Comparison

Tomato Journal vs Lime Log

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

Head to head
About

Tomato Journal

Log your tomato harvests, track plant performance, and build a seasonal garden record. Save recipes, share your bounty, and manage your seed inventory. View past seasons and compare varieties to optimize your future harvests.

Highlights
  • Plant and harvest logging
  • Seasonal garden record keeping
  • Variety performance tracking
  • Recipe collection
  • Harvest sharing tools
  • Seed inventory management
  • Data export to spreadsheet
Features
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The Tomato App for Tomato People. Track every plant you grow, log your harvests, and build a record of your garden that gets more valuable every season. When next year comes around, you'll know exactly which varieties performed, how much you harvested, and what's worth growing again. GARDEN TAB Add your plants and arrange them in the order you walk your garden. Document the season as you go — journal entries, photos, and harvest logs, plant by plant. YIELDS TAB See your season at a glance — total weight, fruit count, harvest events, and a full log of every harvest across all your varieties. Track your biggest individual tomatoes on the Heaviest Tomatoes leaderboard. SEASONS TAB Review each season's full story — harvest timeline, variety breakdown, and side-by-side comparison with previous years. Capture your Season Highlights — now with 7 awards, from Best Tasting to Most Prolific — build your Season Photo Gallery, export everything as a spreadsheet, and turn it all into a shareable Season Wrap. VARIETIES TAB Your complete variety history, built automatically from your records. See lifetime yields, average days to maturity, multi-season performance, breeder and series information, seed inventory, and a photo gallery for each variety. MORE FEATURES -Recipes — save tomato dishes by photo, screenshot, or text, with categories, cooked tracking, and ratings -Share your harvest — create eye-catching posts for Instagram, Facebook, or anywhere you like -Season Wrap — turn your season's stats, awards, and highlights into a shareable graphic -Variety Photo Gallery — build a photo record for each variety across seasons -Season Photo Gallery — capture your season beyond individual plants -Photos for each plant — location, fruit exterior, fruit interior -Journal entries with voice and camera — log to multiple plants at once -Seed inventory — track purchased, saved, traded, and gifted seed lots per variety -Garden regions to organize your space -Export your full season data as a spreadsheet — plants, harvests, journal entries, seed inventory, and more -Syncs across all your Apple devices via iCloud PRICING Free for your first year — no credit card required. After that, $3.99/year to keep adding new data. Your existing records are always yours to view, free forever. No ads. No trackers. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://mistercorbett.com/#privacy-tomato Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Lime Log

Manage home maintenance tasks and details effortlessly. Track maintenance history, costs, and important information for various assets like houses and vehicles. Prioritize tasks based on urgency and available time, without nagging notifications.

Highlights
  • Home maintenance tracking
  • Task prioritization
  • Customizable fields
  • Offline functionality
  • Starter checklists
  • Asset organization
Features
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Everything about your home, in your pocket. Notes, details, and tasks for everything in your house. On your phone, when you need them. Home maintenance, minus the stress. Sized to the time you have. There is always something to do on a house, and you have a life. The urgent stuff finds you. Everything else waits for a free morning, and the dread comes from not knowing what's waiting or how much of it there is. Lime Log keeps one list for the whole house, tracks how long it has been since you last did each thing, and sorts by what needs attention. Pick the time you have, from 15 minutes to a full day, and it shows what fits. Some of it has been a while. That's normal. Lime Log doesn't count it against you and doesn't send a badge. It knows what's waiting. It doesn't nag. First home? Starter tasks come with it. Your future self will thank you. The filter size. When the water heater went in, who did it, what it cost. Which breaker is the well pump. How the sprinkler hooks up in spring. Write it down once, on the thing itself, where you'll look for it. Add any field you want. Attach the manual and the receipt. It opens in the basement with no signal, because it never needed one. Anything you maintain. A house, a car, a beach house, a bicycle. Organize a home by floor and room, or don't. The list works either way. Starter checklists cover homes and vehicles; everything else starts blank and grows as you add to it. Each place is its own asset with its own list, so the cabin's notes never end up mixed in with the house's. No badge counts, no overdue lists, no account. It tells you how long it's been and lets you pick. It works as long as you have your phone. No signal, no account, no cloud needed. No ads, no affiliate links. One asset is included. Unlock additional assets with a one-time purchase. From the developer: I didn't have a central place for any of this. A spreadsheet could work, but a spreadsheet lives on a laptop, and I never have a laptop when I'm doing home maintenance. The apps I tried had some of the pieces, but I couldn't add a field. Why can't I record the date I connected the dishwasher to the wifi? So I built the one I wanted. Write it down once. Your future self will thank you.

Screenshots

Tomato Journal4 screens
Lime Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Tomato Journal at 6 against Lime Log's 1. Lime Log's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tomato Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and Lime Log sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tomato Journal against 5.0 for Lime Log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tomato Journal has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tomato Journal versus Lime Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTomato JournalLime Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBRIAN JAMES CORBETTLucky Dog Collective, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tomato Journal

Subscriptions1
  • Tomato Journal Pro$3.991 Year
1 purchases

Lime Log

One-time1
  • Lime Log Pro$24.99

Questions

Is Tomato Journal free?
Tomato Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lime Log free?
Lime Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tomato Journal or Lime Log?
Tomato Journal and Lime Log are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tomato Journal or Lime Log have ads?
Neither Tomato Journal nor Lime Log shows ads.

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