iSCAPE
Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone,
iPad, iPod touch
AR isn’t just for indoors: use this app to
rethink your yard. Add flowers, trees or
furniture, lay down paving, add a trellis,
even create terraced layers of plants...
and then walk around your new garden,
with your phone showing how it’ll look
from every angle. You can then share
these plans with professionals, or just
store them for your own reference.
IKEA PLACE
Free Made for iPhone, iPad,
iPod touch
Planner 5D shows you what hypothetical
furniture looks like in a model of your
home. Ikea’s app uses AR to put its
products into your house, live on your
camera. Even if you don’t want an Ikea
product, it’s still useful for seeing if a chair
in that color really works in that corner.
You can put lots of stuff to each room to
see what a big change would be like.
PAINT TESTER
Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone,
iPad, iPod touch
Paint Tester is another app that helps
you test changes on your real home,
rather than a model. You take a picture
of the room you want to paint, then
choose a color (from its range, or from
a photo you’ve taken, so you can try
store paint swatches), then you can
magically swap the walls in the photo
for the new color you’ve chosen.
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Image rights from left: Inter IKEA Systems B.V., Luminant Software, Inc, iScape Holdings.