One photo.
A new garden.

Gardenly is an AI garden design app, or an AI landscape design app if you call it that, for iPhone and iPad. You photograph an outdoor space you already have, a backyard, a front garden or a patio, choose one of 52 design styles, and the app sends back a render of that same space redesigned in that style. Every style but one is photorealistic; Sketch returns the scene as a hand-drawn line drawing. It is a way to see a landscaping idea on your own plot before anyone digs anything up.

You give the app one photo and one style. The photo is uploaded to an image model together with a fixed instruction describing what may change and what may not: the planting, beds, lawn and garden furniture can be redrawn, while the buildings, fences, walls, paths and other hardscape, the camera angle and the lighting are to stay as they were. What comes back is your photo with a new garden in it. The app asks you to keep it open while it works, and says the result can take up to a minute.

The garden is what it is asked to change. The instruction behind every render explicitly holds the house facade, windows, doors, roof and any architectural feature identical, along with fences, walls, paths and other hardscape, the camera angle, the perspective, the time of day and the property boundaries. That is an instruction to an image model rather than a hard constraint, so expect the odd liberty. A handful of styles are supposed to break it outright: Sketch returns the scene as a hand-drawn line drawing, and Cyberpunk, Post-apocalyptic, Ski Chalet and Medieval rework the building itself. For the other forty-odd, what you get back is your house with a different garden around it.

52, in 6 collections: Modern, Cultural, Nature, Artistic, Vintage, Seasonal. They run from Modern, Minimalist and Scandinavian through Mediterranean, Japanese Design and Zen to Cottagecore, Farmhouse, Biophilic and a handful of seasonal ones like Christmas and Halloween. Every style has a preview in the Gallery tab so you can see what it does before you spend a photo on it.

Good enough to decide with, not good enough to build from. The 52 styles are a fixed, curated set rather than the app improvising, and each one has a preview in the Gallery tab so you can see what it does to a garden before you spend a photo on it. What you get back is a plausible version of your own space: a lawn, beds, a path and furniture that look like they belong to the plot in your photo. What you do not get is a planting list, a drawing anyone can work from, or any knowledge of your soil, your climate or what survives a winter where you live. Treat it as the picture you take to a landscaper, not as a replacement for one.

The app asks you to keep it open while the render is generated, and the wait screen says the result can take up to a minute to appear. Every design costs one credit, and if the generation fails the credit is refunded automatically. You can cancel a render while it is running, though the credit for that one is already spent.

iPhone and iPad, running iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 and later, which in practice means an iPhone XR, iPhone XS or newer, and any iPad Apple still supports on iPadOS 18. One download on the App Store covers both. The iPhone layout is portrait and scrolls the style collections as rows; on iPad the same rows just fit about three styles at a time instead of two. There is no Mac, Apple Watch or Vision Pro version.

The app is free to download and your first design is free. After that, generating designs needs a Gardenly Pro subscription, offered weekly or annually. Apple shows the exact price for your country on the App Store listing and again inside the app before you subscribe, and subscriptions are managed in your Apple Account.

Front gardens and patios, yes. Nothing in the app is specific to large backyards, and lawn, beds, planting and garden furniture get redrawn whether the photo is of a whole plot or a paved corner. A bare balcony is the weak case: all 52 styles are written for gardens and every one of them asks for lawn and planting, so the less growing space the photo contains, the less there is for the render to do with it.

That is what the Save and Share buttons are for. Every render can be saved into your Photos library at full size or shared straight out to a message, an email or any app that accepts an image, so the person quoting the work is looking at your garden rather than a mood board.

No. There is no Gardenly account, no email address and no password. The app signs itself in anonymously the first time you open it, and your renders are stored in the History tab on the device.