iPhone app HOME OUTSIDE®

HOME OUTSIDE: Landscape Design for Everyone

***As featured in The New York Times, Fox News, USA Today, Gardenista, and more***

Home Outside allows you to create intricate and varied landscapes.
And when youre finished designing your yard or indulging in a little dreamscaping, you can e-mail results to friend.
Kate Murphy, The New York Times

I cant imagine a designer who wouldnt want to have this on their phone or tablet.
Ive tried this app its a great tool for a quickie design that you can show clients and then refine as you like.
Jane Berger, Garden Design Online

Home Outside is a landscape design app with all the tools you need to mock up your property, create new designs, and share them with friends and family.

Ideal for homeowners who want to try out fresh ideas for their yard.
Useful for landscape professionals to share designs with clients and contractors.
Also perfect for children and adults alike to exercise their imagination and creativity!

Use Home Outside to select and place over 700 beautiful hand-drawn elements including trees, gardens, pools, patios, hammocks, driveways, houses and sheds, solar panels, and just about anything you might want for your property.

Features include:

Sample designs to inspire or get you started

Simple tap-and-drag functionality

Twenty-nine palettes (700+ elements) to create your landscape design layout

Resize, Rotate, Undo/Redo, Duplicate, Flip, Group

Rotate elements with Snap to 90 or turn off to rotate more precisely

Snap to grid (elements stick to a re-sizable grid of guidelines, turn on/off in Settings)

Rulers (visible at edges of design; zoom in to the single unit; user selects feet/meters; can be turned on/off)

Choose from 15 different background colors

Sketch Tool (allows users to draw garden beds and other free-form shapes with an eraser and brushes of different colors, widths and opacity)

Map Tool (This mapping tool based on Google Maps allows you to outline your property and import the map image with measurements into the app as a layer.)

North arrow (appears with Map Tool)

Site Analysis palettes to mark the locations of your sites utilities and light and moisture conditions

Notes (allows users to tag elements in their designs with typed comments or descriptions)

Light/Dark mode (changes Note tags and North arrow from white to black for visibility against light backgrounds.)

Animated Figures (a palette of animated elementsa person, dog, cat, bird, and carthat move through your design on a looped or repeating path, adjustable speed, play and stop animation)

Import a Photo as a layer (useful for importing a digital image of your property plan)

Create different Layers of elements in your design.
Add, delete, rename layers, make each layer visible/invisible, lock/unlock for editing, and reorder layer position.

In-app Design Primer by Julie Moir Messervy

Designs automatically save to the apps Designs gallery

Email an editable design so friends can edit one anothers designs and email them back and forth,

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