Online or Windows – Free to try, $9.95 per month Pros: Directly draw measurements from photos of your home, for those who need to save dimensions, add notes, and have easy access to all of it in Photo Meadsure’s app.Ĭons: It’s purely for measuring your home, although applicable to interiors and house design, it is not design-focussed. Pros: Houzz is a great referral service and provides inspiring design ideas.Ĭons: The app is not so much a design tool as it is a mood board and referral service. Pros: Chat with a Havenly designer and get design advice, get a curated shopping list with persoanlised furnishing, décor picks.Ĭons: An advisory service, and costs $79 to upgrade to get custom design solutions. (Note: some apps are free house design software) Here are some of Architecture & Design’s recommendations to assist you in that search:

The next step to choosing the most helpful app, is being honest with yourself about how much you’re willing to pay for an app, and whether it’s all-in-all worth it. Whether they’re a gateway for productivity or fantasia, the apps are only as useful as the user, so it’s always helpful to ask yourself a few questions first and foremost: Architecture or interior design? Inspiration or renovation? House plan or floorplan? Others allow you to shop from their library for interior ideas and some, offer detailed floorplans and 3D renderings. Some apps are surprisingly in-depth, allowing you to take photos of each room to upload and move furniture around to visualise your next interior makeover. ‘Power to the people’ (or power to Apple and its co-dependants) – house design apps are ‘applications’, usually on an iPhone or Android that allow you to foresee how your house will look after renovations, an interior-design rejig or simply, a new paint job. Exhibitions, Associations & InformationĪs digital information consumption takes up more than 60% of our hours– shortening our attention spans and enabling us to build better, faster and more efficiently, (whether it be houses or an inventory of knowledge) – it is of little to no surprise that there are now countless apps to enable a ‘DIY’ approach to house design or its interior.

Ceilings, Internal Wall Materials & Partitioning.

Drawing house plan app