Renovation software review

This includes creating new proposals, keeping track of your customers and subcontractors, and creating schedules. Integration Capabilities - The ideal solution should also be able to integrate with other software programs that contractors often use. This can mean combining it with your current client management software or field service management program.

Although some solutions have all that packaged in one. Now that you're more familiar with what this type of software has to offer, let's jump into our software reviews. If you're looking for the most comprehensive remodeling estimating software available, PRO might be your best bet. The wide variety of features that PRO offers to contractors makes it a brilliant piece of software.

You can do just about anything accounting-related like bid requests, invoicing, project management, customer management, and much more. It also allows users to create their own templates and re-use them when necessary. Aside from the features, you'd expect from this type of software, like generating takeoff and cost estimates and creating bids, PRO offers many additional features that help it stand out.

If you're just starting off as a contractor and need a single platform to help your business grow, PRO is an incredibly solid option. JobFLEX focuses entirely on estimates and invoices and doesn't offer a ton of other project management-related features. The simplicity of JobFLEX allows you to have complete estimates of any renovation job within minutes. You can also use it to quickly send an invoice to customers.

This software is designed to be quick and easy to use even if you're on the go. You can upload documents and contracts to the app and help you close deals faster. In addition, the subscription cost is one of the most budget-friendly options on this list. For those in need of a simpler kind of solution, Clear Estimates might be what you're looking for. In contrast to the other software platforms we've reviewed so far, Clear Estimates only focuses on creating estimates and invoices; it can't be used to create schedules, assist you with CRM, or do any other fancy stuff.

Ultimately, Clear Estimates is probably for you if you already have other software to handle these other tasks and just need something to take care of the estimation process. It can certainly help you avoid some common estimating mistakes. They also have helpful templates so that you can have calculations done for any home improvement job you might be doing within seconds. Tolteck is another top-notch construction estimating and invoicing software that primarily offers takeoff, labor, and cost estimates in a simple-to-use package.

Need inspiration? Get ideas from the more than 20 million pictures of indoor and outdoor home designs. Ready to shop? Not a problem, you can purchase more than 10 million items for any part of the house and see how a product would fit your place with the "My Room 3D" feature, all within the app. And if you need professional help during your home renovation, you can hire one of the 2.

Plus, you can connect with millions of Houzz users to share ideas and get advice. Why We Chose It: The magicplan app makes it easy for contractors to generate reports, floor plans, and estimates all in one place. If you are in the home renovation business or if you are looking to start one, the magicplan app will make your work easier. Launched in by Sensopia Inc. The measuring and sketching feature makes it more convenient to design interior footprints in 2D and 3D.

When it comes to creating reports, you can add pictures, degree images, and forms, and convert them to a PDF file right away with your own logo.

The estimate feature means there are no manual calculations to do. In addition, the magic app comes with augmented reality AR and LiDAR scanning features that make visualization and measurements easier. The magicplan app is free to download and you'll get full access to all of its features for your first two projects at no cost.

After that, you have the option to choose one of the several plans offered to upgrade to access more features. Today, the Home Design 3D app is available in most app stores and is compatible with all mobile devices and laptops. You can design any part of your home using the app.

It allows you to create multiple floor plans in 2D and 3D, add furniture and decorative items to your designs, and experience your own home design using the 3D real-time visualizer. There's also a feature that allows users to share their designs outside the app. Home Design 3D is free to download and you can use a few basic features at no cost. Why We Chose it: iScape helps you bring your home landscaping vision to life with easy-to-use design tools and a large inventory of products available to buy.

Launched in , the iScape app has become one of the most used landscaping apps on the market. With iScape's design tools, you can visualize and plan your next project and buy the items you need, making landscaping work easier to bring to life.

There's an option to use AR or your own pictures to create your design. You can add thousands of trees, plants, and landscaping products to your mockup, and then purchase those products from within the app. In addition, you can learn about plants and get professional advice about planting and maintenance. Enterprise accounts are also available. Why We Chose it: The ProjectColor app by The Home Depot lets you choose and visualize the perfect paint color for any of your projects around the house.

We'd recommend looking for deals as the previous version was dramatically discounted. It's not the easiest app to learn from scratch but once you've got the hang of things it's nice enough and includes a good selection not just of home design tools but CAD-style drawing tools including shapes and text boxes. The library is good for both interior fittings and exterior features, and there's a particularly good plant chooser that even enables you to search for plants that'll attract butterflies and birds.

SketchUp isn't just a home design app; it's a 3D design app that you can use to design homes. That means it lacks the wizards, samples and objects of dedicated home apps, and while there's a giant online selection of other people's plans and objects it can be very tedious to navigate.

But if you're willing to put up with that, SketchUp Free is easy to pick up, fast to use and includes superb camera options that enable you to see your design from every conceivable spot. RoomSketcher may well be the easiest home design software we've ever reviewed. It has a simple, fast and intuitive interface and it delivers silky-smooth performance even on underpowered hardware. There is a free version but it lacks too many key features to be genuinely useful; the paid-for versions include every feature you're likely to need and they're designed well enough that even complete beginners can use them.

The downside, and it's a big one, is that buying the app doesn't mean you get unlimited use of it. It has a dedicated Mac app, and wins out due to its extreme level of detail. That means you can truly envision how your renovations will take shape, and have fun testing out different color schemes and styles.

There are several home design apps you can download on your iPad. It is quite intuitive and feels more like a game than an architectural or interior design application. It allows you to create both 2D and 3D floor plans by placing doors, windows, walls and more. The app also has a sizable library of furniture, plants, decorations and other objects. In addition to displaying a photo-realistic 3D preview of your design, this app has augmented reality features. You need the ARKit to make it work, but once you have that installed, you can take a tour of your design as if it were already built.

This is invaluable for spotting flaws and getting a better idea of how you want your home to look. However, if you're reluctant to purchase the app, you can start out on Home Design 3D for free. It's a watered-down version of the program, but it still has many of the great features found in the Gold version.

After testing the best home design programs around, we decided that Virtual Architect Ultimate is our top choice for putting plans together for your renovations. The new version, Virtual Architect Using home design software for the first time might seem daunting, especially when it comes to creating plans for a new kitchen, arguably one of the most important rooms in your house.

It has a built-in tutorial window to assist you as you design, as well as features such as one-click window placement, so you can get the groundwork done easily. Virtual Architect also has an extensive prop library, including a range of different appliances, so that you can try out multiple kitchen styles before you spend any cash on those expensive purchases. You can even add in pictures with this design software, and mock-up designs of your family sitting at your new breakfast bar if you wanted to.

That depends on what you want it to do. You can pick up a really good home design app for free, but it's going to be very limited compared to the paid-for products. The majority of home design apps are one-off purchases, but some are moving to the same subscription model we've seen on smartphone and tablet apps. If one of the apps we've reviewed is subscription-based, we've made that clear in our review.

Watch out for extra charges, too. One of the apps we reviewed charges a subscription but also limits key features such as how many plans you can make. Once you hit the limit you'll need to get your credit card out to get more.

We're not fans of this approach. When you're considering which home design software to buy, it's important to think about what your project actually needs.