Every feature of Permaplans

AI search in your own words

"A shade-tolerant shrub with berries for kids": type or dictate it, the AI suggests matching species from the encyclopedia.

Identify a plant by photo

Take a photo, get it identified and add it straight to your garden.

Recommendations for your climate

A carousel shows plants that suit your climate zone without setting a single filter.

"Photos only" filter

Hides species without an image when you want to decide visually.

Animals in the garden

Switch from plants to animals: chickens, bees, sheep and more with feed, labour, yields and housing needs, addable to your garden.

Favourites

A watch list for plants you want to plan later.

Search inside your gardens

The same filters run across every plant you have already placed.

Swipe plants

Swipe suggestions for a garden like cards: right for "want it", left for "no".

Complete profile

Site requirements, growth, harvest and bloom calendar, yield in kg and kcal, nutrition, propagation, uses, toxicity level, wildlife value, storability, images of bark, leaf, flower and fruit.

Does it fit my site?

A traffic light comparing climate zone, frost, heat sum, soil and pH with the species' needs.

World suitability map

Pick a plant and see on the world map where it thrives, from green to red.

Cultivars & cultivar finder

More than 1,000 cultivars with bloom time, pollinators, ripening, storage and disease susceptibility. The cultivar finder compares them side by side and shows which one suits your site and your pollinators.

Ask the AI about a plant

Ask a specific question; the answer is posted as a comment under the plant and helps everyone. Can also explain where to find things in the app.

Comments & ratings

Community experience per species, with likes and reporting.

"Available at" nurseries

Partner nurseries show their offers right in the profile.

Suggest or correct a plant

Report a missing species, fix data, contribute your own photos. Approved editors edit directly.

Create your own plant with AI

Enter a name, the AI researches the profile online and creates the species.

Plant of the day

A species to discover on the home screen every day.

Links, QR codes and NFC tags

Every species has a web address (permaplans.com/plants/…). Share it as a QR code or write it to an NFC tag on the tree that opens the profile when tapped.

Garden wizard with site values

Pick the location; Permaplans derives climate zone, frost risk, precipitation, heat sum, soil indicators, slope and aspect automatically.

Multiple gardens & main garden

Home garden, community garden, food forest, traditional orchard, client project: each garden with its own site, type and level.

Garden roadmap

Eight main quests guide you step by step from vision via map and inventory to publishing, with level-ups and rewards.

Garden types

From traditional orchard and home garden to agroforestry, food forest and nursery — each type with fitting defaults.

Plant groups

Bundle beds, guilds or hedges as a group and edit them together.

Gallery

All photos of a garden over the years in one place.

Your own drone image

Place a current aerial photo as an overlay on the map and fit it to the property.

Map annotations

Labels, arrows and freehand scribbles, separate for analysis and planning.

Matching plant for an area

Draw an area and Permaplans suggests species that fit it in size and site.

Filters & layer visibility

Only fruit, only beds, only planned items: filters and layer panel saved per garden.

Measure, grid, scale, north arrow

Measure lengths and areas, show a metre grid.

Contour lines & wet/dry

Terrain model as contour lines, relief or wetness index to spot hollows and ridges.

Thematic climate & soil maps

Twelve bioclimate maps worldwide and official German datasets as overlays.

Shadow simulation

Shadows cast by buildings and trees over the year.

Walking time from the entrance

How long to reach each bed? Zones by permaculture logic, computed on the path network.

Buildings from OpenStreetMap

Take over surrounding buildings with one tap.

Playback sequence

Play the garden's development as an animation over the years.

Help mode on the map

Switch help on, tap a button, read what it does. Buttons can be shown or hidden per garden.

GPS position in the garden

Your position with accuracy indicator, centre the map on it, place plants right where you stand.

Five ways to add plants

Search with garden filters, type a name, identify by photo, dictate, or paste a whole table.

Profile per placed plant

Position, cultivar, planting year, photo history, events such as planting, harvest and pruning, notes, calendar, growth curve, time and money spent, firewood.

Events & harvest tracking

Planted, bloomed, harvested, pruned: log it per plant, also as a future date.

Your own extra info

Free fields for anything the profile lacks: origin, rootstock, observations.

Label, QR code & NFC per plant

Every placed plant has its own link (permaplans.com/gp/…). Print it as a label, share as QR code or write it to an NFC tag on the tree.

Nursery ordering

See prices of partner nurseries right at the placed plant and order.

Garden dashboard

Plants by type, ratings, yearly progress, nectar, pollen and honey value, seasonal bloom, annual summary.

Self-sufficiency in kcal and nutrients

How much of your diet will the garden cover in five or twenty years? Computed from area, plant age and cultivation data.

Balance: yield, money, firewood, honey, area

Panels right on the map: kg yield, cash value, kWh firewood and heating share, forage for bees, occupied square metres.

Garden year calendar

Sowing, bloom, harvest and pruning of all plants on one timeline, with the current season phase.

Growth and energy curves

How size and yield of every plant develop over the years.

Garden simulation

Play the garden year by year and test decisions.

Vision wizard

Five steps from the dream to a weighted vision, optionally dictated.

Dragon Dreaming

Dreaming, planning, doing, celebrating: the method as a guided process in the garden.

Vision checklist & elements

What should the garden deliver? Weight elements and see them as a pie chart.

AI strategy plan

Vision, site and inventory become a multi-year plan as a note. Permaplans does the maths, the AI structures it.

Request feedback on your vision

Ask Permaplans for feedback right from the garden.

Notes with photos and voice

Observations per garden or plant, with photos, notebooks and voice recording the AI turns into text.

Tasks with due dates

What is due this week? Tasks per garden, ticking off included.

Pruning coach

Two ways: the general guide explains pruning by season, tree age and species — no AI involved. If you are unsure, photograph your tree and have it shown to you cut by cut. Plus pruning tricks and tree-care knowledge.

Garden log

Chronicle of all changes and events, also for client gardens.

PDF planting plan

Map, plant list and calendar as a document for clients, helpers or the drawer.

GeoJSON, DXF, KMZ, CSV

For QGIS, CAD software, Google Earth and spreadsheets. CSV import back into the garden.

Map snapshot

The current map view with north arrow as image or PDF.

Share a 3D model

Export the garden as a 3D model and show it in the browser via link.

Example: the Zirkeldreher garden →

Publish your garden

Profile page with map, species and events, reachable in the community map and at permaplans.com/publicgarden. You decide what is visible.

Example: the Zirkeldreher garden →

Share a garden with others

Invite by link or code and work on the same garden together.

Client management

Clients with their gardens, contact details, log and project status in one place.

Professional interface

Switch between the community view and a dense list view for many projects.

Nursery integration

Your shop catalogue is linked to the encyclopedia, offers appear at every species, orders flow into the app.

Desktop & web

Big screens with side rail, mouse and keyboard on macOS, Windows, Linux and in the browser.

Newest & best-rated gardens

Browse public gardens, like them and view user profiles.

Community map

All public gardens worldwide, with filters, thematic maps and the world suitability map for every plant.

Site pipette

Tap a point on the map and see the climate and soil values there.

News & feed

New features, campaigns and community events on the home screen, optionally as push.

Market: offers & requests

Plants, seeds, tools and help nearby, by postal code.

Events

List and find plant swaps, courses and work days.

Direct messages

Chat with other gardeners, with blocking and reporting.

Learn

Videos and courses on permaculture, with a mini player that keeps running while you plan. If you have made your own video course on gardening, permaculture or agroforestry and want to offer it here, get in touch.

Vote on feature requests

Submit wishes and use points to prioritise what gets built next.

Refer friends

Share your invite code, both sides receive Pacham.

Plant duel

Two species, one question: which is hardier, taller, more productive?

Match photos

Match leaf, flower, fruit and bark to the right species.

Buckets & mandala

Sort plants into groups by layer, use or site.

Who am I?

Guess the species from clues, as text or trading-card variant.

Learn mode & reveal answers

Play without time pressure and read the solution with profile after every round.

Design duel cards

Design a garden with cards and compete against others.

Design contest

A new site every 14 days, the community votes on the designs.

Permaplans Tycoon

Strategy game: grow a farm into a permaculture enterprise over 15 rounds. In development.

Weekly and all-time high scores

Leaderboards, player profiles and weekly rewards.

Pacham wallet & coupon shop

Earn Pacham by playing, referring and completing tasks, spend it on AI features or redeem it in the shop.

Achievements

Badges for milestones in garden, community and games.

Order Permaplans cards

The physical card game behind the plant duel.

Guest mode

Start immediately without registering, upgrade to a full account later with one tap. Everything is kept.

Guided start

Nine small tasks on the home screen walk you through the app, plus tours and a help index.

Where do I find what?

A map of every screen and button in the help section. AI assistants read the same map so they can guide you.

Plans: Free, Starter, Premium, Business

As annual subscription or one-time lifetime purchase, via the stores or on the web.

13 languages

German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish.

Settings & privacy

Notifications, storage, blocked users, data export, account deletion, bug reports.

iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, web

One account, every device, automatic sync.

Offline first

Encyclopedia, gardens and map cache live on the device. Changes made without signal sync later.

Voice instead of typing

Dictate plants, notes, visions and searches with dirty hands in the bed.

Screen readers & assistants

All core paths carry accessibility identifiers. VoiceOver, TalkBack and AI agents locate controls independent of language.

Web demo without an account

Look at a real garden in the browser before you sign up.

Changelog

Every version with all changes, multilingual.

Open the changelog →