Home Design 3D alternative: Home Design 3D vs Scooch
Home Design 3D plans whole houses in 3D. Scooch is for the room you already have, and whether the furniture you want fits in it.*
I used Home Design 3D faithfully in the past, and paid for it. It is a capable house designer. Today it feels slow and dated for the job I kept opening it for: I did not need hundreds of couch designs, I needed to know whether one couch fits. So I made Scooch, simpler: rooms at their real size, furniture you resize to the centimetre or draw yourself at its real size, and a red outline when something does not fit.
Emils, who makes Scooch
Pick Home Design 3D if you are planning a house or a renovation over several floors and want to see it in 3D.
Pick Scooch if you have the room already and want to know whether the furniture fits, for one price.
 Home Design 3D |  Scooch | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Designing a whole house over several floors, in 3D | Checking that furniture fits a room before you buy or move it |
| US rating (average) | No 4.3★ | Yes 5.0★ |
| Plan without paying† | Limited With ads, most items locked and saving limited, per recent reviews | No A guided first room; planning needs the $9.99 unlock |
| Pay once, no subscription** | No Subscription only | Yes $9.99 |
| Cost for one year if subscribed** | $44.99 to $79.99 4.5× ours | No subscription |
| Warns when furniture does not fit† | No A table on the sofa went unflagged in our test | Yes Overlaps and pieces outside the room turn red |
| Furniture at sizes you type*** | Yes Per its listing | Yes To the centimetre, plus pieces you draw |
| 3D view*** | Yes | No |
| Scans the room with the camera*** | Not described on the listing | No You measure and type |
| No account needed† | Yes Its sign-in page can be skipped | Yes No account |
| No ads† | Not tested; recent reviews describe ads | Yes No ads |
| No tracking (App Store privacy label) | No Declares data used to track you | Yes No data linked to you |
| Languages | Yes 10 or more | Yes 10 or more |
| Last update | Q4 2026 | Q4 2026 |
| Get it | App Store | Download |
Where Home Design 3D is stronger
Whole houses
Several floors, adjustable wall thickness, height and angles, roofs, and a 3D walkthrough with VR export: the right toolbox for a house that is not built yet. In a room you already live in, the walls and the roof are given, and what is left to decide is the furniture.
Thousands of items
Far more than Scooch's 37 everyday pieces, with sizes you can change: 584 under Living room alone in our test. Handy for styling a house. Your own sofa, or the one in the shop, is unlikely to be among them, though, so checking it means minutes of scrolling for a near match that you then resize to its real measurements anyway. And our test iPhone had bought it years ago: recent reviews say that without the subscription, most items are locked.
Blueprints
Import an existing plan and draw over it.
Where Scooch is stronger
A warning before you lift anything
Scooch outlines in red a piece that overlaps another or sticks out of the room, so a misfit shows on the plan, not on moving day. In our test, in Home Design 3D's own furnished sample house, we moved the lounge table onto the sofa and it said nothing.
One price
$9.99 once. Home Design 3D is a subscription, and recent reviews describe earlier one-time purchases moving to it.
No tracking
Home Design 3D's App Store privacy label declares data used to track you, and it asked to track us on first launch; Scooch's label declares none.
Room to open it, not just to stand it
Scooch draws each wardrobe door's swing, each drawer's pull-out and a sofa bed opened out, so you can see whether the door clears the desk and the drawer clears the bed, not only whether the piece fits.
About Scooch
A 2D room planner for checking that furniture fits, before anything heavy moves.
- Rooms drawn at their real measurements, joined into an L or a U
- 37 everyday pieces at real sizes, each resized to the centimetre
- A drawing tool for any other piece, at any size
- Overlaps and pieces outside the room outlined in red
- Wardrobe doors, drawers and sofa beds drawn with the space they need to open
- PNG and PDF export, metric or imperial, 26 themes
- iPhone and iPad, synced through your own iCloud
Home Design 3D and Scooch, side by side
Screens we captured ourselves, Home Design 3D on the left, Scooch on the right. Ours ran on an EU App Store account, so prices on screen are in euros.†
Before your first room
Home Design 3D on first launch: a page asking whether we would like to create an account, which Later skips.
A room with furniture
The ground floor of Home Design 3D's furnished sample house in its 2D view.
Choosing furniture
Home Design 3D's catalogue: 584 items under Living room alone, each with its size.
A table moved onto the sofa
The same floor with the lounge table moved onto the sofa: nothing flagged.
What we saw using Home Design 3D
On 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account.†
- It opened with Apple's tracking request, then a page asking whether we would like to create an account. Later skips it.
- A room in its 2D view took one drag, with the wall lengths drawn inside and out. Furniture comes from a large catalogue, 584 items under Living room alone, each with its size.
- In its furnished sample house we moved the lounge table onto the sofa. Nothing turned red and nothing warned us. (Earlier, in an empty room, two sofas dropped on the same spot, half through a wall, went unflagged too.)
- We could not see its free version. The iPhone we used is signed in with our own Apple ID, which bought Home Design 3D years ago, and every paid feature we tried was open. Its prices here come from the US purchase list.
What Scooch does not do
- Plan houses or floors. Scooch plans rooms in 2D. For a whole house over several floors in 3D, Home Design 3D is built for that.
- Offer hundreds of sofas. 37 everyday pieces you resize to the centimetre, and a drawing tool for anything else at its real size. The question is whether yours fits, not which one to pick.
- Ask for a subscription, an account or your data. $9.99 once, 0 ads, nothing to sign up for.
What recent reviews of Home Design 3D mention
From the 100 most recent US App Store reviews of Home Design 3D, read on 23 October 2026. These are individual experiences, not tests we ran, but these themes came up more than once:
- long-time users who bought the one-time Gold edition or content packs and lost access after the move to subscriptions
- most items and tools locked, an ad before a project starts, and projects that will not save without the subscription
- crashes after recent updates, including projects that no longer open
Pricing
Home Design 3D is free to download; premium is a subscription at $4.99 a week, $12.99 to $22.99 a month or $44.99 to $79.99 a year (US). We could not check its free version ourselves: our test iPhone's Apple ID bought it years ago. Scooch is a free download; planning needs a one-time $9.99 unlock.
Questions
Does Scooch do several floors or 3D?
No. Scooch plans rooms in 2D. You can keep several plans, but not floors stacked in 3D.
Does Home Design 3D warn when furniture will not fit?
Not in our test (version 5.10, 23 October 2026): in its own furnished sample house, a table moved onto the sofa was not flagged. Scooch outlines both pieces in red.
Is either a one-time purchase?
Scooch is: $9.99 once. Home Design 3D's US purchase list shows only weekly, monthly and yearly plans.
Try Scooch
Rooms at their real size, furniture at real sizes, and a red outline when something does not fit. $9.99 once.
* We make Scooch, so weigh our view accordingly. Facts about the other apps come from their US App Store listings, purchase lists, privacy labels and public US reviews, checked on 23 October 2026, and from using each app ourselves. Versions compared: Home Design 3D 5.10, Scooch 1.0.2.
** US App Store prices. The US list does not name plan lengths, so a plan's length comes from the app's own upgrade screen, and a US price is used only where it clearly matches that plan. “Cost for one year if subscribed” is the cheapest listed plan that covers 12 months. A mark on “Pay once” only says whether a one-time unlock exists; “6× ours” compares a price with Scooch's $9.99 once.
*** As each listing describes it. A dash means the listing does not say, not that the app cannot do it.
† What we saw using each app ourselves, on 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account; screens from that account show euro prices, the prices on this page are the US ones. Offers can differ by country and change over time. On “Plan without paying”, a tick means free with no ads, amber means free with ads, an account or locked parts, a cross means a payment or a trial comes first, and a dash that we could not open the app. “Warns when furniture does not fit” is what happened when we took a furnished room from each app's own samples or templates and moved the coffee table onto the sofa.