Yard Planner vs PRO Landscape Home

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

Create your dream landscape design starting with a picture of your house! Place high quality photographs of trees, shrubs, flowers and more to create a stunning landscape design. Once your design is created, share it on Facebook or other social media sites, and find local garden centers or landscape contractors who can help you turn your design into reality. START WITH A PICTURE OF YOUR HOUSE • Create landscape designs starting with a photo of your house. • Easily add photos of trees, shrubs, flowers, and more to create visual designs of your dream landscape. • Resize any object so it is properly scaled to the background photo. • An object toolbar makes it easy to access commonly used commands such as move to front, move to back, duplicate, and more. • Easily create custom areas of grass, mulch and pavers. • Add the before picture to show a “before & after” design. • Save and re-open your designs if you need to make changes. SHOW YOUR CREATIVITY WITH THE LARGE IMAGE LIBRARY • PRO Landscape Home comes with over 100 plants and landscape materials so you can have fun creating your own design ideas. • Make a one-time purchase of a larger image library if you would like more variety with your designs. • Plants in the image library are organized by climate zones. Set your climate zone(s) to help you select the right plants for your area. • Also included are hardscapes, water features, statuary, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces and much, much more. • View detailed plant information including color, mature width & height, soil requirements and a plant description. • Search the image library by common or botanical name. SHARE, EMAIL OR PRINT YOUR DESIGNS • Email your designs to your friends and family, print them, or post on your favorite social media site such as Facebook or Twitter. FIND A LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONAL • Turn your design ideas into reality by finding a nearby landscape professional who will do the job for you. Or, find a local garden center if you are a do-it-yourselfer but want some help making sure your design works in your area. • The app briefly uses your current location to find professional help near you. Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. We hope you find that PRO Landscape Home is a fast, fun and easy way to create landscape ideas for your home. Please email us at home-app@prolandscape.com with any feedback or ideas you have. If you are a landscape professional or serious gardener be sure to check out our PRO Landscape Contractor app. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://prolandscape.com/en/privacy/