House Design vs Draft Paper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
House Design
Design your dream home with this intuitive interior design app. Create detailed 2D floor plans, furnish rooms with over 300 items, and automatically calculate room sizes. Export your designs to photos and enjoy efficient operation on your iOS device.
- Create detailed 2D floor plans
- Over 300 items and materials
- Export designs to photos
- Automatic room size computation
- Intelligent room recognition
- Efficient iOS operation
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House Design is an intuitive interior design app that lets you build the house you've always wanted, right on your iOS. Key Features: • Create detailed 2D floor plans • More than 300 items and materials • Export image to photos • Easiest and efficient operation ever in iOS • Auto compute room size • Intelligent room recognition
Draft Paper
Create floor plans, layouts, and blueprints with ease using intuitive drawing tools. Support for multiple layers, iCloud, and Dropbox integration allows for seamless workflow. Export your designs to various formats for printing or further editing.
- Draw lines, rectangles, text, and more
- Support for multiple layers
- Export to PDF, JPEG, and DXF
- iCloud and Dropbox integration
- Mirror, translate, rotate, and scale operations
- Apple Pencil support
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Draft Paper is a simple and intuitive way to make floor plans, layouts or blueprints quickly and easily. Touch and drag to draw lines and rectangles on up to 10 independent layers, then export directly to PDF, JPEG or DXF ready for printing, emailing or editing in other software. Full feature list: + Drawing: Line, Dotted Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Ellipse, Segment, Text, Erase, Measure, Presentation + Multi file iCloud support + Export to JPEG / Vector PDF / DXF + Upload / download from DropBox or any other compatible app + Mirror / translate / rotate / scale operations + Smooth, fast and intuitive zooming / panning + Multiple layers and colors + Selectable right / left handed modes. + Unlimited undo + Unlimited size drawing area + Apple Pencil support (including double tap) + Metric / Imperial (USC) units support + Designed for iPhone and iPad For full instructions please visit our website, http://draftpaper-app.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Draft Paper at Free against House Design's $2.99. Draft Paper also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (16K vs 257). House Design's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (69% vs 51%). On rating, 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
Draft Paper is free to download; House Design costs $2.99 up front. Draft Paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. House Design asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for House Design against 4.4 for Draft Paper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Draft Paper has 16K ratings behind it against 257, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of House Design's written reviews are positive against 51% of Draft Paper's.
House Design ships an update every 2 months, Draft Paper every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.
| Parameter | House Design | Draft Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (257 ratings) | 4.4 (16K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.3% of reviews — better | 50.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 257 | 16K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Meyers | Giles Goddard |
Customer experience
House Design
Draft Paper
User reviews
House Design
From 257 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Great for planning and visualization
- 💡 Helpful for home design and renovation
- 🙂 User-friendly app
- ⭐ Good value for money
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🔍 Difficult to resize and adjust elements
- 📏 Lacks precise measurement tools
- 🤔 Not very intuitive
- 🙄 Limited furniture and object options
Draft Paper
From 16K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive to use
- 💡 Useful for quick sketches and floor plans
- 🚀 Efficient for basic drafting needs
- 😊 Great value for the price
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and loss of work
- 🔧 Limited functionality compared to professional CAD tools
- 🔧 Difficulty with precise measurements and line placement
- 🔧 Lack of advanced features like text editing and color fill
Bugs and requests
House Design
Reported bugs
3 issues- Saved plans get mixed up or deleted
- Walls and objects randomly change size
- App crashes when trying to access certain features
Requested features
5 requests- Add metric measurement support
- Implement copy/paste functionality
- Improve wall resizing and editing
- Provide more furniture and decor options
- Include a tutorial or in-app instructions
Draft Paper
Reported bugs
3 issues- Saved files disappearing or becoming corrupted
- Inconsistent behavior when zooming and panning
- Inability to import/export files as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add copy/paste functionality
- Improve text editing capabilities
- Provide more precise measurement tools
- Implement ability to save multiple versions of a project
In-app purchases
House Design
No in-app purchases
Draft Paper
- All Features$9.99
