Landscape Design Software | Landscape Design App for Backyards, Patios, Decks (2024)

Easy to Use

SmartDraw's landscape design software makes it easy to design your next outdoor space with built-in templates for landscapes, gardens, backyards, and more. Start with any of the built-in templates and drag-and-drop flowers, shrubs, grasses and other plants. You can add sprinkler systems and other structures like lights, walkways, pools, and furniture. You can even easily apply brick patterns and photo-realistic textures!

Easy to Find the Symbols You Need

Search SmartDraw's vast collection of symbols for any plant or structural element you need and add it to your design. With shape data, you can even add information like cost and export a manifest to help generate a shopping or material list and price out a proposal.

Easy to Draw and Print to Scale

Most landscape plans are drawn with a 1:8 scale. SmartDraw supports all common scales and even lets you change the scale at any time.

Easy to Work With Other Apps

SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add landscape designs to:

• Microsoft Office^®
  • Word^®
  • PowerPoint^®
  • Excel^®
• Microsoft Teams^®
• Google Workspace^™
  • Google Docs
  • Google Sheets
• Atlassian^™ apps
  • Confluence
  • Jira

Easy to Save to Your Existing Storage Solution

SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your landscape plans directly to:

• SharePoint^®
• OneDrive^®
• Google Drive^™
• DropBox^®
• Box^®

There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions,SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.

Easy to Share

Share your landscape design with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link. You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image formats like PNG or SVG.

Easy to Get Help

Have a question? Chat or email us. SmartDraw support is in-house and free!