LogLog vs. TreePlotter.

TreePlotter (PlanIT Geo) markets itself as "the world's leading tree inventory and asset management software" — a GIS platform for municipalities, universities, and large property or nonprofit organizations tracking canopy cover, ecosystem services, and public tree assets over years, not one site visit. It has genuine strengths: deep GIS capability, canopy analysis (TreePlotter CANOPY, NatureScore), a long track record, and support reviewers describe as strong.

Pricing is quote-only across base/complete/advanced/enterprise tiers with add-on modules — not published anywhere public. Review sites describe it as often "expensive... hard to justify for a handful of properties," which tracks: it's priced and built for organizations managing an entire public tree inventory, not a single client engagement.

A small consulting firm surveying one residential property, one development site, or one HOA doesn't need canopy trend modeling or multi-department GIS access — and paying enterprise rates for it doesn't make sense for a bounded engagement. Setup and training overhead alone can exceed the time a small survey actually takes. TreePlotter also isn't phone-first for a solo arborist walking one site with a tablet; it's a platform you configure, not an app you open and start using.

LogLog skips GIS entirely. Instead of plotting trees on a map layer with a coordinate system, you load the client's actual PDF site plan and tap to drop numbered pins directly on it — the drawing the client already gave you, not a redrawn version in a web map. No setup, no training session, no per-seat enterprise quote. Free forever on the free tier.

If your work actually is managing a municipal or campus-wide public tree inventory across years — with GIS layers, canopy trend data, and multi-department access needs — TreePlotter's depth is the right tool for that job, and LogLog doesn't pretend to compete there.

PlanIT Geo does serve tree care companies with enterprise needs, not only cities and universities — but that's still a different buyer than a two- or three-person consulting firm. The overhead that makes sense for an organization managing a public inventory across budget cycles (GIS staff, ongoing licensing, module configuration) doesn't scale down cleanly to a firm surveying a handful of properties a month.

The tell is usually the sales process itself: TreePlotter has no self-serve pricing page. Everything routes through a demo or consultation request, which is normal for enterprise software and a poor fit for someone who wants to survey a site this afternoon. LogLog's free tier has no sales call to book — open it and start recording trees on the plan you already have.

None of this is a knock on TreePlotter's actual GIS capability, which is genuinely deep and well-regarded by the municipal customers it's built for. It's a mismatch of scale, not a quality gap, and worth naming plainly rather than pretending the two tools compete for the same buyer.

Scale is the whole story here. TreePlotter's GIS depth and canopy analysis are real assets for an organization tracking a public tree inventory over years — that's not a knock, it's the product doing exactly what it was built for. A small consulting firm doesn't need that depth for a bounded site survey, and paying enterprise rates for it doesn't buy anything the job actually requires. If you manage a public inventory, talk to PlanIT Geo. If you're surveying one property for one client, try LogLog first.