Do you
remember the time, when you were buying a chair, a lamp, a carpet, or
anything else? Remember how excited you were about the fortunate
purchase, rushing home… and find out that an item did not fit the room?
Argh. And there were only two further options: either return the goods
and go back to the start, or leave and live with it. Fortunately,
with new tech advances and stuff like Augmented Reality these times are
gone. Selecting colors for the interior, creating a drawing or a model
of a room, staging it with the furniture – all of this is possible
thanks to AR furniture apps.
14 best AR furniture apps to check
And here we’ve prepared the list of
best Augmented Reality furniture apps and AR design apps, all of which
are worth trying out. Enjoy.
Read more: 20 best AVR development companies
1. Houzz
As one the best app for designing,
building, re-modelling and decorating, Houzz immediately took over the
new AR technology. Besides buying (choose among more than 10 million
products or use the Visual Match to scan the products from the pictures)
and social options (sharing pictures), the user can use View in My Room
3D mode to visualize the furniture or decor elements in the surrounding
space with the help of AR. After launching new ARKit in 2017, they have
updated app with the new features, adding options to place and move
more than 500,000 objects.
With last updates, the app 3D images
became more reliable: the image transfer of material texture is now
better, the room lighting is already accounted. The
same as the official website, the Houzz app is multi-languages
(English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish,
Swedish), free to download, available on App Store, Google Play, Amazon,
Microsoft Store (AR mode is valid for first two).
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA, U.S. / Founded: 2009 / App launched: 2017 / Download App Store, Google Play /Contact: +18003684268
Website: https://www.houzz.com/
2. IKEA Place
Probably, on the most expected app
after releasing new ARKit from the furniture giant. IKEA Place gives the
opportunity of virtual placement the any of the furniture element from
their store. 3D images are quite accurate and can сonvey the real-life
sizes. The consumer can share the result of virtual fitting through the
social media.
Headquarters: Leiden, Netherlands / Founded: 1943 / App launched: 2017 / Download: App Store / Contact: +18888884532
Website: www.ikea.com
3. DecorMatters
Relatively young but ambitious
company, DecorMatters helps to visualize any interior design. Unlike the
IKEA Place, using this free app, consumers can place the furniture from
such stores as Amazon, Wayfair, Crate & Barrel, West Elm, IKEA,
Ashley, Target, Lamps Plus, Living Spaces or fit in the own-made crafts
from HomeGoods, Michaels Store, Hobby Lobby, Etsy. The clients can
switch from different colours, fabrics, patterns and styles. The newest
addition, AR ruler, helps to measure the size of the rooms, compare 3D
furniture with real dimensions to provide customers with the best
understanding how good each object will suit their place.
Headquarters: Milpitas, CA, U.S. / Founded: 2016 / App launched: 2017 / Download: App Store / Contact: +18006869161
Website: https://decormatters.com/
4. Homestyler Interior Design
In its early years, the Homestyler
was one of the first websites which provided accurate and
easy-to-interact web floor planner. But with the growth of the AR
technologies the company started to move forward into a mobile version
with the use of advanced technologies. Available for both major app
markets, Homestyler AR app gives the ability to decorate the living
space by styling the walls, adding furniture and decor items.
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With this app, your phone or tablet
transformed into a virtual fitting room. Simple took a picture, refine
the photo by aligning walls with room corners, browse and select any
item, rotate, lift and shift it where you want to see it in your room. The
Easyhome Homestyler app helps to find inspiration among the existing
projects in Design Stream, provides social media sharing features and is
available in such languages as English, French, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish.
Headquarters: Beijing, China / Founded: 1999 / App launched: 2014 / Download: App Store, Google Play / Contact: +861084098771
Website: https://www.homestyler.com/
5. Hutch
Focused on the simple idea “to
discover the inner interior designer”, Hutch app helps to virtually
customize the living space, without risk to make of unnecessary and
unsuitable purchases. The app catalogue includes furniture and decor
elements from the most popular companies, the customer can sort products
by price, style, colour or brand. The latest updates make it possible
not only place the objects, but also virtual paint the walls and save
the different variants of the design.
Headquarters: Los Angeles, U.S./ Founded: 2015 / App launched: 2017 / Download: App Store, Google Play / Contact: +12676871099
Website: https://www.hutch.com/
6. Neybers
Neybers, unlike similar apps,
provides the range of designed room-templates additional to those, which
the user can create by himself with the camera on the mobile device.
The app counts numerous products from real brands and designers,
provides options to change the floor, ceiling, windows and
wall-textures, add lighting effects, shadows and photo filters. With
Neybers, user can publish unlimited amount of rooms, share the results
via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email and iMessage and
interact with friends through the app. With the subscription to Neybers Plus for $4.99/month, user gets unlimited access to all products and templates.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden / Founded: 2012 / App launched: 2014 / Download: App Store, Google Play / Contact: info@neybers.com
Website: http://partner.neybers.com/
7. roOomy
With the largest in the world gallery
of furniture products, as they claim, roOmy AR app helps to discover
tons of new design ideas to renovate the apartment. The head function
“try, before buy”, which runs on AR technology, makes it possible to
view the 3D models of selected products on the background of the room,
decide if they’re fit. Each AR model has a tag “view info” which leads
to all necessary information with the ability to start shopping.
All presented products like tables,
chairs, beds, floors, curtains and others can be changed and selected by
colurs, fabrics, patterns and styles. roOmy collaborates with such
design companies and websites as Houzz, Amazon, Wayfair, Crate &
Barrel, West Elm, Target, Haverty’s to provide the widest range of
furniture and accompanying materials. Any proud self-named designer can
create, save and share the projects via email or social media (
Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter). If there is a need for
some inspiration, the user can find a library of sample 3D rooms.
Headquarters:San Jose, CA, U.S. / Founded: 2010 / App launched: 2015 / Download: App Store / Contact: +14087824301
Website: https://www.rooomy.com/
8. Housecraft
The app, alike to the interesting
game, helps to place fully rendered 3D models. Even with a limited
number of usable products, the consumer can easy to plan the future look
of the room. Housecraft app has the intuitive interface, makes precise
measurements of each item (width, height, depth), allows to save room
templates. The great feature is persistent tracking, with which the user
can view the 3D objects from any angle.
Headquarters: Los Angeles, US / App launched: 2017 / Download: App Store / Contact: hello@housecraftapp.com
Website: http://www.housecraftapp.com/
9. SayDuck
Trusted by such companies as Alessi,
Archiproducts, Artemide, Kristalia, Wilde+Spieth, the app allows
selecting over 5000 products from 150 world leading design brands. The
AR mode makes it possible to stage the own living environment, with the
product you are considering to buy, create own collections of favourites
objects. The decor and furniture elements can be dragged, zoomed,
rotated, duplicated and removed from the working scene.
Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland / Founded: 2012 / App launched: 2015 / Download: App Store / Contact: info@sayduck.com
Website: https://sayduck.com/
10. Pottery Barn 3D Room View
Like with IKEA Place, Pottery Barn AR
app gives opportunity to virtually visualize only their own products,
fortunately, their amount can impress any inveterate designer. AR mode
is both suitable for already furnished or empty places, allows to easily
add, remove, or move items around the room, select and change their
colour, zoom to see each detail.
Headquarters: San Francisco, U.S. / Founded: 1949 / App launched: 2017 / Download: App Store, Google Play / Contact: +180015002222
Website: https://www.potterybarn.com/pages/3d-room-view/
11. iStaging
The most significant part of iStaging
is that this app works in both AR and VR mode. The primary function of
fitting in any kind of the furniture is added by the ability to take the
pictures of the projects and share the result. Aside from AR
experience, iStaging platform is also a great tool for virtual
decoration the real estate for sale. VR Editor and VR Maker help to
create beautiful 360° VR tours, by using rendered panoramas, adding a
floor plan and hotspots and more.
Headquarters: Taipei, Taiwan / Founded: 2014 / App launched: 2014 / Download: App Store, Google Play / Contact: https://www.istaging.com/en/contact
Website: https://www.istaging.com/
12. Amikasa
An award-winning app, on monthly
basis is adding more elements of furniture to their AR catalog.
Providing one of the best AR experiences, it allows to model real items
with further opportunity to buy them. All 3D models are performed with a
high quality, and, according to the consumers, the app is simple and
clear in use. As a business
owner, you might be interested in collaboration with Amikasa – no matter
if you are a well-known brand or start-up with a few items to show, the
company will create by itself 3D model based on product information
(photos, drawings, samples, etc.).
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands / Founded: 1999 / App launched: 2015 / Download: App Store / Contact: info@amikasa.com.
Website: http://www.amikasa.com/
13. Overstock
As one of the biggest American online
retailers, Overstock has a lot to offer to its consumers. The app’s
latest AR upgrades were focused on providing a smarter way to furnish
the house. Overstock app works not just like mobile retail platform with
all features (Android Pay, Apple Pay, ordering, notifications, etc). It
also allows to browse, search and virtual fit in selected decor or
furniture items. Users can visualize a product within a room, save and
share pictures, add products to the shopping cart.
Headquarters: Midvale, UT, U.S. / Founded: 1999 / App launched: 2016 / Download: App Store, Google Play / Contact: +1919579926
Website: https://www.overstock.com/
14. Anthropologie
Anthropologie is another retail
giant, who saw the potential in AR to boost sales and implemented it
into their app. Being only on the early start, AR updates already
delivery almost 100% fabric details and colour accuracy. Thanks to
integration with ARKit, app users can play with furniture items with 152
colors and 130 styles. And the Home Décor section is a part of this
app, to deliver best buying experience to customers.
Headquarters: Philadelphia, PA, U.S. / Founded: 1992 / App launched: 2015 / Download: App Store / Contact: +18003092500
Website: https://www.anthropologie.com
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