Getting started
SolarLayout runs in your browser — create an account, sign in, and you're ready. Nothing to install.
SolarLayout runs entirely in your web browser. There's nothing to download and nothing to install — open the site, sign in, and you're working.
Open SolarLayout
Go to solarlayout.app in any current browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox. It works the same on Windows, macOS, and Linux; a browser is the only requirement.
The heavy work — placing tables, routing cables, computing energy yield — runs on SolarLayout's servers, not on your machine, so a mid-range laptop is plenty.
Create your account
Go to solarlayout.app
Click Get Started (or Sign In, if you already have an account).
Sign up
Use your email and a password, or continue with Google. New accounts start on the Pro Plus Trial — five full calculations with every feature unlocked, so you can run real layouts before choosing a plan.
You're in
You land on your dashboard. While you're on the Pro Plus Trial, your remaining trial calculations are shown as a stat card. Your account menu (and plan) sits in the top-right. From here, head to your first layout.
Staying signed in
Your browser keeps you signed in between visits. To sign out or switch accounts, use the account menu in the top-right. See Signing in & your account for the details.
Coming from the desktop app?
SolarLayout used to be a desktop app you installed. That app has been retired — everything now lives on the web at solarlayout.app, reachable from any browser, on any machine, with nothing to install or keep updated.
Your work came with you. Sign in with the same email you used on the desktop app and you'll find everything already there:
- Your projects — names, boundary KMZs, and plant parameters
- Every layout you've generated, in each project's layouts list
- Your workspace's plan — Trial, Basic, Pro, or Pro Plus
- Your uploaded
.PANand.ONDfiles - Your support ticket history
There's nothing to move by hand. Sign in and pick up where you left off.
Where to next
- Your first layout — KMZ in, finished layout out, in about ten minutes.
- Boundary file requirements — what your KMZ needs, and how to make one in Google Earth.
- Plans & quotas — per-workspace plans, area and project caps, and how billing works.
- Team workspaces — working as a bid team: per-workspace plans with seats, shared projects, and shared hardware files.