Best interior design apps

Serious tool for professionals, many ready-made objects, clear 3D of the whole house, Mac iPad iPhone sync, one-off purchase instead of a subscription, import of your own objects

Furniture sizes drift and cannot be resized, 3D view distorts room proportions, objects float into the air, cannot change wall height separately, crashes after a minute with lost edits, premium differs little from the free version, slow support

Anyone seriously designing a home or remodel who wants a powerful tool with a one-off payment across all devices

Best estimating tool for carpet and floors, field measuring with the plan straight to the office, accurate stair calculation including floating stairs, saves time on quotes, many jobs on iPad

Freezes mid-measure and erases all work, no inches-only measurement mode, clunky diagram export, long learning curve, pricey for occasional use, login trouble after registration

Flooring pros who need field measuring and an instant office quote

Flexible editor with control over everything, rich free set, people plan a whole house for years, addictive and pleasant to use

Almost no tutorial or help, moving one item scatters the whole layout, dated furniture, some free features moved behind payment, support replies with auto-messages

Patient enthusiasts willing to figure it out themselves for deep control over the layout

Beautiful remodel ideas, huge library of interior photos, easy to collect references over years

In-app shopping removed, many photos load as placeholders, feed repeats the same homes, contractors aren't vetted, relentless emails and pushy paid contract

People mid-remodel or building a house who gather interior ideas and are fine browsing rather than buying in-app

3D view and house walk-through, AR mode, lots of items and options, no ads, you can build a house in a couple of hours

Only your latest project opens without paying, hard interface for beginners, walls and floors disappear, lags and won't load, flickering room lights

Patient hobbyists and teens who enjoy building a house in detailed 3D, not just quick previews

Simple clear interface, quick to learn, no need to hunt for specific furniture brands, people return to it for years

Can't type a wall length as a number, snapping overshoots the target size, no second floor, purchased packs disappear and won't restore, occasionally crashes and hangs on load

For people who want a simple, stable room and furniture planner and don't need engineering precision to the inch

Fast and accurate LiDAR scanning, works for realtors, film and archaeology, open output format, more accurate than competitors

Features keep moving into pricey tiers, price multiplied, long-time users not grandfathered, frames capped at six megapixels, crashes during work scanning

Professionals like realtors, kitchen designers and set builders who need accurate measurements and 3D scans and will pay

Fast room measurement with the phone, simple scanning, responsive developer who fixes issues in hours, kept for years for convenience

Breaks on non-rectangular rooms, bay windows and archways, hard to square corners and merge rooms into a plan, crashes when scanning several rooms, paid Pro not always recognized, sharp price increase

For people quickly measuring simple rectangular rooms for a remodel who don't work with complex geometry

Exact walls to the inch, shows inside and outside wall dimensions, accurate room scanner, AR mode, good enough for building permits, easy to learn

Basics (roof, arched door, stairs, windows) behind payment, thin free version, no basement, cannot duplicate a floor or group walls, cannot duplicate wall textures, lacks instructions

For people drawing an exact house or room plan for a remodel or permit who are willing to pay the yearly subscription.

Simple furniture arranging before a move, saved rooms on hand, helps through moves for years, clearly shows whether furniture fits

Dated slow interface, hard to move objects especially on a phone, saved rooms vanish after updates, no proper saving, payment for saving and rotating

People who move often and want to plan furniture arrangement in advance, better on an iPad

Simple, clear plan drafting, great value for the price, handy for sketching on the go from a phone then finishing in CAD

Frequent crashes and freezes with lost work, no meters-to-feet switch, everything snaps to a grid, hard to place and edit text, no freehand mode

People who want to quickly and cheaply sketch a house or property plan from a phone and are fine with simple grid-based lines

Huge choice of materials and furniture, wall floor and fabric finishes, 3D generation from an uploaded floor plan, much of it free, handy for house plans

Crashes and resets the room without saving, glitchy on iPhone and iPad, room scan often fails, can't flip an item upside down, plan export lets you down

For people planning layouts and remodels who want a big materials catalog and can tolerate glitches for the free features

Easy to start and learn, clear 2D to 3D switch, planning a whole house for a remodel with contractors, simpler than rivals

No ruler for measuring, only one room free, wall dimensions drift when you add new walls, frequent freezes and crashes, objects land in random places, old projects will not open after updates, thin furniture catalog

Anyone planning a remodel or layout who wants to see a room in 3D quickly without heavy software

Easy start with no experience, clear 3D view, quick room draft, fair price

No numeric dimension input, walls and sizes shift on their own, no tutorial or hints, no auto-save, few furniture and door and window options, glitchy after updates

Beginners who need a fast rough 3D room plan without learning CAD

Detailed realistic floor plans, easy to lay out any home for years, see future changes to a room

Paid features lost after the subscription switch, subscription ad on every launch, crashes on complex projects, white textures in AR, dimensions overlay the object itself

People who seriously draw home floor plans and want realistic 3D, willing to accept the new subscription model

Intuitive interface, LiDAR room measuring, clear plans for clients and subs, constantly improving tools

Expensive, basic plan has no layers or DWG import/export, no free plan, demands data and a subscription up front, re-asks you to pick a plan on login

Contractors and kitchen, bath and cabinet designers who make plans for clients on site and are willing to pay

Beautiful mood boards for clients, snipping tool with pricing on a sheet, Pinterest link, easy to assemble furniture that matches, responsive support

Often crashes on dense multi-page boards, won't sync boards across devices, sometimes doesn't save work, cropping and background removal locked behind payment, interrupts audio on the phone

For interior designers and enthusiasts who need clean mood boards with pricing and a Pinterest link

House walk-through mode, per-room list of used products, detailed images, lots of features, finds real store products

Freezes and crashes when adding furniture, crashes when switching 2D and 3D, projects do not autosave and disappear, cannot set the scale of an uploaded plan, saving is paid, complex interface

For people seriously planning a home in 3D who want a per-room product list, if they are ready to save manually often.

Quickly builds a floor plan via LiDAR, capture a space and work off measurements later, good measurement accuracy

Interface scares off beginners, manual corner selection removed, same scan gives different square footage, no autosave while scanning, one-time-purchase vs subscription confusion

Tradespeople and realtors who need a fast floor plan and on-site measurements and can handle a tricky interface

Simple and fast interface, easy to sketch ideas, fun to play with

Redraws the room instead of decorating it, moves doors and windows that cannot move, ignores key details in the photo (crib, high ceiling), no way to add your own text note, charges after cancelling the trial

For people who just want to quickly sketch a couple of ideas from a photo and do not need accuracy to the real layout.

Quickly shows a room in different styles, fun to imagine a space, easy to get started

Takes many redos to get the result, images don't always fit the real room, slow photo upload, can't design combined rooms

People who want a quick look at style options for a room and don't expect a precise plan

Roughing out a future home or remodel layout, fun to tinker with design, helps plan vendor booths

Crashes after every change without saving, area measured on the exterior outline, almost all furniture behind payment, no manual and a steep learning curve, printing runs off the page

People who want to leisurely play with a future home layout and can tolerate the roughness and paid furniture

Full SketchUp on iPad, powerful modeling, cheaper than desktop, speeds up a pro's work

Free version is view-only, no creation, steep learning curve, crashes and stuck group-editing mode, missing match photo, geo-location and 3D warehouse from desktop

Professionals and experienced modelers who need real SketchUp on a tablet, definitely not beginners

Live designer picks furniture to your taste, 3D room rendering before buying, inspiration and style guidance, buying furniture right in the service

App lags crashes and won't let you chat with the designer, dead designer profiles in the catalog, cancelled and no-show calls, slow support, long delivery times

For people who want to work remotely with a live designer and buy furniture end-to-end and can tolerate a clunky app for it

Intuitive interface, works even with imperfect photos, cleanly removes furniture from the frame, unexpected ideas, fast processing

Mishandles object scale, ruins the background and adds stray objects, cannot hold more than one request, erases stairs and puts furniture in front of doors, errors and «high demand» on the paid version, small limit on the free one

For people who want to quickly rough out decor ideas from a photo, but not for accurate virtual staging of a home for sale.

Learn it in a minute, clear 3D building of house and rooms, you can make many houses, addictive like a game

Almost all furniture behind a subscription or 48-hour ad unlock, forced sign-in for 85 percent of the catalog, few furniture options, no second floor or exterior, lag, crashes and tablet overheating

Anyone who wants to play at furnishing and planning homes and does not mind the limits of the free version

Easy to sketch plans as a beginner, flexes your architectural side, fun to create a home

Free version cuts off at three rooms, can't set precise small wall dimensions, crashes and glitches, projects vanish after updates, unresponsive support

Beginners who want to simply rough out a floor plan and are willing to pay to remove limits

Planning a yard, pool and deck, clear for aligning with a builder, lots of detailed textures, helps rough out the overall layout

Few shrubs and plants for landscaping, decks come out flat, work vanishes after crashes and updates, clunky controls on a phone, basically a copy of the main app

People planning a yard, pool and landscape who want to show a builder the idea clearly, if they can tolerate crashes

Easy to build a room to your own dimensions, many angles for 3D, helps plan a move or remodel

Constant crashes and lag, auto wall-snapping breaks the project, deleting a wall wipes half the work, almost all furniture locked behind paid

People moving or redoing a room who want to lay out furniture visually, if they can tolerate crashes

Exact room and furniture dimensions, handy for planning a layout before moving, good support

Crashes when searching furniture, does not save the project after a restart, often will not load at all, hard to rotate furniture, cannot stack items on each other, saving moved behind a paid subscription

For people planning furniture placement by exact dimensions before a move, who can tolerate crashes.

Helps see a room before an expensive redo, fun to let imagination run, decent decor options at times

Changes the layout instead of the decor, ignores simple commands, uses one angle not the whole room, no real free mode, charges after cancellation

People who want a quick take on decor for an empty space and can live with the app reshaping the room

Fast 3D sketches and renders to show clients, whiteboard space with multiple models, easy start for 3D beginners, works for work presentations

Can't even draw a line without paying and giving card details, tutorial videos on an outdated interface, can't type a size as a number in Apple Pencil mode, steep learning curve, 7 days too short to figure it out

For people making 3D sketches and client presentations who are willing to invest time in learning and paying

Quickly cycling through styles without reloading the photo, realistic images, suggests unexpected options, easy to use

Cannot edit the result, no custom palette, ignores the custom prompt, one basic image per style, redraws the room instead of working with the current one, crashes every few images, charges after cancelling

For people who want to quickly view different styles from a photo for inspiration, without exact fit to their own room.

Fast start and first scan, accuracy at ranges up to 15-20 feet, handy for a quick room plan

Cannot scan several rooms at once, accuracy drops past 20 feet, units switch from feet to meters by themselves, cannot edit dimensions after a scan, freezes on the first scan, pushy selling of other apps, fake device-hacked popup

Anyone needing a quick rough measurement of one small room without demanding accuracy

Good ideas for renovation and yard projects, result more accurate and intuitive than other AI, a hint on where to buy the suggested furniture, many styles and room options

You can only pick fixed styles, ignores typed requests, moves structural elements like a fireplace, shows only half the image, no free trial, charged more than the chosen amount, refund refused

Anyone wanting quick ready-made renovation ideas from fixed styles who does not expect fine text-based tuning

Easy for floor planning, brings a plan to life in 3D, lots of graphics and options

Charged right after starting the trial, AI assistant barely works, own photo plan won't upload, expensive to remove limits, projects lost after an update

People who want to lay out a floor plan visually in 3D and will watch the trial period and billing closely

Furniture and decor ideas, wall color options, budget-to-luxury variants per room, works from your own photos

Misreads floor plans, no precise edits to a result, edit button just regenerates, no free entry, refunds are hard

For people who want a quick preview of finishes and furniture from a room photo, not for accurate space planning

Pretty designs for some people, strong effect from big changes, guiding questions before start, ideas for a full remodel

Ignores prompts and the uploaded photo, changes architecture and adds windows and doors, generates the same image in different colors, few options, only one photo at a time, pay before a proper trial, no support

Anyone wanting ideas for a full room remodel who can tolerate the generation doing its own thing

Visualizing exterior and interior finish options, helps break past your own ideas, exact hit on the first try for some people

Often returns web-like images instead of your photo, changes room layout and structure, ignores direct requests, low-quality in-app photos, charges above what was promised

People who just want to brainstorm finish ideas from a photo and can tolerate misses, not for an accurate result of their own room

Scanner uses Apple's good LiDAR, practical for plans, handy for some

Does not detect doors, cannot edit a finished plan, screen goes dark during scanning, loses the result after tapping done, error at the end of the scan with no save, cannot handle non-90-degree wall angles, expensive, phone-only interface

For iPhone owners with LiDAR who need a quick rough plan of rectangular rooms and do not care about editing details.

Fast remodel ideas, helps pick furniture yourself and save on a designer, fun to browse variants

Ignores edits, gives one variant instead of a back-and-forth, adds windows and doors that aren't there, hidden weekly generation limit, off room proportions

For people who want a one-off idea of a room's style and don't expect precise control over details

Helps picture a remodel before starting, reads prompts more accurately than some popular apps, nice-looking variants, some free generations

Only 4-5 free generations, pricey for occasional use, slow and doesn't always obey, limits appear after buying full access, charges and subscriptions without consent

Couples and families who need to visualize a remodel idea before work starts, if they'll pay and tolerate the limits

Ideas for small spaces, ease of use

The promised free period charges money immediately, blocks any action without paying, misleading ads claiming it's free

Essentially no one, too few honest reviews to recommend it

Easy to use, free to enter, helped some people with classroom or room ideas

Same result for every room when you pick a style, generic faceless images, absurd artifacts (13 faucets, a door in the shower), does not change what you ask, nothing beyond a general AI, impossible to find how to cancel the subscription

Honestly no one seriously, too cookie-cutter and with cancellation problems.

Used to produce beautiful, practical options, helps rough out several remodel versions, easy to use

Quality dropped after the model update, blurry images, ignores simple commands, draws extra walls and windows, harsh daily limit, ChatGPT does it better

People who want to quickly toss out remodel ideas and can tolerate quality dropping after updates

Occasionally pleasant rearrangement and decor ideas, helps picture a bedroom or garden design, simple photo-based generations

Result barely differs from the original room, returns the wrong room type, weekly limit despite promised unlimited, subscription and charges without consent, expensive

People who want to quickly toss out a couple of decor ideas from a photo and will risk the billing, not for a serious remodel

Interesting concept, helps decorate a room, neatly assembles items together

Almost nothing free at 12.99 a week, no custom requests only preset options, results sometimes look odd and add things you didn't ask for, begs for a rating

For people willing to pay weekly for quick preset decor options without fine-tuning

Helps imagine how a home could look, good for basic remodel ideas

Does not follow requests and changes everything instead of one detail, cannot repaint only the exterior without altering the rest, often returns the original photo unchanged, does not hold needed elements (brick, structure), a good result only behind payment, cannot fine-tune a single image

For people who want a rough take on home remodel ideas and are ready to pay, not counting on precise detail edits.

Simple plan drawing, decent set of standard objects, clear interface at the start

Your finished plan gets locked behind a subscription and can't be reopened without paying, work is lost, no ruler or precise measurements, files corrupt, marketed as free when it isn't

For people ready to pay upfront who want a simple plan sketch without precise measurements

Search house plans by parameters, helps picture a redesign before hiring an architect, small-home selection

Forces a rating or review to unlock plans, promised lifetime free offer does not work and demands annual payment, lots of ads, login and password break, wanted categories locked

Anyone searching ready-made house plans by parameters who can tolerate locks and ads

The idea of a quick room makeover, easy to launch

Recycles the same images on regenerate, absurd layouts with duplicated furniture, walls over doorways, missing advertised styles like traditional and farmhouse, charges immediately and denies refunds

Few people, don't expect an honest result or transparent billing

Decent selection of plans and styles if you can reach it, fast download

Forces 5 stars or a review to unlock a plan, gets stuck on the payment screen, login and purchase restore do not work, blank white pages, promised free and lifetime offers do not work, lots of ads

In practice almost no one, too much forced rating and too many startup breakdowns

Fast generation when it works, a long list of styles

Identical render across different styles, a color tint instead of a real redesign, can't read the room layout from a photo, returns blank or distorted photos, pushes payment immediately with no guidance

Almost nobody, maybe a quick toy, and even then not worth paying for a real result

Clever camera room measuring, quick plan for contractors, helps estimate square footage

Treats a foot as 6 inches and rounds everything up, no manual dimension entry, camera-only capture, a square room comes out as a lopsided diamond, crashes with no auto-save

People who need a rough camera measurement of a room and don't need inch-level accuracy

When it works it does not distort small details in the photo, clean result for the few users who get in

Constantly fails to open and throws an error, freezes on loading, support unreachable, charges without consent, room image too small on phone, breaks the floor-plan perspective

Almost no one in its current state, too many people simply cannot open it.

Simple interface and fast replies when a generation actually works

Low image quality, layout barely changes, furniture lands in the wrong rooms, walls and proportions drift, generation limits and constant top-ups, charges during the trial

Almost nobody, reviewers say a regular AI chat gives better results

Pretty ready-made designs for those who got a result, helps picture a room before calling a contractor

Photo upload fails from gallery and camera, you pay before any trial, 9.99 a week with no free period, hour-long generation wait, charges after cancellation, focus on full remodel instead of furnishing

In practice almost no one, too many cannot upload a photo and lose money for nothing

Impressive furniture images on the rare occasions a generation goes through

Constant 'no internet' error on a working connection, crashes and failures, absurd layouts that ignore room dimensions, stretched photos, charges on day one of the trial and no way to unsubscribe

Essentially nobody, the app fails more often than it works