v2
Planned
AR & LiDAR measurement — the headline feature of the next major version.
- Measure the real height of structures, trees and boundaries with your phone instead of estimating them
- Ground slope measurement
- A clinometer method for distant objects — like a neighbour's tree you can't walk up to
- Closes the biggest current accuracy gap: only structures you draw currently cast shade
v1.8
Submitted for review
Everything you draw can now be changed.
- Edit any zone after drawing it — move it, resize it, rotate it, or drag individual corners into shape
- Line zones for fences and walls, drawn along whichever way they actually run, so their shadow falls where it really would
- Name your zones straight from the map, instead of hunting through "bed 3" and "bed 4"
- Shade at mature size — see what a spot will be like once your trees have grown, without changing anything about your garden today
- Smoother panning and a closer zoom level for placing things accurately
- Bigger, clearer controls throughout, and native iOS icons
v1.7
A full rebuild of the shade engine, and the plant database more than doubled.
- Shade engine rebuilt from scratch — sun hours calculated on a grid across the whole garden, not a single verdict per zone
- Heatmap view with a month scrubber, so you can see how shade shifts across the year
- 15-minute integration steps, validated against US Naval Observatory data, 257 automated tests
- Plant database: 600 plants total (up from 250) — 100 free (up from 50)
v1.6
A small maintenance release.
- Corrected several plant database entries
- Fixed soil data not refreshing when a garden's location changes
- Added ten new plants
v1.5.0
Structures got more realistic, and iPad became fully supported.
- Custom structure heights, and covered growing — greenhouses, polytunnels, cold frames and cloches, heated or not, with their own soil mix
- Soil texture added — sand/silt/clay classification alongside pH and organic carbon
- Map screen layout improved; satellite provider list simplified; attribution added
- Full iPad support
- Bad plant combination warnings — flags known antagonistic pairings when two plants share a zone
v1.0
29 July 2026
First release on the App Store.
- Garden mapping over satellite imagery, with GPS-anchored zones
- Climate data (Open-Meteo) and soil pH / organic carbon (SoilGrids)
- 250-plant curated database, with a free tier and Premium
- Toxicity and pest safety warnings
- Care reminders, multi-garden support, garden snapshots