Short answer. Homestyler is a big, established design platform on the web, iPhone, iPad and Android, with a very large library of branded 3D models and unlimited free renders at 1K. It is strongest at making pictures: renders, panoramas and walkthrough videos, with bigger sizes paid in coins or on its plans. Flatwalk is the newcomer, built for the phone, and it is about living in your real flat before you buy: walk through it at eye level, add lights, see the sun for your address and your street outside the windows, and keep a priced list of real furniture. Pick Homestyler for pictures and for working on a computer; pick Flatwalk to plan and walk one real flat on an Android phone for free.
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Side by side
| Flatwalk | Homestyler | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | The phone: tap a thing and its choices appear | The web, with apps for phones and tablets |
| Works on | Android phone (iPhone later) | Web, iPhone, iPad, Android |
| Planning one flat | ✓ FreeDraw, scan, measure, furnish, light and walk | ✓ FreeCloud 3D floor planner on its free plan |
| Floor plan photo to 3D | ✓ 1 free tryRead from a photo of your plan | Upload an image or a DWG plan on the web; its App Store listing puts plans from photos under "Pro Tools" |
| Scan a room with the camera | ✓ FreeOn phones that support it | AR room scan, as listed on Google Play |
| Walk through at eye level | ✓ FreeEvery room, live, as often as you like | 360° panorama tours and walkthrough videos; video renders cost coins |
| Furniture | Real shop products at true size, with prices and buy links | A very large branded library: over 1,000,000 models on its Google Play listing |
| Lights | ✓ FreeCeiling lights, lamps and LED strips, seen lit | Virtual lights for renders |
| Sun | ✓ FreeFor your address, date and hour | Not listedSun height and angle set by hand; none by address listed |
| One piece in your room | ✓ FreeThrough the live camera or in a photo of the room | Live AR preview at 1:1 scale, as listed on the App Store |
| Realistic pictures | ✓ 1 free tryAI photo of your room | ✓ FreeUnlimited 1K renders; 2K for 9 coins, 4K for 49 coins |
| If you want more | One membership with more flats and more of every AI tool | Pro+ from $6.8 a month, Master+ from $11.8 a month, Team $19.9 a seat a month |
| Reviews | New | 3.5 stars from about 91,300 reviews on Google Play in the UK; 4.4 from about 5,600 ratings on the US App Store |
Homestyler's prices are the "starts from" monthly prices on its own pricing page on 20 October 2026, in US dollars. Its App Store subscriptions are priced differently, and 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 while you walk through it, not only in a render.
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, with no sun angle to set by hand.
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. Nothing is hidden in a desktop menu squeezed onto a phone.
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 coins 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 Homestyler is stronger
- It works in a browser and on iPhone, iPad and Android. Flatwalk is an Android phone app for now.
- Its model library is far larger, and its free plan renders as many 1K pictures as you like.
- It has tools for designers: 4K and larger renders, panoramas, walkthrough videos, and export of floor plans, DWG drawings and a bill of materials.
- It has over 10 million downloads on Google Play 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 Homestyler if you want polished renders and panoramas, work on a computer or an iPhone, or design for clients.
Questions people ask
Is Homestyler free? It has a free plan. Its pricing page lists a cloud 3D floor planner and unlimited 1K renders on it; larger renders and videos cost coins, and its paid plans start from $6.8 a month.
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.
Can I walk through my flat in Homestyler? Its pages describe virtual tours made from 360° panoramas and walkthrough videos along paths you set. In Flatwalk you walk through the rooms live at eye level, as the main way of looking at your home.
Does Homestyler turn a floor plan into 3D? Its floor planner page says you can upload an image or a DWG plan and convert it to 3D with one click. Its App Store listing puts floor plans from photos under its Pro tools.
Does Homestyler show the sun for my address? Not on the pages we read. It has a sunlight setting for renders, where you set the sun's height and angle yourself. Flatwalk places the sun by your address, date and hour.
Can I use Flatwalk on an iPhone? Not yet. The Android app comes first.
Flatwalk is launching on Google Play. Join the waiting list at flatwalk.app.
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