Free on iPhone & iPad · iOS 26

The plant identifier that maps your garden

Identify, pin, label, and care for every plant outside. iPhone and iPad, iOS 26.

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Free to download.
Premium from $19.99 a year, or $49.99 once. See pricing

  • On-device identification
  • No account
  • Care that cites its source
GardenPin's Gardens screen: a grid of photo tiles for each garden, including a map snapshot tile with plant pins
A plant's Care Guide with water, temperature, hardiness zone, soil, and growth rate tiles, captioned with the USDA PLANTS database as its source

Identify it. Pin it where it grows. Label it. Care for it.

Plant apps stop at the pot on the windowsill. GardenPin keeps the record of your real garden: what is planted, where, and how it is doing.

Identify any plant

Point the camera at a leaf, flower, or whole plant and get the common name, scientific name, and family. Your phone identifies first and asks PlantNet only when it isn't sure, so many results are instant and need no connection. Every result shows whether the sources agree. Free users get 5 identifications a week.

Map your garden Premium

Drop each plant on a GPS map of your beds, borders, and containers. See what is planted where, and keep several gardens grouped however you like. Tap a pin for that plant's photos, notes, and history, so the map doubles as a garden journal and garden tracker. Browse gardens as a photo grid, a map snapshot, or a plain list. The map view is Premium; lists, grids, and plant pages are free.

Scan the nursery tag, on your phone Premium

Photograph the care card that came with the plant. GardenPin's plant tag scanner reads it entirely on your iPhone and fills in light, water, hardiness, spacing, and mature size, front and back. Nothing leaves the device. Manual entry stays free.

Print QR labels for the whole bed Premium

Batch-print plant labels with a QR code for every plant via AirPrint. Scan a label in the garden to open that plant's page. How QR plant labels work.

Care that cites its source

Every care detail says where it came from: the USDA PLANTS database, Wikidata, PlantSolve, or a quoted sentence from Wikipedia with a link. Care from a scanned tag always comes first. Nothing is generated, and no cloud AI service is involved. Reminders for watering, feeding, and the seasons, with notes and photos per plant.

Share and sync

Share a garden with someone nearby over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, no account needed. iCloud keeps your gardens on every device. Export to CSV or back up everything as JSON with Premium; restoring from a backup is always free.

Fast ways in

"Identify a plant" from the Action Button, a home-screen widget, Control Center, or Siri.

See it in 90 seconds

Create a garden, identify and pin a plant, scan its nursery tag, and set a care reminder. Real screen recording, no narration needed.

Video: How to use GardenPin to map and identify every plant in your garden on iPhone
  1. Create a garden 0:04
  2. Pin and identify 0:15
  3. GPS map 0:36
  4. Scan a nursery tag 0:40
  5. Identify anywhere 1:02
  6. Action Button 1:14
  7. Care reminders 1:19

Watch on YouTube · The video loads only when you press play.

Free to start. Pay once if you like.

Everything you need to record a garden is free. Premium unlocks the map, the tag scanner, labels, and unlimited identification.

Free

$0
  • Plant identification, 5 per week
  • Unlimited plants, gardens, notes, photos, and reminders
  • Manual care entry
  • Nearby sharing and iCloud sync
  • Restore from backup

Annual Premium

$19.99/ year
  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited identifications
  • Nursery-tag scanning
  • Garden map view
  • QR label printing
  • CSV export and JSON backup

Lifetime Premium

$49.99once
  • Everything in Annual Premium
  • One-time purchase, no renewal
  • Yours on every device with your Apple Account

Prefer to pay as you go? Premium is also available for $0.99 a week.

Prices in US dollars. Weekly and annual Premium are auto-renewing subscriptions charged to your Apple Account; they renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use · Privacy Policy

What's new

The September 2026 update: a grid for your gardens, faster identification on your phone, and care guidance that names its source.

  • New grid view for Gardens: switch between list and tiles, and give each garden its own tile style — Garden Photo, Map Snapshot, or Text Only. Groups can be sorted by name.
  • Smarter plant identification: your phone identifies the plant first and asks PlantNet only when it isn't sure, so many identifications finish instantly with no network call.
  • Honest confidence: each result now shows whether the sources agree, with a per-source breakdown, instead of one blended percentage.
  • Care guidance that cites its source: watering, soil, growth rate, and cold hardiness from the USDA PLANTS database for over 500 species, hardiness zones from Wikidata, and houseplant care from PlantSolve, all on your device.
  • Care for plants those databases miss: sentences quoted from the plant's Wikipedia article, shown as a quote with a link, never rewritten.
  • Every care detail is captioned with where it came from, and care from a scanned nursery tag always comes first.
  • Care data no longer goes through a cloud AI service, and nothing about your location leaves your phone.
  • Settings → Premium: see your plan, Restore Purchases, and Manage Subscription.
  • Restore Purchases now tells you what happened, and Premium status updates the moment you return to the app.
  • Faster launch, a Terms of Use link in Settings, and fixes.

Questions

Short answers to what people ask before they download.

Does GardenPin work offline?

Mostly, yes. Your phone identifies a plant first and only asks PlantNet when it isn't sure, so many identifications finish instantly with no connection. Nursery-tag scanning runs entirely on your iPhone. Your gardens, pins, notes, photos, reminders, and the bundled care data are stored on the device, so you can browse and edit everything without a signal. A connection is needed when the phone hands off to PlantNet and for care sentences quoted from Wikipedia. More on identifying plants offline.

Is my garden data private?

Yes. There is no account. Your data lives on your phone and, if you turn it on, in your own iCloud. Nursery-tag scanning happens on the device and nothing leaves it. Care data does not pass through any cloud AI service, and nothing about your location leaves your phone. A photo is sent to PlantNet only when your phone cannot identify the plant on its own. There are no analytics identifiers. Details are in the Privacy Policy.

Does it cover vegetables and trees, or only houseplants?

GardenPin is built for the garden outside: beds, borders, fruit trees, shrubs, vegetables, and patio containers, as well as houseplants. Watering, soil, growth rate, and cold hardiness come from the USDA PLANTS database for over 500 species, hardiness zones from Wikidata, houseplant care from PlantSolve, and for plants none of those cover, sentences quoted from the plant's Wikipedia article with a link.

Is GardenPin a garden planner?

No. Planners lay out beds you have not planted yet. GardenPin is a garden journal and garden tracker for the garden you already have: each plant pinned on a GPS map of your real beds, with its history, photos, care details, and reminders. It works alongside a planner if you use one.

Can I print labels without Premium?

No. QR label printing is a Premium feature, along with the garden map view, nursery-tag scanning, unlimited identifications, and CSV export and JSON backup. Free includes 5 identifications a week, unlimited plants, gardens, notes, photos, and reminders, manual care entry, nearby sharing, iCloud sync, and restoring from a backup.

How do I restore a purchase?

Open Settings, then Premium, and tap Restore Purchases. The same button is on the paywall. Make sure you are signed in to the Apple Account that made the purchase. GardenPin tells you what happened, and Premium status updates as soon as you return to the app.

From the blog

Guides for gardeners who want to know what is growing where, and honest comparisons of the plant ID apps.

How to map your garden on your phone

Build a GPS garden map, organise every plant by bed, and keep a living record of what you are growing.

Keep track of every tree and plant on your property

Twenty fruit trees or two hundred seedlings: how to track them with pins, photos, and labels instead of a spreadsheet.

QR plant labels: print garden tags from your phone

Scan a label to pull up a plant's photo, care notes, and map location.

How to identify plants offline

What an on-device plant identifier can do with no signal, and why it is more private.

Best plant identifier apps of 2026

Free options, what the subscriptions actually buy, and a garden organiser that maps the whole garden.

PictureThis vs PlantNet vs Seek

The big three plant ID apps compared on accuracy, price, privacy, and offline use.

Your garden, mapped.

GardenPin is available now on iPhone and iPad. Free to download. Get it today and start pinning.

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