Comparison

Plotly vs Garden Planner Journal

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

Garden Planner Journal

Features
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Garden Planner Journal organizes the garden beds, planting dates, notes, and checklist items you enter. Add plans with a bed, sunlight details, dates, and notes; review upcoming checklist items; and use the Season Timeline to browse overdue, upcoming, and completed tasks plus past saved plan dates across every bed. From any saved Plantings card, use Copy planting details to reuse its crop, bed, sunlight, dates, and notes in an editable new plan. Saving the copy creates a fresh, incomplete standard checklist and leaves the source planting unchanged. Past saved dates are calendar records, not confirmation that garden work happened. Data stays in local app storage on your device, with no account or sync. Timeline dates come only from your saved plans and tasks; they are not a live forecast or an optimized harvest schedule. Garden Planner does not generate planting recommendations, identify plants, diagnose problems, or provide treatment, chemical, or professional horticultural advice.

Screenshots

Plotly4 screens
Garden Planner Journal3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Garden Planner Journal at every 2 weeks against Plotly's every 3 months. Plotly's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plotly ships an update every 3 months, Garden Planner Journal every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Plotly versus Garden Planner Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlotlyGarden Planner Journal
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size39 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNatasha CardShane Young

In-app purchases

None

Plotly

No in-app purchases

None

Garden Planner Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plotly free?
Plotly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Garden Planner Journal free?
Garden Planner Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Plotly or Garden Planner Journal have ads?
Neither Plotly nor Garden Planner Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plotly or Garden Planner Journal?
Plotly ships an update every 3 months, and Garden Planner Journal every 2 weeks. Most recently, Plotly was updated on September 17, 2026 and Garden Planner Journal on September 13, 2026.

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