Sweet Home 3D
Free, open-source interior design app for drawing floor plans and furnishing them in 3D.
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About Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application for homeowners, renters, students and hobbyists who want to plan a room or a whole house without learning professional CAD. You draw walls, doors and windows on a 2D floor plan, drag furniture from a catalogue onto it, and a 3D view updates alongside so you can walk through the result. The full download ships with thousands of furniture models and hundreds of textures, more can be imported, and finished designs can be rendered as photo-style images or short videos. The desktop app is free and open source under the GNU GPL and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux (it is built on Java, with installers that bundle what it needs). There is also a browser version and paid mobile apps for iOS and Android. It is aimed at home layouts rather than construction drawings, so architects needing BIM, structural detail or precise documentation will outgrow it, and the interface looks dated next to newer web planners.
Best for: Homeowners and hobbyists planning room layouts and furniture for free.
Pros and cons
What works
- Free and open-source desktop app with no feature paywall
- 2D plan and live 3D view side by side
- Large bundled furniture and texture library, plus imports
- Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, with a browser version
Why people leave
- Not suited to professional architectural drawings or BIM
- Mobile apps are paid
- Interface and rendering look dated next to newer web planners
Top Sweet Home 3D alternatives
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Blender74.4Free open-source 3D suite for far more realistic interior renders, at the cost of a much steeper learning curve.
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SketchUp68.8More flexible 3D modelling with a huge model warehouse, good once you need custom shapes beyond room layouts.
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FreeCAD67.0Free open-source parametric CAD with an architecture workbench for precise plans and building elements.
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Archicad64.8Professional BIM software for architects who need construction documents, not just furnished floor plans.
- 5AuAutodesk Revit49.1
Industry-standard BIM tool for architectural projects that need detailed, coordinated building models.
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Sweet Home 3D: common questions
Is Sweet Home 3D free?
Yes. Sweet Home 3D is free, open-source software.
Is Sweet Home 3D open source?
Yes.
What platforms does Sweet Home 3D run on?
Sweet Home 3D is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android and Web.
What are the best alternatives to Sweet Home 3D?
The highest-ranked Sweet Home 3D alternatives right now are Blender, SketchUp and FreeCAD. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.