Tested, not summarized

Compare garden and landscape design apps

We make Sow, and we wanted to know how it really stacks up. So we took two photos of one yard in Raleigh, North Carolina, a bare front walkway and a patchy fenced backyard, and ran them through every tool we could get into, on the cheapest tier that produced a result. The pages below show what came back, what each tool charges, and where Sow is not the right answer.

Best-of roundups

Ranked lists with prices, screenshots and the same test yard.

Reviews and head-to-heads

One tool at a time: what it costs, what it does, and how it compares.

Straight answers

The questions people ask before choosing a tool, answered with evidence.

What Sow does

How these pages are made

  • Same two photos, same brief, every tool: low-maintenance cottage planting, part sun, zone 8a, keep the walkway and the fence.
  • Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page or in-app billing screen, with the date we checked them.
  • Tools we could not install or afford to subscribe to are described from their published materials and say so.
  • Every screenshot is ours. Nothing is doctored beyond cropping and removing account details.
  • Found a change? Email [email protected] and we will re-test and correct the page.

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