Last updated . Help for AcreTime 1.0, the iPad-first garden planner.
What AcreTime is
AcreTime is a local garden planner. You design a garden on a real 1-foot grid, place plants from the library, follow frost and harvest timing for your zone, keep a journal, set reminders, and export a picture of the plan. No account is required. Data stays on your iPad.
How to get help
Email support@acretime.app. That is the same address the Support link in Settings → About & Support opens.
Please include your app version (shown in Settings → About & Support) and what you were doing. We do not have a phone line or a mailing address.
Replay Welcome is also in Settings → About & Support if you want the first-run ZIP and garden-name screens again.
Gardens and beds
Open My Gardens in the sidebar to switch gardens, tap New Garden, or delete one. Deleting moves that garden to Settings → Recently Deleted (you can restore it). The app always keeps at least one garden.
On the planner, use the brush in the top-right toolbar to draw Soil, Raised Bed, Pot, Water, Roof, or Deck on the 1-foot grid. Drag the corner to resize the whole garden, or use the ruler control for width and height in feet.
Add plants from Plant Library or My Plants, then place them on the grid. Pinch to zoom, drag to pan or move items, and use undo/redo in the toolbar.
Location and ZIP
Go to Settings → Your Location and type a 5-digit US ZIP. The growing zone is looked up from data stored in the app.
Or tap Use My Current Location (iOS will ask for location permission) to fill ZIP and zone.
Turn on Use manual zone override if your garden’s microclimate does not match the ZIP.
Welcome also asks for ZIP or location the first time; you can skip and set it later.
Export a garden plan
On the garden planner, tap the share icon in the top-right toolbar (square with an arrow). AcreTime saves a labeled image of the current garden to the Photos app. Open Photos to print or share it. Journal notes have their own Share / Export action for the note’s text.
Delete data
Settings → Data — clear drawings, remove plants, or clear the journal for the current garden; or reset the global My Plants list. Each step asks you to confirm and cannot be undone.
Settings → Recently Deleted — restore a deleted garden, or wait: only the five most recent stay; older ones are removed for good.
Deleting the AcreTime app removes the local data, because 1.0 does not sync to iCloud.