House Designer

I actually use this app quite often and find it helpful with figuring out layout for my home and for my vendor booths. I do wish they would add more stuff, ie furniture, colors, textures,etc. It does fell like this app was abandoned before it was finished. The colors and textures for objects don’t all show up and you have to just tap until you find the color you want. And it often locks up when using 3D view. I paid for the premium, expecting more functionality, but it isn’t much difference, if any. Its limited, but useful for basic stuff.

This seems like a project someone gave up on part way through. It’s very unpolished and full of major flaws and bugs. It isn’t very smooth to use and the different views just don’t measure up. My other big problem with this app is that the free version is worthless to anyone who wants to design the interior of a house/room. The app description is misleading: not being able to save the design is not the only restriction of the “lite” version. The majority of the furniture and nearly all of the textures are not available without paying. There are no beds, sofas, chairs, or desks available in the free version. I feel that $6 is much too high a price for basic functionality in an app that was never really finished. Good “simple” apps are typically inexpensive, with visually appealing and intuitive interface, and because they are not complex, the limited features they do have are fine-tuned and effective. This app currently does not live up to any of that. With all that said, I think this app has real potential as a basic home design program. If the developers were to pick it back up and do some major updates, it could be something quite useful and enjoyable. That said, the current price would likely still be excessive for what this app is. It’s definitely not applicable to a professional setting, and it lacks the features and functionality that would make anything above $3-4 reasonable, even if all the issues I said earlier were resolved.

I bought the premium version and used it 0n my iPad Air 3 (OS 15) for a couple of hours. I enjoyed some of the features and 3D view to walk through your floor plan. But there are too many bugs. If you save your plan and come back later to continue working, it can no longer be edited. Not helpful for a big project. And it’s really a drag when the app crashes before you are finished, and it did several times. The wall texture feature defaults to a 2 layer option, where the upper half of the wall is white and wood paneling on the lower half. No matter how many times you adjust it, it falls back to this default. I finally finished a room layout and saved it. Upon reopening it. It looked pretty nice. But the layer with the dimensions is not locked to the layer with the floor plan. They move around and zoom in and out independent of one another. Also, the 3D view loads without any walls after saving it. Just freestanding furniture and cabinets. I gave the app 2 stars, because it is a good start with nice templates and features. It has the potential to be a good app. But it just wasn’t usable with these shortcomings. So, I uninstalled it and asked for a refund.