Free 3d Home Design Software
Easy-to-use home design software that you can use plan and visualize your home designs. Create floor plans, furnish and decorate, then visualize in 3D,.
Welcome to our listings of the top online interior design software options for 2019.
When I stumbled on some of the free interior design software options, I couldn’t believe my luck.
The software is really good… and free. I spent days researching and trying out every option I could find (had more fun than I should have… and still have fun with the software).
The result is this interior design software directory listing out free and paid options.
I was already an interior design and home architecture nut as a kid and teenager. I’d spend hours looking at house plans, real estate magazines, luxury home magazines, going to open houses with my mom and drawing my own home plans.
My passion for home architecture and design continues, except now with the internet it’s so easy to spend hours at it.
Moreover, with computers, I can take my designing rooms and homes to the next level with interior design software.
If you’re like me and like messing around with design on a computer for fun or you have a project to design and complete, a great starting point after checking out photos and open houses for inspiration is to sketch out ideas with design software.
You can do it yourself or hire a professional (interior designer and/or architect) to do it for you.
Fortunately, there are many home interior design software options available online.
Some are free and some cost money. Some you can use directly online (web-based) and other types you must download to your computer.
What follows is a list of some of the best free and paid interior design software options. They’re listed with free options first, followed by paid options.
I urge you to check out each one (especially the free options) to see what works best for you.
We selected fairly universal options that include kitchen design software (some include specific kitchen modules), bathroom design software and in some cases landscape and/or deck design software for 2016.
Online Interior Design Software Options
Table of Contents
- Online Interior Design Software Options
1. Home Stratosphere’s Interior Design Software (Free)
We’ve partnered with a top-of-the-line software provider and created an online interior design software portal.
Most of the functionality is free. Best of all, there’s no download and it’s very easy to use.
You can design any room in your home very, very quickly.
You can also design single room layouts or layouts for an entire home.
Screenshots:
Click here for the free Home Stratosphere interior design software.
2. Planner5D
- Cost: Freemium (free version but pay for premium features).
- Rooms: All interiors, landscaping and pool designs. Full floorplan capability.
- 3D: Yes
- App version: Yes.
- => Try it here.
Create your room design and convert it into a 3D color display so you get a good idea how the room will appear. You can inject furniture and all kinds of room features including windows, doors, stairs, partitions, arches and more.
Planner 5D also designs homes (exteriors) as well as landscaping and pools. Put it all together and you can create your own custom home from top to bottom.
Key Features:
- 3D display.
- Comprehensive: Interiors, floorplans, landscaping and pool design.
- Massive member gallery for inspiration.
- Drag and drop.
Screenshots:
Planner 5D Demo Video
Click here for Planner 5D.
3. Home Hardware Design Centre
Home Hardware is a Canadian company, but anyone can access their incredible suite of free interior design, storage design and kitchen design software products.
All of their software is on the cloud (no downloading necessary)… and you don’t even have to sign up. Just go to their site and click into the software option in which you’re interested.
You can even upload images of your home and create off of that (or work from pre-designed rooms).
Screenshots:
Click here for the Home Hardware design software.
4. Space Designer (Free)
Space Designer is software you can use to plan out rooms and/or entire home layouts directly on their website. It’s super easy to use (drag and drop) and fun. Designs can be in 2 or 3D.
While it’s free, they offer a donation option (no obligation). You can use this software directly on their website (nothing to download so it’s fast and convenient).
For businesses: Space Designer also offers white label interior design software options for businesses that would like to offer a design software platform for their customers and clients. Business such as interior designers, furniture retailers, real estate agents, bloggers … any business whose customers or clients would like to add a design software portal on their website.
Screenshots/Video:
Space Designer Demo Video
Click here for Space Designer
5. HomeByMe (Free)
HomeByMe is a free room planner software that you download. You can inject real products and furniture. Once done planning your room, you can convert it into a 3D graphic. Click here to get started. Check out a sample result below:
Example of an interior design by HomeByMe interior design software.
Screenshots/Video:
HomeByMe Demo Video
Click here for HomeByMe.
6. RoomToDo (Free)
RoomToDo is a free cloud-based interior design software that offers one unique feature which is what they call a 3D walk-through feature.
What this feature does is enable you to view your graphic designs as if you were walking through the space. You can do this from different angles.
It’s a very cool design feature that’s worth trying. FYI, you have many view options; not just the walk through.
RoomToDo also offers a white label home design software option for businesses that would like to offer clients and customers a design portal on their website.
Screenshots:
Click here to try RoomToDo.
7. RoomSketcher
RoomSketcher is an online floor plan and interior design tool that’s also free. What I like about RoomSketcher is they have ready made templates, user designs or design from scratch options.
You can also view designs in 2D or 3D. FYI, while the design software is free, if you’d like ready-made plans, they do cost money.
Screenshots/Video:
RoomSketcher Demo Video
Click here for RoomSketcher.
8. Small Blue Printer (Free)
Small Blue Printer offers floor planning/home planning software as well as garden/landscaping software. You can use the software online (so you don’t have to download or install anything).
Screenshots/Video:
Small Blue Printer Demo Video
Click here to use Small Blue Printer interior design software.
9. Olympic Paint Color Visualizer (Free)
With this software, you upload an image of your room and then add different colors to your image to see how the room will look. It’s designed to help you choose the right paint colors for your room.
There’s nothing to download or install – it’s done entirely on the Olympic website here. See more paint color software options here and check out our free online paint software which enables you to upload your own photos.
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10. My Deco 3D Room Planner (Free)
Here’s another easy-to-use web-based room planner software tool. It’s super convenient because you don’t have to download anything.
Screenshots/Video:
Watch the My Deco 3D Room Planner Video
Click here for MyDeco 3D Room planner.
FYI – they offer several video tutorials to help you get going.
11. Lowe’s Virtual Room Designer (Free)
For a free interior design software option, the level of detail is quite good. You can design a room from scratch or use one of the templates provided. The resulting graphics are nearly photo-quality (which is impressive… but then Lowe’s is a billion dollar company). Click here for Lowe’s Virtual Room Designer software.
See the 3 images below are some of the templates offered… these three images demonstrate the level of graphical detail with this software.
Screenshots/Video:
Click here for Lowe’s Virtual Room Designer software.
12. Houzz’ View in My Room (Free / Mobile Only)
Houzz recently launched a really cool feature in its app called “View in My Room”. What it does is it enables you to take a photo of your room and then you can insert images of furniture into that photo.
Talk about brilliant. This way you can see what furniture actually looks like in your room.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately if you’re on your phone) it’s only available as a mobile app.
Get it on Apple App store / Google Play.
Watch the Houzz “View in My Room Video:
13. Design Home (Free / Mobile Only)
Design Home (iTunes and Google Play) touts itself as an interior design game app, yet you can get many great design ideas for home.
Here’s a screenshot from the app:
Screenshots/Video:
Watch the Design Home Video
14. PlanningWiz
When you are buying a new home or you just want to redecorate and change the decor, you need to make it visual. You need a tool to quickly design and decorate floor plans so you can visualize it before buying furniture, flooring, painting the walls, etc.
So in order to make this job as easy as possible, you need to use a room planner with design features like drag and drop furniture, along with doors, windows, and colored flooring. In this way, you will layout your home and be able to buy the proper things which will fit your space and style.
PlanningWiz turns the unattractive task of remodeling a space into an exciting process through its game-like environment transformation and design features. Easy-to-use floor planner which is fun to use and for which you don’t need special technical skills, just an internet connection.
The floor planning projects can be:
- shared by email or on social networks;
- printed along with an itemized list of products;
- saved for future retrieval;
- export it in high-resolution images.With PlanningWiz you will find an extensive catalogue you can choose from, with the items you need in order to decorate your home. From the basic furniture to staircases, appliances & fixtures to outdoor furniture and decoration items, you can find all the objects you need in order to create a realistic plan of your home.PlanningWiz is free to use and create up to 5 floor plans, after 5 plans we have 2 plans you can subscribe to depending on your needs.When coming to easily sketch and visualize your plans, home planning begins with PlanningWiz!
Screenshots/Video:
Click here for PlanningWiz
15. SmartDraw Interior Design Software (Paid, but offers free demo)
SmartDraw is a popular software brand with which you can design house plans, kitchens, bathrooms, garages… pretty much any room of a house or the entire house. I’ve used SmartDraw software and can tell you it’s easy to use. The only downside is you must download it (instead of using directly on their website).
Create floor plans… plus cabinet designs, room layouts and more.
Screenshots/Video:
Watch the SmartDraw Interior Design Software Video
Click here for SmartDraw interior design software.
16. Chief Architect (Paid)
Chief Architect software offers a wide variety of programs, but their Home Designer Suite is their most popular product.
This software includes templates of all kinds to get started (or design from scratch). It renders in 2D and 3D. There’s specific kitchen and bathroom modules as well as landscape design options.
Screenshots/Video:
Home Designer Suite 2019
Watch the Chief Architect Software Video
Click here for Chief Architect Software.
17. Cylindo (Paid, but offers free demo)
Cylindo is a 3D interior design software that offers a free demo which is fun. It creates 3D designs but takes it a step further. Their focus is taking your furniture and turning it into 3D images that you can incorporate into your room designs so that you get an idea as to how your furniture will appear in the design.
Screenshots/Video:
Cylindo Software Video Demo
Click here to try a free demo of Cylindo.
18. Decolabs (Free app for iPad)
Decolabs is an app with which you take a photo of your room and then you browse through an e-catalog for products (sofas, tables, shelves, etc.) so you can see how various items will appear in your room. See the video below for more information.
Screenshots/Video:
Decolabs Video Demo
Click here for Decolabs.
19. IKEA Home Planning and Room Planner Software Tools (Free)
Obviously Ikea’s software platforms are to help you plan your room with Ikea furniture. That said, if you plan on buying Ikea furniture, it’s a good option. To get the software, click here and choose from the options provided. Note, you must install this software. They offer software for all kinds of rooms including kitchens, wardrobes, home offices, bathrooms and more).
Screenshots/Video:
Ikea 3D Room Planner Video Demo
Click here for the IKEA Home Planning Software.
20. FloorPlanner (Free and Paid)
You can create 1 plan for free. After that you pay for each additional plan. There are subscription plans as well. You can plan your entire home, individual rooms as well as landscaping. Moreover, you can inject furniture into your designs.
Screenshots/Video:
Watch the FloorPlanner Video Demo
Click here for FloorPlanner.
21. Space Designer 3D (Paid)
Space Designer 3D is a paid online interior design/room designer software.
It’s cloud-based so you don’t need to download anything at all.
One feature I really like is that you can view the 3D version in real time while creating your design. You don’t need to render it. This helps speed up the design process.
Example of a Space Designer 3D design:
Screenshot of the drawing tools:
Real-time 3D Visualization (very useful feature):
Screenshots/Video:
Space Designer Demo Video
22. HGTV Design Software (Paid)
It’s not surprising HGTV rolled out its own interior, home and landscaping design platforms. However, these aren’t free. You can choose from a variety of software options – home design, landscape design, kitchen design, floor plans, interior design, home remodeling, garden design, bathroom design and 3D home design.
Their software includes a fleet of how-to videos.
Sample of a design using HGTV Design Software
Sample kitchen design with HGTV Design Software.
Screenshots/Video:
HGTV Home Design Software Video Demo
Click here for HGTV Design Software.
23. Infurnia
Infurnia Interiors is a cloud-based interior design software with a lot of unique features. Despite being completely browser-based, Infurnia provides features on par or better than most desktop-based software. Users can create completely custom kitchens and wardrobes from scratch with a lot of customization available in a very easy to use interface. For loose furniture, users can upload their own 3d models or use Infurnia’s existing catalogue of furniture by different brands. Infurnia also gives an admin tool for store managers using which companies can very easily manage their designers, catalogues, pricing, etc.
– INFURNIA, Different by Design
Cloud-based designing – Access anywhere, anytime; Data backups
Smart Design Technology – Floorplanner; Assisted furniture placement; Collision avoidance
Superior Design Presentation – Photorealistic renders; Panorama renders; VR renders; 3d link sharing
Real Time Pricing
– INFURNIA, Different through Control
Catalog Management – Personal SKUs; Price Engine; Availability Management
Project Management – Define Project Stages; Real-time project tracking
Designer Management
Screenshots/Video:
Infurnia Demo Video
Click here for Infurnia
24. Punch Software (Paid)
Saving what is arguably the best interior, kitchen, bathroom and landscape design software for last (for the money).
Punch design software offers a great balance of ease-of-use, cost and design quality. They offer several software options, depending on your project.
Punch Software is extremely sophisticated; it’s used by professional interior designers because it creates designs that appear like photographs… but it costs money. They offer several software options and packages. With Punch, you can design your entire home, individual rooms and do landscaping designs. The degree of detail is unmatched.
Check out what you can create…
Screenshots/Video:
Punch Design Software Video Demo
25. Sketchup Pro
If you can stomach spending $695 on interior design software, you can’t go wrong with Sketchup Pro. It’s very powerful and is used by many pros such as Joanna Gaines from HGTV Fixer Upper. Note that in order to get the amazing 3D renders, you must export Sketchup pro designs into something like Lumion or Vray.
Screenshots/Video:
Sketchup Pro Software Video Demo
26. Coohom (Free/Paid versions)
Coohom is a free and intuitive interior design platform that balances your desire for a natural and interactive experience for making interior designs.
It offers a web browser tool as well as an iPad app (download from here) that lets you create 2D/3D floor plans, and visualize the end output in seconds in high-quality renders or VR panoramas.
Pros:
Easy to use, more than 20,000 models, customizable textures and colors, best renderings, VR experience
Coohom Free plan ($0): Floor planner for web/iPad with limited projects, model uploads, HD or 4K quality renderings, 720-degree tour, and unlimited standard quality renderings.
Coohom Pro plan ($30/mo): Floor planner for web/iPad with much more projects, HD or 4K quality renderings, 720-degree tour, and unlimited model uploads plus unlimited standard quality renderings.
Additionally, Coohom has Enterprise plan which is good for design studios.
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Visual Comparison of 6 Popular Interior Online Design Software Options
Below showcases visual differences among Space Designer 3D, Homestyler, Homebyme, floor planner, Planner 5d and Archilogic.
Digital Workspace
Below is a visualization how these 6 design software options organize the digital workspace.
2D Visualization
Below is a comparison of the 2D visualization among 6 interior design software services.
Rendered Graphics
Below is a comparison of the 3D rendering of the 6 online interior design software products.
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Free 3d Home Design Software Free Download
One of the worst things that can happen when you renovate or build new is having to rip down finished work because of a design flaw or mistake. It’s really frustrating, expensive and a huge waste of time. This is where the best home design software for your project can help.
We’ve tested many (and I mean many) design software products over the years and as a result we’ve published an extensive list of articles that lists/discusses the leading options for a variety of rooms, structures and projects.
Below you can access our individual articles that set out several leading options.
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Free 3d Home Design Software Mac
- A. Our Free Design Software Options
- B. Other Interior Design Software Options
- C. Outside, Exteriors and Structure Software
A. Our Free Design Software Options
We offer 2 free design software options. One is 3D online home and room plan software. The other is a room color paint visualizer software offering (also entirely online). Check them out:
1) Free 3D Online Interior and Home Design Software
Click here for our free 3D online home and room plan software. No download needed. It’s all online.
2) Paint Visualizer Software
Click here to use our free online room color paint visualizer software. With this software you can upload interior and exterior photos of your home and then mix and match hundreds of different paint colors.
B. Other Interior Design Software Options
Renovating or planning a home is a lot of work, both at the planning stage and in actually doing the renovation work. We have several friends going through some serious renovations currently and it’s a seemingly never-ending process… but it’s sure cool to see their results.
If you’re starting a renovation, consider trying some planning software. Check out the many options below.
1) 25 Interior Design Software Options
This is our flagship article where we comprehensively cover 23 free and paid home design software options with a focus on interiors. There are basic 2D free floor plan software options as well as much more robust 3D room and home design software options – both free and paid.
Also, check out our free interior design software here.
2) 24 of the Best Kitchen Design Software Options
Sometimes less is more and if you’re simply renovating your kitchen, you just need kitchen design software. Fortunately, there are specific kitchen software options but more likely you’ll opt for a comprehensive option that designs kitchens as well as other aspects of your home.
Our article explains each option in detail. From there you can choose.
3) 8 Closet Design Software Options
This is a fun article because let’s face it, coming up with clever storage ideas is fun. At least I like it. Closets are storage systems, whether a simple reach-in closet or an expansive walk-in closet.
If it’s a closet you’re designing, we got your covered with our in-depth article canvassing all the main closet design software options.
4) 16 Living Room Software Options
Living room design isn’t nearly as complicated as kitchens or bathrooms, but it’s still important to have a plan. If you like using software, it may well be worth getting floor plan software to sketch out a living room design. Even a simple 2D design with free floor plan software can help you out. However, you can opt for more comprehensive options that will help you choose furniture, wall colors, flooring, lighting and more.
5) 5 Virtual Paint Color Software Options
Expectant Couple Taking A Break Whilst Decorating Nursery
Paining a room or rooms is a simple and inexpensive way to dramatically change the interior look and feel. Arguably, the hardest part of the entire exercise is choosing the right color.
That’s where virtual paint color software can come in handy. These software options let you upload images and then you can apply different colors to the walls, floors and ceilings. This gives you an idea of what the room will look like with various colors.
While virtual paint software isn’t a replacement for doing some testing, it can help you narrow your options early on in the research phase.
6) 16 Bathroom Design Tools
If you’re designing a bathroom, whether a renovation or building a new home, you could definitely benefit from a bathroom design tool such as online software.
We have an article setting out 16 great bathroom design tools. Check them out:
7) Home Theater Design Software
If you want to add a home theater to your home, whether in the basement or an extra room or go all out with an addition, the starting point is to design it. Optimally you’ll design it with AV design software.
8) 9 Best Interior Design Apps in iOS and Google Play Stores
Check out this shortlist of the best paid and free interior design apps from iOS and Google Play.
9. Floor Design Software
If you’re getting new flooring or want new flooring, a great place to start is to use a floor visualizer. A floor visualizer is online software that enables you to visualize different flooring options in a room. Most let you upload your own image or use a provided room image.
We put together a list of the best floor design visualizers. Check it out:
Click here for floor design software (visualizers).
10. Wall Art Visualizer Software
When you want to see what a piece of art will look like on your wall, you need what’s called wall art visualizer software. Yes, people do think of everything.
The software options we set out are very easy to use. For the most part you upload an image of your room and then an image of the art. Assess and decide. It’s pretty cool. Check them out:
C. Outside, Exteriors and Structure Software
These days there’s software for everything including many aspects outside the home. Below you can access our feature articles and videos on a fleet of various design software options for outside your home.
1) 12 Landscape and Garden Design Software Options
If you have a hard time picturing a variety of flowers and plants in a garden, it may be worth getting landscape or gardening software to sketch out some garden layouts first. This can help you plan out your budget and which plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, etc. to buy and then how to organize them for best effect.
However, quality landscape design software doesn’t end there. The paid options offer a full suite of outdoor design features such as decks, pools, patios, retaining walls, home exteriors, lighting … pretty much every design element you may require for your yard.
2) 14 Deck Design Software Options
Deck design software is highly sought after because many people build their own deck, yet it’s a complex structure that really requires a plan.
While you can buy deck plans, these are typically generic and may require some customization which is where the software can help. Or, you simply wish to design your deck from scratch to best meet the space, aesthetic design and sought features.
3) 10 Fence Design Software Options
While fence software isn’t popular because it’s not a terribly complex project, it can be helpful in calculating material needs and experimenting with various looks. There are a lot of fencing options out there such as pre-built panels in wood or vinyl which makes fence building pretty easy. Most people go this route which requires merely figuring out how many panels and posts are needed.
4) 9 Garage Design Software Options
In our neck of the woods, more and more people are building garage structures with units for rent above the parking area. This can be a very good investment because of the rents you receive… enjoying rental income without tenants actually in your home, but instead in a separate structure. After all, if you need a garage, why not get the most out of the structure by making it an income-producing structure.
That said, there are many other uses for garage structures; not just rental suites. The upper level can be anything you want; truly bonus space.
5. Shipping Container Home Design Software
More and more people are looking to create unique, stylish homes from shipping containers. Fortunately, there’s also home design software specifically for designing homes built from shipping containers.
We put together a great list of container design software. Check it out:
6. Shed Design Software
Sheds are a great feature for any backyard. It’s terrific for storage or as an additional room. We have one and use it for storage, but they can be used for many purposes. Here’s the good news – you can design your own custom shed using some really great software. We put together a terrific list of such software. Check it out:
7. Gazebo Design Software
If you want to design and build a gazebo, get some gazebo design software. There are several good options. We list them out and provide a lot of screenshots showing you what the software does.
8. Log Home Design Software
Do you want to build a log home? They are truly stunning structures. Like so much in design, a good place to start is the design stage. Software can help. We put together a great list log home software design tools.
9. Tiny Home Design Software
Tiny homes are popular. Perhaps they’ve had their heyday, but I suspect not as home prices rise and as many of us become more environmentally aware. Tiny homes are far more efficient and use up far less resources. Perhaps not ideal for families with kids, they can be a terrific option for couples or single folks.
The starting point is designing such a home. That’s where the following article can help where we list 6 different software platforms that design tiny homes. Check them out:
10. Playhouse Design Software
Do you want to design and build a playhouse for your kids? If so, consider using one of several playhouse design software programs. Check it out:
11. Home Exterior Visualizer Software Options
If you want to visualize different elements of your home exterior such as roof shingles, siding, exterior color, exterior material, trim, windows and more, check out our list of free home exterior visualizer software options.
12. Front Door Visualizer Software
Don’t guess which front door you should get. Visualize it with free online front door visualize software. Yes, it exists and it’s easy to use. Fun too. There are loads of doors to choose from. Check these out.
13. Professional Architect Software (Pro-Grade)
If you’re a professional architect or simply want the very best building and structure design software, you have to check out our list of the best architect software options. This stuff isn’t cheap, but the results are as good as it gets.
Click here for architect software options.
That wraps up our main articles of home design software options for 2019. As you can see, there are plenty of options for each room of the home as well as structures. Of course, having many options makes choosing not so easy.
TIP: I own a license to Chief Architect. It’s an outstanding home design software platform. If you’re investing a lot of money into renovations, the cost of this software options isn’t very much in the overall scheme of things.