The 15 Best Room Design Apps to Create Your Dream Home

When you’re attempting to figure out the best room layout for your home, you could gather your furniture and decor and play around with placement, or you can simply use a room design app to do the work for you. Taking things virtual is a great way to save time, money and of course, energy while styling your room exactly how you’d like it.

Here, we’ve gathered some of our favorite user-friendly apps to help you create floor plans and virtually design your rooms. Using these room design apps and sites will allow you to take the guesswork out of everything from gauging the right-sized furniture for your space, to assessing how a paint color will look, to putting entire rooms together in virtual reality before taking the plunge IRL.

These room design apps can prove incredibly helpful when moving to a new home or embarking on a remodel, room redesign, or even when purchasing new furniture (I’m looking at you, sofas). They’re also a great way to turn interior design into something of a hobby. 

Use these room design apps if you have an existing space that needs a facelift. These are great for visualizing exactly how your end result will look without all the heavy lifting. 

Foyr Neo’s stunning, top-of-the-line software allows you to professionally design a room with no CAD or CAM experience. With a database of more than 50,000 models, you can draw or upload your floor plan, then furnish and decorate your room with your personal touches. High-quality 3D visualization leaves no room for questioning what your newly designed room will look like. Just note that the free trail only lasts 14 days.

Starting at $9.99 a month, Spoak caters to everyone from professional interior designers to DIYers. Their user-friendly software allows you to design mood boards, floor plans, and room mock ups in real time. The platform also partners with well-known home brands (some of which give members exclusive shopping discounts!), but you can also import product images beyond their database. Spoak syncs with Pinterest, as well, if you need help actualizing ideas from a specific board.

Home Design 3D is a room design app that offers a free version and Gold Edition ($11.99). All versions are also available for Android. The app receives praise for its high level of detail while still remaining easy to use, and the latest version even offers an online 3D-printing option.

Rooms for iOS (free but users need to upgrade to the $3 version to save room designs) offers a fun and easy way to play with virtual room layout ideas. Users enter the dimensions of their room and then can try out different room planning ideas by flipping furniture, changing wall colors and flooring, and altering the scale of items to see how everything will look together. Reviews praise the app’s ease of use but note issues with crashing (though the newest version addresses the bug in the app and states the issue has been fixed).

Ever wondered how that new IKEA product you’ve been eyeing might look in a space? With IKEA Kreativ — available in the IKEA app — you can virtually try before you buy. Start a room from scratch using one of their pre-existing templates, or take the personalization a step further and scan a portion of your own home using your phone’s camera. Once it’s uploaded, you have access to IKEA’s full catalog and can play around with styling furniture and decor to scale. It also allows you to erase certain pieces shown in the photo, if you want to see how an IKEA couch would look without moving your existing one IRL. The standard version of this app is free of charge, and you can order products from your design schemes directly.

Full disclosure: This room design app gamifies the process of room planning with virtual coins, levels, leaderboards, and special badge rewards for design challenge participation. All that aside, the e-design features of Decor Matters are pretty decent, even if you aren’t looking to engage socially or compete in this space. Create a virtual room using a template or “tweak” your real-life room using augmented reality (though you do have to pay a small fee to use this feature). You can also just browse around other people’s rooms and boards to search for inspiration and real-life furnishings that you can order online.

Whether you’re experimenting with designs in your own home or you just want to exercise your interior design muscle, Homestyler is for you. It’s a 3D home decoration app that allows you to decorate a room — select from their library of room templates or upload our own. You can paint, arrange furniture, and render until you reach your dream room. Users have access to thousands of rooms and templates including apartments, lofts, duplexes, outdoor spaces, and more. By joining the community, you can participate in design challenges every day to practice your creativity.

An all-in-one 3D home design app, Coohom comes complete with 3D photorealistic visualization combined with virtual and augmented reality technology. The app allows you to design your room and create a space that reflects your personal style. Cohoom also has an easy-to-use website that can be used in combination with the app to create your dream home, from floor plan to decor.

Some room design apps are great for styling a room, while others work well for figuring out what floor plan will work best for you. If you’re in the beginning stages of building a home, or considering a major floor plan revamp, be sure to check out these room design apps and sites.

This interior design website boasts one of the easiest user interfaces we’ve come across yet. You’re ready to get started just as soon as Roomstyler loads, with lots of pre-set room sizes to choose from, or you can draw your own room if you’d prefer. Then, add doors, windows and other features to create the exact specifications of the room you’re hoping to style. 

MagicPlan for iOS and now for Android is a free room design app (in-app purchase prices vary widely depending on level of service you’re looking for) that lets users create floor plans based on their photos. According to the product description, there is “no need to measure or draw,” so it’s a good option for users who have minimal experience creating floor plans. While not as detailed in terms of interiors as other apps, it’s highly effective for quickly planning layouts.

Room Scan Pro for iOS “draws floor plans by itself.” Users simply hold a phone up to a wall which scans the circumference of a room (a voice-activated prompt states “hold against wall until you hear a beep”). Reviews note there is a bit of a learning curve to using this room design app, but also praise its effectiveness in accurate floor plan creation.

Floor Plan Creator for Android is free for the first project and allows users to create detailed floor plans in 3D. Reviewers praise the app’s usefulness when furniture shopping to gauge whether potential furniture will fit in the context of your specific room’s dimensions. For access to premium subscriptions, you can pay $4.95 annually with the ability to create up to 10 projects, or $6.95 monthly for an unlimited plan.

Available for both Android and Apple users, the room design app Planner 5D gives you the ability to sketch HD renderings for your dream room or whole house. Choose from over 4,000 furnishings to deck out your spaces, but keep in mind that the more premium items are only available via in-app purchase. “Daily rewards” do allow you to unlock additional free items, as well.

The sky’s the limit with Chief Architect, a web and mobile home design app focusing on 3D modeling. You can zoom in and design a room, or zoom out and figure out a floor plan for your home. Chief Architect also has an augmented reality mode, which allows you to place your 3D model in the real world and rotate, zoom in, and walk around to explore the surroundings.

Architects, interior designers, construction professionals, set designers, and other creatives can use SketchUp to model floor plans and structures in 3D. The modeler allows you to take measurements and view dimensions in app, plus you can merge your 3D designs with the real world with the augmented reality feature.