YardScope
Yard & Garden Planner to Scale
Only for Mac
$24.99
Mac
YardScope — Plan your yard to real scale, then watch it grow.
**Overview**
YardScope is a yard-scale garden planner. Import an aerial photo of your yard (from Google Maps or a drone), set north, calibrate with one known distance — then lay out trees, shrubs, perennials, groundcovers, and hardscape at their true dimensions. No aerial photo? No problem — start from scratch on a grid canvas, or drop in a ready-made yard template. Drag a timeline forward and watch the garden fill in: spacing that's too tight, colliding canopies, blocked sight lines, all revealed years before they become a problem.
Every plant is sized to the real yard, not the nursery pot.
**Core Features**
• Yard-scale planning: import an aerial photo, set north, and calibrate with any known distance — your house, a fence section — or draw a reference line along a known edge and type its true length. Everything you place after that has real size meaning. Or start with no photo at all on a grid canvas.
• Hardscape & structures: place houses, garages, patios, lawns, pools, water features, parking spots, and driveways with one click — resize by dragging their edges or typing exact dimensions. Draw fences, garden beds, paths, and walls freehand; walls carry real thickness and cast shadows like buildings.
• Growth preview: each plant has a "current size" and a "mature size." Drag the timeline forward and watch the bed fill in — overcrowding, canopy collisions, and sight-line blockages surface years early.
• Sun & shade: set north and your location, then advance through the day to watch shadows sweep across the yard and see where the sun reaches.
• Spacing & light: two automatic checks at any timeline year — spacing flags canopy overlaps and tight gaps; light analysis measures each plant's actual winter-solstice sun against its needs and flags mismatches.
• Measure anything: a built-in ruler measures any two points at real scale, in metric or imperial — fence runs, planting gaps, the walk to the spigot.
• Seasonal view: preview bloom time, fall color, evergreen structure, and winter dormancy quarter by quarter — so your garden has something to say twelve months a year, not just one weekend in May.
• Plant catalog: 2,100+ USDA species for the US market and 100+ curated species for Chinese gardens, fully editable — look up your USDA hardiness zone by ZIP code and see which plants won't survive your winters. Create custom plants with your own mature dimensions.
• Irrigation planner: set the water point and its watering radius, outline irrigation zones, run pipes, and place drip emitters. Check coverage against each plant's water needs, then export zone stats and an install list as CSV/JSON for build day.
• Templates & export: start from three ready-made yard templates, four sample yards with built-in base images (illustrated, aerial, two hand-drawn), or a blank canvas. Export a clean, printable planting plan (labels, spacing, quantities) as PDF, or capture the whole yard at any year and month as a high-resolution PNG.
**Designed for Mac**
YardScope is written from scratch in SwiftUI and SwiftData, so it is a genuine native Mac app — native menus, full undo/redo and keyboard shortcuts, system light and dark appearance, drag and drop throughout. No web wrapper, no browser in a window.
**Data Privacy**
• Fully offline: no internet connection required, nothing is ever uploaded
• No accounts: no sign-up, no login, no cloud sync, no third-party SDKs or analytics
• Your data stays yours: everything is stored locally and moves with your own backups
**Pricing**
One-time purchase. Buy once, use forever. No subscriptions, no trials, no data lock-in.
**Contact Us**
For any questions or suggestions, please contact us:
• Email: z502545@icloud.com
• Website: https://sandhope.com/apps
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Plan the garden you'll actually grow. Thank you for choosing YardScope.
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Improvements to scale calibration:
· Fixed an issue where canvas and panel dimensions could disagree after recalibrating
· New "Calibrated" badge in the top-left corner, so you always know when measurements are real-world accurate
· Simpler calibration: enter a known length, tap calibrate, done
· Cleaner canvas: per-shape calibration badges removed
The developer, 复星 张, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- 复星 张
- Size
- 8.4 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English and Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © zhangfuxing
