Comparison

Plotly vs Book of Life

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

Head to head
About

Plotly

This app helps you plan and manage your garden by organizing spaces, tracking plants, and scheduling essential tasks. It simplifies garden maintenance with reminders and task tracking for various plant care activities.

Highlights
  • Organize garden spaces
  • Track plants and varieties
  • Schedule watering, feeding, and pruning
  • Set due dates and reminders
  • Automatic task repetition
  • View daily and overdue tasks
Features
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Plotly is a simple garden planner for real life. Organise your garden spaces, keep track of plants, and stay on top of jobs without using spreadsheets or messy notes. Create spaces like beds, pots, borders, greenhouse areas, and indoor growing spots. Add plants to each space, record useful details, and schedule tasks so you know what needs doing and when. Plotly helps you: - Organise garden spaces - Track plants and varieties - Add watering, feeding, pruning, sowing, transplanting, harvesting, deadheading, weed checks, and pest checks - Set due dates and reminders - Repeat regular tasks automatically - See what is due today, overdue, or completed Whether you are growing flowers, herbs, vegetables, or just trying to keep your garden under control, Plotly makes planning easier.

About

Book of Life

Features
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Book of Life is a smart diary that helps you remember. Write a sentence or two about your day. That's all it takes. Book of Life reads what you wrote and quietly keeps track of the people you saw, the places you went, how you felt, and the moments that mattered. Over time it turns your entries into a private map of your life: โ€ข Timeline โ€” everything you've written, in order โ€ข Graph โ€” a living web of the people, places, and themes in your days โ€ข Patterns โ€” gentle weekly reflections you might not have noticed โ€ข Soul Cards โ€” a small portrait of who you've been, one week at a time No streaks to chase. No feed to scroll. Just a calm, private place to put down your days and look back whenever you want. Your entries are yours. Export everything, anytime. Available in English and Thai.

Screenshots

Plotly4 screens
Book of Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Book of Life at weekly against Plotly's every 3 months. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plotly ships an update every 3 months, Book of Life weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
Plotly versus Book of Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlotlyBook of Life
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size39 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNatasha CardBenjamin Lim84688002411

In-app purchases

None

Plotly

No in-app purchases

None

Book of Life

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plotly free?
Plotly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Book of Life free?
Book of Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Plotly or Book of Life have ads?
Neither Plotly nor Book of Life shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plotly or Book of Life?
Plotly ships an update every 3 months, and Book of Life weekly. Most recently, Plotly was updated on October 31, 2026 and Book of Life on October 31, 2026.

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