Comparison

Dibble vs Beekeeping Log

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

Head to head
About

Dibble

This gardening app creates a personalized planting calendar based on your location. It provides timely reminders for sowing, transplanting, and harvesting, and includes a garden journal to track your progress. Premium features offer advanced planning tools and plant care guidance.

Highlights
  • Personalized planting calendar by ZIP code
  • Seasonal planting and harvest reminders
  • Garden journal with photos
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Plant and disease identification
  • Bed layout planner
  • Houseplant care reminders
Features
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Know when to plant, wherever you garden. Dibble works out your local frost, heat and rain and builds a planting calendar for every crop, with a reminder when each task is due. No account, no forced trial, no plant limit on the free calendar, and your garden stays on your devices and in your own iCloud. Say where your garden is: use your location, search for your town or enter a postal code. Dibble works out when to start seeds indoors, direct sow, transplant and harvest each crop. PERSONALIZED PLANTING CALENDAR • Your local climate, your frost dates and a per-crop calendar in seconds • 78 crops: vegetables, herbs, flowers, berries and fruit trees, from tomatoes and garlic to dahlias and strawberries • Start-indoors, sow, transplant and harvest windows for your location • With Premium, the calendar adapts when this year's frost runs early or late, and shows you the evidence • Plans from your garden's exact location rather than a broad zone • Where frost only comes some years, Dibble says so and gives you a safe date for tender plants. Where it never freezes, it finds your cool or dry season instead SEASONAL REMINDERS • "Start tomatoes indoors now," "time to transplant," "time to harvest" • Mark a task done straight from the notification • One free frost warning a season, the evening before AT A GLANCE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with today's tasks, tickable without opening the app • Today's tasks on your Apple Watch • Find any crop or planting from iPhone search GARDEN JOURNAL • Note what you planted and how it is doing • Garden Wrapped, a recap of everything you grew this season ASK DIBBLE Quick planting answers in all eight app languages, worked out on your device from your own garden and its climate. GROW DEEPER (Premium) Try it first: choose a photo and Dibble suggests the most likely plant, pest or disease, as a best guess. Three a season are free. • Adaptive calendar: your dates start from the 30-year average and shift with this year's actual weather • Bed planner: one crop per square, with a neighbor check that flags clashes • Succession planting and crop rotation • Varieties and labels • Harvest and yield tracking, plus a seed inventory that reads packet photos • Perennials and fruit trees followed across years • Houseplant care, with watering, feeding and repotting reminders • Multiple gardens • Photos on journal entries • Live frost and rain alerts for your garden, with a frost Live Activity when you open Dibble on a frost night • Find the likely plant disease or pest from a photo you choose, with organic treatment steps, entirely on your device • Identify plants from a photo you choose, entirely on your device IN THE OFF SEASON Dibble switches to planning mode: a countdown to your next planting season, one tap to plan your best crops again, and a list of seeds to order. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Arabic and Traditional Chinese, and available in many more countries. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dibble is local-first: everything lives on your device and syncs only through your own iCloud. No account, no ad-tracking, no servers holding your data. Plant, pest and disease identification run entirely on-device, so your photos are never uploaded. Export a JSON backup (no photos) or a CSV of your plantings whenever you like, and restore a backup as a new garden on any device. Free includes the full personalized calendar, reminders, the complete crop library, journal notes, widgets, the Apple Watch app and one frost warning a season. Premium adds everything in the list above, as a monthly plan, a yearly plan with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Planting dates are estimates based on your garden's climate and typical local frost dates. Results vary by microclimate and weather, so always verify with your local cooperative extension before planting. Terms of Use (EULA): https://dibblegarden.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://dibblegarden.com/privacy/

About

Beekeeping Log

Features
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Beekeeping Log replaces the notebook in your bee suit pocket with a real hive inspection log, harvest tracker, and apiary calendar built for keepers who actually work their hives every week. Log every inspection, track honey harvests hive by hive, and get plain-English hive advice whenever a question comes up mid-season. An apiary generates a lot to remember — queen status, brood pattern, varroa counts, swarm risk, and which hive is ready for a super versus which one needs feeding. Beekeeping Log turns that into a simple per-hive record instead of scattered notes across a season, so the ten minutes you spend at each hive turns into a history you can actually use next spring. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Hive inspections — log queen sightings, brood pattern, temperament, and varroa counts for every hive • Multiple hives — manage a whole apiary, with separate history for each hive • Honey harvest tracking — record every harvest by hive and watch your yield over a season • Apiary calendar — see upcoming and past inspections, treatments, and harvests at a glance • Hive advisor — ask a beekeeping question and get guidance based on your setup and the season • Swarm and queen tracking — log swarm risk, queen introductions, and requeening history per hive • Season history — look back at any hive's full inspection and harvest record whenever you need it • New apiary setup — start a new hive record in seconds when you add a package, a nuc, or a split WHY BEEKEEPING LOG • Built around the inspection — logging today's hive check takes seconds, right at the hive • Per-hive detail — know exactly which hive needs attention instead of relying on memory • Season-long view — the apiary calendar keeps treatments, harvests, and inspections from overlapping or getting missed • Advisor that knows your season — hive guidance factors in what you've actually logged, not a generic tip list • One record per apiary — every hive's history lives in the same place instead of a paper logbook that gets left behind WHO IT'S FOR • Backyard beekeepers with one or two hives who want a simple inspection log • Growing apiaries managing several hives that each need their own history • New beekeepers who want plain-English guidance on queen status, brood pattern, and varroa • Anyone who wants an honest record of honey yield instead of a rough estimate at the end of the season • Anyone who has ever pulled a frame and thought "was this the hive that swarmed last spring?" Beekeeping Log's advisor gives general beekeeping guidance based on what you log — it isn't a substitute for hands-on mentorship or a local beekeeping association for serious hive problems. For the weekly routine, it's the inspection log, the harvest tracker, and the apiary calendar that keep every hive accounted for. Download Beekeeping Log and give every hive the record it deserves. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://coddykit.com/terms/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Dibble4 screens
Beekeeping Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dibble at none against Beekeeping Log's shown. Dibble also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). Beekeeping Log's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Dibble sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Beekeeping Log sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dibble ships an update every 4 days, Beekeeping Log every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dibble versus Beekeeping Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDibbleBeekeeping Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHandler Labs LLCMEHMET CANKER (TR)

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dibble

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dibble Lifetime$69.99
2 purchases

Beekeeping Log

Subscriptions2
  • Beekeeping Log Pro monthly$4.991 Month
  • Beekeeping Log Pro annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Dibble free?
Dibble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beekeeping Log free?
Beekeeping Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dibble or Beekeeping Log have ads?
Beekeeping Log shows ads; Dibble does not.
Which is updated more often, Dibble or Beekeeping Log?
Dibble ships an update every 4 days, and Beekeeping Log every 10 days. Most recently, Dibble was updated on October 28, 2026 and Beekeeping Log on October 28, 2026.

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