DynaScape Design vs PRO Landscape+

DynaScape Design is professional CAD software for creating detailed landscape drawings with an artistic, hand-drawn look. It labels design elements and automatically counts plants and materials for a job. The online Horticopia-powered plant database contains over 10,000 plants, with color images and searches by plant characteristics, bloom, or color. Its symbol library includes over 1,500 to-scale symbols and allows custom symbols and libraries. Users can start with property survey dimensions or templates that set sheet size, scale, line styles, text styles, and layers. The software supports DWG and DXF imports. Color and Sketch3D are listed as add-ons; Sketch3D works with Design and SketchUp to create 3D renderings. DynaScape Design runs on Windows, with listed requirements including Windows 11, 10, or 8.1, an Intel i5 or equivalent, and 4 GB of RAM. It requires internet access for updates and its online plant database. The monthly subscription costs $158 a month; the annual subscription costs $1,599 a year, billed annually.

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.