10 Best Apps For Designing And Decorating Homes
If you are looking for great design through your phone, these interior design apps are amazing. They source. The color switch, they even walk you through home renovations and allow you to preview all objects from your phone itself. We’ve picked 10 of the best home decoration apps available anywhere right now.
1. Adobe Color Capture
This app is part of the adobe suite expect its free! You get all the amazing technology Adobe has from your phone itself and apply it to your home for great décor. Capture colors anywhere and apply them to your own stuff. With a wide array of functions, this app is great for designing your house.
Features
- Customizable color scheme
- 3D viewing for patterns
- Adobe technology
- Free to use
Demerits
- Suited for colors only
- No other design elements like other apps
- Limited usability, only good as a supplement
2. Houzz
This is an actual design app, unlike Adobe color capture. Providing over 14 million images of possible home designs, this app is often regarded as one of the best design apps. Again, it’s free and a must-have if you want to design easily.
Features
- Browse over 14 million designs
- Sketch and draw functions
- Ideabook saves all your favorites
Demerits
- No 3D augmented reality preview
- No real-time object placing
3. Havenly
This app is more expert oriented. Instead of designing your house yourself, you can actually get advice from expert designers and chooseth the best décor for you. You can also take a quiz to know your match and in house, shopping is also available. This is an all-in-one app!
Features
- Get expert help
- Free to use
- Shop products you like instantly
- Customize budget
- Take quizzes to find your match
Demerits
- No augmented reality preview
- Not available in android
Download: iOS
4. Magic Plan
This app is where 3d reality comes into play. You can actually place and measure objects in real life and compute distances to put in your stuff. You could think of it as the iOS measure app but much much better.
Features
- Take measurements and allocate space
- Compute distances by snapshots
- Annotate spaces in real-time for later use
- Free to use
Demerits
- More of a supplement app to use with another primary app
- No actual objects here, just a handy tool
5. Home Design 3d
This app is everything new technology has to offer in the décor world. You can actually architecture floor plans and interior design with the use of augmented reality and build your home from the app itself. You can even change space in real-time!
Features
- Augmented reality in real-time
- Work in 2D or 3D
- Free to use
- Visualize what you want to put in your house
- Get expert advice
Demerits
- Not free to use
- Requires a powerful device
- No in-house shopping options
6. iHandy Label
If you have OCD, this is going to feel like heaven. This app allows you to measure how straight something is through your phone. An annoyingly angular painting is a pain for everyone, even those without OCD. This app avoids everything of the sort.
Features
- Extremely simple design
- Check angle measurement anywhere.
- Will give you precise measurements of angles too.
- Free to use
Demerits
- Very simple and featureless, only one function
- Supplement app to use with another primary design app.
7. Homestyler
This is another app that makes use of fresh technology to give you a better picture of what your house will look like. You can map out designs and place actual products you want to put in your picture. You can even share your designs and get inspiration from other designs
Features
- Preview designs in snapshots
- Design gallery
- Browse profiles of expert designers
- Place products in real-time
- Free to use
Demerits
- No in-house shopping option
- No 3D viewing in real-time.
8. Sunseeker
No one likes a dark room, especially when you know that it’s a design flaw. SunSeeker avoids these unfortunate design mistakes by giving you an idea of where the Sun will come in beforehand. This app is used by several expert designers as well, so quality is assured.
This app costs $9.99 for iOS and 7.32 for Android
Features
- See sun path, solar direction for each hour
- Place artwork or other stuff accordingly so that light falls on the right place
- Never have a darkroom again!
Demerits
- Another supplement app you should use with a primary design app
- Not free, though not very expensive.
9. Photo measures
This is the second measuring app on our list but isn’t similar at all to the first one. This app measures furniture size through photos itself and is considerably less technical to use. This app is hence great for newbies who just want to move furniture.
This app costs $6.99 for iOS and 5.51 for Android.
Features
- Perfect to rearrange previous furniture or other objects.
- Very precise as well as accurate.
- You can annotate and export to your camera roll
Demerits
- Not free
- Quite simple, not for expert designers.
10. Housecraft
Another augmented reality banger, this app will allow you to watch how products get placed in real-time. You can place graphically rendered furniture and other interior elements and see how your room will turn out, you be left shocked by how much technology has soared!
Features
- Augmented reality 3D preview
- Customize potential layouts
- Wide variety of renders available
- Free to use
Demerits
- Not available for android.
- All furniture is computer generated.
- Requires a powerful device.
Download: iOS
Ending thoughts
You might want to download one primary app and two or three supplements for the optimum experience. Together they will help you design your dream home in a way that you have never imagined. The convenience of these apps is commendable so make use of it!
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