Gardenory vs Slumberkin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gardenory
This app analyzes your garden beds to determine precise sunlight exposure and optimal planting times based on your specific location and conditions. It offers detailed horticultural information, including frost dates and sowing windows, and helps identify plants with accuracy.
- Precise sunlight analysis for garden beds
- Month-by-month light computation
- Sun travel visualization
- Accurate plant identification
- Detailed horticultural data (frost, sowing)
- Daily consolidated reminders
- Exportable garden journal
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A nursery tag says "full sun" and means it for everywhere. Gardenory works out what that rating means in YOUR bed, at your latitude, on today's date. FULL SUN, HERE Tell Gardenory which way a bed faces, how big it is, and what stands near it. It computes the light that bed really receives, month by month — and it does not simply add up hours. Four hours of morning light on an east-facing bed carries roughly half the energy of four midday hours on a south-facing one, which is exactly why generic advice recommends tomatoes for beds that cannot ripen them. THE SUN RIBBON Watch the sun travel over your bed in plan view, with the shadow of your fence or maple sweeping across it. Drag through the day, or through the year. IDENTIFY A PLANT, HONESTLY Photograph a plant and Gardenory commits to an answer or tells you plainly that it is not sure. It will happily give you the genus rather than invent a species, it never guesses a variety from a photo — no photograph can separate one tomato cultivar from another — and it shows no accuracy percentage, because a number reads as certainty. It never tells you whether something is safe to eat. FOUR ANSWERS, NOT ONE ZONE Your hardiness zone describes winter cold and nothing else. Gardenory gives you winter minimum, summer heat days, season length and per-bed light as four separate answers, and says out loud what the zone cannot tell you. FROST AS A RANGE Published frost dates are probabilities, not deadlines. You get an even-money date and a safe date about a fortnight apart, and your own logged frosts replace the estimate over time. SOWING WINDOWS THAT SUBTRACT PROPERLY Indoor start including the germination lag most tools leave out, transplant, and a last safe sow date that subtracts days to maturity, the autumn slowdown AND your harvest window from first frost. ONE MESSAGE A DAY Everything due, batched into a single reminder at an hour you choose. Never one alert per plant. Reminders are scheduled on your phone; nothing is sent from a server. YOUR RECORD, EXPORTABLE Every date holds both a plan and what actually happened. Export the whole thing to CSV at any time, on any plan. FREE, ALWAYS Your beds, the sun model, the journal, the calendar, the zone card, frost dates, CSV export and 10 plant identifications a month. GARDENORY PRO (optional subscription) Rotation Guard, succession ladders, days-to-maturity learned from your own harvest dates, a variety leaderboard, the garden-centre fit check, seed-lot germination rates and unlimited identifications. - $3.99 per month or $24.99 per year, each with a 14-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID Settings. Gardenory asks for no location permission and contains no GPS. It offers horticultural information, not professional agricultural or safety advice. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/728/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/728/terms
Slumberkin
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Slumberkin writes a brand-new bedtime story for your child, by name, in about a minute — and then helps you find out which kind of story actually settles them. Tell it who the hero is and where the story happens, choose a theme and how long you want it, and Slumberkin writes it for your child alone: their first name in it, their age setting the language and the length, the things they love woven in, and anything you asked to keep out left out. Then start the tuck-in. The story is read aloud by your device's own voice, paragraph by paragraph, so a pause lands on a sentence rather than mid-word and the last few paragraphs slow down. Choose a soundscape, set a sleep timer, and put the phone down — the sound fades gently on its own and nothing cuts off in the middle of a line. When you come out, log two numbers: how long your child took to settle, and how long you stayed. That is the part a story library cannot do. Slumberkin compares your own nights and draws the Settle Arc — tonight against this child's usual — alongside an evening-reclaimed ledger built from the bedtime you told it was normal for them. It refuses to claim a pattern before it has enough nights to count, and says how many more it needs. Every figure is worked out on your device from the nights you logged. Nothing is streamed: the soundscapes are generated by the app itself, the reading voice is your device's own, and stories you have already saved open and play with no signal at all. Made for parents of children roughly two to ten. SLUMBERKIN PLUS (optional subscription) - Unlimited new stories, unlimited children, your full tuck-in record, all five soundscapes, narration speed control, an unlimited library, and the pattern that says which kind of story settles this child fastest - $4.99 monthly or $34.99 yearly, each with a 7-day free trial - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; the subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel it in Settings Free includes 3 new stories a week, 2 children, your saved library, the full tuck-in log and the Settle Arc. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/882/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/882/terms
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Verdict
Gardenory and Slumberkin 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
Both are free to download. Gardenory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Slumberkin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Gardenory | Slumberkin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maitai Gordwin | ASHOK KUMAR |
In-app purchases
Gardenory
- Gardenory Pro Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Gardenory Pro Annual14 Days trial$24.991 Year
Slumberkin
- Slumberkin Plus Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Slumberkin Plus Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year





