Draw your land.
Log it in plain English.
Plot is a map-first manager for farms and homesteads. Sketch your fields, beds, and paddocks on a satellite map — then just type what happened, and Plot files it as a structured record in a database on your own machine.
Map-first, not form-first
Draw fields, beds, zones, and paddocks on a real interactive map, drop pins, and tap-to-place from any form — every record is tied to a spot on your land.
Log in plain English
Type what you did in your own words. An LLM parses it into structured, auto-linked events — splitting multi-part notes and letting you edit every field before it saves.
Rotational grazing, planned
Build an NRCS-style grazing plan, balance forage to animals, subdivide a field into paddocks, and get deterministic next-move, rest, and overgraze guidance.
Just say what you did.
No dropdowns to hunt through, no forms to fill. Write it like a note to yourself — Plot resolves the crop, the amount, and the place, and links it to the right planting.
Sketch your land the way you'd draw it on paper.
Plot opens on an interactive MapLibre map. Trace field boundaries, block out raised beds, mark zones, and carve paddocks — then drop a pin from any form to place exactly where something happened.
- Draw fields, beds, zones & paddocks as real polygons
- Tap-to-place picking wired into every form
- Attach photos with EXIF/GPS — HEIC supported
Every planting, from seed to sale.
Create plantings and track their lifecycle — active, harvested, archived. Log harvests, sales, costs, and notes against the exact location, and browse everything back in a filterable record.
- Lifecycle status: active → harvested → archived
- Harvest, sale, cost & note events, auto-linked
- A Coach that nudges streaks & completeness
Move the herd by the numbers, not by guesswork.
Balance forage against your animal units, subdivide a field into the right number of paddocks, and move herds by drag or by sentence. Plot's deterministic advisor calls the next move, rest days, and overgraze risk — then exports a printable NRCS-528 record.
- Forage/animal balance → auto paddock count
- Next-move, rest, overstay & overgraze advice
- CSV export & printable NRCS-528 worksheet
One tool where three usually meet.
Farm record-keeping, garden planning, and rotational grazing normally live in three separate apps. Plot does the overlap — map-first, plain-English, and yours to keep.
| Capability | Plot | Farmbrite | LiteFarm / farmOS | Seedtime / GrowVeg | Legacy grazing apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Map-first drawing | Core | Partial | GIS (farmOS) | Bed grids only | Map-centric |
| Plain-English logging | Yes | Forms | Forms | Forms | Forms |
| Rotational grazing (NRCS-528) | Yes | Basic | Via modules | — | Specialty |
| Local-first / data ownership | SQLite file | Cloud SaaS | Self-host (farmOS) | Cloud SaaS | Cloud SaaS |
| Open source · no subscription | AGPL-3.0 | Paid tiers | Open source | Paid tiers | Enterprise |
| Scope | Focused | Very broad | Broad | Garden-only | Grazing-only |
Plot's column reflects verified, shipping features. Competitor details are drawn from public positioning and may change — verify current pricing and feature sets before relying on them. Comparison offered in good faith, not as a benchmark.
Built for people who work the land.
Market gardeners & small farms
One honest place for beds, plantings, harvests, sales, and costs — tied to a map instead of buried in spreadsheets.
Graziers & livestock keepers
Managed grazing without enterprise software — paddock math, move planning, and NRCS-528 records that print.
Self-reliant tinkerers
People who refuse SaaS lock-in and want their farm data as a local file they own, on a stack they can read and change.
Your land. Your data. Your machine.
Plot keeps everything in a plain SQLite file on your computer — no account required to run it, nothing held hostage in someone else's cloud. When you're ready to go multi-device, point it at Turso. Your call.
You own the file
Data lives in a standard SQLite database you can back up, move, or open with any tool. No export ritual — it was always yours.
Auditable & free
Released under AGPL-3.0. Read the source, run it, modify it — no subscription, no per-seat pricing, no lock-in.
Self-hostable
Runs on your own hardware. The natural-language and photo features call an LLM via OpenRouter — bring your own key, and that's the only thing that leaves home.
Map your land. Log it in plain English. Own your data.
Plot is free and open source. Clone it, draw your first field, and log your first harvest in an afternoon.
No account required to self-host · AGPL-3.0