Live Home 3D - House Design Reviews

I’ve been using LiveHome3D for a year. It was great. First week of downloading the free app made me upgrade to pro features because LiveHome3D is really great. You can import textures or furnitures from the 3D Trimble warehouse and you can even upload a picture and use it as a texture. Unlimited floors (if you using pro feature) and you can even make your own templates. There are a few bugs like LiveHome3D suddenly closes for no reason, or I can’t save the project even though I have plenty of storage and my phone is working good (I actually have games that requires higher storage and graphics but it’s not laggy), but I can work with this annoying problems. The thing is that the new update is really annoying. You can no longer select all identical textures and replace them with new texture. Now you have to change them one by one. LiveHome3D crashes every 3-5 minutes, when opening past projects (a week or month ago) they are just black when opening in 3D but you can see the project in 2D and 2D elevation. I thought uninstalling and installing LiveHome3D will resolve the bugs but NO. It became worst. I can’t even work on a new project and import objects because it just crashes every time I do something. Now I am done with LiveHome3D and I don’t think I will use this again.

i absolutely love LiveHome3D, whenever my creative senses are tingling, i just open LiveHome3D an decorate a room or two. i wouldn’t recommend this for professional use because there are many glitchy items and some items, like rugs, aren’t available. however, this is a REAL design game, it’s not like those that claim you get to design a house but instead you have to play puzzles and only have two or three furniture choices. here are my suggestions and flaws with this game: 1. it’s pretty hard to rotate items, i wish there was a button of some sorts that could rotate the item. 2. some items are too big or too small and there should be some way to change the size. 3. the trees are a bit odd, instead of being 3D like everything else, they are almost like 2D images that just kind of follow you around. 4. it’s pretty sensitive. when trying to move an item a tiny bit, it moves A LOT, and same for when you’re trying to move forwards. and 5. i wish that items didn’t go through walls. it makes it pretty hard to put an item against the wall, and sometimes the trees go into the house. although this may seem like a lot of flaws, i HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend LiveHome3D!

What an amazing app that works exactly the way you would expect it to work. So simple to use and so powerful. I bought a house to flip and was able to use this to build out the home with all the correct measurements. Still waiting to close on the house and I already have an amazing new look planned for my flipper all thanks to LiveHome3D. And being able to walk through a 3D version of the house to bring my vision to life... holy wow! So cool! Worth every single penny and more! You can also switch to blueprint mode and you’ll have a very accurate blueprint that I can actually use! I kept playing with LiveHome3D just wondering WHEN I would find an error... it just couldn’t work this well, I thought. There has to be a catch, I thought. I guess not. Just a great app that deserves every penny. The people I showed my work to even asked me how I knew how to make architectural blueprints like that - the thing is... I don’t know anything about that stuff but LiveHome3D makes everyone look like a professional. Great job! I’m buying every package just because the developers deserve it. Thanks so much for solving my problem with such a powerful and simple to use app.

I am changing my review from a 3 star to a 5 star review now. I have to say I was completely confused and had a difficult time at first learning LiveHome3D . In fact, I’m still learning. There’s so much you can do with LiveHome3D. The possibilities are amazing! What really changed my outlook and rating was how wonderful and quick the developers always get back to you. They have been so extremely helpful for someone like me who didn’t have a clue about architecture or technical stuff. I love knowing that if I ever need more advice, they will always be friendly and there to help. They deserve a 5 star rating! I am really loving the house plans I have come up with! We are literally building our own home off grid, so seeing these house plans especially in 3D has really made a huge difference for my husband to understand and put into perspective. He can finally know exactly what I have in mind and I believe with a detailed plan like this, it will save us from making the wrong decisions since we get to see an actual image of our house before we build it. Also, it’s much easier to use a tablet or PC with LiveHome3D. Thank you so much!

This is the best app out there. There’s nothing else like it, and $20 is a steal with this. You can model 3D anything with the ability to import from Trimble 3D Warehouse (just right click and “merge” the item to be able to adjust sizing).

The only flaw is its tendency to crash with more complex projects. But it can handle them for a time. The desktop version doesn’t crash, and my iPhone can handle larger files than this on other (much less capable) apps.

I’m not a programmer, but I suspect the issue is the cache. Unfortunately Apple lacks the feature of letting users delete the caches on apps without reinstalling (and losing tons of manual imports to the library in this case). However with some apps, the developers give users the option in-app to clear the cache, which helps performance significantly. Could that be added to a later edition of LiveHome3D ? It’s a feature I’d be willing to pay extra for and I don’t think I’m alone, as this is the only app that’s capable of making the kinds of projects I want to make. I do think that feature would allow LiveHome3D to handle “heavier” projects and become even more capable.

I really do love LiveHome3D, I’ve always wanted a mobile app like this one where you can create and decorate a building/room. Although, there are a few things I’d like to suggest. Like another reviewer had mentioned, LiveHome3D is missing some items like rugs. I'd also like to see ceiling fans, or just fans in general implemented into LiveHome3D . Also, there are templates to choose from, but as far as I know, you can only choose one room template, not multiple. I’d like to be able to choose multiple room templates and be able to put them together to form a home from them, like in the Sims. I only have the free version, so these features may be available in a version you have to pay for, but I’m just giving out suggestions in case these aren’t in the game. Thanks for reading :) (also, another reviewer had mentioned him receiving headaches as LiveHome3D tended to crash frequently which made him have to redo his work, but while I used LiveHome3D , it hadn’t crashed on me. One time it did freeze, but I just waited for a little bit and it was back to working fine. Just thought I’d mention.)

I like LiveHome3D a lot but at the same time it gives me a lot of headaches. If you using LiveHome3D professionally you have to be careful because it crashes a lot and sometimes you have to redo the work all over again. Some of the 3D ware house items don’t download sometimes or disappear once you place them. I hope they could fix the crashing issues so I could do my work more pleasant . I almost give up on this thing Between the crashing and also getting freeze and not able to reload for a while is a big problem. I just got LiveHome3D a couple days ago. I followed all the instructions like turning lights off and low quality off while working in 3D BUT nothing works keeps crashing and furniture disappearing every 2 minutes or so,.
if these issues won’t fix I will ask for my money back and will keep searching for another app that’s works smoothly.
Update I contacted the developer and they said there is nothing wrong from their end. I think it must be because I tried to use the same app on a different device and gave me the same issue so there is no way it can be fixed. Be careful before you purchased LiveHome3D because for me it only last for a few days after that it stopped working.

I love LiveHome3D and I’ve been using it for a few years now, not for real life projects but for visual references for my OC’s homes, I have the standard version and it works great, but it’s really pricy, you pay 9.99 for the standard, then 9.99 for pro features, and now it says something about a 9.99 subscription, which I could be wrong about the subscription, or you can buy the whole deal for 20 dollars, which I guess is reasonable? They have made the best app for this kind of thing on the AppStore, I love the controls and the way you can navigate 3D spaces like you were there, the new metals are better then ever and has definitely improved a project I’m working on that involves a lot of metal walls.

Suggestions:

Could you add a skybox editor? So that you could add your own photos to the sky, I enjoy creating sci-fi apartments and it would be nice and helpful to “see” a sci-fi city out my windows. Or a mountainous scene for a home high in the mountains.

This is a really helpful app, the controls are great, the UI is easy to navigate and it’s actually an overall calming app,

I would recommend (:

Edit:

Thank you for the clarification on the subscription, I didn’t quite understand how it worked before, it does sound more reasonable now. But I have to ask, does that mean I won’t be able to just buy the pro version? I’ll have to get a subscription for it?

I’m glad you’ve noted my suggestions and thanks for the prompt response, LiveHome3D is amazing.

I like LiveHome3D. I really do. BUT it won’t let me love it. I purchased the first upgrade but no additional libraries. The aggravation is from crashes and freezing and it happens way too often. It will crash when I am still drawing outside walls only, no doors, windows, etc. It will crash literally any time at random in 2D, 3D, with or without furnishings, details or colors and to boot, will completely freeze for no reason. When it does, I have to not just close LiveHome3D , but power down my iPad and power it back up or LiveHome3D will not work at all. I have worked with support, who has been responsive, but without success. I have done everything asked with no change in performance. They want me to send a project. When I draw one wall and it crashes before I can draw another, what the hell is there to send? And I only have one project going. I don’t dare try multiple projects. This is a serious problem and I’m obviously not the first. When it does work half way properly, it’s very nice but at this time not worth the trouble and aggravation it causes.

I rate this and live home 3D a big fat 0

I downloaded the live home 3D and as soon as I started designing my home a notification popped up for the live home 3D PRO. Stating that the live home 3d v.s. PRO doesn’t save your design. So I downloaded Pro (purchase twice) still have both of them on my screen and there is nothing new nor different about the PRO app just a rip off of 20 bucks for the same crap that’s free and might I add u can save your file on the regular one so that was a lie. So after I’m $40 dollars in the hole and have no clue how to be reimbursed I decided to just continue building on the apps and now both of them keep glitching. There’s something wrong with both apps for they have deleted all my savings. Then once I start again it freezes and kicks me out constantly. I assumed it was possibly a phone technicality so I went on my computer and what do u know I’m having the same problem there aswell. I would really love my money back for this crap. It def wasn’t worth my time. I won’t lie at first I loved it but then I realized the PRO Is just the same as the other one and then it started to have problems.

It crashes every time. It has been 3 weeks and I have yet to present my project. It was my DT homework to make my dream house, and although i am very impressed, LiveHome3D freezes and then the screen goes dark and I find myself blankly staring at my home screen. This occurred very rarely at first, and has been getting more and more frequent. Most of the time, I am switching my project from 2D to 3D when it crashes. I can’t blame LiveHome3D for the entirety of the situation because my iPad is an older model. But when I enable screen share to present my homework on zoom, I can only open LiveHome3D , and then it crashes on me for the umpteenth time. And sometimes when I’m using screen share to present my project, LiveHome3D crashes (as you probably can tell by now) and zoom kicks me out of both my meeting and my account and I have to log back in. For that I am blaming LiveHome3D entirely because this never happens in any other situation. I hope this review was helpful and I hope you have the finest of days.🌺😊

I absolutely love LiveHome3D, as in previous reviews they stated that getting the hang of how to use the controls was difficult but if you’re good at problem solving, it’s incredibly easy to navigate. I’ve always wanted to explore my interest in architecture, and although LiveHome3D is hard to make sure every measurement is exact, it’s perfect to create and let your imagination run wild. and it INCLUDES SOLAR PANELS???? yes!! I love it so much, the idea behind LiveHome3D and the features is so brilliant. I spend so much time on LiveHome3D brainstorming future sustainable houses and buildings. I could go on and on about how much I love this design but overall I recommend LiveHome3D to anyone interested in finding a way to get rid of stress and find your ultimate dream town! I HAD TO COME BACK AND EDIT THIS, it also has DALI PAINTINGS and VAN GOGH for decorations!!!!!! The be light team really out did themselves, I am for sure paying the $20 for the whole app now!!!!

I truly loved LiveHome3D. But then I went to continue my house that I was working on for weeks, and everything was white on 2D and everything was the sky color on 3D. I spent hours trying to spin around trying to find the house (in which I was very proud of). Luckily, I already screen shouted what I had done so I could start again. That time, everything I drew turned into a roof but the creator had emailed me why this was happening. Me, being as inpatient as I usually am, already deleted the house. Then I gave it one more shot and when I added the second floor, in 2D nothing was there but my house was still in 3D. I clicked undo and the second floor disappeared as if should have, but the problem has not been fixed. I am not going to be inpatient and delete it yet, but is there anything I can do to recover my house? I love LiveHome3D and I just want to be able to continue my house. Besides the problems, LiveHome3D is the best I have ever owned.

-Happy but unhappy costumer

I love LiveHome3D and it’s my first day using it. The thing is, at the beginning when I first started I had no idea how to put stuff down or anything. That took me a good 45 minutes, then another 30 to get the hang of it. When i did and I wanted to start placing walls, it worked. Until about my 4th wall then when I went in “1st person” I couldn’t see the walls I was placing down. What I did was go outside of my build then I could see them. So I was out side my build while I was building, then, I started placing down walls that I couldn’t see. What I did was go inside my build then I could see those. BUT I couldn’t see the other ones because I was inside my build.

Either way, because of that I couldn’t carry on through my build. I loved LiveHome3D but I can’t build anything with the glitch and I put a lot of hard work into my build, I’m not deleting it. Can someone please tell me what going on here?

I love LiveHome3D but something is wrong with your system I just want ya’ll to fix it. Soon but surely, please. I just don’t to disappoint y’all so i wish you can fix it. Please help it by fixing LiveHome3D . I love designing houses and I think your app is the best
So,I ask you kindly. Please fix the bug problems and glitches on LiveHome3D . I will support y’all if you fix LiveHome3D.
The screen when i move around sometimes freezes and when i want to put the window ecteras it glitches or doesn’t move. Please do a new update.
When i went to get furniture and a house from the 3D ware house everything was fine after I downloaded them then LiveHome3D crashed and when I came back the items I downloaded were not available to download. Because your systems crashed twice!

I really loved LiveHome3D, it was one of the best designing programs I have used. Not only is it versatile but also very thorough. I originally got it for a university course I am taking in the fall but have been using it for personal use for now.

I explored for a while and even considered purchasing the 20$ pro edition because I loved it that much, but then it began to lag. A small lag would be fine, I could deal with it considering how much I loved LiveHome3D but now even to select an item or look around a room it takes 6-8 seconds. Sometimes longer.

The lag makes it almost impossible to use fluidly and is frustrating. I know I have a very detailed house but I had only just finished the exterior, kitchen and bathroom when the problem arose. I am pretty disappointed. My device is not low on storage and I have a decent RAM so considering how much I have done in LiveHome3D , a lag should not be happening.

However, I understand that with a free app the performance would be perfect—thus the high rating. I am going to do some research to see if buying the pro version will get ridiculous the lag, but if it doesn’t, unfortunately, I am going to delete LiveHome3D .

I’ve been looking for a decent home design app forever that doesn’t break the bank. I am SO beyond happy to have found an app that actually lets you access all the items and materials without having to pay for extras! I will probably pay the $20 for the PRO version simply because I am so impressed with how many options are offered for free!

That said, I have had a couple of issues. I can’t figure out how to get the kitchen counters to match up correctly, where they don’t look like separate items. I would also love to see an option in the drop down menu to “save as” which would save me the stress of closing LiveHome3D not knowing for sure if my work has been saved! (I may have overlooked these things so I’m still giving 5 stars)

Thanks to the developers of this awesome app!!

This could be the coolest app for creating your own floor plans and designs but it isn’t worth the price at all! I read the reviews and viewed some how to videos but it is cumbersome to create and share your ideas with LiveHome3D. I would not recommend this unless it is updated to be more intuitive and user-friendly.
UPDATE
I received a reply from the developers that basically said it is used and loved by everyone including kids. (Translation: you’re unintelligent) and how do they know that? Because the completely honest and non incentivized ratings tell us that!!
Oh, I get it now. Let me go ahead and change my rating to reflect every one else’s experience!!! I wasn’t given additional information that might improve my experience because LiveHome3D is perfect as-is. Got it. The developers also won’t use my honest feedback to improve accessibility. I am apparently not intelligent enough to understand this truly 5-star 20$ gem of a ripoff.

I overall really like LiveHome3D, it has the ability to create wonderful homes easily and beautifully. I use it a lot, and just got the standard edition so I can save my projects. I do have a suggestion for the building block feature in the pro upgrade. Considering the fact that a porch is an extremely common feature on a house, I don’t really understand why it is included in the pro upgrade and nothing else. I really do feel that maybe just adding the porch feature to at least the standard edition of LiveHome3D would be a lot cheaper and easier, and from the business perspective of LiveHome3D , it might even help make more people buy the standard edition at the least.

Ok so, I love LiveHome3D! I like to build my own house, and get to pretend to live in it! Just one thing, I’m sorry if i got this wrong but do I really have to pay to have my project saved? Or is it something else. Because I don’t think putting in hours of work only to realize that when you wanna leave, you have to pay or it will be gone or something. Again, I’m sorry if I’m wrong but at least you should let the people who can’t pay for LiveHome3D be able to save one project without paying. Another things is second floors and roofs. I have been having a hard time figuring out why there wasn’t a roof on my garage. Also when I added my second floor, The roof was blocking my stairs. Theres a chance i did something wrong, or missed something, but overall, this game is truly amazing! Sorry about the long rReview😅

Within the first 2 hours of downloading, I had two simple bedrooms measured and modeled in full 3D with windows, doors, and furniture. The 3D movement took a while to get used to, but it works really well once you’ve got it. I love the flexibility in measurement units and the clean user interface. I do wish it wouldn’t default to maintaining aspect ratios because most of the time I’m measuring and updating each side independently. I’ve copied-pasted items switching between project files and no crashes yet on this first day.

The try-before-you-buy is also great! It’s nice to get an add-free trial that has all the main features, and the ability to incrementally add features with in-app purchases is done nicely.

I think this is the best home design app I have ever used I like how if you pay 20 dollars you get everything, with room planner (another app) you paid 10 and then had to buy like everything 2 dollars for this and 2 for that I got so annoyed it’s like if you want to play you have to pay additional money on top of LiveHome3D cost. So I love LiveHome3D it is so easy to use and has so many options for color, texture, furniture ect. I wouldn’t choose any other app. professionally and just for fun I recommend LiveHome3D. Made my bedroom in half an hour. Totally worth the money. Only thing I would have added is with the pool table I would like pool balls and pool sticks but other than that a must get for sure.

I purchased the Pro version and the add-on packages thru LiveHome3D . The capabilities are great. The file management is worthless. I lost hours of work on a large project because “backing up library” doesn’t save your project, and “restore library” doesn’t restore your project. The only way to save a project and begin work on another project is to “save as a template” before starting another project. Otherwise, the system is setup to write over previous work when you start something new. How about adding a simple “save project” option and “open project” option? If you can’t add a save option then rewrite your instructions to clearly define how to save a project for easy retrieval later. If the developers can recover all the work I lost and add the ability to save a project then I’ll change my rating. Honestly, I’m so disappointed in my project loss I want a refund.

I love LiveHome3D, it is so much fun to use and is really easy! I love building and designing houses as well as making the interior design fun and it might look something like my dream house! I think this is a great app but... I do have to say when I stared creating I found it a little bit confusing on how to do it. In the end I just played around with it for a few days and figure stuff out! It really is quite straight forward after you figure it out and I think it is really quite addicting.
Over all I would totally recommend LiveHome3D. Super fun! 👍🏻

I got LiveHome3D with the intent to use it for fun. I love designing houses and this seemed like the perfect app. I used it for about two days, working on an apartment. Today, I was choosing a color for a drawer when LiveHome3D suddenly took me to a view of the sky. I tried getting out of it, but then the screen turned black! The only things left on the screen were the controls and the menus. I can’t get back to the 3D view of the house I’ve been working so hard at. I also just found out that this free version of LiveHome3D only allows you to do ONE design. If you want to do more than one, you have to buy the ten or twenty dollar version. I loved loved loved LiveHome3D until LiveHome3D stole all my work. Sorry!

I really like LiveHome3D and works really well, but there are just a couple improvements that could be made. First off, more furniture options would really make this game better. For example, having bunk beds, elevators, blankets, etc. would really make this game amazing. Secondly, it would be really nice if there were accounts on LiveHome3D, so you can sign in on another device, and not have to start from the beginning.
Thank you so much for reading this,
Kaysee C.

This game is grate but one thing. And that thing is not able to save the projects. I mean you have to buy it to sav it which to me sounds a little crappy and when you go to the gallery and go back to that project it erase all of the hard work that you put in to you build. I hope in another update that this gets fixed so I could go in and out of projects with out redoing it all. I hope you could listen to my review.

Hi!
I tried to installing this on my IPad 4. And it wouldn’t let me download saying I didn’t have the right version of the iOS update for it. I would like to install this onto the iPad for a bigger screen, is there any chance that I could install this onto my iPad 4? Yes I do believe that I have an iOS as the 10.1 something version. Is that a problem to download on it?
That is why I gave you a 4 star instead of the 5. Other than that it’s really great app (besides the buying stuff)

The program requires you to be lined up in perfect conjunction with where you want to place items objects on your floor plan or they appear crooked and out of sorts. The program lacks any controls to rotate objects for better placement making design a harder than necessary challenge. Also the object collection seems incomplete and many objects do not compliment each other in design . A better design collection and better navigation control this program would be really awesome, but as is it is incomplete.

I love this game so much! I love designing games and this is probably my favorite but, I wish every house has a furnished version like house 5. Also mine glitches a lot and when it does it has a clock which is kinda weird. And, when I try to go into 3D for house 5 furnished version, it puts me out of the game! Even after updating. So please fix! But overall, I think this is one of my favorite games ever! Please respond! 😊