Comparison

Seeds vs D8 Reserve

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

Head to head
About

Seeds

Discover and prepare delicious plant-based meals with interactive recipes and meal planning tools. Track your carbon footprint and learn about sustainable eating. Access over 100 recipes, with more added regularly.

Highlights
  • 100+ plant-based recipes
  • Interactive step-by-step instructions
  • Meal planning and grocery lists
  • Carbon footprint tracking
  • Nutritional information
  • Hands-free Siri control
Features
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Seeds is a beautiful, plant-based cookbook that makes putting together delicious meals that can reduce your environmental impact incredibly simple and fun. With an intuitive, interactive design and over a hundred incredible and easy-to-make recipes, Seeds is the easiest way to start reducing your carbon footprint and help save the planet. • Cooking Made Simple Seeds reinvents the cookbook with simple and interactive recipes that make assembling delicious meals a snap. Tap to check off each step, and Seeds helps by instantly starting timers, repeating steps for multiple items, alerting you when it’s time for the next step, and more. You can ask Siri to help, by saying “Hey Siri, next step.” • Plan Your Meals Seeds makes it easy to arrange all of your upcoming meals. Add one or more meals to your plan, and you can find all of the ingredients you need to shop for in one place, perfectly sorted by category for your next trip to the grocery store. • Save the Planet Track your personal carbon footprint and set a weekly goal for meals you make with Seeds. See how greenhouse gas emissions from everyday meals compare to other major contributors like air travel, driving and housing, and how Seeds can help you reduce them. • 100+ Incredible Meals Seeds includes over one hundred simple plant-based recipes designed specifically for Seeds, accompanied by beautiful, high-resolution photos. Each recipe has been carefully crafted to be nutritious, tasty and easy to make, using ingredients that can be found in any market. You can even find nutritional information and preview all of the tools you need to make each recipe. Features: • 100+ simple and easy-to-make plant-based recipes with high-resolution photos, and new additions regularly (Requires subscription for access to all recipes) • Simple and interactive step-by-step instructions • Choose the number of servings you want to make for each recipe • Plan upcoming meals with a “+” button in every recipe • Shop for every ingredient you need in one place • See & reduce your personal carbon footprint • Track your meals and progress with weekly goals • Siri shortcut lets you use the app hands-free • View nutritional information and tools you need for every recipe • Search for recipes from iOS Search and in-app • Supports cooking with U.S. or Metric units, and ºF or ºC • Syncs with iCloud across devices • Dark Mode support for late night cooking • Keep cooking on your lock screen or the Dynamic Island with Live Activities • See daily meal ideas on your lock screen or home screen with widgets • Learn more about how your choices can make an impact with an immersive integrated fact book Privacy & Terms: https://seedsapp.com/terms/

About

D8 Reserve

Discover social venues with in-depth video reviews for an immersive experience. Share live reviews of selected businesses to receive discounts on future experiences.

Highlights
  • In-depth video reviews
  • Discover social venues
  • Live review submission
  • Reviewer discounts
  • Immersive user experience
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D8 provides a realistic picture of restaurants and other social venues. At D8 Reserve, we believe in providing an in-depth experience to understand places that are reviewed on our platform. Our video format enables greater ease and a more immersive experience for users. Visit a selected business and provide a live review. Once approved, reviewers will receive a discount to a new selected experience

Screenshots

Seeds4 screens
D8 Reserve4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: D8 Reserve at 5.0 against Seeds's 4.1. D8 Reserve also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.4). Seeds's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Seeds sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. D8 Reserve asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

D8 Reserve holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seeds has 46 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Seeds ships an update fortnightly, D8 Reserve every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Seeds versus D8 Reserve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeedsD8 Reserve
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (46 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size473 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlant HI DesignStephone Belton

Customer experience

Seeds

All ratings46 ratings
Positive73.9%
Neutral15.2%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

D8 Reserve

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Seeds

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • One-time Purchase$49.99
None

D8 Reserve

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Seeds free?
Seeds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is D8 Reserve free?
D8 Reserve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Seeds or D8 Reserve?
D8 Reserve is rated higher. Seeds averages 4.1 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while D8 Reserve averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Seeds or D8 Reserve have ads?
Neither Seeds nor D8 Reserve shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seeds or D8 Reserve?
Seeds ships an update fortnightly, and D8 Reserve every 3 weeks. Most recently, Seeds was updated on November 6, 2026 and D8 Reserve on November 3, 2026.

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