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Plan your garden plot in the browser
Draw your plot and house, see them in 3D and check setback distances. Simple, easy and free — and Bo, the AI assistant, helps at every step.
Everything for your plot and house in one project
A simple program for designing a house and a plot: the house, the plot, the utilities and the estimate live on one plan.
Plot and house
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Plot plan
Boundary from the cadastre, a satellite map or a survey — in real metres
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House and floor plan
Walls, doors, windows, stairs, furniture and several floors
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3D and walkthrough
From plan to 3D in one click; walk at eye level or in VR
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AI assistant
Describe the plot in words — Bo draws an editable plan
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Septic, well and setbacks
Sanitary zones draw themselves, violations turn red
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Plants
Trees and shrubs with their real crown, light and watering needs
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Terrain and water
Survey elevations become real ground; flooding and waterfront
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Pool
Shell, steps and equipment; volume and pump computed
Engineering and documents
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Irrigation
Sprinkler coverage, pipe sizes, zones and a pump
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Drainage
Slopes, depths and the outlet checked for you
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Electrical and lighting
Lights, sockets and cables; breakers picked by load
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Heating
Heat loss per room, radiators, underfloor heating, boiler
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Security cameras
Real field of view with shadows; a camera on every gate
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Estimate and materials
Materials with prices — the estimate counts itself
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Import DXF and RemPlanner
Bring a floor plan from CAD or RemPlanner
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PDF, PNG and sharing
A scaled sheet for print or a link to view and edit
Modern house designs
Open a finished project and change anything — the original stays intact.
App
Garden planner app for phone and computer
- An icon on the home screen — back to your plot in one tap
- Full screen without the address bar — more room for the plan
- The same projects on phone and computer — cloud autosave
gardmi
Garden site planner · free
You are already in the app — gardmi is installed.
FAQ
Can I install gardmi as an app on my phone?
Yes. gardmi installs straight from the browser, without App Store or Google Play: on Android and in Chrome or Edge on a computer press “Install the app”, on iPhone open the site in Safari and choose Share → Add to Home Screen. The app opens full-screen from its icon and keeps the same cloud projects.
Is gardmi really free?
Yes. The full editor — drawing, sanitary zones, autosave, sharing, PNG/PDF export — is free to use. No paywall, no trial timer.
Do I need to register?
No. You can start drawing immediately; your project is saved to the cloud and tied to your browser. Sign in only if you want to access projects from another device.
Can gardmi load a plot boundary from a cadastral or parcel reference?
When a supported local data source is available, gardmi can use a cadastral or parcel reference as an editable planning start. Otherwise, draw the boundary or import a reference file. Always confirm legal boundaries against official records or a land survey.
How do I check septic and well distances?
Place the septic and well on the plan — sanitary radii draw automatically and violations turn red so you fix layout before construction.
More about the planner
How it works
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Upload your survey
Drop a JPG or PDF of the topographic survey. It becomes a calibrated background layer.
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Set the scale
Click two points with a known real distance. From now on every ruler shows real metres.
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Place objects
Drop the house, well, septic and utilities. Sanitary radii update live so you see violations early.
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Share or export
Send a link to your contractor, or download a clean PNG/PDF ready to print.
Pick a starting point
Property line map by parcel number
Import a supported cadastral reference or leave it blank to draw property lines manually, then add buildings, zones and dimensions.
Open property line planner →Septic and well distances
Check sanitary zones and conflicts before septic installation or well drilling.
Check distances →Each section in detail
AI assistant draws the plan for you
Describe your site in plain words — Bo draws an editable plot, house, garden and drainage plan. Add setback zones, verify them against local requirements, and adjust every object by hand.
Sanitary zones at a glance
Wells, septics and utilities draw their sanitary radius automatically. Violations are highlighted in red so you spot them while planning, not after building.
Start from parcel data when available
Use a supported cadastral or parcel reference as an editable planning base. If local data is unavailable, draw the boundary or import a reference file, then verify it against official records or a land survey.
Export, share and autosave
Print-ready PNG/PDF, one-click share links for view or edit, and cloud autosave with version history.
Free floor plan maker for apartments and houses
Draw walls, doors, windows, furniture and stairs in real metres. Keep apartment layouts, house floors, basement, roof and document boards separate, then stack everything in 3D.
See your plot in 3D and walk through it
Switch the plan from 2D to a real 3D view in one click. Walk through the plot or house at eye level in the browser — with keyboard on desktop, a joystick on mobile, or a supported VR headset.
Sloped sites: terrain and water level
Place survey spot elevations and the 3D view builds the real ground relief through them. Set the construction zero mark and a water level — to simulate flooding, plan a house by a lake or design piers and footbridges over water.
Irrigation and drainage that compute themselves
Draw pipes, sprinklers and drip lines — gardmi shows each sprinkler's coverage, sums the water flow, picks pipe diameters, splits the system into zones and recommends a pump. Drainage checks the slope, depth and outlet the same way. Both end in a cost estimate.
An electrical plan that picks its own breakers
Place lights and see the area each one really lights, snap sockets and switches to the walls, draw cables from the distribution board — gardmi sums the load of every circuit, picks breakers and cable sections, checks the voltage drop and exports a panel schedule, an estimate and a PDF album with a legend.
Heating that sizes itself to every room
gardmi computes the heat loss of every room from your climate and insulation and colours the plan: green — enough heat, red — short. One click puts radiators under the windows, underfloor heating where it is needed, the boiler, manifolds and pipes — and exports a heating schedule and an estimate.
A pool that is engineered, not just drawn
Pick a ready construction — skimmer, overflow, infinity, Roman-end, lap or plunge pool — and gardmi draws the shell with its bottom profile and coping stone, places the skimmers, return inlets, lights and the entry steps, and computes the water volume, the wetted area for the finish and the pump flow.
Plan on a live satellite map of your plot
Turn on a live satellite, hybrid or scheme map under the drawing, find your plot by address, and design seeing the real surroundings — forest, water, fields, neighbours, roads and views.
Import a floor plan: RemPlanner, DXF, SVG
Designed the house in RemPlanner or a CAD app? Drop a .plan, DXF, SVG or JSON file onto gardmi — walls with real thickness and materials, rooms, columns and dimensions arrive ready, so you can place the house on the plot and plan everything around it.
Security cameras that show what they really see
Place a camera by a wall or on the fence and gardmi draws its real field of view: shadows behind the house and trees, the blind spot below it and the zones where a face is identified or recognised. One click covers every gate and door, adds a recorder and the cables — and you can look through each camera in 3D.
Plant and material catalogs
Choose garden plants by size and site conditions
The catalog shows mature height, crown diameter, root zone, watering, light and soil requirements — so plants on the plan stay tied to real planting constraints.
Open plant catalogBuilding materials with prices and specifications
Every material in the editor has a catalog page: average prices per country, density, thermal conductivity and other passport values — the same data powers the project cost estimate.
Open the material catalog