PlantWave Makes Every Soundset Free for Every Owner

The device that turns a plant's electrical signals into music now includes every soundset in its app free for owners. Pro becomes Designer, the one paid tier, for people who design their own.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4, 2026 /CNW/ -- PlantWave today announced that every soundset and every feature of its former Plus subscription is now free in the PlantWave app for iOS. PlantWave is the plant music device and app that turn the electrical signals of living plants into music in real time. Owners no longer need a subscription to hear all 50 soundsets.

One optional paid tier remains. PlantWave Designer, formerly PlantWave Pro, is for people who want to build their own soundsets. Current Plus and Pro subscribers get Designer at no extra charge once they update the app. Their billing continues as before.

"When we first released PlantWave, the app had four soundsets, which was a real innovation. At the time, we added a subscription to fund the development of additional features. We've made so many soundsets now, we want everyone who owns a PlantWave to hear them with their own plants," said Joe Patitucci, creator of PlantWave.

Free for every owner:

• All 50 PlantWave soundsets, with new ones added as they are released. New soundsets arrive straight in the app, with no app update needed. Owners can get a notification when one lands
• Key, scale and tuning controls
• Broadcasting, so other listeners can hear their plant
• Audio and MIDI recording
• Background play

PlantWave Designer adds soundset creation and customization, instrument editing, advanced scaling, master effects and Multimode, where several plants play at once. It starts with a free trial and is available on iOS. The Android app has no Designer tier and everything is free.

PlantWave is designed to keep getting better after purchase. This year the company also released the PlantWave MIDI Bridge, a free Mac app. It lets musicians connect their plant wirelessly to digital audio workstations and other professional studio tools. The company calls the update groundwork: what it is building next is about the community around these plants, and it will share that when it's ready.

The update is available now in the App Store. More at plantwave.com/blogs/blog/plantwave-app-free-every-soundset.

About PlantWave

Data Garden, Inc. makes PlantWave. The device reads the tiny electrical changes in a living plant. The PlantWave app turns them into music in real time, a practice called biosonification. Data Garden began making plant music in 2012. It commissioned the original open-sourced plant impedance biosonification algorithm that opened new music tools to a DIY audience. It then produced and released MIDI Sprout, a device that helped start a global plant music movement.

PlantWave is sold in more than ninety countries. PlantWave donates 1% of its global revenues to nature protection and restoration projects via EarthPercent, the music industry's nature and climate foundation, co-founded by Brian Eno. PlantWave is part of Growing Tomorrow, an exhibition at Smithsonian Gardens in Washington, D.C., where visitors hear pre-recorded plant music made with PlantWave. Learn more at plantwave.com.

SOURCE Data Garden, Inc.

Media contact: Johanna von Meister, Data Garden, Inc., [email protected]; plantwave.com