Home Planner vs Homestyler (2026): Which Design App Fits You?

EmilyInterior Designer · October 26, 2026

Home Planner and Homestyler compared honestly: catalog, ratings, platforms and prices, facts checked on 26 October 2026.

This is the closest pair in our comparison series: Home Planner and Homestyler are both freemium design apps with web and mobile reach, AI helpers and a free starting tier. The differences are in scale — catalog and ratings — and in the toolkit: Homestyler reaches toward CAD with DWG import and parametric stairs and roofs.

Every figure in this comparison was checked on 26 October 2026 on the vendors' own pricing and platform pages and in the US App Store. Both apps' weak spots get the same treatment below, including ours.

The short answer

Home Planner's case is size and ratings: a 560,000+ item catalog against Homestyler's 100,000+ (both vendors' own claims) and a 4.60-star US App Store rating against 4.42. Homestyler's case is its CAD-adjacent toolkit: DWG import, parametric stairs and roofs and 720° panorama tours, plus a generous free Basic web plan.

Which one is right for you?

Home Planner fits when scale and mobile matter:

• Catalog size is your deciding factor: 560,000+ items against 100,000+ (vendors' own claims, 26 October 2026).
• You want native Windows and Mac apps with published system requirements.
• You design mainly on a phone and want the higher-rated iOS app: 4.60 (46,453 ratings) against 4.42 (5,566).
• You want AR room scan and laser-meter support alongside the editor.

Homestyler fits when the toolkit matters:

• You need DWG import for CAD drawings.
• Your projects need parametric stairs, roofs or 720° panorama tours.
• You live in the browser and want a free Basic web plan.

At a glance

Where Home Planner is stronger

Catalog size, on the vendors' own figures

560,000+ items against 100,000+ — both numbers are the vendors' own claims, checked 26 October 2026. Claims are not audits, but they are the only published figures, and the gap is more than five times.

The rating gap

4.60 stars (46,453 ratings) against 4.42 (5,566) in the US App Store, 26 October 2026. Home Planner's rating also rests on a sample more than eight times larger.

Native desktop apps, stated requirements

Home Planner ships Windows and Mac applications with published system requirements. Homestyler's site names a “Desktop Version” but does not state which operating system it supports (checked 26 October 2026). If your machine must run the tool, that omission matters.

Where Homestyler is stronger

CAD-adjacent features

DWG import and parametric stairs and roofs are features aimed at users who think in drawings. Home Planner targets consumers and designers who think in rooms.

720° panorama tours

Homestyler markets 720° panorama tours; Home Planner's walkthrough is in-app 3D rather than a shareable panorama asset.

A free web studio

Homestyler's Basic web plan is free, and their claimed 100,000-model library is a generous free starting point — larger than many paid apps' catalogs.

What users say

Homestyler's US App Store listing is quiet: only 11 reviews landed in the 12 months to 26 October 2026 (we fetched the 100 most recent). Themes from those 11, with the sample-size caveat they deserve, next to our own 60 newest:

• Homestyler's happiest recent reviewer: “Homestyler is by far my favorite designing app” (5 stars); another praises the web build: “Great web on PC” (4 stars).
• The unhappiest describe losing work: “all edits disappeared after a glitch” (1 star). With 11 reviews, one bad month moves every percentage — treat these as signals, not statistics.
• Home Planner's mirror-image complaints: 11 of 60 say the free plan is too tight; 6 of 60 say AI recognition misreads dimensions.

Limitations of Home Planner

• The free plan is real but limited: 11 of 60 recent US reviews say the PRO line sits too close to everyday features. Homestyler's free Basic web plan is a genuinely generous starting point.
• No DWG import, no parametric stairs or roofs, no 720° tour export; CAD-adjacent workflows fit Homestyler better.
• AI floor-plan recognition misread dimensions for 6 of 60 recent reviewers; 3 of 60 report freezes.

How to try Home Planner

1. Install Home Planner free on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows or Mac.
2. Draw the room, scan it with AR, or start from a photo of your floor plan.
3. Furnish it from the 560,000+ item catalog and render the result in 3D.
4. If you need the full catalog, PRO starts at €5.99/mo billed annually — every tier is on one public pricing page.

Home Planner is the home design app behind homeplannerapp.com. Homestyler is a product of Easyhome Homestyler; this independent comparison was not written with and is not endorsed by Homestyler. All facts and figures in this article were checked on the vendors' own pages and in the US App Store on 26 October 2026.