw your yard to scale: house, patio, paths, beds, trees • Tap any bed to open its plants, soil, and history • Pin journal moments where they happened KNOW WHAT TO DO • A care schedule that knows the season and shifts with the forecast • Today's weather translated into plain advice: water before the heat, hold off on spraying, frost is 40 days out • Overdue, due, and coming up, with one-tap done, right from the Home screen PLAN THE SEASON • A seed library with a sowing calendar counted back from your frost date • Chill, start indoors, direct sow, and harvest windows on one timeline • Sowings tracked from tray to bed, with germination rate and cost per seedling LOOK BACK • Memories: this week in years past, back on its anniversary • Then & Now comparisons of the same bed, years apart • Season recaps written from your own entries CAPTURE FASTER • Point the camera at a plant and let identification draft the profile; you review, then save • Photograph seed packets and receipts to fill in records (Premium) KEEP THE PRACTICAL RECORDS TOO • Supplies: what's in the shed, what's running low, where it's stored • Purchases: receipts, vendors, budgets, and what the season cost • Water: irrigation zones, rain barrels, gauge readings, and history against rainfall • Soil tests, amendments, mulch, and lawn care YOURS • Free to start: your first garden — 15 plants, 100 photos, beds and journal entries without limit, this season's story • Export everything as a complete backup, any time • Delete your account and all of its data in one step • No ads. No trackers. Already keep your garden somewhere else? Bring it in from a spreadsheet, a pasted plant list, or screenshots of another app, and review every plant before it's saved. Some features are part of GardenBinder Premium, an optional auto-renewing subscription (yearly or monthly). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://gardenbinder.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://gardenbinder.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: GardenBinder at 15.0 against Growbert's 17.6. On price, update cadence, 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. Growbert sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and GardenBinder sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Growbert ships an update every 4 days, GardenBinder every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Growbert | GardenBinder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lars Schnell | Benjamin Amerault |
In-app purchases
Growbert
- Growbert Pro$0.991 Month
- Growbert Pro$8.991 Year
- Growbert Pro Lifetime$14.99
GardenBinder
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year









