easyDacha vs Planter: A Reference You Check vs a Plan That Tells You What to Do

Planter and easyDacha are both iPhone apps, but they do different jobs. Planter is a reference: you look up a plant and it shows spacing, companions, and a planting calendar. easyDacha builds an active care plan for each plant from your local frost dates, then sends the right task at the right growth stage.

Planter answers questions you ask.
easyDacha tells you what to do and when.

Quick comparison

easyDacha Planter
Platform iPhone / iPad (iOS) iPhone / iPad (iOS)
Core idea Active stage-based care plan Reference you look things up in
Planting dates Built from your ZIP code's frost dates Planting times by area
Flexible start Start any time; see if your harvest beats first frost; the plan re-times to your date Planting calendar by area
Spacing Adapts to bed type: square-foot in raised beds, rows in-ground and greenhouse Square-foot grid
Care tasks 14 task types (prep, sowing, watering, feeding, protection, monitoring, and more), timed to each stage. Preventive, not reactive Limited
Care style Organic or mineral approach Not offered
Feeding Homemade DIY fertilizer recipes in tasks Not offered
Seed & seedling tracking Yes Not the focus
Pricing About $35/year, 14-day trial Free tier, paid Premium or Lifetime
Feature comparison reflects publicly available information as of 2025. Pricing and plans may change.
Where Planter fits better
Planter's real edge is the price model. It offers a one-time Lifetime purchase, so if you do not want any subscription at all, that is a genuine advantage. It is also a light, simple reference: if all you want is to occasionally check companion plants and planting timing, without a full season-long care plan, Planter keeps that quick and out of your way.
Where easyDacha wins
Planter is something you pull answers out of: you have to open it and know what to search for. easyDacha works the other way. It hands you the right task at the right time, so you do not need to know what to look up, which is exactly what a beginner who has failed once needs.

The whole app is built to head problems off rather than react to them. The plan covers 14 kinds of tasks, from prep and sowing to feeding, protection, and monitoring, so you get each step right early instead of searching for a fix once a plant is already dying. It reads your ZIP code's frost dates, maps each plant's stages, and pushes the task when it is due: sow, transplant, water, feed, scout for pests, pick. Spacing follows how you grow, square-foot in raised beds, rows in-ground or greenhouse. Pick organic or mineral feeding, with the homemade recipes built in. And your seeds and seedlings live in one place, not in your head.
Who should pick which
You want a clean reference and hate subscriptions: Planter (Lifetime option).
You want a plan that tells you what to do each week: easyDacha.
You like organic or homemade feeding: easyDacha.
You want to track what you bought and planted: easyDacha.

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