PRO Landscape Contractor

Review by eFreeware

PRO Landscape Contractor is a design and quoting app from Drafix Software, Inc., sold in the Business category on Google Play. It is free to download and built for people who sell landscaping work rather than for homeowners sketching ideas in their spare time. The developer has a separate home-oriented app for that audience, which tells you where this one is pointed.

The reason to consider it is the pitch that runs through the whole product: show a customer what their yard could look like, then hand them a price, in the same conversation. Everything in the app serves that sequence, from the photo-based design tools to the quote builder that takes your own numbers. The developer describes the app as the ultimate visual landscape and garden design tool for professionals, and that framing is worth keeping in mind, because the value here is in the sales visit rather than in the drawing itself.

Designs built on a photo of the house

The core workflow starts with a photo of the customer's house or building, which becomes the backdrop for the design. From there you drag and drop plants, hardscapes and other items onto the image, and any object can be resized so it sits at a believable scale against the photo. That scaling step matters more than it sounds: a shrub that is the wrong size next to a doorway undermines the whole point of a visual mock-up.

A toolbar keeps the common commands within reach, including moving objects to the front or back and duplicating them, so you can build up a planting bed without rebuilding each element from scratch. For areas like grass, mulch and pavers, custom shapes let you outline the region directly rather than stacking individual pieces. The developer also supports adding a before picture, which turns the finished file into a before-and-after view that is easy for a customer to read at a glance.

Designs can be saved and reopened later, which is what makes the app usable across a multi-visit sales process. You can start a layout on site, come back to it after a follow-up call, and adjust it without starting over. For a contractor juggling several estimates at once, that persistence is the difference between a one-off demo and a working tool.

The image library and how the subscription fits

The catalog is the other half of the offer. Subscribers get access to the full PRO Landscape image library, which the developer puts at over 11,000 high-quality photos held on a cloud server. Plants are sorted by climate zone, and you can set the zones you work in so the suggestions you pull up are appropriate for the area. Hardscapes, water features, statuary, outdoor kitchens and fireplaces round out the collection.

Search works by common or botanical name, which is a small thing that saves real time when a customer asks for a specific shrub and you want to show it rather than describe it. Images you download can be saved to local favorites, and the developer notes that those saved items let you keep designing without an internet connection. That is a useful detail for anyone working on sites with unreliable signal, though it applies to what you have already downloaded rather than to the library as a whole.

The subscription question is worth understanding before you install. The app itself is free, there are no ads, and in-app purchases are offered. Without a subscription you can still use the app fully, but only with a limited image library; the free tier includes some images for building sample designs and trying the features out. You can browse the complete library before deciding, but a subscription is required to place those 15,000-plus images into your designs. Payment is handled through Google Play and can be taken immediately when you subscribe.

Turning a design into a quote

The quoting side is where the app earns its keep commercially. Once a design is finished, you can produce a price quote inside the app using your own prices, then adjust prices, sizes and quantities until the proposal reflects the job you actually intend to do. Saved prices carry over into your next design, which cuts down on re-entering the same figures every time you bid similar work.

Finished quotes can be emailed, printed or saved as a PDF, so the customer leaves with something concrete rather than a promise to send numbers later. The same goes for the designs themselves: they can be emailed straight to the customer, printed, or posted to a social account such as Facebook or Twitter. For a small crew, that means the follow-up material goes out while the job is still fresh.

What it asks of you

This is a professional tool with a professional setup. You need a photo of the property to start a design, you need your own pricing to make the quoting feature useful, and you need a subscription to work with the full image library. The free download is a trial of the workflow rather than a complete free product.

The other requirement is patience with the medium. Placing and scaling objects over a photograph is a different skill from drawing a plan, and the results depend on how carefully you scale and layer what you drop in. The developer promises that a design and quotation can be produced in minutes, even with the customer watching, and that is the standard the app sets for itself. Whether that pace holds on a complicated property is something each user will judge for their own work.

How I would fit it into a sales routine

The natural pattern is to photograph the property on the first visit, then build a rough layout on site while the customer is still deciding what they want. Because the app saves and reopens designs, you can leave the details for later and still have something to show. Saving your common prices early means the first quote you generate is close to final, and the adjustments afterward are small.

Downloading the plants you use most into local favorites is worth doing before you travel to a site, since those saved images are the ones available when a connection is not. Setting your climate zones before you start browsing also keeps the catalog from burying you in species that do not belong in your region. And the before-and-after view is the piece I would lead with in a customer conversation, because it does the explaining for you.

The app has been on Google Play since March 2015 and was last updated in March 2025, so it is a long-running product rather than a new experiment. Its user rating sits at 1.8 from 58 ratings, which is low for a professional tool and something a prospective buyer should weigh. Ratings of that kind usually reflect friction somewhere in the experience, and I would treat the free download as the way to find out whether that friction lands on you.

A tool for contractors who sell on visuals

PRO Landscape Contractor is built for landscape professionals who win work by showing customers a picture and a price rather than a plant list. If your sales conversation depends on making a yard legible to someone who cannot picture the result, the photo-based design and instant quote combination is a coherent answer, and the ability to email or print both keeps the follow-up simple.

The cost structure is clear enough going in: free to download, no ads, and a subscription for the full image library, with a limited set of sample images to try first. That makes it easy to evaluate the workflow before committing, which is the sensible way to approach it given the app's low rating. Install it, build one design for a real property, and see whether the process feels quick to you.

It suits contractors who already have their pricing worked out and who want a faster way to present it. It is a narrower fit for anyone whose work does not turn on a visual mock-up or a quick written proposal, and the free tier will show you the shape of the tool before you spend anything.

What's new in version 3.0

Application updates and improvements.