Comparison

Yard Planner vs Landscape Design

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

Head to head
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

About

Landscape Design

Visualize and plan your dream garden or home exterior. Easily add plants, structures, and textures to your own photos for realistic previews. Save and share your designs.

Highlights
  • Use own photos for realistic previews
  • Add plants, trees, and structures
  • Texture tool for ground cover
  • Extensive item database
  • Save and share designs
  • Cut and edit with finger input
Features
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Welcome to landscape design app. Landscape design app is a place in your iphone / ipad where you can decor your home, prepare your own virtual garden and many more. You can use actual images that confirms the best possible realistic view on your device. This app is designed for everyone. Ranging from homeowners to Landscape designing companies. Such kind of app offers visualization for creating and renovating your very own garden. Normally it is too expensive and almost impossible to explore your landscape choices inside and outside of your home from every possible angle. But through Landscape Design app such kind of task is quite easy. It will save your valuable time and money. All you have to do is to take a picture and use your fingers to drop scapes. No doubt you will enjoy your every moment of playing and working with the app. Whether you are a do-it yourself landscaper or planning to hire a landscape contractor, in both cases this app will help you a lot. Landscape design app features You can take a snap with your camera or access the photo library to upload image. Texture tool is there for adding or cutting ground cover. You have database for adding flowers, trees, water and more than 200+ items. You can lock image feature for convenience. Anytime delete feature. Flip feature. Tap and back feature. Copy items feature. Cut with finger input. Save and share in different social media accounts. + And many more. Landscape design app database ( all included ) Annual Flowers. Architectures. Cactuses. Deciduous trees. Evergreen Shrubs. Flowering Shrubs. Flowering trees. Landscape Rocks. Lighting. Novelty Birdhouses. Palm trees. Paver patios. Perennial grasses. Perennial ground cover. Perennial shades. Perennial Vives. Perennial Suns. Planters. Specials. Stone retaining walls. Swimming pools. Tropical indoors. Unplantedes. Walkaway steps. Water fountains. Windows and doors. Wood fences. Wrought Iron fences. Yard Arts. Try it. No doubt it will surpass your imagination.

Screenshots

Yard Planner4 screens
Landscape Design4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Yard Planner at 3.4 against Landscape Design's 2.6. Yard Planner also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 21%) and ratings volume (381 vs 39). Landscape Design's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

Yard Planner costs $3.99 and Landscape Design $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Yard Planner holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yard Planner has 381 ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Yard Planner's written reviews are positive against 21% of Landscape Design's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yard Planner ships an update every 2 months, Landscape Design every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Yard Planner versus Landscape Design: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYard PlannerLandscape Design
Price$3.99 — better$4.99
Rating3.4 (381 ratings) — better2.6 (39 ratings)
Positive reviews39.9% of reviews — better21.2% of reviews
Number of ratings381 — better39
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size762 MB233 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHome Outside, Inc.Editr Apps Inc.

Customer experience

Yard Planner

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

Landscape Design

All ratings39 ratings
Positive41.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative59.0%
Written reviews85 reviews
Positive21.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative76.5%

Bugs and requests

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

Landscape Design

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Yard Planner

No in-app purchases

None

Landscape Design

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yard Planner free?
Yard Planner costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Landscape Design free?
Landscape Design costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Yard Planner or Landscape Design?
Yard Planner is rated higher. Yard Planner averages 3.4 out of 5 from 381 ratings, while Landscape Design averages 2.6 from 39 ratings.
Do Yard Planner or Landscape Design have ads?
Neither Yard Planner nor Landscape Design shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yard Planner or Landscape Design?
Yard Planner ships an update every 2 months, and Landscape Design every 3 weeks. Most recently, Yard Planner was updated on October 20, 2026 and Landscape Design on October 18, 2026.

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