AIGardenPlanner vs PRO Landscape+

AIGardenPlanner uses AI to preview garden and planting designs from a photo of a real yard. Users upload a photo, choose from more than 50 styles and generate designs in about 60 seconds. Its free browser-based 3D editor has more than 400 models, synchronized 2D and 3D views, terrain sculpting and first-person walkthroughs. The AI Plant Advisor builds plant lists using location, climate zone, soil type, local conditions and gardening goals, with care instructions. Plant Detector identifies plants from photos and provides profiles and health assessments for pests and diseases. The free 3D Designer plan allows one project. Paid yearly plans include Starter for personal use, while Professional and Business include commercial licenses; plan prices are listed as $9/mo, $21/year and $42/year respectively, with annual payments of $99, $249 and $499. Video animations use 10 credits, Quick Tours 5 and Full Detail tours 30. Subscribers may cancel and retain access through their current paid period.

PRO Landscape+ combines landscape design, presentation, material takeoffs, estimating and proposals in a subscription platform. Users can create before-and-after concepts from property photos using a library of more than 19,000 images, or produce scaled CAD drawings and material takeoffs from an object library. The software generates estimates from photo or CAD plans using the user's prices and tax rate. Scaled CAD drawings can be rendered in 3D, viewed from rotated angles, and turned into walkthrough movies; the listed features also include flyovers and night and holiday lighting designs. Planning tools include terrain modeling, planting plans and irrigation design. CAD files can be imported or exported as DWG, DXF or PDF, and the maker says the CAD tools require no prior CAD knowledge. A Companion app transfers designs between a computer and an iPad or Android tablet. The annual plan costs $75 a month billed annually, for one user, one computer and one tablet. Desktop use requires 64-bit Windows 10 or Windows 11; Mac use through Parallels with Windows is described, but that setup is unsupported.