Restyle it in a tap
Golden hour, winter, night, or five years of growth — re-render the same planting without losing it.
Get the garden you actually want.
Photograph your yard. Sow designs it with real plants that fit your zone, sun and soil — and helps keep them alive.
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Place every plant. Down to the inch.
Drag a Japanese maple two feet left. Rotate a bench. Drop in a boulder, a path, a container. Manual control a professional can work in — and a homeowner can actually understand.
AI, on your terms
AI does the heavy lifting. You make the calls.
Sow uses AI where it genuinely saves you time — reading your photo, suggesting plants that will thrive, rendering a bed in seconds. Then it steps back. Every choice stays yours to move, swap or overrule.
Plan from above
Sow finds the beds in a satellite view of your yard on its own, then fills each one with a planting plan you can tweak.
Not a disposable picture
A design that’s alive.
Every plant is a real, named species from our library of over 12k plants.
Every plant, named
Tap anything in any design — yours or someone else's — and see exactly what it is, what it needs, and what a nursery charges for it today.
Smart recommendations
The easiest way to find new plants. Picks that suit your zone, your light and what you already grow — with the ones that pair well flagged.
Care reminders that know your space
Deadhead, divide, prune, water — timed to your climate and the plants you actually own, not a generic calendar.
Learn from others
Take on the same yard as everyone else and see where they placed every plant — a heatmap of good ideas you can borrow for your own.
Your whole yard, organized and tracked
Front bed, back border, the awkward shady corner. Each one tracks what is planted, care tips, and what is blooming.
Plant Doctor
Something looks wrong? Point your camera at it.
Sow reads the leaf, names the problem in plain language, tells you how confident it is, and gives you something to do about it this afternoon.
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Scan the affected plant
Fill the frame and Sow checks it against hundreds of thousands of expert-annotated data.
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Get a named diagnosis
548 classes of abiotic disorders, pests, diseases and non-harmful look-alikes.
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Know what to do next
Do this now, ongoing care, and when it is worth a second opinion from the community.
Bloom calendar
Your year, in color.
Every plant you own, laid out across the months it actually flowers. The gaps are the point — that empty column in August is the reason your garden looks tired, and now you can see it before you plant.
- Exports as a PDF packet
- Grouped by the plants in each space
- Shows what is blooming right now
Built for your address
Know exactly what your yard needs
Sow watches the weather, the sun and the calendar for your exact address — so you are never guessing whether to water, or where a plant will actually thrive.
A real water budget
Rain in, evaporation out, measured against your zip's historic average — and a plain-language answer: water this week, or skip it.
Sun, measured — not guessed
Point your camera at the sky and Sow traces the sun's path over your yard, hour by hour, to tell you how much direct sun a spot truly gets.
A forecast built for you
Hyper-local, highly accurate forecasts with recommended watering days — and early warnings for frost, heat and dry spells.
The whole idea
The same yard. One photo apart.
This is not a mood board or a stock photo. It is your space, replanted with species that survive your winters, sized to what they actually grow into — and every plant in it can be moved, swapped or removed.
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From the App Store
Homeowners and designers, in their own words
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Yards designed
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Plants in the library
What I like is it's not just generic suggestions. You can actually move stuff around and think through a space before you spend any money. This feels closest to real landscape planning to me.
App Store review · April 2026
It's literally 6+ apps in one… I do designs for clients, as well as maintain a fairly large garden myself. The designs also allow you to download a PDF packet which shows a bloom calendar and plant care guide for clients. Absolutely incredible.
App Store review · January 2026
I snapped a picture of a mystery plant in my yard and the Plant ID got it right instantly. I used the drag-and-drop planner to design my flower beds with real-scale layout and it honestly looks like I hired a professional landscaper.
App Store review · September 2025
I can put together ideas quickly from my phone and it saves them and makes them presentable. Plant ID also helped me log what I had and then map it so I don't forget where I planted everything. Overall 10/10.
App Store review · April 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sow free to download?+
Yes. Sow is free on the App Store and Google Play. Without paying you can design your space, identify plants, save them into your own library, set up a space or board, and browse the community. Optional Pro plans unlock more design generations and premium tools.
Learn more about what's free in SowHow do I design my backyard from a photo?+
Snap a photo of your yard in Sow, pick a style, and the app generates design concepts on your actual space — then refine them with the drag-and-drop editor.
Learn more about backyard designDoes Sow use real plants or AI-invented ones?+
Real ones. Every plant in a Sow design is a real cultivar from a 10,000+ plant library, labeled in place and matched to your USDA zone, sunlight and space — so the design doubles as your shopping list.
Learn more about designing with real plantsCan Sow identify a plant from a picture?+
Yes. Point the camera at any plant and Sow returns a confidence-scored identification, then lets you save it, map it and follow its care schedule.
Learn more about plant identificationHow do I know what to plant in my USDA zone?+
Sow detects your hardiness zone from your zip code and filters all 10,000+ plants to what thrives where you live — layered with sun, size, native and pet-safe filters.
Learn more about planting by zoneCan I plan a flower bed layout in Sow?+
Yes. Sow designs bed layouts on a photo of your bed using pro rules — layered heights, odd-numbered drifts, spacing at mature size — with real plants you can buy.
Learn more about flower bed planningCan I map my yard and garden beds?+
Yes. Draw beds and paths and pin every plant on a scaled satellite view of your property, with solar overlays to track sunlight.
Learn more about yard mappingDoes Sow tell me when to water my plants?+
Yes. Sow tracks rainfall, forecast, heat and dry spells for your exact location and turns them into watering tasks — including when to skip because it rained.
Learn more about smart wateringCan I design with native plants for pollinators?+
Yes. Filter the library by Native and Butterfly Host, then generate designs that use them — pre-matched to your zone and sun.
Learn more about native garden designIs Sow available on Android and the web?+
Yes. Sow is on iPhone (iOS 17+) and Android, and every account includes the web app at usesow.com — designs, maps and plants sync across all of them.
Learn more at usesow.comYour garden is waiting. Start today.
One photo is all it takes. Sow is free to download.