IKEA Place Reviews

This is a great concept, and when it works it is a dead useful way to plan out how you will use space in a room. However, it seems to work only intermittently even on a brand new iPhone 12 Pro with Lidar capabilities. About half the items you pick for the AR experience will show the placement indicator on the floor but as soon as you select where you want to put the furniture, nothing happens. At least half the items I selected to see in the AR view wouldn’t appear. When an item does appear, IKEAPlace works fine and you can manipulate the piece of furniture to see how it will fill the space. Just needs some work/stability improvements to get a higher rating.

IKEAPlace is fantastic, my boyfriend and I are moving into an apartment and we’ve used IKEAPlace to figure out our new apartment. We were able to get everything and then some. However, many furniture items are missing. Though I’m certain as new furniture comes out, IKEAPlace will be updated accordingly.

I wanted to see how an Alex drawer would look in my room, but I can’t search for it. This is such an obvious feature that’s just absent in IKEAPlace . It’s actually pretty surprising IKEAPlace got released without search. It’s not really useful or convenient to me without that ability.

The UI is quite nice, but IKEAPlace is honestly barebones with its feature set. I can’t even sign in with my web account to transfer my shopping cart or wishlist items.

Also don’t have the camera constantly running in the background while browsing IKEAPlace . That’s just bad for performance and battery, and it shows in IKEAPlace ’s stuttering scrolling performance, even on an iPhone 11.

Works great honestly, used it to plan out some new furniture once we moved and being able to place multiple pieces is great. Really do wish they were more frequent about the furniture that they add to IKEAPlace, because it’s missing quite a bit. Also do hope they get to better integrating this into the ikea website (i.e. signing in let’s you view furniture you’ve added onto your wishlist instead of searching one by one to find them)

I can’t choose any item from the store. I can only choose from a collection or a few different categories they’ve listed. They don’t have lamps/lighting available to use in AR. I went to Ikea yesterday looking for a lamp. They didn’t have it in stock. I figured I’d go home and order it online but just to be sure I like how it looks in my room I Downloaded IKEAPlace to see how it would look and I can’t find lamps anywhere on IKEAPlace . Why create AR to only use on a few products. Target does a better job.

IKEAPlace is beautifully designed, intuitive UI, functions flawlessly. All props to the devs! Three stars only because of the incredibly sparse selection of items - probably fewer than 50-75(?) items total, yet IKEA carries literally thousands of options. If the database gets updated with a search function and a much larger catalog, this will be the best app in the store for AR decor. It’s really a great app, just not very useful bc of the limited catalog. Will keep installed to check for updates.

With a new apartment and no furnishings I’d really like to use IKEAPlace. But it’s not very intuitive. There are no instructions for how to use it and the ways to manipulate objects in the AR camera are not clear. A one finger drag re-sizes, despite the fact that users are conditioned to re-size using pinch and zoom gestures. Using two fingers rotates items, which also doesn’t make sense.

Overall objects are too hard to control and appear more like illustrations than real objects. I love the idea and the attempt but I’m not ready to spend any more time with it.

- Half of the inventory isn’t present in IKEAPlace . Take for instance a very popular IKEA item “LACK wall shelf”. Type it in, search, no results found. Unreal.
- Completely unnecessary animations that confuse the user. Further, “X” icons mean close, why are they using it as “go” on some areas of IKEAPlace ? Again, confusing the user.
- A search feature which, and this is unbelievable, doesn’t include search by article/model number. That’s just lazy. So I can bring up the item on the Internet, but I can’t input into the number and find it with the search feature on IKEAPlace ?

IKEAPlace needs a lot of help.

Hello. I have looked at IKEAPlace again after the update came out and noticed the problem has been fixed. Thank you so much to the developers and I look forward to using IKEAPlace when I need it. Thanks!

I really like IKEAPlace but it needs updating. A lot of things are missing and styles they have retired are still options. I clicked on a collection but no items appeared.
I think this is a great concept especially for those of us who don’t have a store close and need to really picture items in the room before driving hours to pick up items

I downloaded IKEAPlace today. It has an extremely simple interface. When trying to place objects in my room, I was presented with a bounding box for the floor, and several hollow circles when I tried to place objects. Beyond that, nothing! Are their hidden buttons/clicks/gestures I have to use to get the furniture to appear? If so, IKEAPlace fails to explain how to get the furniture to show up in place of all the hollow circles. Or, IKEAPlace is broken/buggy. Either way, it’s a total fail for me.

Maybe it works well on other Apple devices but on my iPad mini the objects are too big or too small and you can’t rotate them so it’s not really useful to me. Would be cool if they allowed you to measure your room and select the floorplan and then you could put items on it from multiple angles and see what they would look like once you return to AR mode.

And, yes, I’ve rescanned my bare, well lit room a few times.

IKEAPlace does not re-scan the area every time before placing the object on the matrix. This is a very obnoxious problem as IKEAPlace works well otherwise but there is no way for the user to fix the problem without deleting and re downloading IKEAPlace again. This issue needs to be fixed for the iPad and other iOS devices as this issue renders IKEAPlace unusable

I’m trying to preview shelves for my plants but IKEAPlace only allows you to preview certain collections. You can’t text search for the item you want. You can only scroll through a select set of collections or categories. App does not contain these collections from what I can tell: Tordh, Kolbjörn, Läckö, or Hyllis. Because of this, IKEAPlace is pretty much useless to me unless I wanted something they were already showing.

Unless you’re looking for an item from their featured collection you’re pretty much out of luck. I’m not trying to get inspiration (plenty of other options for that), I’m trying to place specific ikea products in my home to get an idea of whether or not I like it.

Not sure I understand the high ratings on this one

Im having trouble finding ar models in your regular ikea app! This is useless for measuring and trying ikea furniture in your space because of the lack of search. Ive seen your responses to the other reviews saying IKEAPlace is meant to discover new furniture but…. That is really dumb! I know what I want but want to see it in my space. Right now im hunting through the “for you” page to find a lamp and its very frustrating. Wasn’t there a search feature in the past?

Just downloaded IKEAPlace last night and tried to rest more objects but app crashes. Please fix ASAP! This is the only app that can do AR for setting up a room, great concept and features but definitely needs fixing. Would like to able to get some ideas since I love the store!

Edit: looking forward to a better update from the developers on what IKEAPlace will be able to offer because this is a great tool to see the product before purchasing.

It’s a pretty cool and impressive trick they have going on here as long as you need one of the very few items that they have to place in your room. Every time I thought about using IKEAPlace I go in just to find out they don’t have anything that I’m actually looking for so I end up having to go to the real store or just buying something on Wayfare.

After reading a bunch of bad reviews I downloaded IKEAPlace thinking it will not work for me either. To my surprise it worked very well, so thank you developers for making it so user-friendly.

THIS IS JUST PHENOMENAL GOOD JOB This is so fun even though its not a game and does not have to be
Its really useful for those really want to design home
And The furnitures are perfectly scale to scale and well designed good job man just stunning.

I’m giving this is a one star bc it wouldn’t even let me go into IKEAPlace . I would open IKEAPlace and then it would say something like “reloading a few things” and it had this yellow loading circle thing. After 10 mins thinking it would finally load and let me into IKEAPlace , I was wrong. Tried more for a couple days and it didn’t work still. Don’t recommend..

When I downloaded IKEAPlace I thought it was going to be awesome, but when I went on after accepting the privacy policy it started glitching,badly glitching. Everything got shaky and wouldn’t stop. When I finally got to the camera I exited out and everything got shaky again. I really hope you fix this, because IKEAPlace has great potential. It’s just too big of a glitch, I’ll download it again when you fix it.

I love IKEAPlace! It’s very cool to be able to “see” products in your home before actually buying them. My only problem
is with shelves: I can’t add Kallax or Lack shelves to a wall. Is that something that IKEAPlace still doesn’t do or am I doing something wrong?

Seems like a nice tool but they are missing most of the furniture they offer in store. So it makes this apps kinda useless. It would also be useful to be able to search for a product line by name instead of having to look through pictures of everything.

IKEAPlace is wonderful! It is helpful to plan out what you want, wherever you want! If your looking to know how to decorate it without having to spend money first, this is IKEAPlace for you!

Wow I don’t understand all the 5 star reviews. One there’s not even a basic thing as a search bar or a search function in IKEAPlace . All I wanted was to be able to look up an ikea item and then using the AR feature, be able to see how it would look in my room. Secondly if you try to do that, IKEAPlace keeps crashing.

Garbage app. Deleted it.