Your garden,
remembered.
Photograph what you plant, bloom, harvest, and change. GardenBinder turns it into a searchable history — and a care plan shaped by your plants, weather, and seasons.
The journal is the heart of it.
Photograph what happened and say a line about it. GardenBinder files it to the plant and the bed it belongs to, and the season becomes something you can search, scroll, and look back on. Everything else in the binder hangs off these entries.
The whole season, searchable.
Photos, blooms, harvests, wildlife, and notes, in one feed by month. Search a plant, a tag, or a year and the moment is there.
- Search by plant, tag, wildlife, or year — “monarch” finds July 2026 and July 2023.
- Each entry carries its date, bed, and plant, so the peony's page collects every entry it was in.
- Calendar, Memories, and Recaps are views of the same entries, not more places to write.
A dedicated home for the practical records.
The parts of a garden that make the pretty parts possible: what to do today, where everything is, what it needs, and what it cost. Pick one to see the screen.
A recommendation names the action and the reason: feels like 103° today, so water at dawn, not noon. An inch of rain is four days out, so the fertilizer and the sprays can wait.
Take the photo. Keep the knowledge.
The camera does the typing. You do the confirming — nothing is saved until you've seen it, and nothing is changed behind your back.
- Photograph itA plant, a nursery tag, a seed packet, a receipt, a soil report — start from the record it belongs to and tap the camera.
- GardenBinder reads itThe photo becomes the cover shot while the useful details are extracted: name, variety, type, sun, water.
- You confirm itEvery field is editable before anything is saved. You choose where it lives — the yard, the bed — and fix anything the camera got wrong.
- It joins the historySaved as a plant record with its photo, its bed, and its care profile — every journal entry from here on links back to it.
Plant identification is free for your first 3 photos. Seed packets, receipts, and soil reports are read on Premium, up to 100 captures a month. The AI can be wrong — that's why it hands the form back to you before saving.
The record the photo becomes — filed to Raised Bed 1, ready for its first journal entry.
The garden gets older. The binder gets better.
Memories surfaces this week in years past. Then & Now sets the same plant beside itself, years apart. A season's recap is written from your own entries. The longer you keep the garden, the more it pays back.
What it's like to keep one.
“GardenBinder finally gives all my garden photos and notes a useful home. I can search past seasons, see exactly when something bloomed, and remember what worked without digging through my camera roll.”
“I used to calculate every seed-starting date in a spreadsheet. GardenBinder builds the schedule around my frost date and shows me what needs to happen next. It has made spring planning so much calmer.”
“After several years in the same garden, I was forgetting why I moved plants or changed varieties. Now each plant has a history — from planting and care to blooms and harvests. It feels like a garden journal that gets more valuable every season.”
Start free. Keep the whole garden with Premium.
Free holds a first garden and this season's story. Premium holds every plant, every photo, and every season you've kept.
Free
Best for one garden, kept by hand — with the camera to try.
No credit card. No trial clock.
- One garden with 15 plants and 100 photos — beds, seeds, and journal entries without limit
- This season's story: the journal, recaps, and memories for the current year
- Care schedule, today's weather advice, and the planting-windows calendar
- Doesn't expire — and never removes a record you made
No credit card required.
Premium
Best for the camera-first gardener who plans the season ahead, or shares the garden.
About $3.33 a month. Or $4.99 billed monthly — the year is 33% less. Prefer one payment? Founders' Lifetime is $99 once.
- Unlimited plants and photos — the whole garden, not the first fifteen
- Every past season: recaps, this week in years past, and year-over-year comparisons
- AI capture for seed packets, receipts, and soil reports — up to 100 a month
- Share with 6 people — a co-owner, 2 who edit, 3 who view
Nothing charged for 7 days; cancel before then and pay nothing. Your records stay on Free either way, and you can export everything, always.
Questions before you start
Where is my data stored?
In your private account, in the cloud. Records are encrypted in transit and at rest, backed up daily, and visible only to you and the people you invite. We never sell your data, and you can export everything anytime as a full backup of your records and photos — yours to keep or restore from.
What is included free?
A first garden: up to 15 plants and 100 photos, with beds, seeds, journal entries, and care schedules without limit; this season's recaps and memories; today's weather advice and the planting-windows calendar; the sowing calendar from your frost dates; 3 AI plant identifications and 10 AI imports to try; one view-only member; and a full export any time. Free doesn't expire. Premium is for the whole garden — unlimited plants and photos, and every season you've kept.
Is there a phone app?
Yes, two ways. GardenBinder for iPhone is on the App Store. And the same binder runs in any phone's browser, iPhone or Android: add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, reads offline, and the + button captures a plant or a journal entry in a couple of taps. One account, the same garden on every device, and on a laptop with the full layout.
Can I import an existing garden?
Yes, without retyping. A spreadsheet or CSV export imports directly, with the columns matched up for you. Apps that won't export still come along: paste your plant list, or upload screenshots of it, and each plant is rebuilt with a care profile on the way in. You review the whole list before anything is saved.
Can I export or cancel?
Both, anytime. Settings → Your Data exports everything as a ZIP you can restore from. Premium's 7-day trial takes a card but charges nothing until it ends; cancel before then and you pay nothing at all. A paid plan can be cancelled from Settings and keeps Premium until the period you paid for ends. Every record stays on the free plan either way — Free simply stops at 15 plants, 100 photos, and this season's history.
How does AI confirmation work?
The camera reads what's in front of it — a plant, a tag, a seed packet, a receipt, a soil report — into a form you review before saving. Every field stays editable, low confidence is said out loud, and nothing is written to your garden until you tap Save. It can be wrong; that's why you're in the loop.
What to do in your garden this month, by zone.
One email on the 1st: what to sow, what to prune, what to protect, and what's worth writing down — for your USDA zone, not a region's — plus the occasional growing guide from the blog. No account needed.
Every garden has a story.
Start keeping yours.
The best day to start the journal was last spring. The second best is today.