Comparison

Yard Planner vs Tipwiser

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

Tipwiser

This app simplifies bill management and tip calculation with a user-friendly interface. It offers smart tip suggestions based on service type and allows for easy bill splitting among groups via SMS or email.

Highlights
  • Smart tip calculation
  • Automatic tax rate detection
  • Bill sharing via SMS/Email
  • Service tip suggestion book
  • User-friendly grouping for bills
Features
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Tips will never bother you anymore. Tipwiser is your personal assistant who calculates tips and manages your bills for you. The brilliant user interface makes sure you know every details of your bill including subtotal, tax and tips. Install now and explore even more features! How much tips should we pay for salons and taxi? We have a comprehensive tip suggestion database to help you out. You can always show your appreciations accurately to your server now. Once registered, you can enjoy the user-friendly group system. Check it out when you are in a family tour, friend gatherings and any tipping situations you can think of. Magically your bill will be split for everyone. Features: - Smart tip calculation - Automatic tax rate detecting and updating - Bill sharing with SMS or Email - Service tip suggestion book - User-friendly grouping function for bill sharing

Screenshots

Yard Planner4 screens
Tipwiser1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tipwiser at 100% against Yard Planner's 40%. Tipwiser also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.4). Yard Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 109 months) and ratings volume (381 vs 3). 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tipwiser holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yard Planner has 381 ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of Tipwiser's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yard Planner ships an update every 2 months, Tipwiser every 109 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Yard Planner versus Tipwiser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYard PlannerTipwiser
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.4 (381 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings381 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 109 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#33 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size762 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHome Outside, Inc.Nicholas Workshop LLC

Customer experience

Yard Planner

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

Tipwiser

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Tipwiser

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Yard Planner

No in-app purchases

None

Tipwiser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Yard Planner free?
Yard Planner costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tipwiser free?
Tipwiser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Yard Planner or Tipwiser?
Tipwiser is rated higher. Yard Planner averages 3.4 out of 5 from 381 ratings, while Tipwiser averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Yard Planner or Tipwiser have ads?
Neither Yard Planner nor Tipwiser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yard Planner or Tipwiser?
Yard Planner ships an update every 2 months, and Tipwiser every 109 months. Most recently, Yard Planner was updated on September 28, 2026 and Tipwiser on September 22, 2026.

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