House Designer vs FieldFab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
House Designer
Design your dream home with this intuitive interior design application. Create detailed 2D floor plans and visualize them in real-time 3D. Access a vast library of items and materials to bring your vision to life.
- Real-time 3D view
- Detailed 2D floor plans
- 300+ items and materials
- Export image to photos
- Auto compute room size
- Intelligent room recognition
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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 iPad/iPhone. Key Features: • Real time 3D view • Create detailed 2D floor plans • More than 300 items and materials • Export image to photos • Easiest and efficient operation ever in iPad • Auto compute room size • Intelligent room recognition Lite version restrictions • Design can't be saved
FieldFab
This app helps HVAC installers create precise ductwork transitions in the field using augmented reality. It streamlines the process of measuring, designing, and visualizing complex ductwork before cutting any materials, saving time and reducing errors.
- Augmented reality visualization
- Ductwork transition design
- Field measurements input
- Sheet metal cutting optimization
- Sharing and PDF export
- Open source
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This software allows HVAC installers, primarily retrofitters, to build the very best ductwork transitions they possibly can while in the field. Doing ductwork transitions by hand can be a tedious and labor intensive process, but is very often necessary in order to achieve good airflow. When you cut each piece you have to keep track of which side will have tabs, how long the tabs are, and sometimes even if you do it right you end up with gaps or noticeably crooked faces. If you've ever found yourself building a transition in the attic of a three story house then you will absolutely love Field Fab. Now you can take your measurements, input them into Field Fab, and you can then view the results via Augmented Reality using your iPhone or iPad's camera before even cutting a single piece of sheet metal! This saves you trips back and forth to the van and saves you the hassle of bringing a large piece of sheet metal into the attic. Sometimes it's nice to have the transition ordered at your nearest sheet metal fabricator to have delivered before install day. Well with Field Fab, your sales crew can take the measurements and view them before an installer even shows up. Field Fab includes a sharing feature that allows other people to view the transition you made in FieldFab by sharing a link, which means it works over text message and email. No attachments! If you would like attachments, FieldFab also has the option to export to PDF. FieldFab is open source and available on GitHub for anybody to download. https://github.com/robertmsale/FieldFab
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FieldFab at none against House Designer's 2. House Designer's advantage is ratings volume (7.4K vs 79) and review sentiment (63% vs 50%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. House Designer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. FieldFab asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for House Designer against 4.5 for FieldFab. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: House Designer has 7.4K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of House Designer's written reviews are positive against 50% of FieldFab's.
House Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, FieldFab every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | House Designer | FieldFab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7.4K ratings) | 4.5 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.4K — better | 79 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Meyers | Robert Sale |
Customer experience
House Designer
FieldFab
Bugs and requests
House Designer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Walls and rooms disappearing or resizing unexpectedly
- Doors and windows moving or vanishing after saving
- Crashes when trying to edit or add certain elements
- Dimensions and measurements not displaying properly
Requested features
4 requests- More free furniture and decor options
- Ability to save and resume projects
- More customization options for walls, floors, etc.
- Improved 3D rendering and camera controls
FieldFab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
House Designer
- Premium for iOS$5.99
- Premium for macOS$14.99
FieldFab
No in-app purchases
Questions
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