Dibble vs Stitch Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Stitch Clock
This app helps knitters and crocheters track their project time, count rows, and set goals. It offers Ravelry integration, iCloud sync, and data export. A free version supports up to two active projects, with an unlimited option available via subscription or one-time purchase.
- One-tap timer for any WIP
- Row counter with quick increment/decrement
- Daily and project goals
- Session history and manual logging
- Ravelry integration for project notes
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Backup and export data
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Stitch Clock is a simple, beautiful timer built for knitters and crocheters. Track how long you spend on each work-in-progress (WIP), keep a row count, set daily goals, and keep going exactly where you left off — on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. FEATURES • One-tap timer for any WIP, with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Row counter with quick increment/decrement and manual entry • Daily and project goals to keep you motivated • Session history — log a past session by hand if you forgot to start the timer • Ravelry integration: log in, link a WIP to your Ravelry project, and push your session notes straight to your project notes • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch • Backup & export: auto-save a copy of your data to a folder you choose, export a backup file or a spreadsheet of your sessions, and restore any time • Time & cost estimates based on your hourly wage • Share your progress with a customizable message template FREE VS UNLIMITED Every feature above is free for up to 2 active WIPs at a time. Stitch Clock Unlimited removes that limit so you can track as many WIPs as you're actually working on — available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Made by Mint Chip Studio, a small fiber-arts business. Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Dibble at 6 against Stitch Clock's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Dibble sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Stitch Clock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dibble against 5.0 for Stitch Clock. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dibble has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Dibble ships an update every 4 days, Stitch Clock weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dibble | Stitch Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Handler Labs LLC | Mint Chip Studio LLC |
Customer experience
Dibble
Stitch Clock
In-app purchases
Dibble
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Dibble Lifetime$69.99
Stitch Clock
- Stitch Clock Unlimited (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Stitch Clock Unlimited (Yearly)$14.991 Year
- Stitch Clock Unlimited (Lifetime)$29.99









