Best Apps For Home Improvement

The most comprehensive collection of the best apps for home improvement on iTunes. Presenting the 50 best iPad, iPhone and iPod touch apps as checked by our expert product specialists, based on positive reviews, high app ratings, popularity, and personal recommendation from customers.

Best Apps For Home Improvement

WikiHow (iOS/Android): With free how-to guides covering virtually any topic, including repairs, life hacks, and DIY projects among others, wikiHow can walk you through any variety of tasks from unclogging a shower drain to installing a sprinkler system.
DIY Tip Genius (Android): Sometimes you have a good idea but still need a little advice on how to execute it properly; this free app is great for providing tips (and professional secrets) to the casual handyman. With over 3,800 tips spanning categories like painting, lawn care, and remodeling, the advice that could make or break your project is just a few taps away.
iHandy Carpenter (iOS/Android): This simple app ($1.99) contains five convenient carpenter measuring tools: a plumb bob, a surface level, a bubble level bar, a protractor, and a ruler. Having these common tools all in one place is handy for DIY repairs and experienced contractors alike.
Home Improvement Calcs (iOS): With over 250 types of calculators, this app ($1.99) makes it easy to determine supply quantities for all kinds of projects–from how much concrete is required to fill a posthole to how many stone paver bricks are needed to complete a pathway. Results can be viewed as either decimals or fractions, and you can save favorite calculations for easy future viewing.
Photo Measures (iOS/Android): Snap photos of a room in your house, note measurements, and save them with this app ($4.99 for Android, $6.99 for iOS). These photos are handy references to have on hand when you’re out shopping for furniture or talking to a contractor.
For Planning and Painting
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Trying to envision a new room layout or paint color and committing to it is stressful, and you don’t want to waste time or money redoing things if you don’t end up liking it. These apps can help give you a bit of foresight by virtually designing floor layouts and testing paint colors to give you at least a rough idea of how they’ll look before committing to anything.

Floor Plan Creator (Android): Create detailed and precise floor plans for your renovation or custom home build, and even design layouts for individual rooms and entire floors of your house. You can define dimension lines and modify distances and sizes, and the app will automatically calculate room, wall, and level areas. The free app lets you add doors, electrical, and furniture, then take a 3D tour of your house once you’re done to make sure everything flows.
Home Design 3D (iOS/Android): If you want to map out your home’s exterior and interior digitally to see how it would look if you remodeled it, this is your app (free). You can create a 3D model of your home, test out floor plans, draw a room layout in 2D, create openings, add walls, select furniture and decor, and even see how your house would look at different times of day with variable lighting.
Project Color—The Home Depot (iOS/Android): Explore paint colors and trends, mix and match combinations, and virtually try out colors before you buy samples with Home Depot’s free app. See how your favorite paint colors look in the app’s sample rooms or take a photo of your own spaces to see how they’d look there, using augmented reality. If you like what you see, click to purchase the paint directly through the app from your local Home Depot Store.
Benjamin Moore Color Portfolio (iOS/Android): Forget swatches! Look through hundreds of the company’s paint colors and when you find one you like, you can virtually try out the color to see how it would look in your house with this free app. Simply snap a photo of the room you want to paint, then tap on a wall and the app will overlay the color.
For Landscaping
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Having a beautiful well-landscaped yard is desirable, and it can be just as fun to design how your yard will look as it will be to enjoy it. These apps are great for designing your backyard escape or your entire yard down to the last detail, before heading to a home improvement store to buy plants and gear.

Home Outside (iOS): You can tap and drag any of the app’s 700 hand-drawn elements to create the perfect garden or full yard landscaping design. The app ($2.99) makes it easy to plan out pathways, decks, cutouts, firepits, and even flowerbeds, and you can move them around or swap them out for something else until your dream yard looks perfect.
Garden Designer (Android): This app ($3.49) lets you plan out your backyard retreat by dragging and dropping virtual landscaping elements like decking, pavers, bushes, and fencing around on the screen. There are over 1,000 objects to choose from—and you can tweak item colors and sizes—so you can experiment with varying layouts and plants until you’ve included everything you want and it looks magazine ready.
iScape Landscape Designs (iOS): If you need help visualizing and planning out the garden or yard of your dreams, download iScape. With the free app, you can create a photorealistic or virtual rendering of your new garden, and build out your own oasis before committing to it.
For Inspiration and Shopping
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Now for the fun part—shopping! With your repairs, upgrades, and remodeling done, it’s time to find the perfect furniture and other little touches that’ll make your place look great. Don’t have ideas and are looking for inspiration? Let these apps be your muse.

Pinterest (iOS/Android): Although most people know it as the website where dream weddings and vacations are planned, it’s an excellent free resource for finding inspiration for just about everything, including homes and yards. Browse thousands of photos of gorgeous landscaping, home exteriors, and home decor. Plus, there are tons of how-to guides and links for buying things you see (and fall in love with) directly from the app.
Houzz (iOS/Android): This free app is a one-stop shop for finding and saving ideas for room layouts, furniture, and decor ideas; locating the perfect professionals to come make your renovation and decor dreams come true; and shopping for the furniture and fixtures you’ve always wanted.
RoOomy (iOS): Being able to try something before you buy it is the name of RoOomy’s game. The app helps you discover new decor trends for free and offers virtual room staging where you can virtually “try out” furniture and decor in a 3D rendering or augmented reality. You can even click on items you like to purchase them for your actual home.
Chairish (iOS): You can buy new and used furniture here or sell yours on consignment. The free app has stylish modern and vintage picks along with advice and inspiration, and though the site is a bit pricey, it’s a great place to find that perfect statement piece (and for window shopping).

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Virtual Home Design & Renovation Apps
Whether you are doing it for your own home, or being an interior designer, working for your clients, virtual renovation apps are a lifesaver for everyone. Whether you are looking to remodel your kitchen or to restyle your bedroom; you can get a clearer idea about how things will turn out to be once the renovation process is done. By switching between 2D and 3D views in certain apllications, even those who are less experienced in CAD, may see and understand the outcome in virtual reality. This helps to make time and money saving decisions while leaving no room for doubt. As the technology gets more accessible, we see more and more such applications appearing on the market. Here are a few that stand out as the best apps in this area.

Open Plan Kitchen Setup in Homestyler Free App
Open Plan Kitchen Setup in Homestyler
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Homestyler
This is one of the most user-friendly apps. What became a global platform was originally developed by Autodesk. Homestyler wasn’t created for professional users but was instead focused on designing homes and being used by anyone. You can bring your ideas of floor planning, angled walls, and other decor ideas, to virtual reality. The app is intuitive and easy to operate. It is highly recommended for those looking to bringing significant changes to their living spaces. You can also purchase the Pro version for more perks and enjoy the advanced features.

Floorplanner
When you see the images in the Floorplanner application, you may find them familiar, especially if you have recently looked to buy, sell or rent a property. This is because many professional property agents use this application to build high-quality floor plans for their brochures and online entries.

Floor Plan in Floorplanner Virtual Home Design App
A quick floor plan design in browser
(Screenshot: Floorplanner)

SketchUp
Initially, we briefly tried SketchUp as a 3D design for 3D printing software, which was some time ago. But apparently, it is a perfect home designing tool that gives a lot of flexibility in designing. You will feel like you are drawing everything by hand. You might have to download a few objects to do the designing, and with a good internet connection this app will work seamlessly. Its premium version can give access to the advanced features.

Cedreo
Cedreo is a home designing, remodeling, and building app that professional builders widely use. It lets you create 3D and photorealistic interior designs using the library of 7,000 plus furniture items and decorative pieces. As an interior designer or an architect, you can provide your client with the finished product in no time. This will help to finalize deals way quicker compared to when you used to do it all manually.

IKEA
The online rooms and furniture planner. You can start playing around with a kitchen, bathroom or any other rooms online without creating an account. If you have never heard of IKEA, then we can tell you that it is a popular ready-to-assemble (flat packs) home furniture retail chain with the maze in-store showrooms and warehouse-like floors.

Virtual Office Room in IKEA Planner
With some basic 3D design skills we found it was super easy to play around with IKEA planner.
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As expected, in this browser-based virtual planner, it is possible to have the IKEA products only. We had a great experience with IKEA iOS 3D app when tested some of the furniture in AR mode for our LiDAR apps blog.

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Planner 5D
Planner 5D is another user-friendly app that lets you get your design done with drag and drop options. You can easily change colors, add new items to the room, and choose these items’ sizes. This app not only lets you to design a room, but you can also take a virtual tour of your home as if you were walking around the place. You can choose the 3D and 2D modes as per your convenience and needs. The only drawback is that you will have to purchase the app if you want to save a photo of your design. If you are a professional designer, then it might be worth investing considering all the benefits, convenience, and ease of usage.

Sweet Home 3D
Downloadable software and online application Sweet Home 3D provides you with a vast amount of decor and furniture objects in the library which gives you the perfect tools to materialize your creative ideas. No prior technical designing and building skills are required; the simple drag and drop options can get your work done quickly. You can also edit, resize, and recolor the objects. In addition, Sweet Home 3D allows you to take a virtual tour of your home.

Roomstyler
Another intuitive designing app that you can easily master to use. There are a lot of tutorial app videos that can help you learn basic usability. Roomstyler gives you an option to furnish your home with actual products from the furniture stores. This will let you decide which appliances and items that you wish to buy will go with your home interior.

Virtual Renovation Services
If the applications listed above do not entice you, or you find that they do not help for the lack of inspiration or design vision, you may want to turn to the professionals. The virtual professional services will design and stage the rooms in your house for you using their knowledge and experience. Professional interior designers may help you to get the desired result much quicker and recommend materials, or even builders, for the project.

Padstyler
Padstyler is a team of virtual stagers and interior designers. Their big collection of virtual furniture is really impressive. We spent quite a few dozens of minutes just scrolling through it. Before-After transformations are also eye-catching. If you have no time for mastering the new software or application, certain services can be purchased from professionals.

Living Room – Before – After Staging
Living Room Staging – Before – After
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Conclusion
Interior designing and renovation have never been so easy and fun. With just a few taps, you can instantly achieve your dream interior decor or layout right in front of you. These are the best home virtual renovation apps that are bound to make the process seamless for you.

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