Most "free" garden planners are trials that wall off the good parts. Permapeople's planner is actually free — no account required to start, no paywall, no ads. It runs in your browser and is built by the gardening community, with open plant data.
Open the planner and start designing immediately — you don't need to sign up to try it. Create a free account only when you want to save a plan or share it. There's no upgrade prompt hiding the features you actually need.
The plant data is crowdsourced and maintained by the community and shared under an open license — so you're never locked into a proprietary database, and it's not a black box trying to upsell you.
Place real plants from our plant database, draw garden beds and shapes to scale, sketch paths and structures, and arrange everything on a canvas that works on desktop and touch screens. Each plant links to its growing info — sun, water, hardiness zone and companions.
Keep a plan private or make it public to get feedback from the community. Either way, it's your design — no lock-in. Planning a guild or food forest? See the permaculture garden planner.
Yes — free to use with no paywall and no ads. You only make an account if you want to save or share plans.
No. You can open the planner and start designing right away. An account is only needed to save your work.
Yes. The planner works on desktop and on touch screens, with pinch-to-zoom and touch controls.
Yes. The plant database is crowdsourced and shared under an open license, with a public developer API.