About
About Sow
Sow is a garden and landscape design app for iPhone, Android and the web. It turns a photo of your yard into a plan built from real plants that grow where you live, then helps you look after everything you plant.
What Sow does
Discover new ideas
Find out what a space could become, using plants that exist and will survive where you live.
Create a plan
Turn the idea into something buildable — a hand-editable layout, the hardscape as well as the planting, a real plant list, and a measured site.
Keep it thriving
Look after what went in the ground — identify it, diagnose it, record it and water it at the right time.
Who it's for
Homeowners and gardeners
See a space before you spend money on it, with plants that fit your climate, sun and space. Then keep track of what you planted, find out what's wrong when a plant struggles, and get reminders to look after it.
Landscape designers
Client-ready visuals with a real plant schedule underneath, plus branded presentations, proposals and client sign-off in Sow Pro+. Sow for pros
Free resources we publish
Free to use, and free to cite with a link.
- Sow Plant Price Index
A monthly index of what live plants cost at online nurseries, with a free CSV and an embeddable chart.
- Yard rebates
Programs that pay residents for lawn replacement, irrigation, rain barrels, trees and more, across the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
- Lawn replacement rebates, ranked
Every US lawn replacement program that publishes a rate per square foot, ranked by what it pays.
- Free garden tools
Mulch, gravel, sod and paver calculators, a plant spacing calculator, a hardiness checker and a drought map.
- Native plants by city
Native plant lists for hundreds of cities, sorted into trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses and more.
- Learning library
Growing guides, planting calendars and garden design guides.
The company
Sow is made by Sow Platforms, Inc., a software company registered in North Carolina. Dan Walker founded it and leads the product. The iPhone app launched on the App Store in July 2025, and Sow now runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with the same designs, plants and records on all of them.
Sow carries no advertising and does not share personal data with ad networks. Privacy policy
Contact
- Press and partnerships
- [email protected]
Logos, screenshots and facts are in the press kit. - Help with the app
- Answers and contact details are on the support page.
- Corrections to our data
- Spotted an out-of-date rebate or price? [email protected]
Get Sow
About Sow
Who makes Sow?
Sow Platforms, Inc., a software company registered in North Carolina. Dan Walker is the founder and leads the product.
Is Sow free?
Sow is free to download. The free plan lets you design from a photo of your own space and save plants. Sow Pro adds the full plant library, property maps, planting plans, weather-aware care and unlimited designs, and Sow Pro+ adds client tools for professional designers. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Does Sow work outside the United States?
Yes. Plant matching works with USDA hardiness zones in the United States, Canadian hardiness zones, RHS hardiness ratings in the United Kingdom and Australian climate zones. Weather-aware care is United States only for now. Design, the plant library, plant identification, diagnosis, mapping and journaling work anywhere.
Keep exploring
See what your yard could become
Start with a photo of your yard and build a plan from plants that grow where you live.