Palette Home vs HapticboardLive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palette Home
Design any room in 3D with this intuitive interior design app. Easily plan renovations, rearrange furniture, and visualize your dream space with realistic graphics and a virtual walkthrough. Save and export your designs for further use.
- 3D room design
- Intuitive planning process
- Object placement and alignment
- 3D mode exploration
- Realistic graphics
- Save and export plans
Read full descriptionHide full description
Palette Home is a new app developed by Palette CAD AG, the number 1 in planning 3D interior design. It was created to let you, the user design any kind of room. Redesign your bathroom in just a few minutes or let your imagination run wild when reorganizing your living room. Would you like to fulfill a long-term wish of owning a cosy stove? Palette Home is the ideal app for you. The virtual design app Palette Home leads the user intuitively through all the stages of the planning process from start to finish. This begins with the definition of your rooms cubic measures and continues with the placement of doors, windows and if desired even front wall installations and pitched roofs. The clearly organised objects are readily available and can be dragged into the plan and positioned easily and quickly. The objects can also align themselves to the walls automatically. At any time you can switch into 3D mode and freely move about and examine your room. You can now explore your room in real time while accompanied by our company cat, - the “Palette-cat”. The immersive feel and quality of the graphics are impressive. You can also save your plan and import it into our PC program Palette CAD and from there to our other apps Palette MOVE and Palette PLAY.
HapticboardLive
Read full descriptionHide full description
HapticBoard turns your iPhone into a simple hapticboard player. Scan a QR code to load a board, then tap buttons to hear sounds and feel haptic feedback.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HapticboardLive at none against Palette Home's 6. Palette Home's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.2). On price, 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. Palette Home sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. HapticboardLive asks for nothing beyond the download.
Palette Home ships an update monthly, HapticboardLive every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Palette Home | HapticboardLive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (54 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Palette CAD AG | Plan8 Production |
Bugs and requests
Palette Home
Reported bugs
21 issues- Screen freezes when converting to 3D
- App crashes and unsaved work is lost
- App crashes when trying to change the size of anything
- App freezes and returns to iPad home screen
- Deleted files when attempting to use bathroom profile
Show 16 moreShow fewer
- Backups not restoring projects
- App crashes constantly in 3D view
- App does not flip/rotate on iPad, stays upside down
- Mirror textures turn black when placed too close to a wall
- Dark colors/textures increase brightness and intensity when near mirrors or dark walls
- Bug with walls where undo button doesn't fully revert position, leaving them angled
- Hitboxes for measurements are small and don't always register
- App crashes when designing a bathroom in a bedroom with an integrated bathroom
- Lost all previous project saves
- App zoomed in, unable to click menus or objects on iPhone 12 Max
- App crashes frequently
- App deleted files when switching profiles
- App freezes when saving
- App crashes when trying to change size of objects
- App crashes in 3D view
- App gets phone very hot in 3D view
Requested features
35 requests- Add toilets, bathtubs, showers to bathroom designs
- More furniture items (L-shaped desks, sofas, beds, kitchen breakfast bars, dog beds)
- Ability to combine objects for custom furniture
- Option to save custom furniture to a personal catalog
- Add heating radiators in niches under windows
Show 30 moreShow fewer
- Add carpet option
- Import custom textures
- Multi-select and drag feature for objects
- Merge separate profiles into a single profile with sub-categories
- Add stairwells and staircases
- Ability to section off flooring for different materials
- Add more modern external doors (e.g., bi-folds)
- Add more door options (e.g., French windows)
- Add exterior design features
- Add a joystick for easier 3D movement
- Allow custom wall colors like furniture
- Add a 'play' mode to interact with the designed home
- Add more advanced CAD features for professional use
- Improve scaling flexibility for objects
- Add numerical input for measurements
- Fix wall measurement locking issues
- Add option for Queen/King size beds
- Add option for exterior design
- Add 3D overview of the house
- Allow users to toggle object visibility
- Lock position of furniture and walls
- Increase hitbox size for measurements
- Add more room types and furniture within one plan
- Prevent measurement pop-up when moving furniture
- Add a ruler tool for distances
- Add complete geometric shapes to projects
- Add option to configure units of measure (feet/inches)
- Add sliding doors
- Add roof slope function
- Add measurement of passage widths (e.g., between bathtub and toilet)
HapticboardLive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Palette Home
- Small monthly subscription$0.991 Month
- Medium monthly subcription3 Days trial$3.491 Month
- Monthly business subscription$7.991 Month
Show 3 moreShow fewer
- Small annual subscription$9.991 Year
- Yearly subscription$35.991 Year
- Yearly business subscription$79.991 Year
HapticboardLive
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Palette Home free?
Is HapticboardLive free?
Do Palette Home or HapticboardLive have ads?
Which is updated more often, Palette Home or HapticboardLive?
Other comparisons
