Short answer. Home Design 3D is a long-running, popular app for drawing a house in 2D and seeing it in 3D, on iPhone, iPad, Android, PC and Mac, with a large community sharing projects. It is the better choice if you want a simple, well-known house designer on several devices, and an iPhone or iPad is where its own site says the visit inside your project works. Flatwalk is the newcomer, made for planning a real flat on an Android phone: read a photo of your plan or scan the rooms, furnish them with real shop pieces at true size, add lights and the sun for your address, and walk through at eye level, free for one flat.
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| Flatwalk | Home Design 3D | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Planning your own flat, on the phone | Drawing and decorating a house in 2D and 3D, for amateurs |
| Works on | Android phone (iPhone later) | iPhone, iPad, Android, PC and Mac; a purchase on one platform does not carry to another |
| Planning one flat | ✓ FreeDraw, scan, measure, furnish, light and walk | LimitedFree to install, with ads on Android; premium features by subscription |
| Floor plan photo to 3D | ✓ 1 free tryRead from a photo of your plan | Import a plan image (JPEG, not PDF), set its scale and draw on top |
| Scan a room with the camera | ✓ FreeOn Android, by tapping the corners; no depth sensor needed | Not listedNot on the pages we read |
| Walk through at eye level | ✓ FreeEvery room, as often as you like, on Android | Its site says the visit inside your project is available on iOS only; its Google Play listing says you can walk through |
| Furniture | Real shop products at true size, with prices and buy links | Over 2,500 customizable pieces of furniture, accessories and materials, its site says; no shop prices listed |
| Lights | ✓ FreeCeiling lights, lamps and LED strips, seen lit | Lighting tools, as its store listing says |
| Sun | ✓ FreeFor your address, date and hour | A day and night slider to preview natural light; no address listed |
| Your street outside | ✓ FreeStreet and buildings in 3D where the map has them | Not listedNot on the pages we read |
| One piece in your room | ✓ FreeThrough the live camera or in a photo of the room | Not listedNot on the pages we read |
| If you want more | One membership with more flats and more of every AI tool | On the US App Store: weekly premium $4.99, monthly plans from $12.99, annual plans from $44.99 |
| Reviews | New | 4.0 stars from about 46,900 reviews on Google Play in the UK; 4.3 from about 105,000 ratings on the US App Store |
Home Design 3D's own site shows no prices. The prices above are the in-app purchases on the US App Store on 21 October 2026, in US dollars; its Google Play listing sells weekly or yearly subscriptions. Prices may differ in your country.
What Flatwalk does that older planners skip
Lights
Add ceiling lights, lamps and LED strips and see the room lit as you walk through it.
Your flat in its city
Give the address and the street and buildings around you appear in 3D where the map has them, so you see what is outside each window.
Sun for your address
The light falls where it really falls, by date and hour, not on a day and night slider.
One piece, in your own room
Through the live camera or in a photo of the room, stand a sofa on your own floor at its true size before you buy it.
Detail
Dozens of door and window types, and kitchens, wardrobes and bathrooms built piece by piece, with real floors, tiles and paints.
Made for a thumb
Tap a wall, a door or a sofa and the choices for that thing appear.
Swipe for more. Every picture is the app itself.
One flat, free
Most people plan one home. For that, Flatwalk costs nothing: no trial clock, no weekly subscription and no card. Draw the plan or scan the rooms, measure, furnish with real pieces from real shops, set the lights and the sun, and walk through it as often as you like. Each AI tool gives one free try: a flat from a photo of your floor plan, an AI photo of a room, a piece of furniture made from a shop link. A membership is for people who want more flats or more AI, and it bundles all of it in one price.
Where Home Design 3D is stronger
- It runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, PC and Mac. Flatwalk is an Android phone app for now.
- It designs whole houses over many floors, with roofs and attics, and exports to VR.
- It has a big community: share your projects on its site, find ideas and become Designer of the Week.
- It has over 10 million downloads on Google Play, tens of thousands of reviews and years of updates. Flatwalk is new.
Which should you choose?
- Choose Flatwalk if you have an Android phone and one real flat to plan, and you want to walk through it at eye level, lit, in its own sun and street, with a priced list of real furniture, without paying.
- Choose Home Design 3D if you want a simple house designer on iPhone, iPad or a computer, design a whole house over several floors, or enjoy sharing projects with a community.
Questions people ask
Is Home Design 3D free? It is free to install. On Google Play it contains ads and sells weekly or yearly subscriptions for premium features. Its support centre says that in the free version saving is disabled by default, and that saving and the full object library come with its upgrades.
Can I walk through my house in Home Design 3D on Android? Its own site says the visit inside your project is available on iOS only, while its Google Play listing says you can walk through your house. Flatwalk is built around walking through your flat at eye level on Android.
Can Home Design 3D import a floor plan? Yes. Its support centre says you can import a plan as an image, such as a JPEG, set its scale and draw on top of it; PDF is not recognised. Flatwalk reads a photo of your plan into a flat, with one free try.
Does Home Design 3D show the sun for my address? Its store listing names a day and night slider to preview natural light. We found no setting by address. Flatwalk places the sun by your address, date and hour.
Is Flatwalk free? Yes, for planning one flat: every ordinary tool, with no trial clock, and one free try of each AI tool. Memberships add more flats and more AI.
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