HOME OUTSIDE® 4+
Landscape Design for Everyone
Home Outside, Inc.
Designed for iPad
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- £2.99
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Description
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 you’re finished designing your yard or indulging in a little dreamscaping, you can e-mail results to friend.” –Kate Murphy, The New York Times
“I can’t imagine a designer who wouldn’t want to have this on their phone or tablet. I’ve tried this app … it’s 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 site’s 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 elements—a person, dog, cat, bird, and car—that 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 app’s Designs gallery
• Email an editable design so friends can edit one another’s designs and email them back and forth
What’s New
Version 3.2.2
Minor bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
So far,so good
Only been using the app for a few days but it’s super simple to use. The only drawbacks so far are that you can only enlarge things equally I.e. you can expand or contract a square but you can’t drag one side longer to make a rectangle. This is particularly weird when trying to place walls as they expand in width not just length which is a shame. There’s workarounds using multiple duplicates of smaller objects on single layers but that can get a bit hard to track objects. The other drawback is the sliders for grid size which have no measurements on the slider? You can zoom the grid but you won’t know if you’re looking at metres or cm, which is pretty important if you’re trying to get any of accurate measurements in your garden. On the plus side, the ability to grab a map photo as your basic layer is brilliantly helpful and there’s an interesting set of basic shapes and plants etc to use. There’s also a great notes feature that’s very easy and helpful to use. It could do with the developments above and more plant options (there’s no climbing plants for example), but so far I’m really pleased with this purchase.
Portrait mode only
One thing i am struggling with is the fact that I like to use apps like this in landscape mode, as its more practical to use with the apple keyboard connected. The app is for use in portrait mode only.
I can still use it, but the measurement bar is completely upside down and the text buttons are sideways. I personally don’t understand how anybody would NOT prefer to use a LANDSCAPE app in LANDSCAPE MODE.
It’s not practical to do it this way in the slightest if you have a keyboard mount or any kind of standard horizontal stand for your iPad case. I hope there is an update that gives me the option to view it horizontally.
Great for speedy designs
I have found the app very simple and easy to us, although when adding layers of items you can lose smaller items and have to rewind back to find them again, this is more down to the touchscreen than the app itself.
It is a great app for carrying out designs very quickly when it is difficult to explain to a client exactly what you are proposing for a design. There is plenty of variety of stock items that also help when talking sizes of areas and the plant symbols varied and relevant enough to create realistic planting schemes.
Would recommend to novices who want to plan their garden and for professionals who want to show clients something structural on the first stage of designing.
App Privacy
The developer, Home Outside, Inc., has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Provider
- Home Outside, Inc.
- Size
- 921.2 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © All Dreams Digital and Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio, Inc.
- Price
- £2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.