Leaftide vs TreeSmith
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leaftide
Plan and track your garden with a comprehensive tool. Record planting details, create custom layouts, and receive climate-specific planting calendars and care reminders. Build a history of your garden's success season after season.
- Plant catalog with 1,200+ species
- Drag-and-drop garden layout designer
- Climate-specific planting calendar
- Care history and reminders
- Companion planting suggestions
- Container and small space gardening
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Leaftide is a garden planner for everything you grow: fruit trees, berry bushes, perennials, vegetables and containers. Record what you planted, where and when, and build a history that makes each season easier than the last. The catalog has 1,200+ plants and 1,500+ named varieties. Planting and harvest dates come from your local frost dates. The free plan covers 30 permanent plants and 15 seasonal plantings a season. Fruit trees and perennials, year after year Keep a care record for every fruit tree, berry bush and perennial. Log when you pruned, fertilized or divided, so next year you know what worked and what didn't. Leaftide works as a fruit tree tracker and a record of the rest of the garden at the same time. Plan your garden layout Draw your yard in the drag-and-drop designer: raised beds, rows, a square foot garden, pots on the patio, or a community garden plot mapped bed by bed. Spacing guidance shows how much room each plant needs, so the garden layout on screen matches what fits in the ground. A planting calendar for your climate Enter your location and Leaftide works out your frost dates. Seed starting windows, transplant dates and harvest times are based on where you garden instead of a generic zone chart. Your season on a timeline Every planting shows predicted dates for each growth stage. You can see the whole season at a glance, plan succession plantings and spot gaps from seed to harvest. The varieties you actually grow Log 'Cherokee Purple' tomatoes rather than just 'tomato', with planting dates, locations and notes. Over the years this turns into your own record of which varieties do well in your garden. Companion planting See which plants grow well together and which to keep apart when you fill a bed. Care reminders Set recurring reminders for watering, fertilizing, pruning and spraying, and get a notification when each one is due. Containers and small spaces Track pots, grow bags, balcony gardens and greenhouses alongside your beds. Who uses Leaftide • Fruit tree and orchard growers looking after dozens of trees • Raised bed gardeners who want a raised bed planner that keeps every planting and harvest • Vegetable gardeners who want a vegetable garden planner with last year's notes in it • Mixed gardeners growing vegetables, flowers and permanent plants together • Anyone who wants to remember what they planted where Free plan The free plan has no trial and no expiration date: up to 30 permanent plants (fruit trees, shrubs, perennials) and 15 seasonal plantings each season. Pro lifts those limits and adds the premium features. Leaftide is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch and Italian. Your garden is also on the web, in any browser. Terms of Use: https://leaftide.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://leaftide.com/privacy
TreeSmith
This app helps fruit tree collectors and propagators meticulously track every graft, scion, and activity for their plants. It features a photo journal, activity log, and an interactive GPS map of your garden. Manage your entire collection with detailed cataloging and export options.
- Graft tracking with photos and source details
- Photo journal for plant growth over seasons
- Activity log for watering, fertilizing, and more
- Interactive GPS garden map
- Detailed plant cataloging
- Data export to CSV/JSON
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TreeSmith is the plant app built for collectors, propagators and orchard keepers, not just houseplant care. Track every graft, scion, photo and activity for every plant in your collection, and pin them to an interactive GPS map of your garden. WHY COLLECTORS CHOOSE TREESMITH Most plant apps assume you have ten succulents and forget to water them. TreeSmith assumes you have a hundred fruit trees, know exactly when each one was grafted, and want to remember which rootstock came from where. GRAFT TRACKING Record each graft with its own photos, scion source, rootstock, date and status. Search by source nursery, cultivar or year. The feature serious propagators have been asking plant apps for, for years. PHOTO JOURNAL Capture growth over time. Photos auto-organise by stage: flowering, fruiting, harvest and beyond. Look back across seasons in a single tap. ACTIVITY LOG Watering, fertilising, pruning, repotting, pest treatments, pollination, harvesting. Log what you did, when, and on which plant. Build a real record instead of relying on memory. GPS GARDEN MAP Drop every plant on an interactive map of your garden. Reposition by tap. Find that one cultivar you planted last winter without walking the whole block. CATALOGUE PROPERLY Scientific names, common names, source nursery, acquisition date, status and notes. Export everything to CSV or JSON whenever you want. Your data stays yours. FREE OR PRO Free: up to 30 plants, one location, photos, activity log, GPS map, local backup and export. Pro, a one-time purchase: unlimited plants, multiple locations, reminders and bulk operations. Cloud Backup is an optional yearly subscription that requires Pro: automatic backups and restore on a new device. Invited members of partner gardening clubs unlock Pro automatically when they sign in. BUILT BY AND FOR THE RARE FRUIT COMMUNITY TreeSmith is built by a Perth rare-fruit grower and shaped by feedback from collectors who actually use it. If you have ever wished a plant app understood what a scion exchange was, this one does. Get TreeSmith free, add your collection, and never lose track of a graft again. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Cloud Backup is a yearly auto-renewing subscription (A$9.99/year in Australia, prices vary by region and are shown in the app before you buy). It requires TreeSmith Pro, a separate one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://treesmith.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://treesmith.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TreeSmith at 5.0 against Leaftide's 4.8. TreeSmith also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Leaftide's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Leaftide sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and TreeSmith sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TreeSmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Leaftide ships an update fortnightly, TreeSmith weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Leaftide | TreeSmith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joao Pedro Bragatti Winckler | Benedict Noel |
Customer experience
Leaftide
TreeSmith
In-app purchases
Leaftide
- Leaftide Pro Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Leaftide Pro Yearly$60.001 Year
- Leaftide Lifetime Pro$169.99
TreeSmith
- Cloud Backup$5.991 Year
- TreeSmith Pro$24.99









