Comparison

Gardinator vs VitalTiles

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

Head to head
About

Gardinator

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Gardinator helps you plan, plant, and track your garden โ€” bed by bed, season after season. MAP YOUR BEDS Lay out every row and section of your garden visually. See at a glance what's growing where, what's been harvested, and what space is still open. SCAN SEED PACKETS Point your camera at any seed packet and Gardinator reads the plant name, variety, and days to harvest automatically. No typing required. TRACK FROM SEED TO TABLE Log planting dates, mark plants as active or harvested, and get reminders when your harvest window is approaching. GARDEN TOGETHER Invite a partner, family member, or neighbour with a 6-character code. Everyone sees the same garden in real time, with credit for who planted what. BUILT FOR REAL GARDENERS From a few pots on a balcony to a large market garden โ€” Gardinator adapts to your space and the way you actually grow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://gardinator.com/eula.html

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VitalTiles

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VitalTiles puts health data from Apple Health on your Apple Watch as a complication โ€” including the metrics Apple provides no complication for: walking speed, walking steadiness, heart rate recovery, respiratory rate, VOโ‚‚ max, wrist temperature, environmental sound and thirty others. On your phone you open a dashboard: your step goal at the top, what matters today below it, and four topics to drill into. Walking โ€” steps, distance, pace, step length, walking steadiness Sleep โ€” duration, deep and REM sleep, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, wrist temperature Heart โ€” resting heart rate, HRV, VOโ‚‚ max, heart rate recovery, blood pressure Environment โ€” daylight, environmental sound, UV index, falls Six complications, in every shape your watch face supports: โ€ข Health metric โ€” choose which value you want to see โ€ข Goals โ€” three daily goals as rings โ€ข Streak โ€” how many days in a row you met your step goal โ€ข Your energy โ€” how you are doing compared with your own average โ€ข Coach โ€” what matters today โ€ข Needs attention โ€” automatically shows the metric that stands out On your home screen there are widgets too, up to a tile where movement, sleep and heart run through your week together. In Messages you share your steps in a single tap. Ask Siri for your reading, or put your steps in Control Center. If you use a wheelchair, VitalTiles counts pushes and wheelchair distance instead of steps โ€” just as Apple Health does. A step goal that fits you The 10,000 steps you see everywhere came from a product, not from research: a 1965 Japanese pedometer called the "manpo-kei", literally 10,000-step meter. Recent research shows most of the health benefit is already reached around 7,000 steps. VitalTiles works out a goal based on your age and your current average, and explains where it comes from โ€” citing the research it is based on. Associations from your own measurements After two weeks of wear, the app compares your active days with your quiet days and reports what that does to your sleep and heart rate. Only when the difference is large enough to mean something. Better to report nothing than to present a coincidence as an insight. A report for your doctor A PDF with your name, date of birth, the measurement period, how many data points there are per value, and where the numbers come from โ€” including what a consumer watch can and cannot do. Without interpretation: that is a doctor's work. Thirty-five metrics, explained Every number comes with what it means, what is typical for your age, and what that is based on. No figures without context. What the app does not do โ€ข No ads, not even in the free version โ€ข At most one notification a day, and never to nudge you โ€ข Your health data stays on your device; no account, no analytics service โ€ข No account, no sign-in Free and Plus Free forever: all watch face complications, your daily numbers in the app, the step goal, the health signals, and one month of trend history. With Plus: the widgets on your Home Screen, associations from your own data, trends over a year, the doctor's report, the build-up program, working out what moving more would gain you, and notifications. You get two weeks of full access without payment details. Then you decide. Not a medical device. VitalTiles makes no diagnosis and replaces no examination. If you have symptoms, contact your doctor. Terms of Use (EULA): https://ictth.nl/vitaltiles-eula.html Privacy Policy: https://ictth.nl/vitaltiles-privacy.html

Screenshots

Gardinator4 screens
VitalTiles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Gardinator at 15.1 against VitalTiles's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Gardinator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and VitalTiles sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Gardinator versus VitalTiles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGardinatorVitalTiles
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size47 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSean ArnoldThijs de Hoop

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Gardinator

Subscriptions2
  • Gardinator Pro โ€“ Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Gardinator Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
2 purchases

VitalTiles

Subscriptions2
  • Yearly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Gardinator free?
Gardinator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VitalTiles free?
VitalTiles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gardinator or VitalTiles have ads?
Neither Gardinator nor VitalTiles shows ads.

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