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Vercro and other gardening apps, compared

There are good apps for drawing a plot, looking up a plant or keeping a journal. Vercro is built for the part that comes after: keeping up with a real garden, from today's jobs to what goes in next.

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How Vercro is different

It stays with your garden as it changes

You don’t have to build a detailed plan and keep it up to date yourself. Tell Vercro what’s growing where, and it keeps up with you: planning, growing, dealing with problems, picking and planning again, in one place, each step feeding the next.

  1. It knows what’s where

    Each garden, bed and crop, roughly how far along each crop is from when you sowed it, and the feeds you own.

  2. It picks today’s few jobs

    Each morning, a short list of jobs for your own beds, checked against your local forecast, each with a reason. Feeding jobs use the feeds you own. Finish the list and it tells you you’re done.

  3. It turns problems into jobs

    Spot something wrong? Plant Check or Ask Vercro can add the next steps to your jobs and note the problem on that crop, once you confirm.

  4. It keeps up when you don’t

    Missed jobs don’t pile up as overdue, and when it matters it asks a quick question, such as whether a crop has gone out yet.

  5. It carries harvest into what’s next

    Log what you pick. When a bed has room, see what could go in next, with companion planting suggestions for what’s already there and repeat sowings every few weeks.

  6. It remembers, and plans with it

    Your Record keeps what you sowed, did and picked, bed by bed. When you plan what goes in a bed, it checks what has grown there, and if the same plant family has, it can point you to a free bed where it hasn’t.

Rotation that moves with your beds

Crops start and finish at different times, so Vercro checks rotation whenever a bed has room: what has grown there, what grows well alongside what's there now, and a free bed where that plant family hasn't grown, rather than a fixed chart drawn up once a year.

Ask Vercro answers questions about your own garden, and Plant Check assesses a struggling crop from a photo. Free includes 25 Ask Vercro questions and 5 Plant Checks a month. Pro includes 300 questions and 30 Plant Checks a month.

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What other gardening apps are built for

Each of these 8 apps is built around a particular job, and some go further than Vercro at that job. If you want help with the whole growing year, from sowing to picking to what comes next, that's what Vercro is for.

  • RHS Grow

    Free plan: Yes

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    The RHS plant database and expert UK advice for the whole garden, from flowers and houseplants to veg, with plant identification in the free version.

  • GrowVeg Garden Planner

    Free plan: No, trial then paid

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    Drawing a detailed garden plan yourself in a web browser, with rotation warnings carried from your earlier plans and evidence-based companion planting. Paid after a trial.

  • Growli

    Free plan: Yes

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    A chat-led companion for iPhone and Android that turns what you grow into daily tasks timed to local weather, with photo identification and diagnosis on its paid plan.

  • Seedtime

    Free plan: Yes

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    Turning your frost dates into a week-by-week sowing, transplanting and harvest calendar, with a task list built from that plan and a layout you edit on the web.

  • Planter

    Free plan: Yes, 1 garden

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    Laying out square foot beds on your phone, with companion indicators as you place plants and a planting calendar timed from your frost dates. One garden is free.

  • VegPlotter

    Free plan: Yes, limited plantings

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    Drawing vegetable and allotment plots to scale in rows or square feet, planned month by month, with rotation warnings and companion suggestions on a free plan with a limit on plantings.

  • Leaftide

    Free plan: Yes, up to 30 plants

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    Following individual plants, down to the variety, year after year, giving fruit trees, soft fruit and perennials the same care history as vegetables, with a plot designer and a harvest tracker.

  • Gardenize

    Free plan: Yes

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    Keeping a journal of a whole garden: plants catalogued by area and dated events with notes, with unlimited plants, areas and events on the free plan.

Where Vercro isn't the tool

  • It doesn’t draw free-form plans. Beds you’ve measured are drawn to scale as rectangles.
  • It doesn’t identify unknown plants. Plant Check looks at a crop you’ve already added.
  • The newest screens are in the web app. The iPhone and Android apps get them in their next update.

Not included: From Seed to Spoon. No UK App Store listing: its UK App Store address returned 404 when checked. Apps built around a hardware growing kit are left out because they need the device.

Side by side: free plans, prices and features

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Gardening apps compared, checked on 17 September 2026. Sources are listed below the table.
FeatureVercroRHS GrowGrowVegGrowliSeedtimePlanterVegPlotterLeaftideGardenize
Ongoing free planYes, free (not a trial)YesNo, trial then paidYesYesYes, 1 gardenYes, limited plantingsYes, up to 30 plantsYes
Free trialNo trialYes, length not stated7 days, no payment details7 days on the yearly plan7 days on paid plansNot statedNot statedNot stated14 days
Paid plan price (UK)Pro £4.99 a month or £39 a yearFrom £3.99 to £39.99£25 a year£6.99 a month or £34.99 a year£9.99 a month or £79.99 a year£24.99 a yearFrom £18 a year£5 a month or £45 a year£6.49 a month or £31.99 a year
Guidance for your own plantsYes, freeCare reminders (paid)Email sowing remindersYes, freeTasks from your planCalendar free; tasks paidMonthly jobs, freeCare reminders, freeCare reminders
Garden planningYes, freeGarden PlannerYes, the core productGrowing plan, free1 layout freeYes, square foot gridYes, freePlot designer, freeCalendar planner, free
Growing recordYes, freeGarden journal (paid)Garden JournalNot statedJournal freeNotes and events (Premium)Notes and photos (paid)Care history and harvestsYes, garden journal
Ask AI gardening questions25 a month freeChatBotanist (paid)Not mentionedChat free, unlimited with PlusSprout Bot; 10 AI credits a month freeNot mentionedNot mentionedNot mentionedAI care notes
Photo plant checks5 a month freePlant ID in the free versionNot mentionedID and diagnosis (Plus)Not mentionedNot mentionedNot mentionedNot mentionedPlant ID (Plus)
Weather or frost datesYes, freeNot statedYesYes, freeFrost dates; forecast paidFrost dates from your locationLocal climate schedulesLocal frost datesHardiness zone advice
Gardens, plans or places3 freeNot statedUp to 5 plans a yearNot stated1 calendar and layout free1 garden freeUnlimited plansNot statedUnlimited areas free
UK focusBuilt for UK growersUK onlyUK site in £Designed for UK growersUS-basedUS-basedNot statedBuilt in the UK, prices in £Sweden-based
What needs a subscriptionMore locations and AI allowanceReminders, AI, journalEverything after the trialID, diagnosis, unlimited chatWeather, more AI, recordsMore gardens, tasks, notesMore plantings, jobs, notesMore than 30 plantsPlant ID, desktop, export

Checked on 17 September 2026; GrowVeg, VegPlotter, RHS Grow and Growli re-checked on 19 September 2026. Prices are as listed that day and can differ between the App Store, Google Play and the web, by country, and during promotions. Where an app doesn't mention something, we say so rather than guess. Sources and dates.

What about ChatGPT or Gemini?

General AI assistants can answer one-off gardening questions, and several have free plans. Vercro is built around the record of your own garden: your beds, your crops and when you sowed them.

  • Google Gemini: Free plan at £0 a month with a Google Account; paid plans from £4.49 a month (Google AI Plus).
  • ChatGPT: Free to download on the UK App Store, with in-app purchases from £6.99 (ChatGPT Go) to £200.00.

Sources and dates

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Every competitor value was re-read on its primary source (the vendor's own page or its UK App Store listing at apps.apple.com/gb) on the date shown. Where a source did not mention a feature we say 'Not stated' or 'Not mentioned on the pages we checked' rather than 'No'. Nothing was signed up for or bought.

Prices are as listed on the date checked, in pounds where a UK source showed them. App Store prices can differ from website prices, can vary by country, and vendors run discounts and price tests.

Vercro values describe the plans from the September 2026 relaunch. They depend on that release being live.

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