"Best Garden Design Apps in 2027"

# Best Garden Design Apps in 2027: Dreamscape vs. iScape vs. Gardenly vs. Remodel AI vs. Garden Planner

Garden design apps fall into two very different categories, and most "best of" lists never separate them: **quick AI visualizers** (upload a photo, get a redesign in seconds) and **actual planning/business tools** (design, manage, and run a real project from brief to signed contract). We built Dreamscape as the second kind, so this comparison is honest about where the fast AI tools genuinely win too.

## Quick comparison

## The apps, one by one

**iScape** is the one to take seriously if you want AR — point your phone at your own yard and drop in real plants, pavers and furniture on the spot. Nearly 4 million downloads and a 4.6-star rating back that up. Its Pro plan even includes a PDF proposal generator, the closest any of these tools get to a "business" feature — but there's no CRM, no contracts, no team accounts behind it.

**Gardenly** is built for speed, full stop: upload a photo, get a photorealistic redesign in about 30 seconds, with a climate-adapted plant list and care guides attached. At $4.50–7/month it's the cheapest way to get a "what if" answer. What you're not getting is any way to actually manage a real project once you like a result — no client tools, no way to turn the design into a contract.

**Remodel AI** does the same photo-to-redesign trick but goes wider — interior, exterior, virtual staging for real estate listings, even paint-color previews — in about 10 seconds per design, 2M+ generated so far. Genuinely useful if landscape is only part of what you're picturing. Same gap as Gardenly: no professional/business layer underneath the visuals.

**Garden Planner** is the odd one out here — no AI at all, just a genuinely free (no signup, no cost, ever) drag-and-drop layout tool with 70+ garden objects across six categories, exporting to PNG, PDF, SVG, JSON or CSV. It even has a clever workaround for AI: since it doesn't call any AI API itself, it's built so you can copy your layout data and paste it into ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude yourself for analysis or suggestions. Desktop-only for now, and there's no path from "made a layout" to "managed a project" — but for a completely free manual planning tool, it's hard to beat.

## Where Dreamscape is different

None of the four tools above are trying to be what we are, and to be fair to them — that's a deliberate choice, not a failure. They're built to answer "what could my garden look like," as fast as possible. We built Dreamscape to answer that *and* everything that happens after you say yes to a design:

- **Real plant photographs**, not AI-generated or stock images — what you place is what actually gets planted.

- **Drone survey overlay** — import real drone footage of the site directly onto the 2D canvas as a reference layer. As far as we've found, no other garden design app does this.

- **A full client workflow**: guided project brief → 2D/3D design → sketch plan for on-site tablet use → EU eIDAS-compliant signed contract → payment schedule — in one place, not stitched together across four different tools.

- **Actual business tools for landscape companies**: client CRM, team hub, accounting-compatible exports (Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, Odoo).

- **A real pricing ladder, not a single price point**: free forever for hobbyists (5 projects, full 2D/3D designer, no watermark), €12/month Pro for individual professionals (CRM, AI Studio, Sketch Plans, client pitch decks with e-signature), €25/month Business for growing teams (unlimited projects, contracts and payment schedules, Team Hub) — plus a dedicated **education partnership** for schools and colleges (full class access, teacher dashboard, ready-made exercises). None of the four tools above offer anything past a single consumer price point.

- Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

## Which one should you actually use?

- Want a fast, cheap "what if I redesigned my garden" answer and nothing more? → **Gardenly** or **Remodel AI**.

- Want to point your phone at your yard and see furniture/plants in AR right now? → **iScape**.

- Want a free, no-signup manual layout tool with zero AI involved? → **Garden Planner**.

- Want to actually run a landscape design project — from client brief to a signed, paid contract — whether you're a homeowner planning it yourself or a company managing real clients? → **Dreamscape**.

[Try Dreamscape free →](https://www.dreamscapegardens.eu)