Yes — you can design your landscape for free. Sow is a free landscape design app for iPhone and Android that turns a photo of your yard into a design built from real plants: cultivars you can actually buy at a nursery, matched to your USDA hardiness zone, sunlight and space.
Most "free" landscape apps fall into two camps. AI-image apps generate a pretty picture in seconds, but the plants in it are often invented — they don't exist, or won't survive your winters. Manual drag-and-drop apps give you a blank canvas and lock the useful plant catalog behind a paywall. Sow was built to fix both: every design is generated from a 10,000+ plant library of real outdoor plants, so the result is a plan you can plant, not AI guesswork.
What you get free in Sow
Sow is free to download and free to start designing. Out of the box you can photograph your space and generate design concepts, browse the full 10,000+ outdoor plant library with zone and sun filters, identify plants with your camera, map your yard on a satellite view, and get weather-aware care and watering guidance. Optional Pro upgrades add more design generations and premium tools, but the core design-plan-grow loop starts free — no commitment, cancel anytime.
Why free AI landscape apps disappoint
AI makeover apps are great at producing an inspiring image and terrible at producing a shopping list. When the picture is done you still don't know what the plants are, whether they fit your zone, how big they get, or what they cost. That gap is where most projects stall.
Sow closes it: every plant in a Sow design is labeled with its real name and cultivar, and one tap shows its hardiness zones, mature size, sun needs and care profile. When you're ready to plant, Sow compares availability and prices across online nurseries.
Free landscape design on your phone or the web
Your designs, plant collections, maps and garden data sync between the Sow app and usesow.com, so you can sketch ideas on your phone in the yard and refine them later on a bigger screen — also free.
