Comparison

Smart Home Design 3D vs 3D Box Maker

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

Head to head
About

Smart Home Design 3D

Easily create 3D floor plans and furnish rooms with extensive furniture libraries. Generate high-resolution images and virtually explore your designs in first-person mode. Ideal for planning building projects or decorating your own home.

Highlights
  • 3D floor plan creation
  • Extensive furniture libraries
  • High-resolution image generation
  • First-person walkthrough mode
  • Light and shadow effects
  • Measurement function
Features
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Smart Home Design offers you the opportunity to quickly and easily create 3D floor plans and furnish your rooms according to your taste. Create high resolution images of your project with Smart Home Design. Convince your customers and business partners with 3D images. Use first person mode to virtually walk through your project. Plan your building project or furnish your own home. Smart Home Design will help you with this. Particularities: * Extensive furniture libraries for interior decoration * 3D viewer, fly cam mode and first person mode * Photo function for creating high-resolution images * Filter functions * Light and shadow effects * Skymap function * Measurement function Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

3D Box Maker

Features
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3D Box Maker is a builder for 3D-printable boxes and enclosures. Set the sizes, add holes, boards and a lid, then save STL or 3MF files ready for your slicer. BODY • Width, depth, wall height, wall and floor thickness, corner radius • Overall and inside dimensions shown as you edit HOLES AND STANDOFFS • Holes in the floor, any wall and the lid: round, rectangular, slots, hexagons • Connector cut-outs: USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, RJ45, DB9, audio, DC power, keystone jacks • PCB standoffs with screw holes • Arrays of identical holes and standoffs: set the step and the count BOARDS • More than 100 templates: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP32, Teensy, sensors, interface converters, motor drivers, displays and more • Your own board with its size, mounting holes and ports • A standoff under every mounting hole and port cut-outs in the walls, added for you • Ribs under the board and a clamp: screw posts with a T piece LID • A lid with a lip and an adjustable clearance • Screw fastening: corner bosses with a 45° taper that print without supports • Engraving from an SVG drawing: cut it into the lid or fill it in another colour as an inlay for two-colour printing PREVIEW AND EXPORT • 3D preview: isometric, top, front and side views, lid lifted off • Warnings when a board does not fit, a hole runs past an edge or a standoff is taller than the walls • Undo and redo • STL and 3MF export: base, lid and inlay as separate files; the 3MF of a lid with an inlay holds two coloured bodies • A 1:1 floor sheet to print for marking out PRIVATE AND OFFLINE The app works without the internet and without an account. Your boxes and files stay on your device only — we collect nothing and send nothing anywhere. Ukrainian and English, light and dark theme. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://api3d.serenity.games/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://api3d.serenity.games/legal/privacy Deleting your data: https://api3d.serenity.games/legal/delete

Screenshots

Smart Home Design 3D4 screens
3D Box Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 3D Box Maker at none against Smart Home Design 3D's 2. 3D Box Maker also leads on ads (none vs shown). Smart Home Design 3D's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence 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. Smart Home Design 3D sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. 3D Box Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Smart Home Design 3D versus 3D Box Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Home Design 3D3D Box Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (125 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings125 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size360 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian KemperAndrii Kedrov

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Smart Home Design 3D

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Version (1 Month)$7.991 Month
One-time1
  • Pro Version$5.99
None

3D Box Maker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Home Design 3D free?
Smart Home Design 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 3D Box Maker free?
3D Box Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smart Home Design 3D or 3D Box Maker have ads?
Smart Home Design 3D shows ads; 3D Box Maker does not.
Which is updated more often, Smart Home Design 3D or 3D Box Maker?
Smart Home Design 3D ships an update fortnightly, and 3D Box Maker fortnightly. Most recently, Smart Home Design 3D was updated on October 24, 2026 and 3D Box Maker on October 24, 2026.

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