Phone-Friendly Garden Planner for iPhone and Android

GardenDraft Team · June 23, 2026 · Updated July 6, 2026 · 5 min read

The garden is where you make most of your planting decisions, standing over a half-empty bed wondering what goes in next. GardenDraft is a garden planner app for iPhone and Android browsers, built for exactly that moment: pull out your phone at the beds, check what's due, and place the next crop without going back inside to a desktop. Native iOS and Android apps are in progress; the web planner is the version you can use now.

One garden plan on iPhone, Android, and desktop

GardenDraft isn't a separate mobile tool with its own data. It's your account on a smaller screen. Plan the big picture on a laptop if you like, then carry it outside on your phone to do the planting, and every change syncs both ways. Move a tomato on your phone in the garden and it's there on your desktop when you come in. Your beds, plants, calendar, and tasks travel with your account, not the device.

Designed for use in the garden

A phone in the garden has to be quick and legible, so GardenDraft is built mobile-first: big touch targets, a layout that works one-handed, and the information you need outdoors up front. Check this week's tasks, mark a row sown, log a harvest, or drop in a new planting right where you're standing — no pinching at a desktop layout shrunk onto a phone.

Frost-aware dates for your exact location

The point of the planner isn't a prettier drawing tool; it's that it knows when. GardenDraft schedules from your local last spring and first fall frost, pulled from the NOAA station nearest your ZIP code, so the dates on your phone are right for your garden rather than a generic zone guess. Every sow, transplant, and harvest task follows from those two dates.

Tasks that show up at the right moment

Because your plan is on your phone, the task list is with you when the work is due — time to start seeds indoors, harden off seedlings, get the tomatoes staked, or cover tender crops before a frost. These tasks are tied to real planting stages for your crops and climate, not a generic daily "check your garden" prompt that stops meaning anything.

Plan, place, and track from your phone

From your phone you can draw beds and place plants with real spacing, see the planting calendar fall out of the layout, track succession plantings, keep each season's plan around for crop rotation, and work a shopping list and task list built from the plan. It's free to start with no credit card: open the free planner, enter your ZIP, and plan your first bed from the garden itself.