Looking for the best tools and software to help with your next design project? Check out our list of the best interior design tools that will get your new year design project off to a great start.
Many of us enjoy making interior design changes to our homes; whether that’s to freshen up tired-looking rooms, or to revamp an outdated style.
If you’re a homeowner looking for the right tool to assist with a redesign project or you’re an interior design professional looking to update your toolkit, this list has everything you need. We’ll be covering the top interior design apps, both free and paid, to assist you in your next project in 2025, including details about cost, skill level, pros, and cons.
Here are the tools we’ll be covering:
- Havenly
- My Virtual Home
- Carpetright Visualiser
- HomeByMe
- Planner 5D
- Foyr Neo
- MagicPlan
- IKEA Kreative
- Dulux Visualiser
- Homebase Kitchen Planner & Design Tool
- DFS Room Planner
- Villeroy & Boch Online 3D Bathroom Planner
Ready to get to know your interior design tools better? Then let’s get started!
1. Havenly
With the goal of helping people transform their homes into stylish living spaces, Havenly is an interior design platform that connects users to professional interior designers, facilitating home designs and redesigns that are affordable, convenient, and tailored to individual needs. Users start by completing a style quiz and providing information such as budget, space constraints, and personal preferences. Havenly then matches the user with a designer who helps them conceptualize a theme, style, and overall look for the space they want to redesign. (If desired, users can select a preferred interior designer themselves instead). This professional works with the user closely as their guide and partner throughout the entire project. While some users choose to complete the process entirely online, following the advice and suggestions of their interior designer, others pay a premium for in-person assistance from a designer located in their area.
Cost: Online from $99. In-person, $499
Skill level: Complete beginners / those who need interior design assistance
Pros
- An opportunity to work directly with interior design professionals on your home restyling project
- Get advice and support from leading industry figures
Cons
- Those with clear ideas about what they want to do with their space may not wish to incorporate the ideas of an interior designer
Available on: All systems
2. My Virtual Home
My Virtual Home is a 3D home design and architecture software that supports users in the creation of virtual house models, enabling the exploration of a range of design possibilities within those virtual models. With floor planning, furniture selection, furniture placement, and a birds-eye view, users can start their design from scratch or work with an existing model to bring their ideas to life. My Virtual Home doesn’t limit interior designers to indoor designs; users can also visualize exteriors and landscape designs with the software. Additionally, users can play around with lighting simulation, plumbing and electrical systems, structural elements, and even roof design in their virtual houses, with the experience simulating that of redesigning a real home as closely as possible. Finally, 3D photo rendering is a key offering of the software, enabling designers to generate photorealistic visuals that they can show to other stakeholders or clients while working on the design.
Cost: Free
Skill level: Beginner
Pros:
- For a free tool, it includes many high-end features
- The interface of the software is inviting and user-friendly
Cons:
- More suited to architects and interior designers than homeowners
Available on: Windows
3. Carpetright Visualiser
The Carpetright Visualiser is an online, interactive tool created by Carpetright, a British flooring retailer, that helps customers visualize different types of flooring in their own homes before they commit to a purchase. Although the software is mostly centered around carpets, other flooring options such as vinyl, planks, and herringbone-style wood are just some examples of flooring alternatives that customers can experiment with. Users follow five simple steps to bring their flooring ideas to life, including uploading a photo of the space they want to redesign onto the visualiser and playing around with different colors, textiles, and materials to achieve the look they want. Handy features of the software include rotation tools and easy swatch ordering.
Cost: Free
Skill level: Beginner
Pros:
- Great for seeing how different flooring might look in your home
- Very easy to use
- Ordering carpet swatches is particularly straightforward
Cons:
- Not suitable for a whole room design
- More suited to homeowners than professionals
Available on: Windows and Mac
4. HomeByMe
Free online interior design and planning software, HomeByMe, supports users in creating 3D models of their interiors, providing tools for both designing and visualizing their homes virtually. From floor plan creation and furniture arranging, to color scheme selection and design exploration, HomeByMe offers a range of useful interior design tools for interior designers, architects, and homeowners alike. Some of the software’s other distinguishing features include 3D modeling, drag-and-drop furniture placement, floor plan customization, and immersive virtual tours of designed spaces. The community element of the platform is an additional bonus. Users can share and exchange their interior design ideas with friends and professionals, find inspiration among the many other published design ideas, or ask for feedback from the whole community on a project.
Cost: Free
Skill level: All levels
Pros:
- The HomeByMe community is a useful hub for inspiration, idea exchange, and feedback
- Virtual tours offer users an immersive design experience
Cons:
- Low-res photorealistic images can take some time to render and are watermarked
Available on:
- All systems
5. Planner 5D
Beginner-friendly, online and mobile 2D and 3D interior design and floor planning app, Planner 5D, helps users create customized interior designs for their homes. The platform is particularly well-suited to those with little to no previous design experience with its user-friendly and accessible interface that supports the planning and design of different rooms in the house. The tool works in unison with the iPhone/iPad camera, converting real flooring into an interactive, virtual floor plan. Key advantages of the tool include its real-time collaboration capability as well as its cross-platform accessibility which facilitates the viewing of projects from multiple different devices.
Cost: Free trial or a quote-based plan
Skill level: All levels
Pros:
- Works well with iPhone/iPad camera to convert real photos into virtual plans
- 150+ item catalog
Cons:
- The rendering tools are of average quality
Available on:
- In-browser, mobile, Windows, and Mac
6. Foyr Neo
Offering a complete, end-to-end workflow, this web-based 3D rendering software is the ultimate tool for the professional interior designer. Designers can create or upload floor plans, customize 3D models, get 4K renders in under 10 minutes, and edit designs in 3D in real-time. Additionally, the tool offers a huge range of color schemes, finishes, furniture, and accessories that can be dragged and dropped into a design in a seamless and intuitive manner. For professionals, one of the main advantages of the tool is that clients can see and interact with the finished 3D version of the design before signing off on a project, which prevents costly mistakes later on.
Cost: 14-day free trial then $59 per month
Skill level: Created for professional interior designers; however no specific tech skills are required to use it
Pros:
- Perfect for non-tech-savvy professional interior designers
- Enables a seamless end-to-end workflow
- Fast 4k rendering
Cons:
- Some buildings or rooms with unique architectural structures can be hard to replicate using the tool
Available on: Windows and Mac
7. MagicPlan
MagicPlan is a mobile app for the measurement of interiors and the creation of accurate floor plans, 2D and 3D interior design sketches, and project cost estimation. Users are prompted to capture images of the rooms they want to redesign using their smartphones or tablets before uploading them to the app. The app uses AR (augmented reality) and computer vision technologies to assess the space and provide measurements of distances and dimensions, superimposing digital information onto the real-world image captured by the device’s camera. With the information provided by the app, users can create accurate floor and interior design plans without using any physical tools. Virtual objects can be imported as well as customized and designs can be easily shared across teams. The app is most commonly used by interior designers and contractors who use it for home improvement planning, sketching, floor plan creation, collaboration, and project management.
Cost:
- Sketch plan: £99.99
- Report plan: £399.99
- Estimate plan: £899.99
Skill level: Professional
Pros:
- Very accurate measuring device for floor planning
- Furniture and accessories can be easily important and customized
Cons:
- More suitable to interior designers and contractors than homeowners
Available on: Mobile (App Store and Google Play)
8. IKEA Kreativ
Known for its ready-to-assemble furniture and home goods, IKEA has gone one step further in helping its customers put together beautiful homes with IKEA Kreativ- an AI-driven, interactive home and room planner. This design app assists users as they design the layout of different rooms, select furniture from IKEA’s own range, and arrange pieces within the digital layout. Supporting their customers to create with confidence, the app enables users to not only visualize their designs but also to collaborate with friends and family and purchase furniture or other items as they go through the process. Users follow simple steps on the app that assist them in taking photos of the room they want to design, before dragging and dropping furniture, textiles, and accessories into the virtual space. By working with the app, users can be sure that the items they want to purchase will fit into the space they’re intended for, match the aesthetic, and complement existing items.
Cost: Free
Skill level: All levels
Pros:
- A handy tool for being able to see and arrange furniture in a photorealistic version of the room you want to redesign
- Very easy to use and accessible on every smartphone
Cons:
- Users can only select IKEA furniture to use in their virtual designs
Available on: Mobile (App Store and Google Play)
9. Dulux Visualiser
Getting your color schemes right can be a tricky part of the interior design process, especially if you’re not experienced in interior design. The Dulux Visualiser is a handy tool that helps users choose paint colors and shades for a particular room, mood, or interior design style, and inspires new designs and ideas. Key features include the “Live Mode”, which allows users to see instant color transformations, and the video option which enables users to capture a video of a space which they can use for more color experimentation. Other benefits of using the app for visualizing color schemes include being able to order color testers and products directly through the app, locating your nearest Dulux color stockists, and finding the closest match to your desired paint hue.
Cost: Free
Skill level: All levels
Pros:
- Easy-to-use paint and color visualization tool
- “Live Mode” facilitates the instant color transformation of a user’s room
Cons:
- Only suitable for paint and color schemes, not furniture, accessories, or textiles
Available on: Mobile (App Store and Google Play)
10. Homebase Kitchen Planner & Design Tool
The free kitchen planner and design tool from British home improvement retailer, Homebase, helps users create the look and feel of their dream kitchen, virtually. With a handy pricing tool to help users stay on budget and the opportunity to book a free design consultation with a Homebase professional afterwards, this is the complete kitchen planning package for those looking to breathe new life into the heart of their homes. The tool offers users a range of different flooring, wall, tile, and splashback options. Once these have been selected by the user, floor planning, furniture arranging, and cabinet layout can be decided upon as well as which appliance types are needed and where. One of the benefits of this app is the easy-to-follow instructions and Help button for extra guidance when you need it.
Cost: Free
Skill level: All levels
Pros:
- The pricing tool helps users stay within their budgets
- Easy-to-follow guide plus additional support if needed
Cons:
- The interface is quite busy, which can be distracting and difficult to navigate
- Loading times for kitchen images can be slow
Available on: Windows and Mac
11. DFS Room Planner
Well-known British furniture retailer, DFS, specializes in selling sofas, chairs, and other household furniture. For customers browsing sofas on the DFS website, they can now use the DFS Room Planner to restyle the room their intended purchase will go in, or simply to see how the sofa will look in an existing room. To operate the tool, users select a 2D or 3D view, choose the room size and shape, decide on a flooring type, and select a wall color. Accessories, textiles, and other objects can also be included to enhance the decor, which users can design to complement their chosen sofa. Visitors to the Room Planner page are greeted with a detailed list of instructions on how to use the tool, including how to move objects or rotate the image of the room. While the DFS app is a comprehensive tool for envisioning sofas in 2D and 3D versions of a room, unlike other apps we’ve featured, it does not enable users to upload photographs of their own interiors.
Cost: Free
Skill level: The tool is designed for homeowners rather than interior designers; however the interface is not suitable for those unused to working with digital tools.
Pros:
- Users get to see and arrange virtual sofas in realistic settings
Cons:
- The software is not very straightforward to use
- Users can’t upload images from their own homes to work with and this may lead to inaccurate results
- Users can only see and work with images of DFS sofas and furniture.
Available on: Windows and Mac
12. Villeroy & Boch Online 3D Bathroom Planner
In just a few simple steps, German ceramic manufacturers, Villeroy and Boch, enable users to create a unique and beautiful virtual bathroom to base their design plans on with the Villeroy & Boch Online 3D Bathroom Planner. Users start by creating a floor plan and then add in structural elements such as windows and doors. Wall and floor finishes come next, before furniture, objects, and design elements are arranged and placed as desired. The app supports users as they experiment with different combinations to achieve their desired bathroom aesthetic, offering a range of virtual items and design elements from Villeroy and Boch for users to experiment with. Whether you’re an interior designer sketching out ideas to show to clients, or a homeowner looking to overhaul your bathroom, the Villeroy & Boch Online 3D Bathroom Planner is a handy tool for compiling, playing around with, and presenting your bathroom ideas in one streamlined interface.
Cost: Free
Skill level: Aimed at both design amateurs and professionals
Pros:
- Easy to use
- Creates stylish 3D images from the user’s bathroom designs
Cons:
- Users cannot upload their own images to work from
- Users can only insert objects and furniture from the Villeroy and Boch range
Available on: Windows and Mac
Conclusion
We hope you’ve found an interior design tool in this list that meets your needs for your upcoming interior design projects. Whether you’re doing a complete home makeover, or a client has engaged you to complete a professional interior design renovation, our advice would be to utilize the free trials of as many of these tools as possible before committing to one tool over another. While some are ideal for experimenting with different ideas and arranging the furniture or products of specific well-known brands, others offer a more comprehensive planning and design package that may serve you better for a larger or more complex interior design project. To learn more about the best interior design apps, you can refer to the video below.
To learn more about interior design, visit our blog, or consider the following resources:
- Watch this session by Snehanshu Mukherjee, Founding Partner at T.E.A.M and Mansi Almadi, an Interior Designer at Studio Lotus
- Talk to a course advisor to discuss how you can transform your career with one of our courses.
- Check out our Interior Design courses - all courses are taught through live, interactive classes by industry experts.
- Take advantage of the scholarship and funding options that come with our courses to overcome any financial hurdle on the path of your career transformation.
Note: All information and/or data from external sources is believed to be accurate as of the date of publication.
