Seed-catalog paper · Kept by hand · Est. 2026
The garden journal that remembers last season.
Yearbed keeps a season-by-season ledger of what you planted, when you sowed it, and how it went, under the names you actually use. A notebook. Not a plant identifier.
Name tag and all.
Why a ledger
The second year is the point.
Most gardening apps want to identify your plants. Yearbed wants to remember them, so next spring starts from what you already wrote down.
№ 1
A season timeline, not a feed
Every planting is filed under its season and year. Next spring, last year's notes are one tap away, including the ones that didn't make it, which are records too, never red marks.
№ 2
Your names are the record
"Cherokee Purple · balcony pot 3" is a first-class entry, typed by you, never forced out of a dropdown. The built-in species list only suggests sowing windows; you stay the author.
№ 3
Log the whole bed at once
Select a bed or a handful of plants, tap once: "Watered all of Bed A." Rained today? One tap marks it and skips. Three seconds to undo, and no nagging after a storm.
What we can count
No testimonials yet.
Here is what is already true.
40,818
US ZIP codes with hardiness zones and median frost dates, compiled, checked, and packed inside the app before you ever open it.
Zones, frost dates and the species table, packed into the app. Already on the phone. Not a second download.
To read your sowing window, work out your zone, or open any season you have ever logged. The only traffic Yearbed makes is the store's billing SDK.
Every batch log lands with an undo bar. Miss it and you can still edit any date, any entry, any season. The table is a suggestion; you are the author.
Instead of testimonials, we read the public App Store and Play reviews for GrowIt, Seed to Spoon, Planter, Blossom and PictureThis while Yearbed was still being drawn. Billing complaints, per-bed pricing tiers and a years-old request for a way to water more than one plant at once turn up there in gardeners’ own words. Those reviews are the reason the free tier has no plant cap and the reason one tap logs a whole bed.
The book itself
Three pages from the journal.
Design previews drawn in code, not device screenshots. The shipped app may differ slightly; the promises won't.
4 beds · 9 plantings · 21 harvests
Cherokee Purple
Marketmore 76
ended · didn't make it this year. Powdery mildew, noted for next spring
Genovese basil
2025
…the whole previous season, still free to read.
Season historythe face of the app: years and cultivar names set large
5 selected · one entry fans out to all
Cherokee Purple
tomato
Brandywine
tomato
Genovese basil
container · pot 3
Lemon balm
corner herb
Batch loggingthe magic moment: one gesture, whole bed, 3-second undo
Zone 6b · last frost ≈ Apr 15 · first frost ≈ Oct 21
Every date is a suggestion you can edit, zip or no zip. No live weather, no auto-watering plans.
Sowing windowsstatic tables + your edits, zero network calls
Pricing, on the cover
Free to keep the book.
Pro to do the math.
Prices shown exactly as they'll appear, before any paywall, before any trial.
Free
$0
the whole journal, no expiry
- Unlimited beds & plantings, every bed type
- Full season history, readable forever
- Batch logging with undo
- CSV + PDF export, always free
- Your sowing windows, fully editable
The free tier is the journal itself. Nothing here expires, and nothing here starts costing money later.
Yearbed Pro
$2.50/mo
$29.99 billed annually. The yearly plan written by the month, so you don't have to divide.
- Sowing-window reminders (local notifications, no servers)
- Harvest stats & cross-season cultivar comparisons: which tomato does best at your place
- Planned after launch: multi-device sync and one-tap "replant last year"
The yearly plan is half the monthly price and the only one a trial attaches to. Monthly suits people who garden in season; lifetime suits anyone who would rather never see a renewal.
How the 7-day trial runs
The paywall appears only when you turn on reminders or open stats, never while logging or reading. Cancel in three taps in Settings › Subscriptions (or Google Play › Subscriptions): no exit survey, no win-back offer, and the history stays free either way.
Payment never touches us: both plans are bought inside the App Store or Google Play, so Yearbed never sees a card number. That is also why refunds are requested from Apple or Google, from your purchase history, and they decide.
Fair questions
Asked at the farm stand.
The promises, printed on the page.
In plain inkWeekly plans, per-bed pricing, histories held hostage. Other garden apps have done all three. Ours are written down here.
Your history is always free to read and export
Every planting, date, harvest and failure stays readable forever, paid or not. CSV and PDF export are free — we sell convenience, never your own past.
No bed tax
Unlimited beds and plants on the free tier — raised, in-ground, balcony pot, indoor start, greenhouse. Charging per bed never happens.
No weekly subscription
Ever. The 7-day trial shows the exact yearly price and charge date before it starts.
No camera tricks
No plant identification, no disease diagnosis, nothing marketed as "AI." Your photos are entries in your log, nothing more.
Leaving is as plain as arriving
Cancel in three taps in your store's subscription settings: no exit survey, no win-back discount. Pro runs to the date you paid through; the history stays free.
Local-first, yours to delete
Data lives on your phone, works offline, with no account. "Delete everything" asks twice, then it is gone. Sync arrives later as an optional paid extra.
Getting it
Four questionsDates, platforms, and what you need before you start.
Where do I get it?
The App Store and Google Play, under "Yearbed: Garden Journal." Same version and same price list on both, and there is no account to create first.
Is it on Android too, or is this another iPhone-first thing?
Both, from the same release. Android gets its own back gesture, Google Play's own billing wording, and the Android 13 notification prompt asked properly before the system dialog. Everything else is the same book.
Does it work without internet or an account?
Yes. The journal works offline and stays local-first on your phone. The disclosed network paths are store/RevenueCat billing and six anonymous, allow-listed analytics events when a release has a complete configuration. There is no user analytics switch, account, email prompt, or sign-up wall.
Will there be a web version?
No. That is a decision. Yearbed belongs in the hand you have free while the other one is holding a trowel. This page exists so you can read the promises before you install anything. It is not the app, and it never asks you to sign in.
Keeping the book
Five questionsWhat goes on the page, and who gets to decide.
Do I have to pick my plants from a list?
Never. What you type is the record: "Cherokee Purple · balcony pot 3" is a first-class entry, not a nickname pinned to a species from a list. The bundled species list only offers to suggest a sowing window or a spacing, and you are free to ignore it for the whole life of the app.
Which bed types does it understand?
Five, and none of them is an afterthought: raised bed, in-ground row, container or pot, indoor start, and greenhouse. Bed size is a free-text note. Yearbed will never make you draw your garden on a grid before it lets you write something down.
How do sowing windows work without live weather?
On first launch you enter a zip code (or set frost dates by hand, fine anywhere in the world). Yearbed derives your zone and frost window from tables bundled inside the app, and every suggested date is editable. No live weather feeds, no automatic watering schedules.
What happens to a plant that dies?
It gets recorded, in the same neutral ink as everything else: "ended · didn't make it this year," with room for a note about why. No red, no failure badge, no streak to break. A season that went wrong is the most useful page in a garden journal, and we don't treat it as a blemish.
What if I already keep notes on paper?
There is no importer in version one, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. What most people do is start with this season and back-fill a 2025 season from memory. A cultivar name and a one-line outcome per plant is already more than a paper notebook usually survives. Export is free from the first day, so nothing you type is locked in here.
Money & data
Five questionsThe parts other garden apps collect complaints about.
Is there really no weekly plan or per-bed pricing?
Really. No weekly subscription, and beds and plants are unlimited on the free tier. We think both practices are hostile to gardeners, so we put it in writing, above, in the promises section.
Can I get my data out?
Always, and always free: CSV export of plantings, logs and harvests, a PDF season report, and your photos bundled for sharing. Your past is never a hostage.
What do you collect about me?
Nothing, in version 1.0. This build ships without an analytics key, so no usage events leave your phone at all; the only network traffic is the store's billing SDK. Your cultivar and bed names, your notes and photos, your zip code and your yields are never sent, in this release or any later one. If a later release does switch anonymous usage counts on, the privacy page already lists every event it would send.
How do I cancel, and what happens to my seasons?
Cancelling happens where the money does: Settings › your name › Subscriptions › Yearbed › Cancel Subscription on iPhone, or Google Play › Subscriptions on Android. Three taps, no exit survey, no offer designed to make you reconsider. We don't run those. Pro keeps working until the date you already paid through, then reminders and cross-season stats switch off. Nothing is deleted. Every season, log, photo and harvest stays readable and exportable, free, exactly as before. Cancel during the 7-day trial and no charge is made at all.
Why no plant identification or "AI" features?
By design. Pointing a camera at a leaf is a different product. Yearbed is the notebook that remembers what you did about it. Your cultivar names, your dates, your outcomes.
A question we didn't cover
Write to hello@yearbed.com. It reaches the person building Yearbed, not a ticket queue. Billing, data, or something the app ought to do by next spring are all fair game.
Start this year's page.
Free to keep the whole journal. No account, and no bed tax.
Listed as “Yearbed: Garden Journal”.