Comparison

Plotly vs Sap

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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

Sap

This app helps gardeners discover new plants, plan their garden layouts, and visualize their designs. It offers tools for saving favorites, arranging plants in flexible spaces, and exploring different layout suggestions. Advanced features include catalog suggestions, shopping guidance, and private space visualizations.

Highlights
  • Plant discovery with photos and facts
  • Save favorite plants
  • Flexible garden space arrangement
  • Layout suggestions
  • Shopping guidance
  • Private space visualization
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Sap helps gardeners move from plant discovery to a more thoughtful plan. Discover plants through photos, Garden Fit, fun facts, and simple preferences. Save favorites, arrange them in flexible Spaces, and explore layouts with Random, Balance, or style-aware suggestions. Sap Lite and Sap Pro unlock the same paid planning tools, including Full Catalog suggestions, advanced filters, Sap Garden Plans, shopping guidance, and private Space Visualizations. Sap Pro includes a larger monthly AI allowance. Highlights: - Discover and compare plants - Save Like and Love lists - Filter by USDA hardiness zone - Build one- or two-column garden layouts - Keep plants in place while Pollinating a new mix - Create practical Sap Garden Guidance - Review shopping suggestions and nearby nursery options - Visualize a Plan in a private photo - Read concise care guidance in Sap Space Read Sap provides planning guidance and previews, not guarantees. Verify plant safety, hardiness, local inventory, pricing, and important landscaping choices with reliable local sources and qualified professionals. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled through Apple subscription management. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sap-plant-garden-planner.vercel.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Plotly4 screens
Sap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plotly at none against Sap's 2. Sap's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sap sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Plotly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plotly ships an update every 3 months, Sap weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Plotly versus Sap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlotlySap
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNatasha CardCHRISTIAN THUONG LOOFF

Customer experience

Plotly

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sap

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Plotly

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Sap

Subscriptions2
  • Sap Lite$4.991 Month
  • Sap Pro Monthly$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Plotly free?
Plotly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sap free?
Sap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plotly or Sap have ads?
Neither Plotly nor Sap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plotly or Sap?
Plotly ships an update every 3 months, and Sap weekly. Most recently, Plotly was updated on October 20, 2026 and Sap on October 12, 2026.

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