About Dibble

Dibble started with a simple, frustrating question: when do I actually plant this? The answer is always "it depends on your zone," but most tools made you do the math yourself. We wanted an app that just told you, for your exact spot, and then reminded you when the day came.

So that is what Dibble does. You say where your garden is (your location, your town or a postal code), and it reads the frost, heat, and rain there. From there it builds a dated plan for every crop you grow: when to start seeds indoors, when to sow or transplant, and when to expect a harvest. Where frost only comes some years, it says so and gives you a safe date for tender plants, and where it never freezes it finds your cool or dry season. It reminds you at the right time, and it keeps a journal so you can remember what worked.

The name comes from the tool. A dibble, also called a dibber, is the pointed stick a gardener pushes into the soil to make a planting hole at the right depth. It is one of the oldest tools in the shed and it does one small thing exactly right, which felt like the right thing to aim for. If you have never used one, we wrote a guide to dibbers and dibble boards.

We built Dibble to be private from the first line of code. There is no account, no ad tracking, and no server holding your garden. Your data lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud. We think a gardening app should feel like a notebook you own, not a service that owns you.

Dibble is made by Handler Labs LLC. It plans from the climate where your garden is, in eight languages: English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, German, Arabic, and Traditional Chinese. If you have a question or an idea, write to support@handlerlabs.app. We read everything.