Drag.
Drop beds and plants onto your canvas. Arrange everything freely.
29 plant varieties · 4 bed sizes
Garden Planner for iPhone, iPad & Mac
Your garden, before the seed goes in.
Plan every bed, every plant, every pairing — right on your phone, tablet, or Mac. Before you dig a single inch.
One-time purchase. iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
App demo video — to be replaced
Most people plan their garden the same way they always have — a rough sketch on paper, a few hours of googling, and a best guess at the garden center.
That works. Until the tomatoes crowd out the basil. Until you realize the sunny bed was the wrong spot for the lettuce. Until you're standing in your yard in spring, wishing you'd thought it through a little more.
Tended is the plan you make before any of that happens.
How It Works
Three steps. One tool.
A garden you actually understand.
Before you plant it.
Plan.
Get companion planting tips and see incompatibilities before they cost you a season.
Smart suggestions · USDA zone-aware
Grow.
Take your plan outside. Every bed, every plant, already decided.
Saved locally · No subscription
Features
Everything your garden plan needs.
Nothing it doesn’t.
A canvas with room to think
A generous, scrollable space to place raised beds in multiple sizes, rearrange them until the layout feels right, and build a garden that fits your actual yard — not just a diagram that fits a page.
Works with finger, trackpad & mouse
A growing library of plants
Flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs — dozens of varieties, each with the details that matter: sun needs, water habits, growing seasons, and what they'll do for everything planted nearby. Long-press any plant on the canvas to pull up its full profile, right when you need it.
Long-press any plant for full details
Plants that work together — and ones that don't
Some plants make their neighbors thrive. Others quietly compete. Tended watches what you place and offers companion planting suggestions while flagging the combinations worth rethinking. It's the kind of knowledge that used to take years to learn.
Auto-surfaces after placing two plants
Recommendations that start with you
Before Tended suggests a single plant, it asks two things: where you live and how much you've grown before. From there, every recommendation reflects your USDA hardiness zone and your experience — whether you're planting your first raised bed or planning your tenth.
Beginner-friendly mode included
A record of every season
Save your canvas and come back to it. Compare this year's layout to last year's. See what flourished, remember what struggled, and carry that knowledge forward. Your garden gets better every season — so does your plan.
Stores your garden locally — private
Yours, on every device you own
Tended is a native Apple app — at home on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No browser, no account required to start. Just open it and begin.
Native SwiftUI — fast and offline
Available Now
And we're just getting started.
iPhone. iPad. Mac. Coming soon.
Why Tended
Built for the gardener who has a vision
and isn't sure where to begin.
★★★★★
I've been meaning to start a vegetable garden for three years. Tended made it feel possible before the first trip to the nursery.
First-season gardener, Zone 6
Beginner · Raised bed gardening
★★★★★
The companion planting tool alone is worth it. I finally stopped planting things that fight each other. My tomatoes have never been better.
Intermediate gardener, Zone 7b
Intermediate · Backyard vegetable garden
★★★★★
I sketched my garden plan on paper for five years. Having it on my iPad with suggestions built in feels like a genuine upgrade.
Experienced gardener, Zone 5a
Advanced · Mixed beds & borders