Skip to content
Choosing by job

See a finished interior and know straight away what the furniture is and where to buy it, in order to put a whole room together

Interior design and floor plans

People who want to buy the furniture shown, not look at a picture

What to check before choosing

After the visualization, a person needs a clear route to the right item: name, dimensions, terms of purchase. An image of similar furniture does not mean that this particular product is available.

Which apps people use

These apps are mentioned in the breakdown of this job. Open each one to compare strengths and limits. The order of the list is not a ranking of fitness.

  1. Havenly: Interior Design

    Rank 24. Review score: 45 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.4★ · 4,906 ratings

    Havenly is valued for its live designer who picks furniture to your taste and sends a 3D rendering of the room before you buy, and many genuinely love that. But the app itself lags, crashes and is nearly unusable for chatting with your designer, pushing people to the browser. Worse, some designers in the catalog left long ago, calls get cancelled, and support takes days.

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

    Complaints: 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

    Best for: 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

  2. Realize - Design & Shop

    Rank 30. Review score: 42 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.1★ · 3,190 ratings

    When it works it is a strong planner: you enter exact room and furniture dimensions and lay everything out before a move. But it crashes constantly when you search for furniture, loses placed items after a restart, and often will not load at all after install. It also frustrates people that saving a room was recently locked behind a paid subscription.

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

    Complaints: 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

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

  3. Morpholio Board - Moodboard

    Rank 17. Review score: 55 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.6★ · 3,740 ratings

    Designers love Morpholio Board for beautiful mood boards with pricing that you're not ashamed to show a client, and for the snipping tool and Pinterest link. It breaks on stability and sync: the app often crashes on dense multi-page boards, sometimes doesn't save the work, and won't sync boards between iPhone and iPad, forcing you to rebuild the same thing. Many basic features like cropping and background removal are locked behind payment.

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

    Complaints: 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

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

  4. RoomGPT : AI Interior Design

    Rank 41. Review score: 34 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.6★ · 5,853 ratings

    People come for a quick picture of how a room could look, and for some it genuinely helps pick out furniture and save on a designer. But the app barely listens to edits: it gives one shot, won't remove or add items on request, and plants windows and doors where none exist. There's also a hard weekly generation limit you only discover after paying.

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

    Complaints: 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

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

  5. Houzz - Home Design & Remodel

    Rank 4. Review score: 62 out of 100. App Store rating: 4.8★ · 322,283 ratings

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

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

Other jobs in this topic

Full ranking: Interior design and floor plans58 apps with screenshots and scoresWhere this breakdown comes fromRead the research and the observations from reviews