Comparison

JH vs Sunplot

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

Head to head
About

JH

Features
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De app ten behoeve van het indienen van reparatieverzoeken voor klanten van Jansen Huybregts.

About

Sunplot

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Every seed packet says "full sun" or "part shade". Almost nobody knows which one their own garden is. Sunplot answers it with a number. Stand where the bed is, hold the phone up, and trace the roofs and trees around you with a finger. Then it walks the whole day a minute at a time and counts only the light that actually reaches that spot. WHY THE ANSWER IS DIFFERENT Other sun apps show you where the sun is. That is the easy half. The half that decides the answer is what stands in the way โ€” the fence, the garage, the lime tree next door. Sunplot measures that skyline with the camera and subtracts it. A bed under open sky and the same bed behind a two-storey terrace are not the same bed, and the number knows it. FREE โ€ข Today's hours of direct sun at a spot, and what that means: full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade โ€ข What will grow there โ€” 42 plants sorted into will do well, will manage, and too much sun โ€ข The map: where the sun arrives from, where it leaves, and where it is right now, with a slider through the day โ€ข The sky view: the sun's path drawn over the camera, and the skyline tracing that makes the answer real ONE PAYMENT UNLOCKS โ€ข The whole year at a spot โ€” when full sun starts and ends, and the weeks it gets none at all โ€ข As many spots as you like โ€” the bed by the fence and the bed by the garage answer differently โ€ข Which is better? Every spot side by side, ranked โ€ข A word before the sun arrives, so a short winter afternoon is not missed โ€ข The home screen widget One payment. No subscription, nothing renews, nothing to cancel. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT KNOWS The compass in a phone can be badly wrong, and most sun apps draw a confident line anyway. Sunplot says so on screen when it does not trust its own reading. Before you have traced anything it labels the figure as open sky โ€” the most the spot could get โ€” instead of pretending to know. It is a gardening and planning tool, not a survey instrument. Check anything expensive against a professional measurement. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party code, and nothing to sign up for. Everything is worked out on the device and stays there. It works with no signal at all. GOOD FOR Vegetable beds, borders and allotments. Balconies and window boxes. Greenhouses and cold frames. Roof pitches for solar panels. Working out which corner will take a shade planting, and which window a houseplant will survive.

Screenshots

JH4 screens
Sunplot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JH at none against Sunplot's 1. JH also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Sunplot's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 8 months). On price and ads 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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Sunplot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. JH asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JH ships an update every 8 months, Sunplot every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
JH versus Sunplot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJHSunplot
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 10 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size14 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJansen Huybregts Onderhoud Renovatie B.V.Olexandr Zhovnir

In-app purchases

None

JH

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sunplot

One-time1
  • Sunplot Full$5.99

Questions

Is JH free?
JH is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sunplot free?
Sunplot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do JH or Sunplot have ads?
Neither JH nor Sunplot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JH or Sunplot?
JH ships an update every 8 months, and Sunplot every 10 days. Most recently, JH was updated on October 26, 2026 and Sunplot on October 26, 2026.

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