BloomDrop Garden vs Umbra Nomads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
BloomDrop Garden
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BloomDrop Garden helps you organize the everyday care of your indoor plants in one calm, visual space. Create a profile for each plant with a photo, name, species, date, description, and custom care intervals for watering, misting, fertilizing, repotting, and pruning. Upcoming tasks are grouped into a seven-day overview, while color-coded statuses make it easy to see what is healthy, due soon, or overdue. Keep a care journal with dated actions, notes, and photos, review scheduled activity in a shared garden calendar, and follow the progress of your collection over time. Completing care activities supports a light garden-themed mini-game.
Umbra Nomads
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Built for the rare few who chase totality. Umbra Nomads is an observational logging tool for solar eclipse chasers. During those few seconds before and after totality, capture what you see โ shadow bands rippling across the ground, Baily's Beads, the diamond ring, corona flares, chromosphere bursts and temperature drops. Log each sighting with its phase, from C2 through C3, the surface you observed it on, visibility quality, GPS location and your own field notes. The Totality Pulse screen lets you drag a live -60s โ 0 โ +60s timeline as the eclipse unfolds and record readings in real time. Attach photos and build an Eclipse Calendar with reminders for upcoming events. Everything is stored on-device. No account. No noise. Just your data and the sky.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Umbra Nomads at none against BloomDrop Garden's shown. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BloomDrop Garden ships an update every 4 days, Umbra Nomads every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BloomDrop Garden | Umbra Nomads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days โ better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Eniko Molnar | Ilya Levin |
In-app purchases
BloomDrop Garden
No in-app purchases
Umbra Nomads
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is BloomDrop Garden free?
Is Umbra Nomads free?
Do BloomDrop Garden or Umbra Nomads have ads?
Which is updated more often, BloomDrop Garden or Umbra Nomads?
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