Comparison

iScape vs Yard Planner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iScape

Design beautiful outdoor living spaces with this powerful landscape planning tool. Visualize your dream yard using 2D or 3D augmented reality, and easily share your vision with professionals or family. Streamline the entire process from design to purchase.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality (3D) and 2D design
  • Virtual object insertion
  • Project visualization
  • Design sharing and collaboration
  • Product and item inventory
  • Proposal generation for professionals
Features
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iScape is the No. 1 app for landscape design. We are here to help you create beautiful outdoor living areas. Whether you’re an Industry Professional, or a DIY Homeowner, iScape has you covered. As featured in Forbes, HGTV, HBO, The New York Times, USA Today, Fox, and many more! “If you’re DIY’ing it, iScape makes it easy to plan out what to buy and how to put it all together. If you’re hiring a landscaper, the app can help you explore ideas and share your vision.” - Forbes "It is user friendly and has features that include a virtual pen, the ability to insert objects and more. This is considered one of the best landscape design apps." - Borst Landscape Design "Wish you could see how your home would look with professional landscaping? With iScape, you can create a digital model of your home's yard. Feature your favorite plants, so you can see the design before digging at all." - HGTV Check out just some of the great iScape benefits: Landscape Business Tools - iScape pro subscription provides the ability to create a proposal directly from the app in real time. Whip up a design, output a proposal, set pricing, modify descriptions and create a professional PDF with your quote and custom business info in minutes! Visualize the Finished Project - Whether you’re going to do-it-yourself or hire a pro to help, you’ll know how it should look before the project even starts. Design in Your Own Space - Seamlessly blend your physical and digital living spaces using augmented reality (3D) or traditional designs (2D). Share with Others - Collaborate with a landscape pro, your customers or your spouse and use iScape to share your vision and make it a reality. Complete the Project - We inventory all the products and items within your iScape design to make purchasing smooth and easy. Around the globe, more than 5 million designs have been created with iScape helping both Industry Professionals and Homeowners save time, energy and money. What else is the world saying about iScape? “If you’re looking to tackle a landscaping project, check out iScape, which allows you to overlay virtual flowerbeds, trees and shrubs on top of photos of your home so that you can test out your landscaping ideas before you ever head to the garden supply store.” - Fox News “To plan the perfect patch, look no further than iScape.” - Wall Street Journal “If you’re looking to ramp up your curb appeal, we recommend the iScape app to create virtual landscaping." - The Washington Post “When you’re planning a new garden or considering a change to an established one, it can be difficult to visualize the results. This is where iScape comes in handy.” - The NY Times AUTOMATIC-RENEWAL DETAILS FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS: • Subscriptions are managed in user Account Settings after purchase. • Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account. • Cancel renewal anytime. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24-hours prior to period end. • Account will be charged for renewal for the same subscription you purchased within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://iscapeit.com/privacy Terms: https://www.iscapeit.com/terms We really hope that you enjoy iScape. We are continuously striving to make the experience better and better. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any feedback and/or questions at support@iscapeit.com. User input has made a tremendous impact at iScape and we greatly appreciate it!

About

Yard Planner

Design your dream outdoor space with a drag-and-drop interface. Choose from over 800 hand-drawn elements like trees, pools, and structures to create detailed landscape layouts. Share your creations with friends or clients.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop functionality
  • 800+ hand-drawn landscape elements
  • Sketch Tool for free-form shapes
  • Google Maps integration for property mapping
  • Layer management for complex designs
  • Shareable editable designs
Features
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YARD PLANNER is a simple drag-and-drop 2D landscape design app with all the tools you need to mock up your property, create new designs, and share them with friends and family. YARD PLANNER is ideal for homeowners who want to try out fresh ideas for their yard. Useful for landscape professionals to share designs with clients and contractors. Also perfect for children and adults alike to exercise their imagination and creativity! Use YARD PLANNER to select and place over 800 beautiful hand-drawn elements including trees, gardens, pools, patios, hammocks, driveways, houses and sheds, solar panels, and just about anything you might want for your property–even parties and weddings! Features include: • Sample designs to inspire or get you started • Simple drag-and-drop functionality • 34 palettes (800+ hand-drawn elements) to create your landscape design layout • Resize, Rotate, Undo/Redo, Duplicate, Flip, Group • Rotate elements with “Snap to 90” or turn off to rotate more precisely • Snap to grid (elements stick to a re-sizeable grid of guidelines, turn on/off in Settings) • Rulers (visible at edges of design; zoom in to the single unit; user selects feet/meters; can be turned on/off) • Choose from 15 different background colors • Sketch Tool (allows users to draw garden beds and other free-form shapes with an eraser and brushes of different colors, widths and opacity) • Map Tool (This highly accurate mapping tool based on Google Maps allows you to drop pins at the corners of your property and import the map image with measurements into the app as a background.) • North arrow (appears with Map Tool) • Site Analysis palettes to mark the locations of your site’s utilities and light and moisture conditions • Notes (allows users to tag elements in their designs with typed comments or descriptions) • Light/Dark mode (changes Note tags and North arrow from white to black for visibility against light backgrounds.) • Animated Figures (a palette of animated elements—a person, dog, cat, bird, and car—that move through your design on a looped or repeating path, adjustable speed, play and stop animation) • Import a Photo as a background (useful for importing a digital image of your property plan) • Create different Layers of elements in your design. Add, delete, rename layers, make each layer visible/invisible, lock/unlock for editing, and reorder layer position. • In-app step-by-step guide to creating your Property Plan. • Designs automatically save to the app’s Saved Designs gallery • Share designs on social media • Email an editable design so friends can edit one another’s designs and email them back and forth ***As featured in The New York Times, Fox News, USA Today, Gardenista, and more. “Home Outside allows you to create intricate and varied landscapes…And when you’re finished designing your yard or indulging in a little dreamscaping, you can email results to friend.” –Kate Murphy, The New York Times “The app gives you drag and drop tools to create a garden design idiosyncratic to your garden [and] allows you to choose hardscape materials, design paths and patios, and arrange furniture in your outdoor space.” –Dalilah Arja, Gardenista “I can’t imagine a designer who wouldn’t want to have this on their phone or tablet. I’ve tried this app … it’s a great tool for a ‘quickie’ design that you can show clients … and then refine as you like.” –Jane Berger, Garden Design Online

Screenshots

iScape4 screens
Yard Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iScape at Free against Yard Planner's $3.99. iScape also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (29K vs 381). Yard Planner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and review sentiment (40% vs 22%). On ads, chart position, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iScape is free to download; Yard Planner costs $3.99 up front. iScape sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Yard Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iScape holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iScape has 29K ratings behind it against 381, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of iScape's written reviews are positive against 40% of Yard Planner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iScape ships an update every 3 weeks, Yard Planner every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
iScape versus Yard Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriScapeYard Planner
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.6 (29K ratings) — better3.4 (381 ratings)
Positive reviews21.9% of reviews39.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings29K — better381
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#65#25 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB762 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiScape Holdings Inc.Home Outside, Inc.

Customer experience

iScape

All ratings28,865 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.6%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews416 reviews
Positive21.9%
Neutral9.9%
Negative68.3%

Yard Planner

All ratings381 ratings
Positive58.0%
Neutral5.2%
Negative36.7%
Written reviews193 reviews
Positive39.9%
Neutral10.4%
Negative49.7%

User reviews

iScape

From 29K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Great for visualizing landscape designs
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 💡 Helpful for communicating ideas to clients
  • 🤖 Useful AR functionality

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • 🔒 Limited free features
  • 🌱 Lacking variety in plant/landscape options
  • 🤔 Difficult to manipulate objects accurately

Yard Planner

From 381 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Helpful for visualizing designs
  • 🚀 Simple and straightforward
  • 👍 Great for beginners
  • 👍 Useful for planning and sketching

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • 🔧 Limited customization options
  • 🔧 Lacks advanced design tools
  • 🔧 Restricted to portrait mode on iPad
  • 🔧 Outdated and basic graphics

Bugs and requests

iScape

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Designs not saving properly
  • AR functionality not working as expected
  • Slow loading times for content
  • Compatibility issues with certain devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customization options for layouts and designs
  • Ability to save and share designs
  • Integration with plant databases for specific regions
  • Improved performance and stability

Yard Planner

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Layers and objects disappearing
  • Inability to undo actions
  • Inaccurate grid and scale
  • Mapping and photo import issues
  • Unexpected crashes and freezes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to change object dimensions independently
  • More plant, structure, and hardscape options
  • Metric measurement support
  • Landscape mode support for iPad
  • Export options for high-quality images

In-app purchases

7 purchases

iScape

Subscriptions7
  • LIMITED Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Plus Monthly$14.991 Month
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  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • LIMITED Pro Monthly7 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$299.991 Year
  • LIMITED Pro Yearly7 Days trial$299.991 Year
None

Yard Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iScape free?
iScape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yard Planner free?
Yard Planner costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iScape or Yard Planner?
iScape is rated higher. iScape averages 4.6 out of 5 from 29K ratings, while Yard Planner averages 3.4 from 381 ratings.
Do iScape or Yard Planner have ads?
Neither iScape nor Yard Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iScape or Yard Planner?
iScape ships an update every 3 weeks, and Yard Planner every 2 months. Most recently, iScape was updated on September 24, 2026 and Yard Planner on September 23, 2026.
Which is more popular, iScape or Yard Planner?
iScape currently peaks at #65 in the App Store charts, and Yard Planner at #25. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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