Master gardener app · In development

Garden Sage

A source-backed growing assistant — a master gardener in your pocket for planning, timing, records, and grounded advice. In development.

Seedling Veg Flowering Waxing gibbous

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Garden Sage is being built as a master gardener in your pocket — a source-backed assistant for planning, timing, and recordkeeping, not just another plant-photo identifier.

The aim is to help you decide what to do now and what to prepare for next: plan a bed, greenhouse, or plot, time the work that can't be missed, keep records across the season, and get advice grounded in credible sources. It's designed to scale from a few containers to a market garden — for home and hobby gardeners, homesteaders, greenhouse and market growers alike.

What it's being built to do

Plan & schedule. Task windows, lifecycle stages, and the timing that matters across the season.
Source-backed guidance. Being built to align with credible public horticulture sources (USDA / Cooperative Extension / land-grant universities) and to label how sure each claim is — no fabricated citations.
Photo-assisted observation. Snap a photo to draft a plant, stage, and likely needs — you review and confirm. (Early builds use on-device drafting only.)
Records & follow-up. Keep photo timelines, notes, and history so each cycle improves on the last.

Where it stands

Early development — scaffolding stage. The planning, source-backed advice, photo drafting, and scheduling are planned features, not live yet; photo drafting in early builds is on-device only, with no live AI calls. An Android preview build is in progress and not yet ready to install. There's no public release and no app-store listing, and we won't claim a feature works until it does. When there's something to try, you'll find it here first.

The core flow

How it's meant to work

Garden Sage drafts what it sees — you confirm. The loop being built is three steps. (Planned flow, not live yet.)

Take a photo

Snap a plant in a bed, pot, or tray. Nothing leaves your phone to do this in early builds — on-device only, no live AI calls.

Sage drafts what it sees

A draft of the likely plant, lifecycle stage, and what to check next — shown with how sure it is. A draft, not a diagnosis.

You confirm

Accept, correct, or skip. What you keep is saved to your garden log so each cycle builds on the last. You stay in control.

In development. The photo flow above is a planned feature, not live yet. Early builds draft on-device only, with no live AI calls, and we won't claim a feature works until it does.

Examples · not live

What the cues could look like

Previews of the in-context tags Garden Sage is being built around. These are illustrative examples, not screenshots of a working app.

Lifecycle status tags

Seedling Veg Flowering Ready Watch Needs review

Status is always paired with a word, never color alone.

A photo draft — you confirm

Example preview

Waxing gibbous Bed 2 · Backyard

Likely plant: Tomato (draft)
Stage: Flowering
Check next: Water · support stems

Medium confidence — confirm before savingdraft

Illustrative example, not a screenshot of a working app. Photo drafting is a planned feature; early builds run on-device only with no live AI calls.

Built to scale

From a windowsill to a plot

The same loop is being designed to work across the places people actually grow. Example areas below.

Backyard beds & pots

Outdoor

Outdoor beds, raised boxes, and containers — plan the season and log what each plant is doing.

Veg Ready

Indoor seed-starting & grow tents

Indoor

Trays on a windowsill or a tent with lights — track germination, stages, and timing indoors.

Seedling Watch

Where legal in your state, lifecycle tracking is general and applies to any plant you grow. Always follow your local laws. Not medical or legal advice.