Frequently asked questions

Dibble starts from where your garden is (your location, your town or a postal code), reads the local frost, heat, and rain there, then works out start, sow, transplant, and harvest dates for each crop. The website shows the typical dates for each hardiness zone, so treat them as a guide; the app plans from your garden's own place.

No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no password. Your gardens live on your device and sync through your own iCloud if you use it. Dibble does not run a server that stores your garden.

Yes, the core planting calendar, reminders, crop library, journal notes, Ask Dibble, one frost warning a season, and three photo identifications a season are free. Premium adds the weather-adaptive calendar, the bed planner, unlimited photo identification of plants, pests, and diseases, multiple gardens, harvest tracking, perennials, houseplant care, weather alerts, and more.

Premium is $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $69.99 once for lifetime access, in US dollars. The App Store shows the price for your country. You can cancel a subscription anytime.

Dibble plans from where your garden is, not from a short list of zones, so it works in many countries. You can set the place by using your location, searching for your town or entering a postal code, and Dibble works from the climate there. The App Store shows whether the app is offered in your country.

The app comes in English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, German, Arabic, and Traditional Chinese, and Ask Dibble answers in all eight. The main pages of this website, including this FAQ, are in all eight languages. The crop and frost-date guides are in English, Spanish, and French.

Yes. Dibble plans by frost, heat, and rain, not by frost alone. Where frost comes only some years, it says so and gives you a safe date for tender plants. Where it never freezes, it finds your cool or dry season instead. The dates are still estimates, so confirm them with a local grower or your agricultural extension.

They are good estimates based on your garden's local frost, heat, and rain. Your own yard has its own microclimate, so treat the dates as a strong starting point and adjust as you learn your space. The zone pages on this website use typical frost dates for each hardiness zone. Premium goes a step further with the weather-adaptive calendar, which moves your dates when this year's freeze runs early or late.

No. There is no ad tracking and nothing is sold. Your garden's place (rounded to about 1 km) stays on your device and in your own iCloud. Apple services get only what each feature needs: Apple Maps the town you type, Apple's geocoder the rounded point when you use your location, and Apple Weather the garden's rounded place for frost warnings and the weather features. The free frost warning asks Apple Weather only when notifications are on.

Yes, anytime. Settings can export a garden as JSON, which holds your plantings, beds, harvests, journal notes, seeds, and more, or as a CSV of your plantings. Photos are not included. You can bring a JSON backup into Dibble on any device, where it arrives as a new garden next to your others.

Yes. You can photograph a struggling leaf and Dibble identifies the most likely disease and suggests organic fixes. There is a separate pest tool for the other half of the question, what is actually eating your leaves, covering common garden pests like aphids, hornworms, squash bugs, and Japanese beetles. Both run entirely on your device, so your photo never leaves your phone. Three identifications a season are free, and Premium has no limit.

Yes, with Premium. The adaptive calendar watches your local forecast and recent conditions, and when this year's last freeze lands earlier or later than usual for your garden it shifts your whole calendar to match, by up to two weeks. Every task, reminder, and widget moves together, and the app shows you the freeze date it used so you can judge it yourself. You can switch it off anytime and go back to the typical dates.

Dibble sends one free frost warning each season, the evening before, so you have time to protect tender plants. It needs notifications turned on. Premium adds live frost and rain alerts for your garden.

Ask Dibble is a question box for quick planting answers. It works things out on your device from your own garden and its climate, and it answers in all eight app languages. It is part of the free app.

Yes. Premium adds houseplant care, a library of common indoor plants with watering, feeding, and repotting reminders tuned to each one, alongside the outdoor planting calendar.

Yes. Dibble includes an Apple Watch app that shows the day's planting tasks at a glance, so you can see what to do without reaching for your phone.