How Plot Trak compares.

Whether you design in three dimensions or on a flat, top down plan. In Plot Trak the 3D model is the editor itself, not a picture generated afterwards. Each of the other four describes its planner as a flat bed layout.

Keeping track of what grew where, so the same family does not go back into the same ground year after year.

Sowing, planting out and harvesting dates tuned to your local climate. GrowVeg draws on 5,000 weather stations and covers the whole world. Plot Trak uses UK frost regions and is not built for anywhere else.

Which devices the product runs on. This is the row Plot Trak loses hardest. It is Android only today, not on iOS and not in a browser. Both are things I want to do in future, with nothing promised and no date. If an iPhone is all you have, Plot Trak is not for you yet.

Whether the same garden appears on your phone and your laptop. Plot Trak has no account and therefore no sync. That is the same fact as the privacy rows below, seen from the other side.

Whether it keeps working on an allotment with no bars. Plot Trak stores everything on the phone, so only live weather needs a connection. GrowVeg is a website and needs one. The three app based rivals do not publish an offline claim either way.

Plot Trak keeps it on the phone and uploads none of it. The others keep it on their servers, which is what makes their sync and their recovery possible.

How much is in the plant list. GrowVeg is far ahead of everybody here and has been building it since 2007. Counts are quoted as each product publishes them, and they are not counting the same thing: a variety is not a crop.

Working out what is eating your crop and what to do about it.

Written and filmed growing advice. GrowVeg wins this outright with 441 how to videos and a weekly article, and Fryd gives its whole magazine away free. Plot Trak has crop guides in the app and no video library.

Being told what needs doing this week.

Today and tomorrow on your actual plot, as against long term climate data used to build a sowing calendar.

Sheds, greenhouses, ponds, furniture, lighting and ornaments to build the plot as it really looks. One plain style of the common kinds is free, and the rest of the library is Pro.

Getting the plan onto paper, which matters to an allotment committee. Plot Trak exports a PDF, a spreadsheet and a plan image from the phone.

Somewhere to show your plot and ask a question. GrowVeg has a public gallery of user gardens, Fryd has a large community, VegPlotter lets you share a plan with one other person on its Advanced tier. Plot Trak has none of this and is not planning any.

GrowVeg answers on live chat seven days a week with trained gardeners. Plot Trak is one person and an email address, and pretending otherwise would be silly.

Plot Trak is deliberately built for the UK: UK frost regions, UK crops, UK units and dates. Outside the UK it is the wrong tool, and GrowVeg or VegPlotter is the right one.

What you can do without paying anything. In Plot Trak the whole planner and the whole catalogue are free, with no garden limit and no planting cap. VegPlotter states both 40 plantings and 20 plantings a year on the same page, so it is quoted here without a number.

Every price is the sterling price that product publishes to a customer in the UK, checked by hand on 27 August 2026. Nothing here is converted from another currency, so no exchange rate can date it. Where a product sells more than one paid tier, every tier is shown.

VegPlotter is straightforward about this and says your account drops to the free level and you can still view your plans. Plot Trak has no expiry on the free planner at all.