Last updated 3 October 2026.
These are the terms for using Gardener's Almanac — the app, the website and the API that AI assistants connect through. They are short on purpose. What happens to your data is in the privacy policy; this page is the rest.
Who we are
Gardener's Almanac is made and run by Olof Montin, in Sweden.
What the app is, and what it is not
The app keeps your gardens, what grows in them and a log of what you do, and it works out timing, watering and a to-do list from that, your climate and the weather.
That advice is guidance, not a guarantee. It rests on climate averages and forecasts that can be wrong, and on figures that describe a typical plant rather than yours. Frost comes early, seeds fail, a forecast misses. What you sow, water and harvest is your decision, and the garden is yours.
Your account
Signing in with your email address creates your account, whether you sign in to the app or through an AI assistant. One account per person. Keep access to that email address to yourself: whoever can read the codes we send there can sign in as you.
You can delete your account at any time in Settings. Everything in it goes with it, as the privacy policy describes.
What is free and what is paid for
Reading and recording are free: the plant guide, the articles, your gardens and everything you log. What the app works out for you — the timing, the watering forecast and the to-do list — is paid for, after a free first growing season. About Gardener's Almanac has the prices and how the free season is counted.
A subscription is sold either in the app, by Apple, or on the website, by Link, Stripe's payment service. Each seller's own terms cover the payment. In the app, Apple's terms also cover renewal, cancellation and refunds.
On the website you can cancel at any time from Settings, and the subscription then runs to the end of the period already paid for. Within 14 days of any payment on the website, you can have it back in full, without giving a reason: write to us and we will refund it. A full refund ends what it paid for straight away. Deleting your account cancels a website subscription at once.
If a subscription ends, what you have recorded stays yours to read and export.
Using it fairly
Please don't:
- use the app or the API to harm, harass or deceive anybody;
- try to get into other people's gardens or accounts, or around the app's limits;
- copy the plant catalogue or our calculated advice in bulk, by scraping or otherwise;
- try to work out how the calculations are made by taking the app or its answers apart;
- put anything unlawful, or anything that belongs to somebody else, into a garden or a plant submission.
What you put in
Your gardens, your log, your notes and your photos are yours. We store and process them only to run the app for you and for the people you share a garden with.
A plant you submit to the catalogue is meant for other gardeners. By submitting it you let us show it to them, edit it, and keep it in the catalogue — also after you delete your account, without your name on it.
Connected apps and AI assistants
When you connect an assistant or another app, it acts with the access you approved, and what it does, it does on your behalf. That includes changing and deleting things: an assistant told to delete a garden can do it. Check what you ask for, and disconnect anything you no longer trust in Settings.
The assistant itself belongs to somebody else, and so do its terms.
When things go wrong
We work hard to keep the app running and your data safe, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of mistakes. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses — a lost harvest among them — and our liability is otherwise limited to what you have paid us in the last twelve months.
Where the law where you live does not allow a limit like that, it does not apply to you. The guarantees in New Zealand's Consumer Guarantees Act and in the Australian Consumer Law, for example, cannot be excluded, and nothing here tries to.
Nothing in these terms limits the rights you have as a consumer under the law where you live.
Ending it
You can stop using the app and delete your account whenever you like. We may close an account that breaks these terms in a serious way, and we will tell you why first unless the law or somebody's safety stands in the way. If we ever shut the app down, we will say so well in advance, and you will be able to export everything you have recorded.
Law
Swedish law applies to these terms, alongside the consumer protections of the country you live in that an agreement cannot set aside.
A dispute can go to a Swedish court, and you can also bring a claim in the courts where you live, where your law gives you that right. If you live in Sweden, you can take it to Allmänna reklamationsnämnden (ARN), the Swedish board for consumer disputes.
Changes to these terms
If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will update this page and tell you in the app before the change applies.