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iScape: Landscape Design

Landscaping Gardening Outdoors

iScape Holdings Inc.
Basics paywalled — Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
App Store rating4.6★28.9K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size141 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle

At a glance

Full report

From our automated analysis, 13 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 4.40.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-13 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.40.5, updated 2026-09-24.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

iScape is the No. 1 app for landscape design. We are here to help you create beautiful outdoor living areas. Whether you’re an Industry Professional, or a DIY Homeowner, iScape has you covered.

As featured in Forbes, HGTV, HBO, The New York Times, USA Today, Fox, and many more!

“If you’re DIY’ing it, iScape makes it easy to plan out what to buy and how to put it all together. If you’re hiring a landscaper, the app can help you explore ideas and share your vision.” - Forbes

"It is user friendly and has features that include a virtual pen, the ability to insert objects and more. This is considered one of the best landscape design apps." - Borst Landscape Design

"Wish you could see how your home would look with professional landscaping? With iScape, you can create a digital model of your home's yard.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 0 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 1

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Paywall blocks the basics

Reported by 32 users

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 32 distinct reviewers (6.4% of 501 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
User reports only. Published because the review evidence cleared this label’s own reviewer threshold.
Where measured
From App Store reviews
Reported by
Raised by 32 distinct reviewers — 6.4% of the 501 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Published threshold
26 reviewers and 2.07% of at least 500 reviews
Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

What reviewers report

501 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

501 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Paywall blocks the basics

Published finding

Raised by 32 distinct reviewers — 6.4% of the 501 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

Everything is locked — Can’t even do nothing without buying a subscription

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-05

Too locked down to evaluate — Tried to use it, but got constant, expensive subscription upsell prompts. Practically everything is locked behind membership, so no real ability to see if anything actually works. Looks like more AI slopware…

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-22

IT’S NOT FREE!!! — You can’t do anything on the app without paying $30/month.

1★ · App Store · 2025-06-04

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 13 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 4.40.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-13 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.40.5, updated 2026-09-24.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 4.40.5 · 2026-09-24
Thanks for using iScape! This update brings Street View back, better than before: * Fixed: Street View image picker now loads reliably * New: Street View is now available on Mac * New: Crop your Street View shot to 1:1, 4:3, or 16:9 * Stability and performance improvements We look forward to your feedback!

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
iscape-apple-439688430
Assessment date
13 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
501
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-13 from 501 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-13 Version analyzed: 4.40.53 independent signals501 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.61 ★ · 28,868 ratings
Version
4.40.5
Updated
24 Sep 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
141 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
iScape Holdings Inc.
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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