Grow Planner App Reviews

Dont waste your money on this crappy unusable ap!

This apps user experience is terrible. I expected a much better experience from such a recognized garden source and for such a high priced app. What a disappointment.

This app looks good but is extremely difficult to use. Dont waste you money or time. Bury it, it will never grow. How do I get my money back?

So frustrating, hard to move drawings, hard to resize areas, takes forever to be able to select the plants. I found myself wishing the designers of Plants vs. Zombies would partner with a gardening book to make a more intuitive, easy way to select and plan your garden. It has good information about the plants, but I can just look that up online.

Yes, I agree with other reviewers that this app needs more work. Lets just say that theres room for improvement. It does have the features that I was looking for in a garden planning app. The ability to keep track of multiple garden beds separately. A place to keep notes. Fairly large selection of plants to add including the ability to add your own if not found on their list. Using info from previous plantings to make decisions for new plans. It also gives you access to some helpful guides to consult.

Once we figured out how to use it, it was pretty slick. But when we finished with our garden plan on the iPad, we emailed it to our PC so we could print it. Very disappointed to see it only prints without the grid lines! How the heck can we use it for a planting guide out in the garden when we dont know the measurements? Luckily we had some grid paper at home so we did the math and scaled the printer to match our paper.

First of all, I must start off by saying that I LOVED this app! I used it without incident for almost two years; planned ALL of my plantings this way. Having said that.... Id rate the app -5 stars if I could. I contacted support back in May because the app crashed while editing one of my garden plans. That happened from time to time before, but when it did, I would simply kill the app and re-open and all was well. Well this time, it crashed, and no matter what I did it would NOT re-open. It would begin to open and then crash immediately. So I backed up all the files using iTunes, uninstalled and re-installed the apps. My garden plans were gone. So, I tried to synch with my online account to bring them back.....they wouldnt sync. I tried re-importing the garden plans from the backup I made using iTunes....nothing. Support contacted me immediately and told me that they would work on it and not to worry about 2 years (3 seasons per year) worth of plans, because I had the foresight to back up the files it would be ok....difficult to do manually on my end, but worst case we could get it done. Well, I was contacted that with a solution or two that didnt work, and then was emailed that it had been escalated to a higher level and that they were working diligently to fix the issue, but it may take a while. NO PROBLEM!!! Hey, they were working on it. That last contact was May 30th. Since then I sent two more emails asking for an update and have gotten 0 response. It is now the very end of July and they are apparently ignoring me. Now I have no plans, no history, and Ill be going back to pen and paper for this so it never happens again. Dont bother with this app. Great idea, very poor support for their app. If it works for you, youre great. If something goes wrong....apparently you are on your own. As for me....Im even canceling my magazine subscription. Even if they said we have no idea how to fix it and man have we tried.......I wouldnt have been thrilled, but at least I know they bothered.

For the first time in decades of gardening, Ive ditched the paper and pencil--and wholeheartedly embraced this digital app to plan all my beds. Theres a video tutorial, which is great, but you really dont need to watch it because the operation is so completely intuitive. Youll love the option to choose square foot gardening, if thats your thing. The plant list is extensive, but theres also a way to add new varieties if yours isnt included. I drew leaf-shaped beds instead of the more traditional rectangular shapes, and had no trouble at all--wow, this app is amazing!

I love this app! You can design an expansive garden, even down to seasonal crop rotations. You can easily share your finished garden plan on Facebook or email it to a friend. Plus, I really like seeing other peoples garden plans. Its a little pricy, but in my opinion all the features make it worth the cost. I do recommend watching the tutorial video at the beginning to avoid any confusion or frustration. Super cool!

Very frustrated.. Somehow I got logged out, now I dont remember my password and this $10 app is now sitting useless. Tried to recover my password to no avail, and I got nowhere on the website. The app itself of what I did use is promising. Hopefully I can log back in to use it more

I was very excited to purchase this, despite the high price and mixed reviews. Unfortunately that excitement quickly fadd as I discovered how little this program actually does. What it is good for: 1.Figuring out how many plants you can grow in a particular area. What is not good: 1. Cant import images of garden for designing over. 2. Tried to configure vegetables to particular varieties, but list is always blank. 3. Says we have a month of frost dates at our location which is not accurate. We live in Belize and have zero frost days. 4. Does not print with grid showing. If all you care about is laying out your plan that can be done. Would be much cheaper to draw it yourself and do the math off the seed packets. I have always been impressed with content from Mother Earth News. This app falls well short of their typical standards.

For ten bucks this should work better. It crashed right away and then once I got it working again I tried to configure a row and theres no way to get out of that screen. Youre stuck on the configure screen until you exit out of the app completely. This app looked like it would have great potential but so far I am very disappointed. I have never paid so much for such a poorly performing app before.

Glad I didnt pay more than a dollar for this junker. Its good for a laugh before deletion but that is about all.

I was excited to get this app because it was mentioned in the (MotherEN) magazine.Well my husband and I sat down and went through the tutorial several times. There was way too much information to remember while going through it. It would be so much better if the tutorial took you step by step. We are disappointed and hope we can get some tech support. I also downloaded this on my ipad to make it a bit more portable or was that a mistake.

This app has such promise. If only it wasnt full of soooo many bugs. The irony of it crashing when I was trying to email tech support was not lost on me. I really hope the developers address these issues. I would think that if theyre going to charge that much $, they wouldve put out a more reliable product. Ive already spent my money, but would advise you to hold onto yours.

I like the app and am going to continue using it because I can map out my garden and have notes on when I want to plant what. It even gives me specific varieties from seed catalogs. But, the varieties arent all inclusive. For example they have the exact variety of leek that I am planting including the seed company. But, there are no varieties for large tomatoes! So, that is a little frustrating. By far the worst part about the app is that it freezes every time I try to send an email to customer support. It recently changed all of my planting/harvesting dates to show that I should be harvesting melons right now at the beginning of March! I feel like it should work better than it does, but there arent many apps out there that will do what it does. So, Im stuck with its limitations for now....

This appears to have so much potential. But, despite viewing the tutorial several times, Im finding it complicated to use. Among other issues, it keeps throwing me out of the app and tells me Im not logged in, but then wont give me a place to log in. Help. This was a rather expensive app not to work. It would have been well worth the price if it did.

I am disappointed in this expensive ap. So far, I have been able to draw the garden, but now cannot add more than one plant. It is difficult to use and not worth the time and money

Bought this today and tried to use before I planted my garden but it took too long. Planted seeds, tracked the progress on graph paper and then loaded into app. Really designed for huge plots. My 4X28 ft garden looks too tiny to be of value so I will stick with graph paper. Excellent customer service response but it didnt resolve the overall issues. Maybe a future version will be easier for smaller gardens.

This app worked really well until I decided to get fancy and create an account so the app would be able to back up my plan. When I did, the app would whir, and whir, and whir...telling me to wait (for hours) while it backed my plans up to the cloud. I contacted customer support, and while they helped me find a work-around (use the app only while in airplane mode) they have not yet released an update to address this bug. As for ease of use, I find it to be a really intuitive app. Of course I can think of some mods that would make things easier to use (like selecting all of a particular SFG plants on a plan at once to modify configurations), but overall I like the app. It just doesnt get more than 2 stars until they fix this annoying bug!