The mission of SimplyScapes is to connect homeowners and landscaping professions to create communities that are both beautiful and sustainable. Everything that we do services that purpose. Over the years, we've listened to the needs of hundreds homeowners and industry professionals at trade shows, focus groups and other events. Do you have a feature in mind? We invite to contact us directly, or share this idea in the SimplyScapes Product Portal.

Upcoming Releases

Release summary.
Client Management
Dashboard
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Generative AI
Visual Designer
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Generative AI
Visual Designer
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Teams
Dashboard
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October DD, 2025

This is a major release. We completely rebuilt the dashboard and marketing website. The improved dashboard provides a solid foundation for a suite of professional-facing features.
Dashboard 2.0
Dashboard
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  • Onboarding wizard for homeowners and professionals. Includes property address and company lookup.
  • Workspaces (Personal Workspace, company workspace, etc)
  • Responsive design (mobile & desktop support)
  • List and thumbnail view
  • Search capability
Plant Library Image Improvements
Visual Designer
The SimplyScapes plant library has over 9,000 transparent plant images. The majority of these are sourced from large, high-resolution images. However, this comes at a cost. Downloading the original images takes longer, especially on slow internet connections. In addition, the high-resolution images can look grainy in the Visual Designer, espeically when zoomed out. In this release, the SimplyScapes server now sends optimized, propertly sized images to the Visual Designer, on demand. Image sizes are calculated to match the approximate size as visible to the user. Zooming in or out swaps images realtime, based on display resolution. All of this happens seamlessly, without flicker. This results in smooth, photo-realistic looking designs and faster load times.
Material Library Improvements
Visual Designer
  • Display the material name for each option in the material picker.
  • Issue: Fixed the "VIEW ALL" link. Clicking it shows an expanded view of all material options. Before this release, clicking VIEW ALL did nothing.
Improved Plant Search
Visual Designer
Return all matching plants, even when searching within plant type (e.g. Conifer) or plant collection. Before, the Visual Designer™ would filter the plants based on the current type or collection. This was too constraining.
Marketing Website 2.0
Return all matching plants, even when searching within plant type (e.g. Conifer) or plant collection. Before, the Visual Designer™ would filter the plants based on the current type or collection. This was too constraining.
Grant full Aerial Designer™ (Beta) access to all users
Aerial Designer
All plans now have full, unrestricted access to the Aerial Designer while it is in beta. We no longer limit the number of design elements or restrict access to the plant library while the Aerial Designer is in Beta. We will restore the paywall after the Aerial Designer exits Beta. Note that features are currently incomplete and unstable.
Free 7-Day Trial for SimplyScapes Professional Plan
Dashboard
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Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
  • [Resolved] Search Filter > Min/Max Height are connected. Changing the Min Height search filter automatically changed the Max Height Filter. Solution: The two filters work independently.
  • [Resolved] Always display "Forgot Password" link in login screen.

June 2, 2025

We released UtahPlantSelector.com, the first white-labelled instance of SimplySelect™. We created SimplySelect in partnership with Utah Water Ways. This resource simplifies the plant selection process and helps people choose the best plant combinations for the intermountain western United States.

March 24, 2025

Many improvements to the Visual Designer, including our first white-labelled instance of the tool.
White-labelling VisualDesigner for Irvine Ranches Water Districts
Visual Designer
This includes the following:
  • Custom Plant Lists & Collections
  • Save Button
  • ADA Compliance
  • Google Analytics
  • Custom branding
Added Wizard for Creating Visual Designs
Visual Designer
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Added Tooltips to Visual Designer
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Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
[Fixed] Cutouts don't always appear on the correct layer. For example, a cutout will sometimes appear behind a plant even though it's positioned in front of it.

April 24, 2024

Focus on creating a "Frictionless experience".
Auto-pan canvas when dragging an object to the edge
Visual Designer
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Added Tooltips for new Users
Visual Designer
Move up/down. Suggest plant size
Make Background Image Optional
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Drawing tool improvements
... The Workflow for drawing new materials is clunky. For example, users must choose a material before drawing the outline. Compare this to other drawing tools. Those tools allow you to draw shapes without having to select a line or background color. Why should Simplyscapes be different? It shouldn't. Update the material tool to behave like other vector-based drawing tools: Enable drawing any time the material tab is selected When drawing, set a default background to the last chosen material. If this is a new design and no material has been chosen, set a default. Change the background for any shape at any time by selecting the shape, then clicking a new material in the materials tab. For narrow viewports (mobile devices) reduce the height of the materials panel. Allow users to increase/decrease the size. Added Rectangle and Ellipse drawing tools.
Cursor-based drawing for touch devices
When in drawing mode display a cursor and a "move" handle below it moving the cursor. In addition, display other buttons to perform certain actions, such as adding a point or saving changes. Doing this for PCs enables the mouse cursor to be used for selecting existing design elements, but would it be too cumbersome to use? Note: Tapping canvas while in draw mode no longer adds a point. This is exclusively performed via the cursor and it's buttons. Tapping the screen deselects the the current item and optionally selects an item. If the newly selected item is a material, the material automatically switches to edit mode (e.g. Points are visible, and the background image is replaces with a semi-transparent shade).
Help link
Visual Designer
Add the following items to the existing menu dropdown in the photo designer: Add Help section to toolbar: User Guide Open the following page in a new tab: https://help.simplyscapes.com/ Suggest a Feature Opens the following page in a new tab: https://portal.productboard.com/xpudjucrd8ukejdlgkyp78ub/ Contact Support Open the following page in a new tab: TBD (external page containing contact instructions)
Added GDPR Support
Dashboard
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May 15, 2024

Fast follow-on release
Renamed Photo Designer to Visual Designer
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Discontinued per-design pricing
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Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
[Fixed] Stale designs don’t save

Janurary 29, 2024

Plant Selection improvments
Added videos the the plant detail page
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Added retailers the the plant detail page
Retailers are listed based on proximity.
Auto-capture the user's hardiness zone
Use the user's IP address to capture the USDA Hardiness Zone and City/State (or Country) for each new design. Display this in the header of the of the main plant home page only (or perhaps wherever the search/filter control is located). Users can change this inside the Filters settings page. Clicking anywhere on the header (e.g. Growing zone or city) does the same as clicking the filter icon.
Added copyright and attribution to 3rd party images
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Bottom navigation buttons for mobile devices
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Janurary 10, 2024

Plant Selection improvments
Display onboarding tips
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Build list of favorite plants
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Plant Templates
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Plant Collections
Visual Designer
+ Sub collections
Plant Navigation 2.0
Visual Designer
... Right now, the navigation experience in the right panel is inconsistent. For example, when clicking back from a plant detail page, we lose our place. This is just one of many things that are off. We need to refactor this and fix these things across all object types at the same time. Here's some points: Remember location, including scroll position, when navigating between plants, objects, images, drawing, and cutout controls. Improve top header for mobile devices. Tighten up the scrollable region so that the top section of the panel doesn't scroll. Only the list of items should scroll. Consider resisting the original UX design where we stack panels on top of each other. Lazy load the contents of the panels. Jump to the panel immediately when the user clicks on a control button or some other action. Display gray placeholders with an animated gradient effect while the content is being fetched from the server. Display a "Show All" link/button at the last items in the horizontal list of plants/objects. When Navigating to a plant, the plant frame should fly into the frame from below

November 23, 2023

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Added Resize Slider
Visual Designer
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Added SimplyScapes Pro Subscription Plan
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Added Contact Us page to website
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April 16, 2023

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Visual Designer™ Released
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July 1, 2022

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Aerial Designer™ Released
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March 22, 2022

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SimplyScapes Select™ Mobile App
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December 14, 2021

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SimplyScapes.com website
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Online Plant Database
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