Comparison

Dibble vs FounderMind

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 exactly when to start seeds indoors, direct sow, transplant and harvest each crop, then reminds you at the right time, all season. 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 where your garden is, not a short list of zones • 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," "first frost approaching" • 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 • On frost nights, a Live Activity keeps the warning on your Lock Screen until morning • 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, with photos • Garden Wrapped, a recap of everything you grew this season ASK DIBBLE Quick answers to planting questions in all eight app languages, worked out on your device from your own garden and its climate. GROW DEEPER (Premium) Try the camera first: three plant, pest or disease identifications a season are free. • Adaptive calendar: your dates shift with this year's actual weather, not just the 30-year average • Bed layout planner, square-foot style, with companion-planting warnings • Succession planting and crop rotation • Varieties and labels • Harvest and yield tracking, plus a seed inventory with a packet scanner • Perennials and fruit trees followed across years • Houseplant care, with watering, feeding and repotting reminders • Multiple gardens • Live frost and rain alerts for your garden • Diagnose plant diseases and pests from a photo, with organic fixes, entirely on your device • Identify plants from a photo, entirely on your device IN THE OFF SEASON Dibble switches to planning mode with a countdown to your last frost, so winter is for ordering seeds and mapping next year's beds. 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 and disease identification run entirely on-device, so your photos are never uploaded. Export your whole garden as JSON or CSV whenever you like, and restore a backup onto any device. Free includes the full personalized calendar, reminders, the complete crop library, journal, widgets, the Apple Watch app and one frost warning a season. Premium adds everything in the list above, as a monthly or yearly plan (with a 7-day free trial) or a one-time Lifetime unlock. 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

FounderMind

Features
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Think like the greatest founders who ever lived. FounderMind delivers hand-picked, source-verified quotes from 200+ legendary founders, CEOs, investors, and pioneers — Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Sara Blakely, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, and many more. Every quote shows its real source — a speech, a shareholder letter, a book, an interview — with the year. No fake quotes. Ever. WHY FOUNDERMIND • 580+ quotes from 200+ icons of business, science, sport, and art • Sources you can trust — every line cites where and when it was said • Official speech videos — watch iconic moments (Stanford, Harvard, and more) right from the quote • Daily drip — get 1–6 quotes a day, on your schedule • Widgets — home screen and lock screen, rotating every hour • Clips — save favorites and share beautiful quote cards • Works fully offline MEET YOUR ARCHETYPE Answer a few questions and FounderMind builds your personal motivation plan — Pioneer, Challenger, Commander, or Seeker. FOUNDERMIND PRO (optional) Unlock speech videos with transcripts and multiple daily reminders with an auto-renewable subscription (yearly with a 3-day free trial, or weekly). Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://alphabyteinc.github.io/foundermind-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://alphabyteinc.github.io/foundermind-legal/privacy.html Portraits are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses; photographer credits are listed in Settings.

Screenshots

Dibble4 screens
FounderMind4 screens

Verdict

The call

Dibble and FounderMind are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 FounderMind sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Dibble versus FounderMind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDibbleFounderMind
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHandler Labs LLCAlphaByte, Inc.

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
3 purchases

FounderMind

Subscriptions3
  • FounderMind Pro Weekly$5.997 Days
  • FounderMind Pro Yearly (Sale)$19.991 Year
  • FounderMind Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Dibble free?
Dibble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FounderMind free?
FounderMind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dibble or FounderMind have ads?
Neither Dibble nor FounderMind shows ads.

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