Landscape Design Software for Homeowners and Professionals

Realtime Landscaping Pro

See your landscape design ideas come to life with Realtime Landscaping
Pro. Using the latest advances in 3D technology, even beginning
designers can plan and visualize their design ideas. Only $279

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Realtime Landscaping Pro

See your landscape design ideas come to life with Realtime Landscaping
Pro. Using the latest advances in 3D technology, even beginning
designers can plan and visualize their design ideas. Only $279

 

Buy Now Free Trial

 

2023 Now Available. See What's New

Realtime Landscaping Pro

Professional Landscape Design Software

Visualize even the most demanding landscape design projects using Realtime Landscaping Pro. Design yards, gardens, houses, decks, fencing, swimming pools, ponds, patios, and much more.
Professional Landscape Design Software
Professional Landscape Design Software

Add Plants for your Climate

Choose from over 6,100 high quality plants.

Locate plants that will thrive in your climate by selecting your zone, and then add plants to your landscape design with just a couple clicks of the mouse.

Use the Plant Growth tool to predict how your landscape will look in the future: from three months to more than 20 years. This is a great way to determine spacing and size considerations when designing your landscape.

Plants from Every Planting Zone
Plants from Every Planting Zone

Create Swimming Pools and Spas

Design breathtaking swimming pools and spas; both in-ground and above-ground designs are supported.

Choose from a wide variety of pool materials, such as PebbleTec(tm) pool finishes and pool tile from national manufacturers. Create spas that flow into pools, add pools with rockery, diving boards, waterslides, and more. Includes products from S.R. Smith such as handrails and pool ladders.

When your design is finished, view your swimming pools and spas with realistic reflections, flowing water, and other effects.

Create Swimming Pools and Spas
Create Swimming Pools and Spas
Create Swimming Pools and Spas
Create Swimming Pools and Spas

Deck Design Made Easy

Create decks of virtually any shape and size using the integrated deck design tools. Simply draw the deck’s outline and the software will do the rest.

Customize your deck designs using a wide variety of railing, balusters, posts, materials, and other options. Choose one of the predefined styles or design your own.

When your deck is finished, complete your design by adding deck furniture, outdoor kitchens, and more.

Deck Design Made Easy
Deck Design Made Easy

Holiday Lighting and Snow Effects

Add holiday and party lighting to your landscape design. A variety of bulb shapes and sizes are included, such as LED, c7, c9, icicle, and meteor shower. Lights can be configured to turn on automatically at night, and to animate for movies and Realtime Walkthroughs.
Create a winter version of your landscape design with just a few clicks. Options include snow density, falling snowflakes, and more.

Animated Holiday Lighting
Animated Holiday Lighting
Winter Landscape Design
Winter Landscape Design

Design Patios, Fencing, Driveways, and More

The possibilities are endless with the wide variety of tools included in Realtime Landscaping Pro. Create metal, vinyl, wood, or chain link fencing with ease. Add patios and driveways by simply drawing their shape and selecting a material. Add realistic paths, hedges, rockery, and much more.
 

  • Many types of detailed fencing are available in a large variety of materials. Add detailed fence gates for enhanced realism.
  • Patios of any shape and size can be added. Belgard and Unilock materials are included. Have a custom paver? Import your own from a photo using the Wizard.
  • Create driveways for your landscape design of any shape and size. Includes detailed 3D cars, mailboxes, and other objects. Both sloped and flat driveways are supported.
  • Landscaping paths are easily added and support hundreds of different materials. Border paths with rocks, lighting, garden designs, edging, and more.
Design Patios Fencing and More
Design Patios Fencing and More

Surprisingly Easy to Use

Realtime Landscaping Pro was designed from the ground up to be easy to use. Unlike other landscaping software, no prior landscape design or CAD experience is required.

Whether you’re a homeowner or professional designer, our comprehensive user guides, free technical support, and online tutorials will help you design the perfect landscape.

User Friendly Landscaping Software

Design over a Photo or in Realistic 3D

Import a photo of your property and design the landscape with ease, or create your entire landscape in full 3D using the powerful design tools.

These two methods of visualizing your landscape design will guarantee that you are able to realize your landscaping ideas.

Design Over a Photo
High Quality Plants

Huge Selection of High Quality Plants

Realtime Landscaping Pro comes with over 6,100 highly detailed landscaping plants, including trees, shrubs, flowers, water garden, cactus, palms, and more.

Plant information includes common name, botanical name, planting zones, and size.

Huge Selection of High Quality Plants

Realtime Landscaping Pro comes with over 6,100 highly detailed landscaping plants, including trees, shrubs, flowers, water garden, cactus, palms, and more.

Plant information includes common name, botanical name, planting zones, and size.

High Quality Plants

Visualize your Garden Design Ideas

Create plant-filled gardens with mulch, edging, rockery, decorations, and more.

See how your garden designs will look over the years using the Plant Growth tool, and determine in advance how much room each plant will likely need.

View your gardens in realistic 3D using the Realtime Walkthrough feature, and discover which plants fall under shadow throughout the day.

Garden Design and More
Garden Design and More
Design Single and Multi-story Houses
Home designs are easy to replicate in Realtime Landscaping Pro.

Add a Pre-Built House Or Design Your Own

Drop in a pre-built house using the wizard, or create your own design.

Add houses simply by drawing their outline: the walls, trim, and even the roof are all created automatically. Easily add single and multi-story houses to your landscape design.

Add doors, windows, porch lights, change the siding and roofing materials, and select between gable and hip roof styles.

Only the exterior is shown, not the interior, so it’s much easier to use than traditional home design programs. Easily simulate house interiors using window “facades”.

Add a Pre-Built House Or Design Your Own

Drop in a pre-built house using the wizard, or create your own design.

Add houses simply by drawing their outline: the walls, trim, and even the roof are all created automatically. Easily add single and multi-story houses to your landscape design.

Add doors, windows, porch lights, change the siding and roofing materials, and select between gable and hip roof styles.

Only the exterior is shown, not the interior, so it’s much easier to use than traditional home design programs. Easily simulate house interiors using window “facades”.

Design Single and Multi-story Houses
Home designs are easy to replicate in Realtime Landscaping Pro.

Ponds and Water Gardens

Design ponds and water gardens of any shape and size, add waterfalls, fountains, and streams, and choose from a large library of accessories and decorations.

Using our exclusive Realtime Walkthrough feature, you can walk around your landscape designs in real-time, complete with flowing water, koi fish, and other effects.

Design Custom Ponds and Water Features

Ponds and Water Gardens

Design ponds and water gardens of any shape and size, add waterfalls, fountains, and streams, and choose from a large library of accessories and decorations.

Using our exclusive Realtime Walkthrough feature, you can walk around your landscape designs in real-time, complete with flowing water, koi fish, and other effects.

Design Custom Ponds and Water Features
Landscape Sloping or Uneven Property

Landscape Sloping or Uneven Property

Is your property sloped, on a hill, or terraced? Realtime Landscaping Pro includes some of the most powerful terrain sculpting tools available in any landscape design software.

Easily create building pads, driveways, and sloping terrain. Adjust the height of the terrain at any point using exact dimensions. The landscaping software also supports both straight and curved retaining walls. All of the tools work in real-time, so you get instant feedback on your changes.

Create terraced landscape designs using the powerful Retaining Wall tool. Build walls using materials from national brands such as Eldorado, Belgard, and Unilock.

Need even more powerful terrain sculpting tools? Realtime Landscaping Architect includes support for contour lines and a wizard for importing elevation lines from other CAD software.

Landscape Sloping or Uneven Property

Is your property sloped, on a hill, or terraced? Realtime Landscaping Pro includes some of the most powerful terrain sculpting tools available in any landscape design software.

Easily create building pads, driveways, and sloping terrain. Adjust the height of the terrain at any point using exact dimensions. The landscaping software also supports both straight and curved retaining walls. All of the tools work in real-time, so you get instant feedback on your changes.

Create terraced landscape designs using the powerful Retaining Wall tool. Build walls using materials from national brands such as Eldorado, Belgard, and Unilock.

Need even more powerful terrain sculpting tools? Realtime Landscaping Architect includes support for contour lines and a wizard for importing elevation lines from other CAD software.

Landscape Sloping or Uneven Property

Thousands of Realistic Materials

Select from a large library of professional materials such as pavers, mulch, brick, wood, concrete, stacked stone, and more.

Choose from branded materials by Belgard, Lampus, Unilock, PebbleTec, and Eldorado.

Easily change the color and brightness of any material to suite your exact landscape design needs.

Realistic Pavers made of Brick and Stone
Realistic Pavers made of Brick and Stone
Add Lawn Furniture Outdoor Kitchens and More

Add Lawn Furniture, Outdoor Kitchens, and More

Choose from a huge library of detailed 3D objects including lawn furniture, outdoor kitchens, 3D rockery, gazebos, carports, sheds, and much more.

Choose products from national brands including S.R. Smith, Highpoint Deck Lights, Jerith, Philips Hadco, Amarr, Kichler, MasterTile, Noble Tile, and RicoRock.

Add Lawn Furniture, Outdoor Kitchens, and More

Choose from a huge library of detailed 3D objects including lawn furniture, outdoor kitchens, 3D rockery, gazebos, carports, sheds, and much more.

Choose products from national brands including S.R. Smith, Highpoint Deck Lights, Jerith, Philips Hadco, Amarr, Kichler, MasterTile, Noble Tile, and RicoRock.

Add Lawn Furniture Outdoor Kitchens and More

Share your Landscape Design Ideas

Show off your landscape designs using a variety of methods. Print your design on a home printer in full color or black and white, send your design to a print shop, e-mail your landscape as a picture, or create a video of your landscape design and upload to YouTube.

Share your Landscape Design

Create Landscape Lighting Designs

Choose from a large selection of landscape lights including products from Philips Hadco and Kichler. Any number of landscape lights, house lights, and swimming pool lights can be added to your landscape design.

View your landscapes at night with realistic lighting and shadows using the Realtime Walkthrough feature.

Design Landscape Lighting
Design Landscape Lighting
Design Landscape Lighting
Design Landscape Lighting
Professional Irrigation Design

Design your Sprinkler System

Plan the placement of your sprinklers, determine the number of heads needed, layout piping, and design the other details of your irrigation system with ease.

Add sprinklers with a few mouse clicks, and then customize the coverage and angles of each one.

Landscaping Cost Estimates

Easy Cost Estimates

Quickly estimate the cost of your project using the integrated Project Material List. Simply open the list, enter prices for the different landscaping objects, and print the result.

The Project Material List is automatically updated as you design your landscape. You can also export the material list to Excel for even more control.

Design your Sprinkler System

Plan the placement of your sprinklers, determine the number of heads needed, layout piping, and design the other details of your irrigation system with ease.

Add sprinklers with a few mouse clicks, and then customize the coverage and angles of each one.

Easy Cost Estimates

Quickly estimate the cost of your project using the integrated Project Material List. Simply open the list, enter prices for the different landscaping objects, and print the result.

The Project Material List is automatically updated as you design your landscape. You can also export the material list to Excel for even more control.

Create 3D Panoramas for Youtube and Facebook

Upload interactive designs to social media and image sharing sites. Your clients can look around the design freely, either standing in place or while moving through the landscape in a video. Capture even more detail with an increased resolution output limit of 8192×8192.

Professional Landscape Design Software

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"Realtime Landscaping Pro convinced me to advance from drawing plans the old way to letting landscape design software do it for me." - About.com

Download Immediately: After making a purchase, you will receive a personal download link.
 
Windows 10 and Windows 11

"Realtime Landscaping Pro convinced me to advance from drawing plans the old way to letting landscape design software do it for me." - About.com

Download Immediately: After making a purchase, you will receive a personal download link.

Windows 10 and Windows 11

Free Landscape Design Software Technical Support

30 Day Money Back Guarantee
If you are not 100% satisfied with Realtime Landscaping Pro, simply return it within 30 days for a full refund. More