Your own photo
Each design is made on the photo you upload, so you see it against your own house, fences and space.
AI Garden Design From a Photo of Your Own Yard
AI Garden is an app for iPhone and iPad that turns a photo of your backyard, front yard, patio or balcony into realistic garden designs, so homeowners, renters and gardeners can see layouts and plants on their own space before they buy plants, choose materials or hire a landscaper.
Use it to explore backyard upgrades, patio refreshes, balcony layouts, and front yard improvements with realistic AI-generated concepts built around your actual space.
Download free on the App Store
Rated 3.8/5 from 8 App Store ratings
AI-powered garden planning
What Is AI Garden Design?
AI garden design is a digital planning process that uses artificial intelligence to analyze a photo of your yard and generate visual landscaping concepts based on your space, preferred style, and project goals. It shows ideas, not a construction plan, so you can see how the space could look before you buy plants or book a landscaper.
With an AI garden planner, homeowners can explore backyard landscape design, front yard makeovers, patio layouts, plant placement, and hardscape ideas (paths, paving, walls and other built features) before making expensive changes outdoors.
Download free on the App StoreWorks on iPhone, iPad and Mac. If you add a subscription, the App Store shows the price first.
Five tools in one AI garden design app
Give the whole yard a new style, clear clutter out of the photo, swap one object for another, add new features, or change the landscaping. Every tool works on a photo of your own space.
How does AI garden design work?
You choose a tool, upload a photo of your space, and pick the type of space and a garden style. AI Garden then generates a new design on your own photo. You can compare versions, remove or replace objects, and try other styles before you change anything outside.
Step 1
Select a Feature
Pick a tool on the app's home screen: Garden Design, Remove & Clean, Replace Objects, Add Objects or Landscaping.
Step 2
Upload Your Garden Image
Tap the upload box and add a photo of your backyard, front yard, patio or balcony. Photos taken in daylight, with the phone held level and the edges of the space in view, work best.
Step 3
Choose the Space and Style
Tell the app what kind of space the photo shows, such as a backyard, front yard, patio or balcony, and pick a style, such as Formal, Cottage, Coastal, Rock or Chinese. You can also ask for items like a fountain, a bench or a brick path.
Step 4
See the New Design
AI Garden shows the new design on your own photo. Save the ones you like, try another style, and compare them before you buy plants or book a landscaper.
Before you spend
Try ideas on your own yard first
Plants, paving and a landscaper's time cost money. AI Garden shows ideas on a photo of your own yard, so you can rule out the ones you don't like before you pay for anything.
Styles to compare
Try Formal, Cottage, Coastal, Rock or Chinese garden styles on the same photo.
Items you choose
Add a fountain, a bench, lights or a brick path, or type what you want and where.
What AI Garden helps you do
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See a new planting scheme against your house before you buy plants.
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Check a patio, path or fence idea against the rest of the yard.
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Save the designs you like to show your family or a landscaper.
Garden ideas for backyards and front yards
Lawns, paths, borders and seating areas, including several before-and-after makeovers, to give you ideas for your own space.
AI Garden on iPhone and iPad
Pick one of the five tools on the home screen, upload a photo, and save the result you like. The rating below is from the US App Store.
Backyards, front yards, patios and balconies
AI Garden works on photos of the outdoor spaces around a home. In the app you choose which kind of space the photo shows, such as a backyard, front yard, patio, terrace or balcony.
Backyards
Try a lawn, a patio, paths, raised beds or new borders behind the house before any work starts.
Front yards
See shrubs, flower beds, edging or a new path against the front of your house.
Balconies and terraces
Try planters, seating and greenery on a small balcony or terrace before you buy anything.
Patios
Change the paving, furniture or planting around a patio and compare the versions.
One photo per space
Take a separate photo of each area, such as the backyard and the front of the house, and choose the matching space type for each one in the app.
Why start from a photo of your own yard
Inspiration pictures show other people's gardens, in other light and around other houses. AI Garden puts the ideas on yours.
From mood board to your own yard
Instead of saving makeover ideas from other people's gardens, upload a photo of your own space and see a design in the style you choose. Measure before you buy anything: the picture has no dimensions.
Clutter out of the way
Remove & Clean takes clutter and old decor out of the photo, so you can judge the space itself before you decide what to change.
Change one thing at a time
Replace Objects swaps one item for another, such as old furniture for new, so you can try a change without redesigning the whole yard.
AI Garden at a glance
AI Garden is a garden design app for iPhone and iPad that also runs on Macs with Apple silicon. It works from a photo of your own backyard, front yard, patio or balcony, and it is free to download from the App Store, with optional in-app subscriptions.
- What it does
- Shows new layouts, planting and outdoor features on a photo of your own space, in the style you choose.
- Tools
- Garden Design, Remove & Clean, Replace Objects, Add Objects and Landscaping.
- Works on
- iPhone with iOS 15 or later, iPad with iPadOS 15 or later, and Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 12 or later.
- Price
- Free to download. Some features need an optional in-app subscription, and the App Store shows the price before you pay.
- App language
- English. It is the only language the App Store lists for the app.
- What it doesn't do
- It doesn't measure your space, price the work or check whether plants suit your climate.
- In-app prices (US App Store)
- Weekly $5.99 · Starter $8.99 · Creator $14.99 · Yearly Discount $14.99 · Yearly $29.99 · Studio $39.99
- App Store rating
- 3.8 out of 5 from 8 ratings on the US App Store
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Which tool fits your project?
AI Garden is the right tool when you want to see ideas on your own space before you decide. It isn't the right tool when you need a plan to build from or a price for the work. This is what to use for each job.
| If you want | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| To see ideas on a photo of your own yard before you decide | An AI garden design app, such as AI Garden | You can try several styles on your real space and compare them. |
| A measured plan that a contractor can build and price | A landscape designer or landscape architect | They visit, measure, check soil and drainage, and draw the plan to scale. |
| A vegetable bed layout with plant spacing | A grid-based garden planner | It is made for spacing plants in beds, not for picturing the whole yard. |
| An exact 2D or 3D model with real dimensions | Landscape design software | It works to scale from your own measurements. |
| To know what the work will cost | Quotes from local landscapers or suppliers | An AI design doesn't price anything. |
Download free on the App Store
Rated 3.8/5 from 8 App Store ratings
Getting a useful design from a photo
The app works from the photo you give it, so the photo decides a lot. A few habits give it more to work with, and a few checks keep a good-looking picture from turning into an expensive surprise.
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How do I take a photo that gives a good design?
Take it in daylight, on a bright overcast day if you can, from one edge of the space with the phone held level at chest height. Keep the boundaries in the frame, such as fences, walls and the back of the house, and take a separate photo for each area you want to redesign.
- Hard midday shadows hide the ground and the edges of beds, which is why overcast light works better.
- A tilted or very low photo distorts the proportions of the space.
- Fences, walls and the back of the house show where the space starts and stops.
- A backyard and the space in front of the house need separate photos, and so do the two ends of a long garden.
- Clutter you plan to get rid of, such as hoses, bins or toys, can stay in the photo: the Remove & Clean tool takes objects out of the picture afterwards.
What can't an AI garden design tell you?
A design shows how your space could look, not how to build it. It has no measurements or quantities, it doesn't price anything, it can't see drainage or buried pipes and cables, and the plants in it may not suit your climate. Check those details before you buy materials or dig.
- Measurements and quantities. The picture has no dimensions. Measure the space and work out how much paving, edging or soil you need. The garden materials calculator turns your measurements into volumes, bags and slab counts.
- Whether the plants suit your climate. Check each plant against your USDA hardiness zone (a map of the coldest winter temperatures in your area, which tells you which plants survive there) and how much sun the spot gets.
- Cost. The design doesn't price anything. Get quotes for paving, walls and planting from local suppliers or a landscaper.
- What's under the ground. Slopes, drainage, and buried pipes and cables don't show in a photo. In the US, contact 811 a few days before you dig so utility lines can be marked.
- Local requirements. Check local rules before laying paving, changing drainage or building walls.
Garden planning guides by space and style
The linked guides and materials calculator are in English.
- How to turn a photo into a garden design: step by step, from photo to design idea
- Backyard landscape ideas: layouts, small spaces and budget makeovers
- Front yard landscape ideas: planting and paths in front of the house
- Small patio design ideas: seating, planting and paving on a small patio
- Small balcony garden ideas: containers and layouts for balconies
- Japanese garden planning: and other garden styles
- Xeriscape ideas for dry climates: and other ways to garden with less water
- Garden design for beginners: where to start and what to avoid
- All garden planning guides
AI Garden Design FAQs
Short answers about what the app does, what it costs and which devices it runs on. For longer guides, see our blog. If you still need help, you can also contact us.
AI garden design uses artificial intelligence to turn a photo of your outdoor space into visual landscaping concepts. AI Garden helps you test layouts, planting ideas, and design directions before landscaping work starts.
Try it on a photo of your own yard
It's free to download. If you add a subscription, the App Store shows the price first, and you can cancel it at any time under Subscriptions in your device's Settings.
In-app prices on the US App Store, as of November 12, 2026: Weekly $5.99 · Starter $8.99 · Creator $14.99 · Yearly Discount $14.99 · Yearly $29.99 · Studio $39.99.
Download free on the App Store
Rated 3.8/5 from 8 App Store ratings
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