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Really want to give 3 1/2 stars
I really like the idea of this app and it’s the best one out there for designing your garden. However, I wish the app could do a couple of things:
1. I wish you could layer items however you want as in put flowers behind a hedge/shrub, etc. I wanted to see how my garden would look with foxgloves behind my box woods, but the app won’t let me do that.
2. Wish there were more variety of flowers/plants and more variety of colors. There are a few plants that I’ve looked for that are pretty common that aren’t in there.
Other than those two major things, I really like the app. It is the best one out there. Hopefully it will improve over time.Show lessSnellgro
Good enough for trial only
Neat concept but fell way short.
I bought the three month subscription after doing the trial and it’s not much better. It actually got worse and glitchy. After saving a design, had to close app and reopen it to start a new design(bug does not see photos on iPad Pro photo folder either).
A big pet peeve, is not being able to change the angle of view of any given asset. The only way to design from photos is to design from a straight ahead view and perspective not angled as the assets can’t be angled to adjust for the perspective. I have not tried the AR portion as it might be better but remains to be seen. If you buy, don’t buy any more than a month at a time.Show less2010stupido
Used to be great
I work at a large landscape company and was sold in iScape for the past 3 years. It was awesome. They’ve made many updates and now it’s not good. In fact, I can’t even open it anymore. It opens, shows their logo, and goes back to iPad home screen. Since they’ve added this AR feature (not sure what it does since it’s not able to run on iPad) it’s been unusable. Freezes, loses designs, doesn’t save. I have hundreds of designs I can’t access now. Not worth a single penny at this point and I have spent hundreds of dollars on the app over the years. Please fix it, and take this garbage and restore it to the amazingly useful app it was. Do not buy until fixed.Show lessChris G TN
Not for Pros as Described
I think this could be a fun app if you own an iPad and want to play around with a project for your home, but it’s a waste of time if you’re a pro. I can’t believe no developer has seized the market for pros looking to do some light duty design on the iPad. If pro use wasn’t mentioned in the description (or it were free) I wouldn’t have given it a two star rating so if you’re a DIYer it may be a better experience for you then it was for me.
Suggestions that would make this a much better experience drafting something up on the fly in front of a client in the field: allow markup within the app and the use of a finger or, even better, Apple Pencil. I would imagine that would be really easy to integrate into the app (but I’m not a developer). Secondly, give your paying clients an adequate plant database (without having to upload a bunch of photos, for approval, by myself) labeled by a common name and the botanical name with the search feature. The names are a mess. I searched for a Pieris japonica / andromeda as the first plant for my first ‘design’ with this app, and it wasn’t there. I think that’s a pretty darn common plant in high production in the majority of the US.
If those changes are made I’d be happy to try a subscription again (I used the trial for a few days) and give an updated rating.Show lessfond pennies
Developer Response
Hi Fond pennies, we appreciate your perspective as a professional user and your suggestions for improving the app! We understand your frustration and apologize for any inconvenience you experienced. We agree with your feedback about the need for more professional features such as markup tools within the app and an expanded plant database. We're continuously working to enhance iScape to better meet the needs of all users, including professionals like yourself. We strive to provide the best possible experience for all users, and your input helps us in that endeavor. Rest assured, we're actively working on improving the database to include a wider variety of plants, with both common and botanical names, and enhancing the search feature for better usability. Please don't hesitate to reach out to support@iscapeit.com with anything else we can do to help. We're here to listen and improve, and hope to have the opportunity to exceed your expectations in the future!Cool idea but doesn’t work well
Upon opening it and wanting to try the AR, it tells me my device is not compatible. Well, what is compatible? Give me more information!?! My device is fairly new.
So, next I create a project with a photo of the backyard. After adding a coupe of items, I notice there is no attempt to automatically scale the item. I had a flower come in as big as one of the existing trees! Silly. After a couple more items added, it freezes and I force it to quit. Open it up again and the project as well as the photo is gone for good. I might give it another shot but it is unlikely.Show lessJaFreit00
Fun app. Needs more options to buy
I know my way around design apps. I am proficient in Illustrator and Photoshop. The issues I constantly had with this app are:
I can’t lock layers. I want to be able to select and move an object, or resize the screen, without accidentally selecting and moving the grass or some other ground coverage, which is then 99% impossible and very time consuming to put in the correct spot again
Auto save. Having to hit save every 5 minutes in case your phone dies, or you forget to save and close the app is silly.
I did not find the crop tool shown in the instruction video.
I do like that the objects blend into the photo nicely. I also like the option to edit the color and lighting of each object.
Overall, fun app. Great for visualizing your perfect landscape. Not enough features to tempt me to purchase the app.Show lessExoticDelerium
Overpriced toy
This app is easy to use, unlike some other garden apps I test drove, but the trade off is that it is really just a toy. You can’t do much with the free version (unless your garden has fewer than 10 plants in it, in which case you probably don’t need an app to keep track of them), so I sprang for one month of the pay version to play around with. This provided some mild entertainment for a couple of hours, particularly because of the cool feature that lets you take a photo of your existing landscape and add plants to it. But, ultimately, it is just not a useful tool. The in-app plant catalog is so limited that I had to identify surrogates for virtually everything I wanted, and the lack of any sizing function meant it took a lot of fiddling around to make similarly tall plants appear about the same height. Even this step involved referencing other sources, as the in-app plant descriptions tended toward the sparse side. The only reason I think anyone would want to keep an ongoing subscription to this is because they forgot to tell the App Store to discontinue it (which is, unsurprisingly, not as straightforward a process as it should be).Show lessLMc FL
Developer Response
Hi LMc FL, we apologize for any inconvenience caused by the limitations you encountered, particularly with the database and sizing options. We understand the importance of having a comprehensive and accurate database of plants, and we're continuously working to improve in this area. We offer a free trial of iScape Pro to first time users that unlocks all the images and tools in the app. We're sorry to hear that you didn't find iScape to be a useful tool for your needs. If you have any further suggestions or if there's anything else we can assist you with, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at support@iscapeit.com. Thank you for giving iScape a try, and we appreciate your honest feedback!Poor business
I bought the original version in Feb of 2017. The past few months it would not update. This morning I decided to look into it and figured out that I was screwed. I already felt ripped off when I bought the full version only to find that there was more to buy if you wanted everything. Now, I have nothing. One response to another review was that they offered a discount on the new app to previous owners (apparently we didn’t own anything). I could not find where I was ever given an offer for a discount. The proper thing would have been to grandfather in owners of the original app because they purchased the app before it was a subscription model. Very bad business in my opinion!
Since my review the original app has been restored. I’m glad the developers made the decision to do the right thing.Show lessBasevol
Future Plan
I haven’t paid for the upgrade yet, but plan to use this when I get my first place. I am interested in flipping properties and think this save me so much money rather than paying a landscaper. I hate having to look up common landscaping plants and love the way the app has photos and names of the most commonly used plants in landscaping. This makes it easier to orders seeds, bulbs, or live plants from a catalog when they are on sale rather than buying what is on sale locally just because it is on sale.Show lessN Liv
Would like zone package options
I have the earlier version and like many others on here, was upset to learn that I will have to pay more to update. I might find it worthwhile if I knew up front what I would get for my money. The previous version gave a limited supply of plants, MANY of which cannot grow in my cold Wisconsin climate (Zone 4). You may now have that option but I don’t want to pay a base price to find out. I can say the program is slick, easy to use, and I am willing to pay for if I didn’t feel tricked into being nickeled and dimed.Show lessLathegirl
