Comparison

Live Home 3D vs Steinplaner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Live Home 3D

Create detailed floor plans and visualize your home designs in real-time 3D. This app offers tools for interior design, landscape planning, and renovation projects, allowing you to experiment with layouts, materials, and furniture before making real-world decisions. It supports architecture and construction-ready output for professional use.

Highlights
  • 2D floor plan creation
  • Real-time 3D visualization
  • Extensive object and material library
  • Landscape and terrain editing
  • LiDAR room scanning for renovations
  • Architecture and construction-ready output
Features
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Build a home, renovate an apartment or plan your garden with Live Home 3D—an intuitive home, interior and landscape design app that turns all design tasks into an exciting process, while giving you the powerful tools that no other app in the store can deliver. With Live Home 3D, you will be able to: • Create detailed 2D floor plan layouts. • Walk through your 3D interior designs. • Hone your design skills with the ready-made house and interior design samples (e.g., kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, etc). • Add and move furniture and other objects (5,000+ items), and apply physically based materials (3,000+ supplied materials). Thousands of free models can be imported from the Trimble 3D Warehouse and Sketchfab. • Import 3D models from other applications in all of the most popular formats. • Project your 3D home into real-world surroundings, and even walk around or inside the house using View in the AR option. • Scan your room or house using the Room Scanner feature based on LiDAR technology to recreate its digital copy in the app (only for devices with LiDAR sensors built-in). • Achieve natural lighting by setting up true geolocation, time of day and cloudiness. • Adjust light fixtures throughout the house to achieve a realistic lighting scene. • Set multiple cameras to create flyover videos and 3D renderings of your projects from different angles. • Work with the fully customizable roof; create corner windows and complex openings. • Easily share your projects among iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS or Windows devices. Share your projects with friends, contractors or on social media. • Export 2D floor plans as PDF and 3D views of your projects as high-resolution images. • Get highly realistic views of your designs with the Cycles rendering engine (unlimited number of renders). Your project will be rendered right on your device. • Export fast and high quality AI renders of your designs: choose from a multitude of presets and adjust simple settings. • Render realistic home interior and outdoor walkthrough videos. • Create Stereo 3D Video, 360° Video, Stereo 3D 360° Video and 360° Panorama JPEG images. Note: All exports have watermarks in the Free version of the app. Only one project at a time can be used in the Free version. The Standard Features In-App purchase removes the watermarks, save limitations and the 2-floor limit of the Free version. The Pro Features In-App purchase additionally unlocks the advanced features listed below: • Export quality extended to Ultra HD for movies and 360° Panoramas, and to Hi-res (16,000 x 16,000) for still shots. • Terrain editing tools for landscape design: create elaborate terrain with elevation lines and pits, lay driveways and plan out your garden or backyard. • Material Editor that allows you to create sophisticated custom materials, controlling their texture and light emissive properties. • 2D Elevation view that displays the side view on walls and roof; a perfect tool for working with openings, niches and wall panels. • Custom-shaped roofs: freely edit roof segments to roofs of any form and complexity. • Multi-purpose Building Block tool for creating columns, beams or even furniture. • A wider range of camera settings. • Export the entire house design or several objects to USDZ, glTF, SCN, SCNZ, FBX or OBJ formats. • Light Source Editor with a wide range of settings that helps you create custom lamps or achieve the best lighting for your projects. Note: Starting with Live Home 3D version 5.0, you can create an app account and link all your in-app purchases to it, sharing them across all available platforms without re-buying.

About

Steinplaner

Visualize EHL products in your home or garden using augmented reality. Scan your surroundings, select an area, and choose products and colors to see a 3D model of how they would look. Get inspiration for your patio and garden planning.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality visualization
  • 3D product models
  • Pavement and tile selection
  • Wall design for gardens
  • Product finder integration
  • Dealer locator
Features
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With just a few clicks in the AR Steinplaner app, you can quickly get an impression of what the EHL products look in your home. Just pick a pavement for your driveway, a tile for your patio or a wall for your garden. The app then shows you, in 3D, how it look like built in your home. Simply scan your surroundings with the camera of your smartphone or tablet. Select an area on your touch screen and pick a product and a colour. The app then shows you a 3D model of the built-in products in your garden. As support for your garden planning and patio planning you get a better picture, which product fits in with which color of your house. Do you have questions about the products? Then find out now about our product finder: https://www.ehl.de/hausbesitzer/produktfinder/ Did you find a suitable product? Then simply send a request without obligation through the app request or find the nearest point of sale through our dealer finder https://www.ehl.de/hausbesitzer/haendlersuche/

Screenshots

Live Home 3D4 screens
Steinplaner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Live Home 3D at 70% against Steinplaner's 0%. Live Home 3D also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 28 months). Steinplaner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Live Home 3D sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Steinplaner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Live Home 3D holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Live Home 3D has 19K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Live Home 3D's written reviews are positive against 0% of Steinplaner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Home 3D ships an update every 6 weeks, Steinplaner every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Live Home 3D versus Steinplaner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive Home 3DSteinplaner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (19K ratings) — better2.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews69.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 28 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size528 MB148 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBelight Software, ltdEHL AG

Customer experience

Live Home 3D

All ratings18,996 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews1,004 reviews
Positive69.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative17.9%

Steinplaner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Live Home 3D

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Roof creation bug causing endless upside-down pyramids
  • Floors and walls disappearing or turning to grass
  • Inability to access or load previous projects
  • Frequent crashes when importing from Trimble
  • Textures not applying correctly to objects

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to create custom shapes and objects
  • Full Apple Pencil Pro support
  • Integrated electrical, plumbing, and HVAC design tools
  • More furniture, decor, and material options
  • Improved sorting and filtering of objects
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  • Curved staircase and chimney options
  • Ceiling light and fan integration

Steinplaner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Live Home 3D

Subscriptions4
  • Standard Features - 1 Month$5.991 Month
  • Pro Features - 1 Month$14.991 Month
  • Standard Features - 1 Year$19.991 Year
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  • Pro Features - 1 Year$39.991 Year
One-time6
  • Additional Materials$5.99
  • Scandinavian Furniture$5.99
  • Outdoor Object Collection$5.99
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  • 50 Houses Pack$5.99
  • Standard Features - Lifetime$59.99
  • Pro Features - Lifetime$129.99
None

Steinplaner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Live Home 3D free?
Live Home 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steinplaner free?
Steinplaner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Live Home 3D or Steinplaner?
Live Home 3D is rated higher. Live Home 3D averages 4.6 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Steinplaner averages 2.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Live Home 3D or Steinplaner have ads?
Neither Live Home 3D nor Steinplaner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Live Home 3D or Steinplaner?
Live Home 3D ships an update every 6 weeks, and Steinplaner every 28 months. Most recently, Live Home 3D was updated on September 24, 2026 and Steinplaner on September 10, 2026.

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