Backyard Dreambook vs Moon Valley Nurseries
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backyard Dreambook
Explore inspiring ideas and content for your ultimate backyard. Save favorite images to personal collections and share them. Request project estimates, start financing, or schedule meetings with designers directly from the app.
- Inspirational backyard images
- Feature stories and articles
- Save and share favorite photos
- Request project estimates
- Finance process initiation
- Schedule designer meetings
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Discover all the inspiration and content you need to bring your Ultimate Backyard to life! Download the app, then swipe, click, and scroll through a wealth of Feature Stories, What’s Hot articles and tons of high-res pool, spa, landscape and backyard feature images to ignite the imagination. Save your most-loved photos into Dreambooks to share with friends and family. When it’s go time, request a project estimate, begin the finance process, or set up a meeting with one of our world-class designers. Do it all from the palm of your hand and with a simple click.
Moon Valley Nurseries
Design your ideal outdoor space by uploading a photo of your yard and adding virtual plants and products. Visualize your dream landscape before visiting a nursery.
- Upload personal yard photos
- Add virtual nursery products
- Design custom landscapes
- Save designs for nursery visits
- Visualize outdoor space
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Backyard Builder is an application built for use on tablets for IOS. This app allows users to design their own yard or landscape using their own photographs of their outdoor space. By uploading a photo of your landscape, you will then be able to incorporate images of nearly all the product we carry at Moon Valley Nurseries. All designs that are saved in Backyard Builder will be available to you at any of our Moon Valley Nurseries locations.Moon Valley Nurseries is a family-owned and operated business that has been growing the best trees and creating dream landscapes for clients since 1995. We are now one of the best and biggest nurseries in the country. Let us bring your dreams and ideas to reality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Backyard Dreambook at 67% against Moon Valley Nurseries's 3%. Backyard Dreambook also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.2) and device support (3 vs 1). Moon Valley Nurseries's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 10) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Backyard Dreambook holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moon Valley Nurseries has 52 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Backyard Dreambook's written reviews are positive against 3% of Moon Valley Nurseries's.
Backyard Dreambook ships an update every 7 months, Moon Valley Nurseries every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backyard Dreambook | Moon Valley Nurseries |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better | 1.2 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 2.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 52 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joan Smith Enterprises Inc | Moon Valley Nursery, LLC |
Customer experience
Backyard Dreambook
Moon Valley Nurseries
Bugs and requests
Backyard Dreambook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Moon Valley Nurseries
Reported bugs
26 issues- Crashes when signing up for an account on iPad
- App routes back to home page when uploading a picture
- Web builder on Mac is down
- iPad screen locks when choosing state during registration
- No dropdown box for state selection on iPad
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- Registration process freezes
- App throws up a screen with 'Select a State' that cannot be exited
- Cannot select state during registration
- App does not send registration verification text
- Invalid 'from' number for verification code
- Cannot upload a picture to start the process
- Photo upload does not work at all
- Blank white screen after providing contact info
- App kicks out or freezes
- Cannot create a new account or log in
- App goes to a blank white screen after registration info
- App fails to register/load properly on iOS 15.2.1
- Blank white page after verifying cell number and email
- App fails to allow user to enter activation code
- No where to enter verification code
- Solid white screen with no option to use or enter code
- App won't ask to enter code, sits in limbo
- Emails say already registered when they are not
- Login freezes
- State field in registration is unclickable
- App requires personal contact info without option to bypass
Requested features
4 requests- More trees to try on the app
- Update the app and make it work
- Address the photo upload issue
- Allow users to enter verification codes
In-app purchases
Backyard Dreambook
No in-app purchases
Moon Valley Nurseries
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Backyard Dreambook free?
Is Moon Valley Nurseries free?
Which has better reviews, Backyard Dreambook or Moon Valley Nurseries?
Do Backyard Dreambook or Moon Valley Nurseries have ads?
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