Home Outside Yard Planner
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Home Outside Yard Planner, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Home Outside Yard Planner's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Events Palettes | $2.99, paid once | Event · wedding · party palettes · 50 elements |
| Yard Planner | $3.99, paid once | iPhone/iPad app · 2D landscape planning |
| Palette Plus Tools | $9.99, paid once | Sketch · Map · grid snapping · rulers · notes · animated figures |
| Home Outside 3D | Priced on request | Free elements available · subscription unlocks full library and saved designs |
The facts
Each one read from Home Outside Yard Planner's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- 3D and AR product
- Home Outside 3D places lifelike plants in a yard, supports AR viewing and offers curated collections.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API and SDKs
- The public product pages reviewed describe app features and sharing but provide no public API or SDK documentation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Availability limitation
- The maker says Yard Planner Android and desktop versions are temporarily unavailable while being improved.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Current business direction
- The maker’s current homepage promotes a garden-center product that creates designer-curated planting plans and pick lists from store inventory.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data collection
- Apple lists Yard Planner as collecting no data, while Google Play reports no data collected or shared for Home Outside 3D.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Editing tools
- The app lists resize, rotate, undo, redo, duplicate, flip, group, grid snap and rulers.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Element library
- The iOS listing provides more than 800 hand-drawn landscape elements across 34 palettes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founder
- The maker’s current site identifies Julie Moir Messervy as Home Outside founder.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Geographic coverage
- The 3D app currently targets U.S. USDA hardiness zones 5 through 9.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Layers
- Designs support multiple reorderable layers that can be shown, hidden, locked or renamed.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: fence sizing
- An Apple reviewer says fences require many separate sections because width and length cannot be adjusted independently.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: manual construction
- Reviewers note that every element must be positioned manually and output is hand-drawn rather than photorealistic.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: support availability
- Prefab Review reported that Home Outside was not accepting new design clients while developing a technology-based solution in 2023.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Map tool
- A Google Maps-based tool can plot property corners and import a measured map image.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Photo backgrounds
- Users can import a property photo as the design background.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Android requirements
- Google Play states Android 12 or later, at least 4 GB RAM, landscape orientation, internet access and Google sign-in.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: app crashes and loading
- Google Play reviewers report address failures, crashes, zoom problems and lost work after leaving a screen.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding
- LinkedIn states the company was founded in 2017.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn gives Brattleboro, Vermont as headquarters and lists 768 Putney Road, Unit 1023.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Home Outside as a privately held design company with 2–10 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Brattleboro, Vermont, United Stateschecked 4 Oct 2026
Money
- Limit: limited plant information
- An independent review found the plant library limited and lacking specific planting or availability details in the free version.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: no 3D in Yard Planner
- Independent testing criticized Yard Planner for lacking three-dimensional perspectives.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Plant ordering
- The 3D app advertises plant lists and direct ordering from the app.checked 15 Oct 2026
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