Comparison

Yard Planner vs TopbisGo

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
Currently charting
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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

TopbisGo

Features
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TopbisGo is Cameroon's local marketplace. Post a listing in minutes, chat directly with buyers and sellers inside the app, and close the deal near you. SELL IN MINUTES - Free listings: photos, price in FCFA, item condition, your quartier - Listings are reviewed before going live, for a marketplace you can trust - Track your listings, mark them as sold, manage everything in the app FIND DEALS NEAR YOU - Browse by category: phones, electronics, computers, appliances, home & furniture, fashion, beauty, baby & kids, vehicles, sports, services and more - Search by city and quartier, nearby listings first - Save searches, add favorites, follow your favorite sellers CHAT WITH CONFIDENCE - Built-in messaging: ask questions and agree on a meeting place directly - No online payment: see the item before you pay - Report and block in one tap, moderation has your back MADE FOR CAMEROON - Full interface in French and English - Built to work even on unstable connections - Location at quartier level only, never your exact address TopbisGo starts in Yaoundé, with more cities coming soon. Join the community and give your items a second life.

Screenshots

Yard Planner4 screens
TopbisGo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TopbisGo at Free against Yard Planner's $3.99. Yard Planner's advantage is chart position (#160 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TopbisGo is free to download; Yard Planner costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Yard Planner versus TopbisGo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYard PlannerTopbisGo
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.4 (381 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews39.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings381 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#160 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size762 MB62 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHome Outside, Inc.SysTNA GmbH

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

TopbisGo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Yard Planner

No in-app purchases

None

TopbisGo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yard Planner free?
Yard Planner costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TopbisGo free?
TopbisGo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Yard Planner or TopbisGo have ads?
Neither Yard Planner nor TopbisGo shows ads.

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