Every part of Plot Trak, explained

There are four tabs along the bottom. Home is the day’s jobs and the weather. Plot is your garden, in 3D by default and as a flat plan if you prefer. Growing lists everything you have planted, and its Encyclopedia tab is the guide to everything you could grow. More holds the bigger tools at the top (pests, beneficial insects, the Sun Study, Soil pH, composting and your garden records) and your settings, backups and this guide below them.

A plot is one growing space: a garden, an allotment, a raised bed, a balcony. Most people only ever need one. You give it a size, point it north, then start putting things in it.

Plot Trak needs to know roughly where you garden. It uses your location for the weather forecast, for deciding whether rain has watered your crops, and for the angle of the sun in the Sun Study. Set it in More → Garden location. It is only ever used on your phone.

Twelve short guides take you through the app on the real screens, a step at a time, using a demo garden Plot Trak builds for you on the first run. They cover designing a plot, the crop guides, pests, the 3D garden, the two views, watering, seeds, compost, the Sun Study, soil pH and your records. Each is ticked off the first time you finish it, and you can do them again whenever you like.

The User Guide is grouped by subject, and everything in it is searchable. Type what you would say out loud rather than what the app calls it, and open a heading to read it. Most entries end with a button that takes you straight to the part of the app they describe.

The search box at the top of More finds a feature from a description of it rather than its name. Type it the way you would say it out loud: "where do I log what I picked", "something is eating my plants", "save my garden". Tapping an answer takes you to the feature itself, not to a page about it.

It searches Plot Trak on your phone. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, and it works with no signal.

Plot Trak asks for a name on the first run so the activity feed can say who did what. It is optional, it stays on your phone, and there is no account to make and nothing to sign into. Change it any time in More → Your name.

Home is the day in one screen: what needs watering, what is ready to harvest, your to-do list, any reminders you have set, the weather where you garden, and what you have done recently. When there is nothing to do it says so rather than inventing a job.

Anything due for water is listed at the top with a Water crop button beside it, and Water all crops does the lot in one tap. Watering is logged the moment you tap, and the notice that appears will undo it if you tapped the wrong one.

A plain list of jobs you type yourself, for the things the app cannot know about: order manure, mend the gate, net the brassicas. Tap Add under To-do, write it down, and tick it off when it is done.

A reminder is a to-do with a date and time on it, and it can be linked to a particular plant. Set one from the Reminders section on Home. It arrives as a notification, so it needs notifications turned on to reach you.

Everything you record shows up in the activity feed at the bottom of Home: watering, feeding, harvests, plantings, notes. If you tapped something by mistake you can undo it from there, and removing an entry takes it off your history without changing the garden itself.

The forecast for your saved location, day by day, with the chance of rain. It is the same weather the 3D garden shows and the same weather the soil-water store is worked out from, so what you see on Home and what you see over your garden always agree.

Plot Trak flags weather worth acting on: frost coming, a hot spell, heavy rain. The point of the warning is the job it implies: fleece out, water early, hold off watering because it is about to rain anyway.

You can keep as many plots as you like: the garden at home and the allotment, or one plot per bed. Tap the plot name at the top of the Plot tab to switch between them, rename one, or start a new one.

Two ways. Drag a corner grip on the plot boundary, which is quickest and shows you the shape as it changes, or type the measurements in metres. Growing the plot moves the boundary only: everything you have placed stays exactly where it was.

North is what makes every shadow in the app honest, and it is the one thing worth getting right before you build anything. It is under More in the 3D toolbar, in the sun and compass panel. You can hold the phone up and let it read the direction, turn the North dial by hand, or say which way is up your garden.

On the flat plan, the Fit to screen button puts the whole plot back in view. In 3D there is no fit button: two fingers are all you need, so pinch out to pull back and drag with two fingers to swing round until the garden is in front of you again. Neither changes anything in the garden, only where you are standing.

A top-down drawing of the same plot. It is easier for exact placing and for seeing a whole large garden at once, and it does everything the 3D view does. Switch to it from More in the 3D toolbar, and switch back the same way. Nothing is lost either way, it is the same garden drawn twice. The fingers work the same way in both: with a bed, patch, path or lawn chosen, drag one finger to draw the shape or tap to drop a single one, and two fingers always move the plan.

Plots open in 3D unless you say otherwise. More → 3D plots or 2D plots sets which one you get from now on. You can still switch inside any plot at any time.

What surrounds your garden in the 3D view: the fields, houses or trees beyond the fence. It is scenery only, it costs nothing, and it is there so a plot does not float in nothing. Choose it under More → 3D mode settings in the 3D toolbar.

Runs the light from dawn to dusk so you can watch the shade move across the garden. It is the quickest way to see that the spot you were going to put the tomatoes in is in shadow all morning. Turn it on under More in the 3D toolbar and pick a speed.

Clears every button off the screen and moves the camera on its own, for recording a video of your garden or just looking at it. There are two movements: Flythrough flies the length of the garden from one end to the other, and Orbit circles it slowly. Pick one and tap Cinematic mode. Tap anywhere to come back. It is under More in the 3D toolbar, below the timelapse.

High draws the full garden: weather, wet surfaces after rain, moving water, detailed leaves and the whole lighting. Low is built for a smooth frame rate and drops all of that for simpler plants and still water. Nothing in your garden changes, only how it is drawn. It is under More → 3D mode settings in the 3D toolbar.

Controls what MOVES: the rain and snow falling, the moving water and the flames. The sky itself still follows the real weather, which is the separate Live weather effects switch on the sun and compass panel. Turning the animations off is the lighter of the two ways to speed a struggling device up, and it is under More → 3D mode settings beside the graphics quality. On Low graphics they are off anyway, so the switch is greyed out there rather than pretending to do something.

With this on, your garden is drawn under the real weather at your plot: the cloud, the daylight it leaves, the wet ground after rain, the storm on the horizon, and rain or snow falling. Turn it off and the garden is always under a clear sky. In 3D it is on the sun and compass panel, under the time of day and the north dial: tap the sun and compass button above the controls at the bottom of the view. It is also in the plot menu on the flat plan. It is one setting, so changing it in either place changes both.

If the 3D view cannot start, or it closed badly last time, Plot Trak opens the flat plan and tells you why. Nothing is lost, and the plan edits everything the 3D view does. There is a Try 3D again button whenever you want to go back. If 3D runs but stutters, try Low graphics quality first, then turning animations off.

You can lay a photograph, a sketch or a surveyor’s drawing under the plot and build on top of it. It makes getting the shape of an awkward garden much easier than measuring everything. While you are lining it up, one finger moves the photo and two fingers move the plot beneath it, so you can see whether the boundary matches without leaving the job.

Produces a report of your garden as a PDF or an image, with the flat plan in it if you want one. Save it to a folder or hand it to the share sheet. It is in More → Create garden report, and from the plot designer itself.

Two fingers always move the camera, whatever else you are doing. Pinch to zoom, drag with two fingers to swing round the garden and pan across it. Two fingers never place, move or change anything, so you can look from anywhere mid-job without losing your place.

The + button opens everything you can put in a garden, grouped into seating, lighting, structures, water, buildings, animals, cooking, shelter, storage and ornaments. Search it if you know what you want. Pick a style and a colour before you place it, then tap the spot on the ground.

Tap anything to select it. Handles appear beside it, and a row of tools (View, Move, Turn, Resize) chooses what one finger does. Two fingers still drive the camera in every one of them. Changes save as you go.

Everything has a height, and you can set it. For something standing on the ground that is how tall it is. For a wind chime, a hanging basket, a bird feeder or a string of lights it is how high it hangs. The dial is in the panel when the thing is selected.

With snapping on, wind chimes, lights, bird feeders and insect hotels settle onto whatever you drop them near: a pergola beam, a branch, a fence. Turn it off and everything stays exactly where you put it at the height you set, which is what you want when the app has not modelled the thing you are really hanging it from. It is under More → 3D mode settings and it is on by default.

Most things come in several styles, and many can be painted. Select the thing and tap Styles & colour. The model turns as you look at it, so you can see what you are choosing. Where a thing has trim as well as a body (a shed with a cream frame, a bench with an iron end), you can colour the two separately.

Beds, lawns, paths, patios and gravel can be drawn rather than dropped, which is how you get the real shape of a garden rather than a rectangle. Choose the feature, switch to Draw, and trace it on the ground with one finger. On the flat plan you do not have to switch at all: with one of these chosen, dragging a finger draws the shape and a tap still drops a single one.

A drawn bed or path keeps its points, so you can pull one about afterwards rather than drawing the whole thing again. Select it and drag a point. The shape stays where you drew it and only the point you have hold of moves.

Select something and the buttons for it appear: a bin to delete it, and a copy button that drops an identical one beside it with the same style, colour and size. Duplicating is much quicker than placing a row of matching planters one at a time.

The two arrows in the plot toolbar step back and forward through changes to the layout. Watering is undone from the notice that appears when you do it, not from here, because it is a record of something you did in the garden rather than a change to the plan.

The sun control sets the time of day, and the shadows follow it. It is honest as long as north is set and your location is saved, so a shadow in the app falls where the shadow in your garden falls. For the season-by-season picture, use the Sun Study.

The 3D garden shows the weather where you are. Cloud dims the light and softens the shadows, rain leaves surfaces wet and puts ripples in the puddles, fog softens the far end of a long plot, and thunder brings a restrained flicker of lightning. A weather change takes a little while to spread across a large garden.

The companion button draws the relationships between plants that are close enough to affect each other: green between good neighbours, red between ones that would rather not. It needs at least two plants on the plot to have anything to say. Plot Trak warns; it never refuses to let you plant something.

Butterflies and birds come and go over the garden on their own. They are scenery, not something you place or look after: they are in at night, and they settle down in rain, snow and thick fog, like the real thing. They only appear on High graphics quality with animations on.

Hot tubs, statues, gnomes, fire pits, the fancier seating and the rest are in the Add sheet, under the group each one belongs to: Ornaments, Seating, Cooking & warmth and so on. They are the decorative half of the library, so they come with Plot Trak Pro. A padlock on a feature means Pro, and tapping it opens the page that says what Pro includes. Everything you grow in stays free. Place any of them like any other feature, and give them a colour and a finish from the styles sheet.

A guide to everything you can grow, with a page each: what it is, its history, when to sow and harvest, how far apart to space it, how much water and feed it wants, what tends to go wrong with it, and whether it is safe around cats and dogs.

Search by name, or filter the list down to what suits you. You can mark a crop as a favourite, and the sowing-window tips will then include it whether or not you have the seed.

Every crop page has a Grow this crop button. It asks how you are growing it (starting in seed pots, sowing straight into a growing area, or growing it in a pot) and then takes you to the plot, where the crop is already down and selected so you can drag it to the spot you meant.

Every crop carries a verdict for cats and one for dogs: Safe, Use caution, Unsafe, Inconclusive, or Not assessed. Each one explains how it was reached and names the reference it rests on, and the cat and dog buttons on a crop page jump straight to that reasoning. Not assessed means nobody has checked that crop, which is not the same as safe.

Feeding advice is per crop and reviewed, and a crop nobody has reviewed gets no reminder at all rather than a guess. Some crops should not be fed: feed a carrot and you get leaves and a forked root. Those show a red feed button that explains why, and then lets you go ahead anyway if you want to.

Every crop’s guide says whether it is annual, biennial or perennial, and whether to pull it up at the end or leave it in. This matters more than it sounds. Rhubarb, asparagus and a globe artichoke die back to bare ground and look exactly like failures, and digging one up loses years of cropping. Those show as Resting for winter rather than as a problem.

The photographs on the crop and pest pages are not shipped with the app, which is why it is a small download. Plot Trak fetches the whole set for you in the background, quietly, whenever you are on Wi-Fi, so they are there when you have no signal. More → Crop & pest photos shows how far it has got and lets you clear them again. It will not touch your mobile data unless you turn on Download crop/pest photos over mobile data in the same place.

Every crop guide has a Frost card: whether the plant is hardy, half-hardy, tender or a tender perennial, the temperature it is at risk below where there is a well-established figure, and what actually protects it. Under the outdoor sowing calendar it also says whether it is still too early to put that crop out where you are.

On a night frost is forecast, the Home screen names any of your own plantings that mind it, and the flat plan marks them with a snowflake so you can see where to walk. Tap Covered it once you have fleeced or moved something and it stops being warned about for a fortnight.

A crop nobody has reviewed shows no frost card at all, rather than a guess.

From the plot, Add → Place a crop lets you plant without going back to the guide. Tap a bed, patch or planter to plant into it, or tap open ground to plant exactly where you tapped. A crop sent over from its own guide is put down for you instead: it arrives on the plot, selected, with its handles on it, so all that is left is to drag it where it belongs.

Rather than placing one plant and copying it thirty times, draw the line the row follows. Plot Trak asks which crop and how many, suggests a number from that crop’s own spacing, and spaces them evenly along the line.

Choosing a pot is not just a label. A container holds far less soil than a bed and dries out about twice as fast, so Plot Trak asks you to water it sooner. The crop guide says whether a crop is usually happy in a pot, but it never stops you trying.

A seedling gets its own card rather than a harvest estimate: how old it is, when it should be ready to go outside, what a ready seedling looks like, and how to harden it off. Plot Trak also asks where the tray is standing (indoors, in a greenhouse, or outdoors) because that decides both whether rain waters it and how fast it grows on.

When a seedling is ready, its card offers Transplant into the ground. That turns it into a growing crop with a harvest estimate, and it keeps everything it already had. Plot Trak can remind you when a batch is due to go out.

Growing Now lists everything currently in your garden with what each one needs. Search by name, filter by stage or status, and switch between a list and a grid.

Tap any plant, on the list or in the garden, for everything about that one plant: when it went in, when it was last watered and fed, when it should be ready, how it is doing, and its whole history of notes, photos and problems.

The Water and Feed buttons on a plant’s page log it now. Backdate watering and Backdate feeding are for the jobs you did before you picked the phone up, which is most of them. Both feed into when the next one is due.

The Harvest button records what you picked and how much, and it goes into your yield totals. Each crop shows when it is likely to be ready, worked out from when you planted it, how you have watered and fed it, and the weather where you are.

Write a note or add a photo to any plant, whenever you like. Photos are kept on your phone with the rest of your garden. A run of photos through a season is the most useful record most gardens ever get.

When a plant is finished, mark it so. Its history stays in your records and your yields, and it comes off the list of things needing water. Deleting a growing entry instead removes it altogether, which is for the ones you added by mistake.

When you finish a crop that is meant to be pulled up, Plot Trak offers to put it on one of your heaps, because that is the moment most compost material actually arrives. A crop that should be left in the ground is never offered, and neither is one nobody has reviewed.

Tap the plant in the garden and drag it. The move saves as you go, and the plant keeps its whole history: watering, feeding, notes and photos all go with it.

If you put two crops that dislike each other side by side, Plot Trak says so at the time and tells you why. It is a warning, not a rule, and you can carry on. The companion lines button shows the whole picture for the plot at once.

Plot Trak keeps a running estimate of the moisture in your soil rather than looking for one big downpour. Rain adds to it, warm bright weather takes from it, and some of every shower is lost before it reaches the roots, so several light days add up to less than their total, but they do add up. While the store stays above about half full, exposed crops are logged as rain-watered.

Anything under glass, under a porch, or under a dense canopy never gets the rain, so it always needs watering by hand and Plot Trak never credits it. You set this when you plant, and you can change it on the plant’s own page with the Sheltered from rainfall switch.

A plant that is due for water wears a small watering can in the 3D garden. Tap the can to water that plant where it stands. Pick the watering can up from the controls and every plant wears a drop instead: tap one and it turns to a tick, so you can work round the plot a plant at a time. The flat plan waters exactly the same way, so it makes no difference which view you are in.

Water all crops on Home, or from the plot, logs every plant that was due in one go. It only touches the ones that were actually due, so it does not reset the clock on something you watered this morning.

The pest pages tell you what eats your crops. More → Tools → Beneficial insects tells you what eats those, and, more usefully, how to get it to turn up.

Each crop guide lists the ones that matter to it under Helpful insects, with what each does, what brings it in, and what it looks like. That last one matters most: most gardeners who kill a ladybird or hoverfly larva do it because it looks like a grub. Each pest page names its natural allies and links across.

Bees are listed for pollination and control nothing: they are there because a bean crop depends on them, not because they eat anything.

A guide to what goes wrong and what to do about it, with a page each: what to look for, what it does, and how to deal with it. It covers the diseases and disorders as well as the things that eat leaves.

Open the plant it is happening to and tap Log pest or problem with crop. Plot Trak narrows it down from what that crop is prone to, then keeps the problem on the plant’s record so you can see how long it went on and what fixed it.

A logged problem gets a plan: the gentlest thing to try first, then what to do if that does not work. Record what you actually did on the Issues page for that plant, and close it off when the plant recovers.

If you write down a treatment of your own, Plot Trak offers to pass it on. The suggestions can only ever contain what is already in the guide, so the remedies gardeners work out for themselves are exactly the ones missing from it. It is entirely optional.

A map of how many hours of direct sun each part of your plot gets, worked out from where you garden, which way it faces, and everything standing on it. It is in More → Tools → Sun Study.

The plot is coloured by how much direct sun it gets across the day. Pick a different time of year and watch it change: a border that is in full sun in June can be in shade all day in December, and the June map alone will mislead you about anything you plant for winter.

Show what casts the shade names the things doing it, so you can see whether it is the shed, the apple tree or next door’s fence. That turns a shady corner into a decision: move the shed, thin the tree, or plant something that likes it.

If the study has your garden wrong, you correct what causes the shade, not the map itself. You can say how solid a particular thing’s shadow is (a beech hedge is not a brick wall), and you can add things outside the plot that block the light, such as a neighbour’s house or a line of trees, by the direction they lie in and how wide they look. Corrections hold at every time of year and survive you moving the shed.

Check what is planted compares what you are growing against the light it is actually standing in, and says what would do better there. It is the quickest answer to why something has sulked in the same spot two years running.

The Soil pH tool asks whether your soil is sandy, loam or clay, because heavier soils resist a change in pH more: the same shift needs more lime or more sulphur. There is a small info badge on each of the three: it opens on the one you asked about, with the other two below it and a drawing of what each does in your hand.

Moisten a walnut-sized lump until it is damp but not wet and work it between your fingers. Sandy is gritty and will not hold together. Loam squeezes into a ball that holds but cracks when you bend it into a ring. Clay is sticky, rolls into a sausage without breaking, and takes a shine if you rub it.

Most gardens are somewhere between. Pick whichever it is closest to.

pH decides what your plants can take up out of the soil. Most vegetables are happiest between about 6.0 and 7.0, and outside that band the nutrients are there but locked away. More → Tools → Soil pH tracks it per plot, with four tabs: Overview, Adjust, Crops and Learn.

Test with an inexpensive kit or a probe and record what you get. Two or more readings draw a trend line, which is far more useful than any single number: soil moves slowly and one reading cannot tell you which way.

The Adjust tab works out how much lime or sulphur your plot needs from its size and its soil texture, and it is worth logging what you actually put on. Amendments show against the trend, so you can see what the last lot did before you add more.

The Crops tab matches the catalogue against your readings, so you can work with the soil you have rather than fighting it. Blueberries want it acid and brassicas want it limed, and it is usually easier to put each where it suits than to change a whole plot.

Place a compost bin, tumbler or open heap on your plot and it appears in More → Tools → Composting, with what it needs next and how far along it is: Filling, Working, Maturing or Ready to use. Tapping the bin in the 3D garden opens its own screen too.

Log what you put on and Plot Trak keeps track of the balance, the moisture and the air for you. The What goes on tab lists what to add, what each thing counts as, and how much of it a heap can take. Water you tip on by hand is logged the same way, in cups, handfuls or buckets, so a splash from a can and a full soaking are not counted as the same thing.

A heap fails on three separate things (balance, moisture and air), and most compost advice runs them together. Logging what goes on lets the app tell them apart and say which one to fix next, so you learn to read your own heap rather than following a rule.

Moisture should feel like a wrung out sponge, and it comes from three places at once. What you put on: greens are mostly water, so a bin of grass clippings can waterlog itself with no help from you, while cardboard and dead leaves are nearly dry and soak it up again. The watering can, when you log it. And the rain, if your heap is open to the sky. Plot Trak adds up all three rather than asking you to guess, which is why it can tell a heap that is too wet from one that has simply stopped.

How your heap is covered decides whether the weather touches it, so it is worth setting correctly. A lidded bin or tumbler keeps the rain out, so it only gets what you put on it. An open heap waters itself, and through a British winter it usually over waters itself. A sheltered heap is the one to watch: it is under a roof or a lean to, so it looks like an open heap from the outside but never gets rained on, and it is the one most likely to dry out and stop without anyone noticing.

The What goes on tab also lists what to keep out, and says why for each one. Some are about rats, some about weed seeds surviving, and some about disease carrying over into next year’s beds.

More → Tools → Your seed store holds your packets: what they are, how many are left, when to use them by, and a photo of the packet. Match a packet to a crop in the guide and Plot Trak can remind you when it is time to sow it. The same page is the Seeds tab of Garden records, and the My seeds tab on Growing → Encyclopedia; they are one store, reached three ways.

The Seeds tab has a What to sow now view: which of your own packets can go in this month. It is worked out from each crop’s sowing window, so it is about the seed you actually have rather than a general calendar.

Every harvest you record adds to your yield totals, crop by crop. After a season or two this is the honest answer to which things are worth the space.

Closing a growing season archives what you were growing, so Plot Trak can tell you what occupied each plot last year and the year before. That is what makes a proper rotation possible rather than a guess. Do it once at the end of the year.

A plain garden diary, separate from the notes on individual plants. It is the place for the things that are about the whole garden: the first frost, a hard week, what you would do differently.

Six categories, and you choose which of them you want: important weather changes, crops need watering, time to feed a crop, harvest window, sowing windows for your seeds, and garden tips. Each one on the Notifications screen says exactly what sets it off, so nothing arrives as a mystery.

More → Notifications has a switch per category and a master switch over the lot. Turning a category off stops it immediately. Android also has to allow notifications at all, and the screen shows you whether it has.

Some Android phones hold background apps back to save battery, and that delays garden reminders. Plot Trak offers to open your phone’s battery settings on the first run with guidance for your make of phone. Allowing background activity is optional and it is what makes reminders arrive on time.

Clears every reminder Plot Trak has queued up, if you have ended up with more than you want. It does not change your category choices, and new reminders will be scheduled as normal afterwards.

Your garden, your photos, your notes and your records are all kept on your device. There is no account, and none of it is uploaded anywhere. What does leave your phone is a weather lookup for your area, the crop and pest photographs the first time you view them, and a short technical report if Plot Trak goes wrong, so the fault can be fixed. That last one holds no garden records and nothing that identifies you, and you can turn it off with the Automatic crash reports switch in More.

More → Back up all app data writes one file holding your whole garden. Save it somewhere off the phone (cloud storage, a computer, an email to yourself) and take a fresh one now and then.

More → Import garden reads a backup file back in and tells you how many records it brought. Use it to restore after a mishap, or to merge a garden from another phone into this one.

Take a backup on the old phone, get the file onto the new one, install Plot Trak, and import it. Your plots, plantings, records and photos all come across.

Removes every garden record and photo and starts you from nothing. It asks twice, and there is no undo, so take a backup first if there is any chance you will want it back.

The Plot Trak emblem can be swapped for any of the four, in More → Appearance & widgets. It changes the emblem inside the app and, on Android, the icon on your home screen. The same screen sets the small flair shown beside your garden name on Home.

More → Appearance & widgets sets light, dark, or whatever your phone is doing, and picks the app’s colour from eight. It changes nothing in your garden.

Text can be set to your phone’s standard, Large or Extra large, and high contrast colours strengthen the difference between text and what is behind it. Both are in Appearance & widgets under Accessibility.

Calms the app’s own animations and transitions. It is separate from the animations in the 3D garden, which have their own switch in 3D mode settings.

Metric or imperial, and °C or °F, in Appearance & widgets. Dates are shown the British way, day before month, throughout.

Plot Trak has an Android home screen widget. Choose what it shows (garden overview and weather, weather and next watering, or crop care and tasks), how often it refreshes, and its own theme, which is kept separate from the app’s.

Up to four buttons on the widget, so you can go straight to adding a crop, Growing, Plot or Pests without opening the app first. Choose them in Appearance & widgets; changes apply on their own.

The share button on Home passes Plot Trak on to somebody else through your phone’s usual share sheet. It sends a short line about the app and nothing about your garden: no records, no location, no photos.

More → Suggestions & feedback is how to say something is wrong or ask for something new. Plot Trak is built and looked after by one person, and this is the route that actually reaches him.

Planning a plot, sowing, planting out, watering, feeding and harvesting are free and always will be, and so is everything you grow in: beds, planters, hanging baskets, the greenhouse, the water butt, the tap, the compost heap, a shed and a fence. Plot Trak Pro adds the optional half: the decorative model library, the Sun Study, Soil pH, Composting, the beneficial insect guide and the app emblems. It is £12.99 a year after a 14 day free trial, or £65 once for lifetime access, and More → Plot Trak Pro is where to read the full detail and the billing terms.

Stop paying and the Pro extras switch off. The free planner stays open and your plots, plantings and history stay exactly as they are. Any Pro models you had placed are hidden rather than deleted, so they come straight back if you subscribe again.

Anything Pro pays for wears a small Pro tag wherever it appears, whether or not you have Pro, so you can always see what you would be without.

More holds the attributions for the photographs and models used in the app, the privacy policy, the terms and conditions and the end-user licence agreement. The version number is at the bottom of the same screen.