Usually it's a date
that looks wrong for your plot.

Two beds are free, for as long as you like — there is no trial to run out. A third asks for CatchCrop Full: £2.99 a month or £19.99 a year, the same access either way. Apple takes the payment, and it renews until you turn off auto-renew in your App Store settings. A raised bed, an allotment plot and a patio pot all count as one bed each.

No. Apple records the subscription against your Apple Account rather than the phone, so signing in to the same account carries it across; Restore purchases on the Site tab picks it up if it does not appear straight away. It is one subscription on one Apple Account and is not set up for Family Sharing. Apple takes the payment and handles refunds, at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Cancel in your App Store account settings, not in the app: Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions. Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends or it renews. Nothing is deleted when a subscription ends: every bed, every job and the whole journal stay on screen and readable. Only editing beds beyond the free two is gated until a subscription runs again.

On purpose. CatchCrop has no location code in it at all. A table that claimed to know your plot's frost dates from your postcode would be confidently wrong for anyone in a frost pocket, a walled garden or three streets from the sea — and you would have no way of telling. So we ask you instead, and offer a short list of named reference climates to start from.

Entirely. The crop library ships inside the app and every date is arithmetic, so there is nothing to fetch. Allotments are exactly where signal isn't, which is rather the point.

Photographs deliberately don't sync — the note text does. Pictures are large, the iCloud storage they would fill is yours rather than ours, and quietly eating it is not a trade we want to make on your behalf. They are still ordinary files on the phone, so an iCloud Backup of the device carries them to a replacement handset; they just won't appear on a second device you use at the same time.

On your iPhone — and, where iCloud sync is on, in your own private iCloud database, which is Apple's to hold and not ours to see. The Site tab says which state your copy is in; there is no switch for it inside CatchCrop. There is no Mirentha server and no account. Full detail is on the privacy page.

Reminders are off until you turn them on, in Site settings. Once on, one arrives at 08:00 on the day a job is due — unless you have already ticked it off, in which case nothing is sent. Check Settings › CatchCrop › Notifications, and any Focus mode. iOS also limits how many notifications an app may hold at once, so CatchCrop schedules the soonest sixty and tops them up next time you open the app. One known gap: a reminder won't appear while CatchCrop is the app you are looking at.

There aren't any, deliberately. Watering depends on your soil, your weather and what the plant is doing today, none of which the app can see. A guessed cadence — the sort that nags you to water in a downpour — is exactly what makes people stop trusting a planner. CatchCrop only tells you things it can actually work out.

Beds are capped at 24 × 60 squares, which is 7.2 m by 18 m, and a plot near that size shrinks its squares to fit. Splitting a big allotment into a few named beds is easier to plan and easier to read. A zoomable board is the obvious next step and is on the list.

Press and hold it, then confirm — there is no swipe-to-delete, because a season's planning is too easy to lose to a stray thumb. A planting can also be deleted from the foot of its own editor.

An iPhone running iOS 26 or later. CatchCrop is iPhone-only and portrait-only; there is no iPad or Mac version, and no dark mode.

Delete the app: that removes the garden, the journal and every photograph from the device. Anything of yours in iCloud — whether from sync or from an iPhone backup — is in your own account: remove it in Settings › your name › iCloud. We hold nothing, so there is nothing to ask us for.