Short answer. Live Home 3D is a serious home design program on Android, iPhone, Mac and Windows. It walks through your design, places the sun by date, time and location, renders with a ray tracer, and you can buy it once instead of subscribing. It is the better choice if you want to design a whole house, roofs and garden included, and you have a strong phone, tablet or computer. Flatwalk is the newcomer, made for planning a real flat on an Android phone: read a photo of your plan or scan the rooms without a depth sensor, furnish them with real shop pieces at true size, and walk through, free for one flat.
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| Flatwalk | Live Home 3D | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Planning your own flat, on the phone | Designing houses and interiors, from amateurs to professionals |
| Works on | Android phone (iPhone later) | Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and visionOS |
| On Android | Android phone | Android 12 or newer, 4 GB of memory and 4 GB of free storage |
| Planning one flat | ✓ FreeDraw, scan, measure, furnish, light and walk | LimitedFree version: one project at a time, up to 2 storeys, exports with a watermark |
| Floor plan photo to 3D | ✓ 1 free tryRead from a photo of your plan | Import a floor plan image and draw over it |
| Scan a room with the camera | ✓ FreeOn Android, by tapping the corners; no depth sensor needed | Not listedNot in its Android feature chart; a LiDAR room scanner is listed for iPhone and iPad |
| Walk through at eye level | ✓ FreeEvery room, as often as you like | ✓ FreeWalk through your 3D interior; recorded video walkthroughs too |
| Furniture | Real shop products at true size, with prices and buy links | 2,400+ objects (over 5,000 on its Google Play listing), plus Trimble 3D Warehouse and Sketchfab; no shop prices listed |
| Lights | ✓ FreeCeiling lights, lamps and LED strips, seen lit | Colour and brightness of every light, and a Light Editor |
| Sun | ✓ FreeFor your address, date and hour | Time of day, date and the exact geographic location of the house |
| Your street outside | ✓ FreeStreet and buildings in 3D where the map has them | Terrain tools to model the land around the house yourself |
| One piece in your room | ✓ FreeThrough the live camera or in a photo of the room | Not listedView in AR is listed for iPhone and iPad, not Android |
| Pictures | ✓ 1 free tryAI photo of your room | Unlimited ray-traced renders on the device; AI renders with paid credits |
| If you want more | One membership with more flats and more of every AI tool | Standard $5.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $59.99 once (was $79.99); Pro $14.99 a month, $39.99 a year (was $49.99) or $129.99 once (was $149.99) |
| Reviews | New | 4.2 stars from about 2,400 reviews on Google Play in the UK |
Live Home 3D's prices are the US dollar prices on its own store page on 21 October 2026, before sales tax or VAT. They 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.
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. It is a phone app first, not a desktop program carried over.
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 licence 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 Live Home 3D is stronger
- It runs on almost everything: Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and visionOS. Flatwalk is an Android phone app for now.
- It designs whole houses: roofs, lofts, dormers, terrain, pools and paths, and in Pro custom roofs and building blocks.
- It renders on your device with the Cycles ray tracer as often as you like, and exports panoramas, 360 degree videos and 3D models.
- You can buy it once, and its site says it has been installed on more than 12 million devices. 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 scan or read its plan, furnish it with real pieces, see it lit and in its own sun and street, and walk through it without paying.
- Choose Live Home 3D if you design a whole house or garden, want ray-traced pictures and videos, work on a computer or tablet as well as a phone, or would rather pay once.
Questions people ask
Is Live Home 3D free? It is free to download. Its own pages list the free version with one project at a time, up to 2 storeys, and images and videos that carry a watermark. Standard and Pro features are sold by the month, by the year or once.
Does Live Home 3D work on Android? Yes. Its Android page asks for Android 12 or newer, 4 GB of memory and 4 GB of free storage. Its LiDAR room scanner and View in AR are listed for iPhone and iPad.
Does Live Home 3D show the sun for my house? Yes. Its Android page says you can change the time of day and the date and set the exact geographic location of the house. Flatwalk does the same from your address, and shows the real street outside.
Can I walk through my design in Live Home 3D? Yes. Its tech specs say you can walk through your 3D interior, and you can record a video walkthrough along a camera path.
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.
Flatwalk is launching on Google Play. Join the waiting list at flatwalk.app.
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