The best AI interior design app is the one built for the result you need: ideas for a room you live in, real furniture you can buy, a floor plan to scale, or staged listing photos. Below are nine options with their prices, free tiers and the limits that decide between them, plus a scoring test you can run on one photo of your own room. If you were about to look up the best AI interior design app on Reddit to find the weak spots, each option below lists its limits right next to its price.
Best AI interior design apps at a glance
Prices as of September 2026.
| App | Starting price | Free option | What it does | Key limits | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Paid plans raise the usage limits | Free plan, with caps on image generation and uploads | Edits your room photo from a description, then one selected area of its result | No room presets or style menus | Talking through a redesign and editing the same photo |
| Gemini app | Google AI plans add 2K downloads | Free for adults 18 and older | Edits your room photo from a typed prompt | Free downloads are 1K | Quick edits on your phone |
| RoomsGPT | Monthly credit plans | Free daily credits, no account needed | Restyles a room photo in more than 60 styles, or only the area you paint over | Free use has a daily cap; paid plans add downloads without a watermark | Trying many styles on one photo for free |
| IKEA Kreativ | Free | Free | Erases your furniture and places IKEA products in a photo or 3D scan | IKEA's catalog only; no curtains, pillows or pendant lamps yet; full-room scans need a LiDAR phone | A room you'll furnish from IKEA |
| Planner 5D | Premium $19.99 per month, or $59.99 per year | Free plan with unlimited projects and half the catalog | 2D and 3D floor plans, with AI floor plan recognition on Premium | The Free plan has half of the furniture catalog | Layouts and floor plans to scale |
| Interior AI | Pro $49 per month, or $29 per month billed yearly | Paid plans only | Redesigns room photos in more than 50 styles | Wall painting and design editing need Premium ($99 per month); no refunds | Frequent redesigns, with a commercial use license from Pro |
| REimagineHome | Monthly credit plans, from Essential at 30 credits | 5 free designs, no card | Redesigns, virtual staging, exterior and landscaping edits | 1 credit per design, 2 with real products | Room and yard ideas before paying |
| Toybox Room Refresh | Currently 10 credits for "Tips only", 85 for "New look + tips" | 20 free credits at signup, enough for two "Tips only" plans | A written plan by budget, or tips plus one redesigned picture | Indoor rooms only; one picture per run; no revise box | A plan that fits a budget, for a room you live in |
| Toybox Virtual Staging | Currently 90 credits per photo | 20 free credits at signup don't cover one | Furnishes a room photo in 8 styles, and can clear it first | 1K output; no "virtually staged" label added | Staging listing photos one at a time |
Test any app on one photo of your room
Every app redraws a room its own way, so the fair way to choose is to run one photo through two or three free tiers and score what comes back. Take the photo from a corner in daylight with the windows, floor and ceiling line in the frame, write one short brief (room, style, budget, what stays), and paste the same brief into every app.
| Check | What to look at | It passes if |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture kept | Windows, doors, ceiling height, radiators, outlets | Every one is where it is in your room |
| Your furniture kept | The pieces you said to keep | They're still there, in the same color |
| Scale | A bed, sofa or rug against the walls you measured | The piece would fit your real room |
| Style range | The same photo in two styles | The two results look clearly different |
| Editing | Changing one thing, such as the rug | Nothing else in the room changes |
| Cost per usable picture | Credits or dollars spent per result you'd keep | It fits how many rooms you plan to do |
| Download | Size and any watermark | It's large enough for where you'll use it |
The best free AI tools for interior design let you run this test at no cost: ChatGPT, the Gemini app, RoomsGPT's daily credits, IKEA Kreativ, Planner 5D's Free plan and REimagineHome's 5 free designs. Keep the best result from each app and look at them side by side on a laptop. Small problems, like a window frame that bends, are hard to see on a phone.
Options compared
The AI tools for interior design fall into three groups: general assistants that edit any photo, room-specific apps with style menus and staging, and planners that work to scale. Each option below lists what it does, what it costs, and where it stops.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT edits a photo you upload from a written description, and on a picture it has made, you can select one part to change only that area. The same chat can also produce a written plan, such as the order to buy things in. The Free plan includes image inputs and image generation up to a usage cap, and paid plans raise it. It has no room types or style menus, so the quality of the brief is up to you. It fits someone who wants to think through a redesign in words and see it on their own photo.
Gemini app
Google's Gemini app changes a photo you upload based on what you type, in a browser or in its phone app. Editing requires signing in, being at least 18, and living in a country where the app is offered. A free account saves 1K images, and a Google AI plan raises that to 2K. It fits quick edits on a phone, such as a new rug or a different sofa color, when a 1K picture is enough.
RoomsGPT
RoomsGPT restyles your room photo in more than 60 styles, and you can start on its free daily credits without making an account. It can also change one part of the room: paint over an area or name the object, and the rest of the photo is left as the reference. It covers house exteriors and gardens too. Paid plans replace the daily cap with a monthly pool of credits and add downloads with no watermark and no ads. RoomsGPT's own page tells you to compare the doors, windows and furniture sizes with your original photo. It fits someone who wants to try many looks on one room before paying for anything.
IKEA Kreativ
IKEA Kreativ is IKEA's free virtual room designer, built into its phone app for both iPhone and Android and also available in a desktop browser. You start from a picture of your room, erase the furniture that's there, and add pieces from the IKEA catalog. On a phone with LiDAR, it can scan the whole room in 3D, and on the web a room builder takes your dimensions by hand. It also offers more than 50 pre-built rooms for ideas. It doesn't handle textiles like curtains and pillows, ceiling-mounted items like pendant lamps, or full kitchens, which go to IKEA's separate Kitchen planner. Every product comes from IKEA, so it suits a shopper who already plans to buy there.
Planner 5D
Planner 5D is a floor plan and 3D room planner for web, iOS, Android, macOS and Windows. The Free plan has unlimited projects with half of the furniture catalog. Premium costs $19.99 per month or $59.99 per year. It adds the full catalog, AI Studio credits (100 a month on monthly billing) and AI floor plan recognition, which reads a floor plan you upload and builds a 3D version you can edit. Professional costs $49.99 per month or $399.99 per year. It fits anyone who needs the layout to scale, which photo editors can't give.
Interior AI
Interior AI redesigns room photos in more than 50 styles and works in a laptop or phone browser. Pro costs $49 per month, or $29 per month billed yearly at $349, and includes 1,000 designs, uploads of your own room, your own design prompts and a commercial use license. Premium costs $99 per month, or $49 per month billed yearly at $599, and its plan list adds design editing, wall painting, lighting changes and virtual staging. Interior AI says it can't offer refunds, so try a free tool elsewhere before you subscribe. It fits someone redesigning many rooms a month who wants staging and paint in one place.
REimagineHome
REimagineHome covers interior redesign, virtual staging, and exterior edits such as landscaping, hardscaping and lawn replacement. The first 5 designs are free for new accounts, with no card required. After that, you choose a monthly credit plan: Essential (30 credits), Pro (200), Advanced (400) or Agency (900). One design costs 1 credit, and a visualization with real products costs 2. REimagineHome says it keeps walls, windows and ceiling lines by default unless you ask for structural changes, and its listing workflow handles up to 50 photos at once. It fits someone testing room and yard ideas before paying, and agents with many listings.
Toybox Room Refresh
Room Refresh in Toybox AI starts from one photo of an indoor room, a style from Modern to Traditional (or one you type), and a budget level from "Under $50" to "$500 and up". Its cheaper mode, "Tips only" at a current 10 credits, is a written plan covering lighting and layout, with a rough price next to each quick fix. "New look + tips", currently 85 credits, adds a redesigned photo of the room, a list of what changed and shopping priorities. It runs on the Free plan in any browser. It handles indoor rooms only, makes one picture per run and has no revise box, and its picture isn't to scale. It suits a room you live in and a budget you've already set.
Toybox Virtual Staging
Virtual Staging furnishes a room photo in one of eight styles: Modern, Scandinavian, Minimalist, Mid-century, Industrial, Bohemian, Coastal or Luxury. A "Clear the room first" switch empties a furnished room before it's staged, and "Room type" covers seven spaces, from a kitchen to a kids room or a patio, or can be left on "Detect it for me". It currently costs 90 credits per photo on the Free plan and returns one 1K image. No disclosure label is added to the image, so agents write their own. For costs, rules and which rooms to stage, read about virtual staging for real estate.
AI for interior designers
For a working designer, AI tools fit the early, loose part of a project: concept pictures to react to, a mood board for a first client meeting, or a quick "what if" on a client's photo. Layouts, dimensions and specifications need a planner or CAD software, such as Planner 5D's Professional plan. Three checks before AI images go to clients:
- The license. Read each tool's terms for commercial use. Interior AI lists a commercial use license from its Pro plan. Toybox's Terms of Service say you own the rights to the outputs you generate, subject to the Terms, and you're responsible for how you use them.
- The label. Tell clients which images are AI concepts, not renderings of specified products.
- Listings. If a design image goes into a real estate listing, label it as virtually staged right next to the picture and show the original photo too, so buyers know what the empty room really looks like. Check the listing site's own photo rules before you upload.
For wording that works in any of these tools, see the AI interior design prompts.
Which one should you pick
To find the best AI app for interior design, decide what you need in hand at the end: a picture, a shopping list, a floor plan or a staged listing photo. Five common cases:
- A renter who wants ideas for free. Start with ChatGPT, the Gemini app or RoomsGPT's daily credits, and include "renter-friendly, no painting, no drilling" in the brief.
- Furnishing from one store. Use IKEA Kreativ. Every piece it shows is a real IKEA product, which a general photo editor can't promise.
- A layout that has to fit. Use Planner 5D or another floor planner. Even the best AI interior design from a photo shows only the look; a planner drawn to your measurements shows whether the sofa clears the door.
- An agent with many listings. REimagineHome's listing workflow handles up to 50 photos at once. For a few photos at a time, Toybox Virtual Staging charges per photo in credits, which you can buy without a subscription.
- A room plan inside a budget. Use Room Refresh, choose the "Budget" level, and start with "Tips only" before paying for a picture.
For step-by-step instructions in each tool, see how to redesign your room with AI. For small rooms by budget, the small room makeover ideas go further.
Try Room Refresh on your own room
Upload one photo to Room Refresh under "Photo of your room", start with "Tips only" if you mainly want a plan, move to "New look + tips" when you want to see it, and set the "Budget" under "More options". Put the things that stay, such as the windows and the bed, into "Anything specific?". Count the windows and doors in the result and check each piece against your measurements before you buy. New accounts get 20 free credits, and current prices for plans and top-ups are on the pricing page.