4Plan Home & Interior Planner

This is a handy app for basic home/room layout. I purchased the full yearly subscription. It is fairly intuitive to use and the learning curve is not too bad. So far no serious glitches or crashes. Some tools like text and measurements are not intuitively located. Concerned that support email address is not valid. Overall I’m happy with this app but feel it is a bit overpriced. Addendum: The developer contacted me regarding the contact email and it does work. That was likely my error.

I’ve been enjoying playing with this, but since I’m slightly more serious than just doodling (professional planner, coming up with ideas to field with the community, but not an actual architect), it’s a little too simple. Pros: the catalog of objects is good, lots of stuff to put in the houses. There are lots of wall and floor textures. There’s some good edit-ability, like you can change the height, width and depth of pretty much anything. Cons: the actual construction pieces of the app, like walls, stairs, roof shapes, are super limited. The roofs don’t snap except outside to outside edge of walls. There should be a snapping point that fits some standard eave overhang, doesn’t have to be a million options. It would also be nice if roofs snapped to each other. Dormers would be a good component to add. Also the gabled roofs don’t have side walls, just a big gaping hole on the side. You can’t even make a sloped wall to fill the space, the best I could do was make a wall in a bunch of segments of increasing height. There are no railings on the straight stairs, it would be nice if that was a toggle on the “edit” page so you can add “left” and “right” separately. The beds should be standard bed size by default, like twin/double/queen/king, instead they’re all random, and default to way oversized. It would be nice if there was a shape that’s a flat circle, for designing an ADA wheelchair turn-around, which should default to a 60-inch diameter. Currently I use a round table and make it 4” tall. It would be nice to be able to apply wall color and texture to an entire room, rather than each wall segment at a time. And finally, while there are a lot of doors, there are missing standard home doors like a double sliding glass door, and closet doors, like a double sliding door or a bifold. Just a little more polish would make this a really satisfying app, like I could make houses that 3D render to look like a place I might actually want to live.