Planter: Garden Planner

This Planter app is awesome! Select your garden size and get to building. You can also make raised bed outlines on it. It has hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables and flowers and tells you all the info you need to know about them. It gives you planting times for your area and lists companion and combatant plants for every single plant. It even tells you what disease, pest and beneficial insects you can find on each plant. I find myself killing time just building my dream gardens while also learning about everything I’m planting. Admittedly the creating a garden option is kind of limited without a subscription but you can get a good idea of what the app is like. Plus, a subscription is inexpensive enough to try once and see what you think about the full version. You can also use their website on your computer so you can have a much larger screen to work with. It’s also getting my kid in to gardening as she loves to build her own garden on it and she’s learning about plants along the way. I simply can’t recommend this app enough for beginner gardeners or someone looking to have all the information in one place.

This app has been absolutely amazing! Not only is it well laid out so that nothing is confusing or hard to find, but it is packed full of useful information! I can look up pests, diseases, growing season, and more about each type of plant. It will also tell me whether or not two plants will benefit each other if there are planted next to each other or not. I like that I can also pick a variety so I can lay out my garden correctly and most efficiently. Also has a section (seed box) where you can input your seeds so you can keep track of what year they were bought and how much you have! I have noticed that the larger gardens are still in beta but I haven’t had any issues with them. I think the only thing that was a small inconvenience is that not every brand of seeds are in the app. Where I live there are some very popular brands that are not in the system. However, the app allowed me to input the brand anyway and save it to my list. So all in all a wonderful, easy to use app that is packed full of amazing information and resources as well as fun to use!

I started using this app to plan out my garden as a novice. At first, I just wanted an app to help me remember what I planted where (I didn’t have fancy signs or even stakes handy to label anything!) Then I found this app which goes beyond simple mapping with the companion/combative plant feature, telling you what plants like and dislike each other as neighbors. Wow! I went ahead and upgraded, not because I really need the features (the basic app has all I need as a beginner with a single 10’ x 10’ plot) but to support the app so it can continue to exist and improve. I mentioned the app to my mom who is an expert gardener and sometimes struggles with technology. I thought she might find it interesting, but didn’t expect her to use and enjoy the app as much as I do! She even learned a few plant relationships herself, which is amazing considering her encyclopedic knowledge. It is a testament to this app’s intuitiveness and reliability that a less tech-savvy person like my mom was able to master it and get so much value from it.

I got really into gardening last year and didn’t have a way of tracking what I was planting. I found this app and went ahead and spent the money to get the full version (which was a one time fee instead of subscription which I LOVE). The free version (at least at the time of writing this) only allowed one garden. So I created one garden for what I planned to plant and another garden for what is actively planted. From there you can add notes to each of your plants to track when you planted them, info about the plants, etc. which allows for a better logbook. I do wish there was a better way to visualize drip irrigation and things like that. There are currently backgrounds you can apply to the squares but it’s still a little confusing. The coolest thing about this app is that they seem to take feedback seriously. You can see a bit of the product backlog and other ideas and suggestions out there from the app. Very very cool!

Update: Thanks for help adding plants! You're very responsive! I've added several plants now. It was easy, and there were so many icons available! Love this app! Only a week into using this, but find seed box is great. I like being able to catalogue my sources and varieties in list format. I overbuy seeds, too, and this keeps me from having to pull the seeds out of storage to plan my next move. I read criticisms about the varieties available in the app, but I always end up creating my own so I can include the MOST notes from the sources. I really like being able to do that. I haven’t figured out how to create a whole new plant, but I’ve found I can get close enough with what’s offered, then create a variety. I don’t have a lot of ornamentals at this point, and I can foresee that it would be a significant limitation if that was your style. I look forward to exploring the calendar feature. I can’t offer an evaluation of that yet.

I live off grid and have several gardens. This app allows me to keep track of what I have planted and where. Super frustrating to try and keep track on paper. Also this year I decided to try square foot gardening as it kills me to have to thin plants and kill perfectly healthy seedlings and square foot gardening prevents that and take a very logical approach to gardening. This app is a great match to that style of gardening! I appreciate the ability to add in your own particular strain of plant you are growing if it not already listed and to choose your icon as well. I find the calendar at a glance useful to help me know when to start seed, when to transplant and when to direct sow based on my personal frost date. I’ve been using this app for about a month so far and the gardening season has just began. Will leave an update once we get fully into the season.

LOVE THIS APP! We have been using graph paper and pencil for years and having to keep in mind the companion plants, and spacing needs. Too much work. Now, this app does it for us. Our 11 x 4 foot raised garden bed (24 inches high) is ready for what we have planned. Love the information given and the choices that include not only veggies, but my fruit bushes and flowers. I’ve been able to involve the kids in the planning and decision making in a modality that they love - my iPad! They are actually reading all of the descriptions provided on the individual page! And, being a teacher, I love that. We are very excited to begin our planting this spring. Thank you. P.s. hoping you can add green beans vs. yellow beans, and summer squash vs. zucchini so that the kids can SEE the difference on their garden planner. We are on the ‘visual’ side of the learning curve.

One of the coolest things about this app is the ability to build a garden layout. I was able to pull in all of the plants that I wanted to include it in my garden to plan the layout. It does take several clicks to add each plant, which is a bit inconvenient, but it’s functional for my purposes. Something that I wish this included was better planting, scheduling options. For one, the free version does not allow me to create notes, which is a bummer. Also, in order for me to look at planting dates for my garden that I’ve built, I have to go find each individual plant with several clicks to look at the planting schedule and timelines. It would be awesome if the app showed that information more readily or had automated prompts with reminders about planting timelines based on what I have added to my garden map. It’s far too many clicks as it is, and as I can’t create notes, I have to build this plan outside of the app entirely.

I bought the lifetime license for $10. It’s a decent app for a small garden. I have used territorial seed garden planner for years, but it’s about $20/ year. I’m trying SFG this year so I thought I would try it. The free version only lets you create one bed, so I upgraded. I like that you can customize your specific varieties of vegetables and it is easy to set up. The icons and photos are pretty. I am curious if I can include plant labels in my plan. (For different varieties) The buttons are a bit finicky. Single tap a veggie to get details, long tap to plant it. (I found that I was always accidentally tapping the information instead of planting). Annoying. It could easily be reversed. Single tap to plant, long tap for information. Or just make it separate features. I also had to select the “tap to plant “ feature over and over. I wish it would stay on until I turned it off. I found deleting and moving veggies to be finicky too. It’s a drag and drop, but getting it in the exact spot was a challenge. Sometimes I had to attempt to delete an item multiple times. This feature needs some more development, in my opinion. So, it’s a good app. Not amazing, but it’s good enough for what I need (which was mostly plant spacing and figuring out the plants are beneficial to one another.) I’m hoping that since I bought the license I will benefit from upgrades.

I’m scatter brained and have a hard time remembering where I plant anything. This app has saved my gardens time and time again, and is phenomenally useful at planning out new ones. They don’t have everything listed in their plant section, but it takes only a couple minutes to add your own. There’s minor details that aren’t accurate (some of the fruits are missing some companion plant listings), but again it only takes a moment to add them in. The only suggestion I would have is the ability to add in disease and pest risks on plants. It covers all the basic ones for veggie gardens, but I also use it to organize flower beds and succulents/cacti, which are at risk to other types of diseases and pests. But other than that it’s a 10/10.

I love this app! I’ve been using it to plan my first garden at our new house. I love that it is very visual by showing images of the plants and also that it helps you pick plants that work well together and avoid plants that are combative towards each other. I would 100% pay for this app if it also offered height of plants when mature as well as a solar map to help plan so the taller plants are further north and the shorter plants further south so the short plants don’t get blocked out by the shade of the tall plants. Another awesome feature would be an auto- fill garden where you pick what you want to plant and it automatically lays the garden out for you accounting crop relationships, plant heights, & so on. Overall great app! Thank you so much for creating it!

I should probably be getting a commission for all the people I have recommended this app too! It has all the information in one spot that previously I had to go to about 10 websites for. I’m giving it five stars because it is great but I’m hoping that the creator sees some recommendations that would make this perfect: 1) allow us to have a half square in our gardens. My bed is 2 1/2 by 12 feet. And it’s not a big deal to just know that I actually have two lettuce in the front row and not the 4 it actually shows but it would be nice for OCD people like me if it was correct 😬 2) Allow us to manually override your recommended squares per plant. For instance, you recommend four square feet per tomato plant. I usually only have one square per tomato so I had to put in a red raspberry in place of my tomatoes 😂 3) again, this is for the OCD people like me! I try to add petunias and added a picture but I cannot for the life of me delete the background! I usually don’t have any problem with that and use a transparent PNG file but it’s not working. Despite the lack of absolute perfection, I highly recommend this app!

I have all my plants mapped out by square. Instead of doing the research into which plants like and dislike being near each other (this app provides the info if desired), I ended up putting plants where I wanted them and moved them if a red spot showed up between two plants. Easy. A green spot means they benefit each other. No spot means they don’t help or hurt each other. The app doesn’t let you plant things too close to each other. Tomatoes need 4 squares for one plant. Radishes can be planted 16 per square foot square. The veggies even change color/shape sometimes when you select another variety.

Beautiful app. Would be an excellent app for a complete beginner. However, it’s severely lacking and not usable for more advanced gardeners who grow multiple varieties of the same plant because there’s no label. For companion planting, you wouldn’t use a whole square foot for a marigold for example. It would be planted in the same square foot as a vegetable. Same with root vegetables like carrots. So the app should allow overlapping or multiple plants in the same grid. There’s no month by month planning for spring crop, summer crop, and fall crop for the same spot. I currently pay $29/year to use Growveg and would gladly switch to this app when it’s able to plan month by month and keep track of previous years for crop rotation. Mainly because Growveg is a desktop application and I want something more mobile.

I’m excited to use this app this year as I get set up with a new garden. However, there are a few things that would be really helpful and would make this app better. First, it would be nice if it gave spacial recommendations. For example, plant broccoli 18”-24” apart. I have to keep jumping over to google. Second, if you do have a plant that takes up more space than “1 square” I wish you could manually adjust the squares. So I could combine 2-3 squares and put 1 broccoli to better show how my plants are spaced. Side note, are the squares supposed to be “1 square foot?” As I said, I still think this app will be really helpful, and I did pay for the year to see how it goes. If these features were added with continued improvements, I’d probably be a forever customer.

I like the relative simplicity of using this app. I especially like being able to drag and drop plants into a grid of my planting area to see how much room the need and also which plants do or do not get along with each other. One thing I’d like to see added is the germination time for seeds. Also, there is a glitch that allows some plants to appear implantable, which is ridiculous, of course. Yet, for some plants, the app indicates that most gardeners do not 1. start the plant indoors, 2. start the plant from transplants, or 3. start the plant by direct sowing. Those are all the possibilities, yet this app provides no guidance for any of those methods for certain plants. (I submitted a bug report, but never heard back, and the last time I checked, it hadn’t been fixed.)

The app is so pretty and easy to use! When you place a plant on a square it will tell you if they are good campions to it’s neighbor or if they will be competing against each other. It also says how much of each plant you can place in a square foot. When you click on the plant, it not only gives you example pictures of the different varieties, but it also gives a lot of information about caring for the plant. Helpful tip: If you cannot find a plant, then search for it and it will tell you which group it is under! I searched for Zucchini and it let me know that it was a type of squash!

I wanted an all-in-once place guide that would tell me how many plants I could plant per square, when you start seeds vs when to speak, and which ones to avoid planting next to each other. This is that app! And, after playing with it for about 20 minutes, I knew I wanted to pay for the full year subscription. Would be nice to have some features but, based on other reviews, the developer seems responsive and open to ideas, so I’ll be making some suggestions and cannot wait to see how it will be even more awesome than it already is.

I originally started using this app to keep track of the flowers I had planted in my backyard so I could add more of the same plants in the coming years. Then I started using it to plan a vegetable garden for next year. This app contains so many features that I find helpful - being able to edit the information on plants preloaded in the app, being able to add plants and plant varieties, having information on companion plants, and most importantly the calendar. There are a few things that would make this app just perfect but it’s so close to perfect that I highly recommend it.

Want to start a garden but don’t know where to start? That was me. Then I figured that there had to be an app for this since there is an app for everything. I was right. There are a few but after reviewing them I decided that Planter looked like it was what I needed. I was not mistaken. This app has everything you need to help you learn about the plants, plot out your garden, what plants to plant together and so much more. In addition to all the features it was easy to learn and use. I’m now excited rather than stressed about planting my garden because now I know just how to do it.

This app is pretty great! You can find a wide variety of fruits, veggies, herbs…in the free version and add them to your garden! In the free version you get a garden size up to 40x40 and you only get one, but it’s so easy to arrange and get ideas for your garden, that it’s worth it! There’s a ton of information on most plant varieties so you know what grows well and what to expect from each one. There is also a way to order seeds (haven’t tried that yet, but likely will), so you can get exactly what you are looking for! I’m excited to try out some of the other features in the app!

I used to map out my garden on paper every year and it took weeks to jot down all the companion plants and try to arrange them just right. Planter has been a saving grace. Not only has it saved me lots of time, it also has let me know of some plants that don’t get along which I hadn’t known. Additionally it shows when to plant and transplant which is a much easier way of keeping it all straight than my previous paper too. Sooo much wonderful knowledge on every garden plant and it even lets you keep track of sunspecies.

I have full access and I LOVE being able to plan all of my garden beds! I am big on companion planting, permaculture, polyculture, guilds, and square foot gardening. I love that I can see the companion plants and combative plants so easily. I would love for us to be able to contribute to expanding the app by adding our plants (maybe the developer looks at customer additions and expands the plant selection?) I love being able to add my own plants, and there is already a great selection. I’m really enjoying this app, it is saving so much time and making the planning stage more fun!

This is a great app! I spent the last few dark months of winter planning to expand my garden with new beds and containers and changed my plan several times. This app made it really easy to switch things around. I LOVE the way it tells you what should and shouldn’t be planted together. Also, the developer is very responsive to questions and constantly updates and adds new features. I highly recommend this app!been very helpful, because I didn’t really think that much about what went next to what before .

I never write reviews, but have really found this app so helpful that I felt compelled. It’s really user friendly, and actually very helpful for planning with the companion plant feature. I do wish there were a way to visualize multiple separate garden plots at the same time, as I have four 4x4 beds and there’s no way to visualize them all on one spread. I got around this by just naming each bed with the veggies planted there, and it works well enough, as I can at least see the 4 titles listed out together.

Every year I stress about how I want my garden to look and what I want to put in it. I end up procrastinating and just throw whatever I can fine in the ground and pray it works. This year I’ve made a resolution to be more organized and to can 2x what I did last year- this app is going to help me achieve those goals!! It’s easy to use, I like that you can add additional plants that may not be in database yet. Takes the stress out of having to sit down with a sketchbook and think of everything I want to plant.

This app is definitely a keeper since I’m following the square foot gardening in my Vegepods. I also have a 4x4 raised bed with the Garden in Minutes drip/stream irrigation and this app is so helpful for my veggies and fruits. I get to see companion planting and it tells me how many plants I can grow in a square foot or I can adjust the amount and then I’ll know for future reference. So neat! I decided to purchase the app to support the developer and hopefully they’ll add GreenStalk layouts in the near future.

So far I’m pleased with what I see and have done. Some things are not as intuitive as one would think. Love the ‘help bubbles’ at the top to give hints on ‘how to’ within the app. Perhaps a guided tour or tutorial on making your first garden? Yes, there is a price for the options. Nothing is truly free. The one time fee is well worth it, especially since you can see what is currently in planning and the developer IS working to make it a better experience. This has been then best garden planning app I’ve used to date, paid or free. I look forward to this app growing as I do my plants.

I have multiple Garden books with notes in the margins but this Planter tool is right at my iPad finger tips! Yes there is a tiny bit of learning curve, very much worth your investment. I’ve been sketchy out garden plots on paper for years but no more I use PLANTER! No more erasing or starting over. If my plans change, weather conditions cause issues, or seeds didn’t germinate as I hoped THEN I can make on the spot adjustments to my garden size or sowing schedule. If I create new plots or use containers it’s easy to create a New Garden with Planter to meet my square foot raised beds Wonky Garden layout. If you can’t find the specific plant your sowing or transplanting then my TIP is to select something within the plant “Family” ex: leafy, root, bush, vining, brassica etc. Just add your specific plant variety to the handy “notes” section or give your plot a specific name to identify. Enjoy your harvest!

I was looking for something to help me arrange my garden. I’ve heard of companion planting but wasn’t really sure what would be the best for my garden. I planted 14 different vegetables along with 4 different herbs. This app helped me with spacing and knowing which plants would thrive next to one another as well as which plants to keep away from others. There’s also individual information concerning harvest times, pests and times of year to put them in the ground. Perfect app for my needs.

It’s much easier to try out options in an app than to spend hours planting only to find that you wish you had put the beans “over there.” Also gives you tones of useful information, such as letting you know if you are planting two incompatible plants next to each other. The free version is great for playing around with it to get the feel. Quickly upgraded to the very reasonably priced lifetime subscription.

There are some fun extras if you pay for the subscription, but there is SO much possible with the free version! I love that I can arrange and rearrange my garden following helpful tips, like what plants help each other grow, and which ones make it difficult for the others to grow. There are a few veggies I haven’t found on the app, but there are a ton of options. Might get the subscription so I can visualize my garden with trellises and cages.

I love the app and will use it this spring to plan my garden and keep track. I also love all the varieties and information you get with the plants. I especially love the frost information bravo guys. Although, I do wish I could put all my planters in one garden page and could actually make the layout of my entire garden. It is confusing matching my beds to the app. If I draw it on graph paper I can see exactly how the garden is layer out and which plants are where. That would be a game changer for me. Please keep me posted if this becomes an update!

I don’t dislike this app just its not as useful as what I need. I’ve tried others and this is great with the seeds and info, but I need reminders or at least a slight watering schedule or anything similar for my created gardens. An ability to water the “entire” garden at once would be great too. Just a bit clunky but the personalized growing and planting is something very helpful, but for people like me prone to killing plants it makes it a bit hard to engage with.

As an office backyard gardener, I spent a few hours doing research on the different apps that may help me put together my garden and a reliable calendar to keep up with everything. I tend to read the bad posts before reading the good posts, and was apprehensive about this app. I went ahead and purchased one year as opposed to lifetime, just in case it didn’t work out. After using it for the past two weeks, I am in love!

I enjoyed creating my gardens and then reorganizing them in the app instead of waiting until I planted my seedlings to decide if I should move something. I also really like the companion planting information. I initially planned to have onions in 2 separate places in my small garden but the app notified me that it might not be a good idea to plant my peas next to the onions. I'm enjoying it so far. I've been using for a few months.

I love this app. It is by far the most I’ve spent but as a gardener I really appreciate what you can do to plan gardens and look back at past year gardens. If the plant you want isn’t there you have the option to add it. Or even delete the plants your not gonna use. I spend all year planning on this app. Love love love the customizable options. Worth every penny. The developer is always listening to us and adding new features. Just love it.

This app is unique and offer an amazing feature that no other app in the market does. I purchased the PRO version after trying it out. I have my own database of seeds that I collect in the past couple years. It contains ~100 variety of plants and information. It would be a huge effort to enter these information on a mobile app. It would be nice if I can enter them via the web app. It would be better if it imports csv.

I really appreciate this software for planning out my 20’ long garden. It makes planning so much easier because of the companion planting integration. Here are the things I would fix: Some gardens are designed in forks or U shapes, etc. for this planning software all you can design are rectangles and other shapes are considered new gardens and require an upgrade. I am pretty sure about this. It needs to be more customizable. The squares come in a standard size of 1’, which is fine unless your garden is 1.5’ wide, etc. my garden box is 20’ x 3’ deep with a separation going down the middle (1.5’ deep on each side) so I can’t divide the two levels accurately with this app. There are not nearly enough plant species in the database. I don’t grow anything THAT rare but regularly they don’t show up on the search.

I would like to use my computer at work as well or check my phone on the go but it will only let me on my iPad. I thought the whole thing with premium is you get multiple gardens and unlimited access from web browser. Nope. Which kinda makes me a little mad honestly. BUT I do highly recommend the app as it has made planning my garden a ton easier. And I like that it has a place for recommending new plants and features.

I really am enjoying using this app. It is making it so easier to plan out my garden. My only complaint is that I wish there were more vegetable, herb, fruit varieties available. I have certain types that I can’t show on my plans. I just have improvise. I wish we could at least type a different produce in to add to the garden. Since I’m paying for this app, it would be nice if more was offered.

Developers are responsive and this is a great app. Still missing a few functions that would make it even better like push notifications, ability to show app calendar in phone or tablet calendar. They keep adding more functions and keep a running list of requests, sharing list with users. This a great app and getting better all the time.

Soo far this app has been simple to use and I really enjoy creating the basic layout for my garden beds and having all the companion plants listed so I can create more of a cohesive garden. I only gave the app 4 stars because it is very basic. I am actually trying to garden in more of a “let it grow wild” sense. I would really like to have more flowers incorporated into this app to create areas for host plants that bring in more butterfly larvae and hawk moth larvae as they are a very important part of our eco system.

The Planter app is seriously so helpful! It is full of wonderful information and features, and it keeps getting better all the time! I’ve planned my garden through the app two years in a row now, as well as helped my parents plan theirs! I’m so happy to support such a thoughtfully made app, it’s seriously been so helpful for me to be able to visualize the space I have. Highly recommend to everyone!

The app is a work in progress and works really well with some practice. But when I was typing for a new plant, TOMATOES were appearing all over the garden. This was also true for any other plants that take up more than one grid space. Although that is a issue, I do like the ability to tell if plants are combative or companion just by setting them close together. Also how it automatically properly spaces the plants out for optimal plant growth throughout the garden.

Now I know exactly how many seeds to start indoors so I’m not wasting plants when I put them in my beds. It also helped me to figure out companion planting as there were a few plants that I didn’t realize wouldn’t grow well with each other. The app also has really fun garden theme suggestions which is one of my favorite add-on features. I love the idea of growing a tea garden and salsa garden this year.

I’ve tried most all the gardening apps in the Apple App Store, paid and free. (Gardening was my Covid hobby and I had a lot of free time lol). This is the app I kept coming back to! It’s simple to use and has all the info I need. The ability to add plants is great… though 98% of the plants I need are already included with the app. Thank you to the developers for all the hard work and updates!

Just planned my first two raised garden beds and am blown away at how easy it was to do! Everything is at your fingertips from easy research on companion and combative planting. Can you consider an upgrade to be able to see the gardens on a page or at least to choose 2 gardens to see simultaneously? It may not be feasible for large gardens, but for smaller gardens it would be a win

When I say this app has changed the way I approach gardening, I’m not exaggerating. It, not only as given me more confidence in when and where to plant, but it has also introduced me to different varieties of plants I had never considered planting. I am grateful for the information it provides and how it takes the guessing game out of where to buy my seeds/plants. Can’t say thank you enough!

I have only had it for a few days but the garden planner has really helped me plan and visualize my garden space. Being able to do this has also helped me decide how many plants I need to start early, indoors and what to wait on and germinate outdoors. I think being able to see my garden on a grid and be able to add stuff and move it around is super helpful.