YardStick

Lawn & Garden Maintenance

Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

YardStick is your all-in-one companion for maintaining a healthy lawn and thriving garden — track every mow, watering, and feeding, plan ahead each season, and never lose sight of what your yard needs next. YARD TRACKING • Photo progress tracking to watch your lawn transform over time • Log waterings and fertilizer applications with a tap • Fertilizer and soil amendment tracking with a depleting progress bar showing when you're due to feed again — fully customizable to any fertilizer or amendment type • Weed control tracker with the same countdown-style indicator for your next application • Mechanical maintenance tracking for overseeding, aeration, and dethatching • A fully customizable maintenance section — enable only the trackers you actually use • Fertilizer Calculator: enter what's printed on the bag and your yard's area (calculated automatically with Property Mapper) to get the exact "pounds on the ground" needed for your lawn, adjusted for the season • History Timeline: a full record of everything you've done to your yard this year, with editable dates, progress photos, and an end-of-season report to help you plan next year PLANT TRACKING YardStick isn't just for your lawn — it's just as capable for your garden. Log individual plants across the most common categories: fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees, shrubs, and houseplants. • Plan ahead from winter through harvest with customizable seed-starting and outdoor-planting dates (Pro users get reminder notifications so nothing slips through the cracks) • Succession planting support — track each successive planting independently • At-a-glance indicators for each plant's location, fertilizer type, quantity, and sun profile, so you always know what needs shade, sun, or a feeding • Soil moisture tracking via connected Ecowitt sensors (Pro) • Log fertilizer applications, waterings, and harvests throughout the season, complete with progress photos in each plant's own History Timeline • Generate an end-of-season report for every plant to help plan next year's garden PLANNING Turn ideas you have throughout the year into next season's plan. • Build shopping lists, checklists, and notes for future projects and purchases • Companion Planting Helper — discover which plants help each other thrive (and which ones you should keep apart), with the ability to generate a shopping list directly from the results • Pest & Disease Tracker — log sightings with photos across both your yard and individual plants, so you can spot patterns over time • Garden Calendar — an at-a-glance view of everything coming up next for your lawn and garden • Photo History— Look back at the progress of all your plants to see how they have progressed over the season YARDSTICK PRO Unlock smart integrations and hands-free tracking across your whole property: • Ecowitt — automatically track soil moisture and rainfall, with live updates reflected right on your tracker pills • Rachio — sync your smart sprinkler system to automatically log lawn watering • OpenWeatherMap — track local rainfall automatically • Property Mapper — draw custom zones directly on a map of your property, perfect if different sections need different care or run on different schedules; zone areas calculate automatically and feed straight into the Fertilizer Calculator • Log mowing and watering per zone with a single tap • Connect your Ecowitt sensors or Rachio zones to individual property zones for hyper-local tracking • Customizable notifications — choose exactly which reminders you want and when they fire, so you're always on top of your yard automatically Ecowitt, Rachio, and OpenWeatherMap are trademarks of their respective owners. YardStick is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these companies.

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Bugfixes - Removing item from History Timeline reverts item on Tab (Plant / Yard) - Fertilizer Calculator Increments in 0.05lb (Yard) Improvements - Updating SF icons (All) - Multiple Daily Waterings Badge (Plants) - Search Bar (Plants) - Add Milestones / Notes History (Yard) - Stacking Pills in Property Mapper (Yard) - Notifications Customization (Settings) - Added integration disclaimer (Settings) - Generate companion plant list (Planning) - **New** Photo History section to follow progress (Planning)

Version 1.2.1

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    Information

    Seller
    • Scott Brookes
    Size
    • 13.8 MB
    Category
    • Lifestyle
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    16+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Scott Brookes Designs
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    • Supports

    • Family Sharing

      Some in-app purchases and subscriptions may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled. Learn More