Garden apps · Seedtime
Seedtime: what it costs and what we found
Seedtime is a garden planner made by Seedtime, LLC. Plans run from free to $20 a month. We tested its web app on its free plan on October 14, 2026. We make GardenTrack, so we have a stake in this page. Here's how we test and the other apps we list.
That gives us a stake in how this reads (who we are). No app maker pays us to test or list their app, and we earn nothing if you pick another app. We give no score: our first round of testing has none, and the method page says why. Every fact below has the day we read or tested it, and the rules for keeping facts true are written down. Seedtime's own site is seedtime.us.
What Seedtime costs
These are Seedtime's plans, as its pricing page printed them. Prices change, so check the page before you pay.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
| Basic | $10 a month, $84 a year |
| Unlimited | $20 a month, $168 a year |
From seedtime.us, read October 12, 2026.
Also on the pricing page
- The free plan includes one layout of up to 8 rectangular beds.
- The free plan includes 10 AI credits per month.
- Paid plans have a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
We hit the free plan's limits during our test. They're listed under what we found.
What we found when we used it
We used Seedtime's web app on its free plan on October 14, 2026, in one test of one garden. We recorded 29 things, each with the day we tested it. Two matter most, so they come first. The two frost-date readings are in the next section. A line that ends “by the tester's reading” rests on a single reading of that screen, and we didn't check it a second way.
A new ZIP changed the frost dates, but the crops already planted stayed put
Seedtime fills in your frost dates from a US ZIP and sets each planting from them. Later in the test we moved the garden to ZIP 80202, the ZIP of our standard test garden, and looked at the crops already on the calendar.
- Moving the garden to a new ZIP changed its frost dates (last frost is now May 4), but none of the 9 plantings already on the calendar moved, and nothing warned. A tomato set to start 42 days before last frost kept its old date.
We saw this once, in one garden, when we saved the new ZIP. We didn't test whether re-saving a planting makes it follow the new dates. Its help pages point both ways, and what we saw matches the older answer.
- A help answer dated 20 June 2023 says changing the frost date does not automatically update crops already added.
- A help article dated 9 June 2026 says planting dates may change if you update your location or frost dates. A 2023 help answer said crops already added do not update.
Garlic wasn't in the web app's crop list
Garlic is one of the 8 crops in our standard test garden, so we tried to add it to the web app.
- Garlic is not in its crop list. Searching Garlic when adding a crop offered only Garlic Chives, and typing Garlic as a new crop said the database has no recommended seed date for it. Custom crops are paid.
- Its AI suggested garlic for October and spent a credit finding a planting date for it, then saving the garlic planting was refused on the free plan.
- Typing Garlic as a crop offers only Garlic Chives and an upgrade to add a custom Garlic category, by the tester's reading.
Put together: on the free plan, its AI found a date for a crop we couldn't save. Custom crops are a paid feature, so we couldn't add garlic ourselves, and we haven't tested what a paid plan does with it.
What else worked
- The layout has a date slider that shows what is in each bed on any day.
- Dragging a planting on the calendar moves all of its tasks together, and a protection warning appears when the move puts the crop at risk.
- Adding crops offers to copy them from a previous year.
- Typing a US ZIP code filled in the growing zone and all four frost dates (last, last hard, first and first hard) by itself.
- Companion suggestions on a placed crop list partners, each with a distance and a reason, and spend no credit, by the tester's reading.
- Seasonal plan setup cites Open-Meteo historical averages for 1996 to 2025 for summer temperatures, by the tester's reading.
What else fell short
- The web app has no box to type a question to its AI. The App Store listing describes a Sprout Bot chat in the phone app, not yet tested.
- The Plan Builder refused an 18-inch square pot as an unsupported width, and would not build the plan until the pot was removed.
- We found no way to export your data to a file. The layout's Export/Import copies a layout between gardens, and the help center calls journal export still in conceptual form.
- We found no way to delete your account in the app. Profile has none, and a help search for delete account finds only deleting a calendar or a crop. The privacy policy says it deletes your data on request.
Other things we saw
- On the web its AI is five buttons: find crops to plant now, find a date, companion suggestions, the Plan Library and the Plan Builder.
- Its AI acts only when you click. The Plan Library and Plan Builder write plantings into the calendar and layout when you press Add or Install, and no setting to turn the AI off was found.
- Asking its AI for a planting date costs 1 credit and returns a date with a one-paragraph reason that cites no source.
- Installing a Plan Builder plan costs 8 AI credits, most of the free plan's 10 a month.
- Adding one of the Plan Library's 12 bed plans costs 2 AI credits, by the tester's reading.
- Logging how much you harvested is on the Unlimited plan only. On the free plan a harvest is a ticked task.
- Weekly weather in the calendar is locked on the free plan.
- The free plan refuses a second garden.
- Each planting makes five or six kinds of task, including a Tend task that repeats every 21 days until harvest.
- Its apps page offers desktop apps as well as phone apps. The Desktop tab shows a Windows download.
- Asked for a Sungold tomato date at ZIP 80202, its AI said to sow indoors on April 6 and transplant on May 18, two weeks after the average last frost of May 4. It cited no source.
- Scored against Colorado State University Extension for ZIP 80202, both answers its web AI could be scored on were partly right and none was wrong: the Sungold tomato date (set out May 18, against CSU's late May) and zucchini spacing of 24 by 24 inches (against CSU's 36 to 48). The web app has no chat, so seven of the ten questions had no surface.
- Against Colorado State University Extension spacing, six crops could be scored: sweet pepper was right, and tomato, lettuce, carrots, bush beans and zucchini were partly right, none wrong. Basil had no CSU spacing to score against, and garlic is not in its crop list.
What Seedtime shows for frost dates
Every planting date hangs off two days: your last spring frost and your first fall frost. We typed ZIP 80202 (Denver), the ZIP of our standard test garden, into Seedtime's settings.
- At ZIP 80202 (Denver) it gives zone 6a, last frost May 4, last hard frost April 13, first frost October 6 and first hard frost October 23.
- The frost-date settings name no source and do not say what temperature or odds the dates stand for.
Its help center does name a chance and a temperature, in an article about looking the dates up yourself and typing them in.
- A help article dated 12 June 2025 suggests looking up frost dates at a 30% chance of frost.
- The same help article counts a hard frost as any temperature below 24°F.
We don't know whether the dates Seedtime fills in for you follow that rule. We haven't yet checked them against weather-station records. That's our frost test.
What we haven't tested yet
Our test was the web app on the free plan, from an account that already existed. Here's what that left out. The method page shows which tests have run on any app.
- The phone apps. Seedtime has apps for iPhone and Android. We haven't opened either one.
- The chat. The App Store listing describes a chat called Sprout Bot that answers gardening and Seedtime questions. We haven't used it. The web app has no box to type a question to its AI, so we couldn't ask it our 10 standard questions there.
- Offline. We didn't try any of it without a signal.
- Notifications. We haven't looked at what it sends you, or when.
- The paid plans. We used the free plan. We didn't buy a plan, so canceling, refunds and what you keep if you stop paying are untested too.
- Photo diagnosis. We haven't run our 20-photo test on it, and we didn't upload a photo to it.
- Signing up. We used an account that already existed, so we haven't timed sign-up.
- Its numbers. We haven't checked its plant spacing, or its Denver tomato date, against Colorado State Extension. We also haven't scored how it looks and feels.
What the app stores say
The table below is from Apple's App Store page, and the developer fills in Apple's privacy label. You can check every fact in this section on its store page.
Apple's App Store
| Fact | What the store says |
|---|---|
| Rating | 4.65 from 447 ratings |
| Last update | September 29, 2026 |
| Tracks you | No (its privacy label doesn't list “Data Used to Track You”) |
From apps.apple.com, read October 14, 2026.
- The App Store listing says the app has a Sprout Bot that answers gardening and Seedtime questions.
- The App Store listing says layout planning in the mobile app is coming soon and the web app is used until then.
- The App Store privacy label (developer-declared, unverified by Apple) lists contact info linked to you.
- The App Store version history shows 21 versions from 1.1 (24 Jun 2024) to 1.26.0 (29 Sep 2026); 1.25.0 (9 Sep 2026) notes "Improved offline reliability".
Google Play
- Google Play shows 4.4 stars from 707 reviews, 50K+ downloads and a content rating of Everyone (the reviews section on the same page shows 4.5 from 662).
- Google Play shows the app last updated on 28 Sep 2026.
- The Google Play data safety summary (developer-declared) says no data is shared with third parties, data is encrypted in transit and deletion can be requested.
If we got something wrong
Anyone can send a correction. That includes the people who make Seedtime. Email hello@gardentrack.app with what's wrong. We fix errors and log every fix on the method page, with its date.