iScape: Landscape Design

I have a love hate relationship with this app. When it works it’s great. But it’s constantly crashing. I would love to know if other people experienced the same problem. it takes forever to load the image library and then my screen blacks out and I have to start all over multiple times. Beyond frustrating. I can’t believe they can have a product load so slowly. I would love to know if it’s my device. When it works, it is ideal for trying to figure out your garden to get a concept of the different plants and colors and layout. It’s kind of easy to use when it works. There’s a few things that it’s really touchy about when it comes to moving the plants around. I also find trying to open my older renderings difficult. For the money that they’re asking I think these things should be working much more smoothly. I put a request in for help but didn’t hear back. When you purchase the product is pretty awesome, doesn’t have everything but it gets you started. I would like to know with other users have more up-to-date iPads. Sometimes I just want to throw it at the wall. But then it gives me a rendering that I can really work with hence my love-hate relationship.

It’s a little expensive if you just plan to play around on the app but if you use this for your business it’s well worth the money! I’ve made several different designs for the same customer, so we could nail down what she really wanted! Once you get the hang of it,it’s pretty user friendly! I have a 9-5ish job in garden design and the owners of the company do the designing! I occasionally do side gigs and this app has made me money! One lady paid me because I inspired her from the designs I made with this app! I never had to lift a shovel 😂 wish they still had an option for a weekly price but I download when I have a project and I do love that I can pay to have it for a month instead of having to do a yearly script! You can use your own images too! One year I used this app to photoshop my husband into a Christmas pic cause he went to the bathroom when the family was taking the pic 😂

I think this could be a fun app if you own an iPad and want to play around with a project for your home, but it’s a waste of time if you’re a pro. I can’t believe no developer has seized the market for pros looking to do some light duty design on the iPad. If pro use wasn’t mentioned in the description (or it were free) I wouldn’t have given it a two star rating so if you’re a DIYer it may be a better experience for you then it was for me. Suggestions that would make this a much better experience drafting something up on the fly in front of a client in the field: allow markup within the app and the use of a finger or, even better, Apple Pencil. I would imagine that would be really easy to integrate into the app (but I’m not a developer). Secondly, give your paying clients an adequate plant database (without having to upload a bunch of photos, for approval, by myself) labeled by a common name and the botanical name with the search feature. The names are a mess. I searched for a Pieris japonica / andromeda as the first plant for my first ‘design’ with this app, and it wasn’t there. I think that’s a pretty darn common plant in high production in the majority of the US. If those changes are made I’d be happy to try a subscription again (I used the trial for a few days) and give an updated rating.