Dibble: Planting Calendar
Garden planner & plant care
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Know when to plant, wherever you garden. A free calendar from local frost, heat and rain, one free frost warning a season, no account. Eight languages. Try plant ID free.
Know when to plant, wherever you garden. Dibble works out your local frost, heat and rain and builds a planting calendar for every crop, with a reminder when each task is due. No account, no forced trial, no plant limit on the free calendar, and your garden stays on your devices and in your own iCloud.
Say where your garden is: use your location, search for your town or enter a postal code. Dibble works out when to start seeds indoors, direct sow, transplant and harvest each crop.
PERSONALIZED PLANTING CALENDAR
• Your local climate, your frost dates and a per-crop calendar in seconds
• 78 crops: vegetables, herbs, flowers, berries and fruit trees, from tomatoes and garlic to dahlias and strawberries
• Start-indoors, sow, transplant and harvest windows for your location
• With Premium, the calendar adapts when this year's frost runs early or late, and shows you the evidence
• Plans from where your garden is, not a short list of zones
• Where frost only comes some years, Dibble says so and gives you a safe date for tender plants. Where it never freezes, it finds your cool or dry season instead
SEASONAL REMINDERS
• "Start tomatoes indoors now," "time to transplant," "time to harvest"
• Mark a task done straight from the notification
• One free frost warning a season, the evening before
AT A GLANCE
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with today's tasks, tickable without opening the app
• Today's tasks on your Apple Watch
• Find any crop or planting from iPhone search
GARDEN JOURNAL
• Note what you planted and how it is doing
• Garden Wrapped, a recap of everything you grew this season
ASK DIBBLE
Quick planting answers in all eight app languages, worked out on your device from your own garden and its climate.
GROW DEEPER (Premium)
Try it first: choose a photo and Dibble suggests the most likely plant, pest or disease, as a best guess. Three a season are free.
• Adaptive calendar: your dates shift with this year's actual weather, not just the 30-year average
• Bed planner: one crop per square, with a neighbor check that flags clashes
• Succession planting and crop rotation
• Varieties and labels
• Harvest and yield tracking, plus a seed inventory that reads packet photos
• Perennials and fruit trees followed across years
• Houseplant care, with watering, feeding and repotting reminders
• Multiple gardens
• Photos on journal entries
• Live frost and rain alerts for your garden, with a frost Live Activity when you open Dibble on a frost night
• Find the likely plant disease or pest from a photo you choose, with organic treatment steps, entirely on your device
• Identify plants from a photo you choose, entirely on your device
IN THE OFF SEASON
Dibble switches to planning mode: a countdown to your next planting season, one tap to plan your best crops again, and a list of seeds to order.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Arabic and Traditional Chinese, and available in many more countries.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Dibble is local-first: everything lives on your device and syncs only through your own iCloud. No account, no ad-tracking, no servers holding your data. Plant, pest and disease identification run entirely on-device, so your photos are never uploaded. Export a JSON backup (no photos) or a CSV of your plantings whenever you like, and restore a backup as a new garden on any device.
Free includes the full personalized calendar, reminders, the complete crop library, journal notes, widgets, the Apple Watch app and one frost warning a season. Premium adds everything in the list above, as a monthly plan, a yearly plan with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time Lifetime unlock.
Planting dates are estimates based on your garden's climate and typical local frost dates. Results vary by microclimate and weather, so always verify with your local cooperative extension before planting.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://dibblegarden.com/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://dibblegarden.com/privacy/
Dibble 2.0.2 makes the free trial clearer.
• The free trial now appears only if you can still get it. If you have used a trial before, you see the plain price instead.
• When you start the yearly trial, Dibble reminds you 2 days before it ends (with notifications on), so the first charge never comes as a surprise.
The developer, Handler Labs LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Handler Labs LLC
- Size
- 19.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 7 more
- English, Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Monthly $4.99
- Premium Yearly $29.99
- Dibble Lifetime $69.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Handler Labs LLC

