Permaplans - Gardenplanning

Permaplans – the app for garden planning, permaculture & self-sufficiency

Design your garden, homestead or food forest sustainably – then walk through it in 3D.
Whether you're a home gardener, homesteader, farmer, orchard keeper, nursery or garden designer with clients – Permaplans helps you plan, document and optimize your plants for decades to come.

🌱 Plant Finder & Variety Finder

Filter thousands of species by more than 40 criteria: site, frost hardiness, soil, light, uses, food forest layer – even offline.
Describe what you're looking for in your own words – the AI suggests matching plants.
Variety finder: over 1,000 fruit varieties with pollinators, ripening, storage and disease susceptibility, side by side.
A traffic light shows whether a species suits your location.
Plan for animals too: chickens, bees, sheep & more with feed, labor, yields and housing needs.

🗺️ Garden Planning on the Map

GPS-accurate map with satellite imagery, official aerial photos and land parcel boundaries – import your property with a single tap.
Draw beds, paths, buildings, water and zones, or overlay your own drone image.
Placement guidance: in planting mode, a traffic light shows how well a spot suits the plant.
Legal boundary distances to your neighbors are shown right while you plant.
Draw an area – Permaplans suggests plants that fit it exactly.
Time travel: watch trees grow over 1, 5, 10 or 20 years. Plus shade simulation, contour lines, moisture analysis and walking times.

🧭 3D: Walk Through Your Garden

Experience your garden at eye level – today or 20 years from now.
Walk through your planting in first-person view, even on slopes, and place plants right along the way.
Share your garden model via a link that opens in any browser.

📊 Analysis & Calculations

Self-sufficiency in calories and nutrients – today and in 20 years.
Yield in kg and money, firewood in kWh, nectar and pollen for bees, area used.
Growth curves and a year-by-year garden simulation.
AI strategy plan based on your vision, site and existing plants.

📷 Documentation & Monitoring

Document gardens, agroforestry systems, orchards or community spaces with photos, notes and voice recordings.
Log planting, flowering, harvest and pruning for every plant.
NFC tagging: attach a tag to the tree, hold your phone to it – the plant's profile and history open instantly. Or print QR labels.
Export as PDF, CSV, GeoJSON, DXF and KMZ.

✂️ Calendar, Tasks & Pruning Guide

Automatic flowering, harvest and pruning calendar for your plants.
Pruning guide: tree pruning by season, tree age and species – or take a photo and get shown cut by cut what to remove.
Your own tasks with due dates.

💼 For Professionals: Gardens for Clients

Create and manage client gardens – with contact details, logbook and project status.
Professional PDF planting plans for your clients.
Nurseries link their catalog directly to the plant encyclopedia.

🤝 Community & Marketplace

Swap seeds, plants and tools or find garden help nearby.
Forum, events, direct messages and a world map of public gardens.
Publish your garden and get inspired by others.

🎮 Games & Learning

Garden Survival in 3D: build a garden in first-person view that grows in real time – one day equals one year. Join a clan and defend your harvest against zombies and raiders.
Learn plants the fun way with quiz games, a design contest every 14 days, highscores and achievements.

📱 Everywhere You Are

iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and web – one account, automatic sync.
Offline-first: works even without signal.
Available in 13 languages. Start right away, no sign-up needed.

👉 Permaplans brings garden planning, care and self-sufficiency together in one app:
Find plants, plan spaces, experience them in 3D, calculate your harvest, strengthen your community.

Recent changes:
• Garden Survival: 30 game years in a real garden, with clans
• Plan in your garden – on foot in first person
• Yield curves over 50 years, vitality ring at the spot
• The Permaplans forum: questions, polls, garden reports
• Plant identification: monthly allowance instead of a daily limit
• Land registry in Spain, 59 new fruit varieties, now in Swedish

All changes: permaplans.com/changelog