Planner 5D is a home design platform from Lithuania's UAB Planner5D that turns a floor plan into a furnished 3D interior with photorealistic renders, a 10,000+ item furniture catalogue and an AI Studio layered on top — free to start, with commercial use gated behind a commercial account.
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Planner 5D is a home design platform built around one simple progression: draw a floor plan, furnish it, and look at the result in three dimensions. The official pitch sets the expectation plainly — "Draw a floor plan and create a 3D home design in 10 minutes using our all-in-one AI-powered home design software. Visualize your design with realistic 4K renders." That ten-minute framing is the whole product thesis. This is not CAD, and it does not try to be; it is aimed at people who want to see a room before committing money to it.
The platform is operated by UAB Planner5D, a company incorporated under the laws of Lithuania with its office at A. Goštauto St. 12A, Vilnius, Lithuania, 01108. That entity is named directly in the terms of service, and it cross-checks cleanly against the app stores: both the iOS application "Planner 5D: AI Home Design" and the macOS build carry the seller name Planner5D, UAB with planner5d.com as the registered seller URL. When a product's legal text, its Apple developer record and its website all point at the same named company, the accountability chain is closed — a baseline that is worth confirming rather than assuming.
The reach is genuinely large. The Android app alone shows 50M+ downloads and 555,000 reviews, which places this among the most widely installed consumer design tools in existence. What has changed recently is the addition of AI Studio, a generative layer sitting on top of the traditional 3D editor. That layer is worth understanding separately from the core product, because it is priced separately, is absent from the free tier, and orchestrates third-party models rather than running anything proprietary.
One thing to know before you invest hours in a project, covered in full further down: the terms assign ownership of what you create to Planner 5D, and personal accounts are licensed for non-commercial use only.
The primary workflow is drawing a plan in 2D and viewing the same space in 3D. On paid tiers this gets a significant shortcut: AI floor plan recognition lets you upload an existing plan — a builder's drawing, an estate agent's listing image, a scan — and have it converted directly into an editable 3D project. For anyone working from an existing property rather than a blank slate, this is the feature that removes the most tedious part of the job.
The catalogue is where the free/paid boundary sits most visibly. Free accounts get access to 50% of the furniture catalogue; Premium unlocks the complete library of 10,000+ premium items. This is a meaningful constraint rather than a cosmetic one, because in an interior design tool the catalogue is the palette — a halved library means fewer style options, fewer matching sets, and more compromises in any room you are trying to make look coherent.
Premium also adds the ability to create reusable 3D models from photographs, which partially closes the gap when the catalogue lacks a specific piece you own.
Rendering tiers cleanly, and the difference between a working preview and a deliverable 3D render is exactly where the paywall sits. Free accounts have no render feature listed. Premium provides Standard Renders. Professional provides unlimited 4K renders of professional quality — and, critically, without a Planner 5D watermark. That watermark is not an aesthetic detail: under the terms, watermark-free renders are specifically tied to commercial accounts, so the visual mark and the licence are the same gate viewed from two sides.
Professional adds 360° Panorama and 360° Walkthrough for showing a concept dynamically rather than as a static image, plus Apple Vision Pro support on the platform side. It also adds the unglamorous but decisive professional deliverables: CAD export for technical documentation, a Specs & Docs Organizer, a Price Estimator, and a custom branded profile. This is the cluster that separates "I designed my living room" from "I can hand this to a contractor and a client."
Professional accounts can upload custom 3D models in .obj, .fbx, .blend and .stl formats. This matters for designers who maintain their own asset libraries or who need to place a specific manufacturer's product that is not in the catalogue.
AI Studio is positioned by the company as "an AI-native workspace built around interior design, home planning, architecture, landscape concepts, and client presentations — not a generic image generator." The distinction it draws is workflow-based: developing concepts and mood boards, building material and colour palettes, furnishing empty rooms, generating or cleaning up floor-plan visuals, restyling interiors "while preserving room layout and structure," editing selected details, and enhancing renders. You can start from a text prompt, a room photo, an existing render, a reference image, a sketch, a drawing, a floor plan or a PDF, and the source, the alternatives and the chosen result all stay together on one interactive canvas.
The company is refreshingly explicit about what is underneath. The image catalogue is Nano Banana 1, Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 1.5, GPT Image 2 and Seedream 5 Lite. Video models are Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, FLUX 3, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Kling v2.1 and Luma Ray 2 720p. Specialist editing workflows use FLUX Fill Pro, Fast Inpaint and Real-ESRGAN. The company's own description of its role is precise: it "provides the interior-design orchestration layer that connects generative models to spatial concepts, room styling, project organization, and client communication." In plain terms, the models are other people's; the domain workflow around them is Planner 5D's.
There is also an Agent Mode, shown in the workspace as Canvas Agent, which reviews the canvas, develops design directions, generates variations, improves selected visuals, organises boards and storyboards, compares alternatives and prepares client-ready presentations.
Sharing and shared editing are available on every plan, free included. You can invite a partner, homeowner, client, contractor or colleague by email or link, set view or edit access, and collect comments while working on the same design in real time. Putting collaboration in the free tier is an unusual choice and a genuinely useful one — a homeowner and a contractor can work the same file without either paying.
Planning a renovation before spending money. This is the highest-value use and the one the free tier serves best. The official framing is exactly this: test room layouts, furniture placement, colours and traffic flow "before buying furniture or starting a renovation." Discovering that a sofa blocks a doorway costs nothing in a 3D plan and a great deal after delivery.
Working from an existing property. AI floor plan recognition turning an uploaded plan into an editable 3D project is the shortest path for anyone redesigning a home that already exists — which is most people.
Client-facing interior design work. Professional exists for this: unlimited watermark-free 4K renders, 360° walkthroughs, CAD export, a price estimator and a branded profile together cover concept, approval and technical handoff. Note that this is also the tier where commercial use becomes licensed, so for professional work it is a legal requirement, not an upgrade.
Homeowner-and-contractor coordination. Free-tier sharing with edit permissions means the person paying for the work and the person doing it can look at the same 3D model rather than exchanging descriptions.
Concept exploration and mood boards. AI Studio's stated strength is restyling interiors while preserving room layout and structure — meaning you can show a client four aesthetic directions for the same physical space without remodelling it four times.
Teaching. Education accounts are a distinct licence class with assignable, revocable student seats, and verified teachers and professors can apply for free access. Design and architecture courses are an obvious fit.
Retail and manufacturer embedding. The Enterprise tier is a different product shape entirely: a white-label room planner carrying your brand, catalogue and customer journey, with your own 3D product catalogue, a 3D product configurator producing real-time pricing and quote-ready output, and APIs connecting to your cart, CRM, ERP and quoting systems. A furniture retailer letting customers place actual purchasable products in their own room is the archetype.
1. Start free and confirm the fit. The free plan has no time limit, allows unlimited projects and works across web and mobile. Build one real room before paying — you will learn more from your own floor plan than from any feature list.
2. Draw the plan, or upload one. Draw from scratch, or on a paid tier upload an existing floor plan and let AI recognition convert it to an editable 3D project.
3. Furnish, and notice the catalogue ceiling. On free you are working with half the catalogue. If you find yourself repeatedly unable to find a piece that fits the style, that is the constraint talking, and it is the main thing Premium removes.
4. Decide your account type before you go commercial. This step belongs here, not at the end. If the design is for a client, for resale, or for anything revenue-generating, a personal account is not licensed for it. Sort the account class out before the work exists, not after.
5. Render at the tier your output needs. Premium gives standard renders; Professional gives unlimited watermark-free 4K. If the render is going to a client, the watermark alone forces the decision.
6. Budget AI Studio credits separately. AI plan recognition and AI Studio draw on separate allowances. Premium includes 100 AI Studio credits monthly or 1,200 annually; Professional includes 1,000 monthly or 12,000 annually. As a guide, 100 credits produces roughly 50 Nano Banana 2 images at 1K, or about 12 standard five-second video clips. Work already created stays saved if your balance hits zero.
7. Share for feedback rather than exporting screenshots. Invite by email or link with view or edit rights and collect comments in place.
8. Add the professional deliverables last. CAD export, Specs & Docs and the Price Estimator are for the handoff stage, once the design itself is settled.
Read section 2.2 of the terms before you build a portfolio here. The clause is in full capitals and it is unambiguous: "YOU HEREBY IRREVOCABLY ASSIGN TO PLANNER 5D, AND PLANNER 5D HEREBY ACCEPTS, ALL OF YOUR OWNERSHIP, RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST IN AND TO EACH USER CONTRIBUTION." You receive back a licence to use your own contributions, but the ownership assignment runs to the platform. For a homeowner planning one kitchen this is largely academic. For a professional building a body of client work, it is a term to read carefully and decide about consciously.
Treat the trial's renewal date as the single most important thing to diarise. The most frequent complaint on Trustpilot by a wide margin concerns trials converting to paid subscriptions. The company's own public reply to one such complaint states the mechanism plainly: "the trial automatically converts to a paid subscription unless it is cancelled before the trial period ends." Planner 5D's pricing page independently advises reviewing "the displayed trial duration, any introductory charge, renewal price, and first billing date before starting." Take that advice literally — and note that paid subscription fees are non-refundable except where law requires otherwise.
Match the plan to the annual price, not the headline monthly figure. Premium is $19.99 monthly but $59.99 for a year; Professional is $49.99 monthly but $399.99 annually. The annual saving is substantial, but it is also a larger single charge, which is precisely the amount that appears in the billing complaints. Choose deliberately.
Annual billing changes the AI economics disproportionately. Premium's AI Studio allowance is 100 credits monthly versus 1,200 annually — twelve times the monthly rate for the same year. Professional is 1,000 versus 12,000. If you intend to use AI Studio at all, the annual/monthly decision is not a modest discount; it is a completely different credit budget.
Test the catalogue against your actual style before upgrading. The free half-catalogue is a reasonable sample. If what you need is already present, you may not need Premium at all.
Use AI Studio for direction, the 3D editor for accuracy. Restyling preserves layout and structure, which makes it excellent for showing aesthetic options. Dimensions, clearances and buildability still come from the actual 3D model.
Check the render output before promising anything to a client. Watermark presence, resolution and tier limits are all account-dependent. Confirm on your own account rather than from a feature table.
Do not treat catalogue models as assets you own. They cannot be redistributed, and the terms explicitly prohibit using the service or materials "for service bureau or time-sharing purposes or in any other way allow third parties to exploit them." The licence itself is limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable and non-sublicensable.
Homeowners planning a renovation are the core audience and the best-served. The free tier genuinely works for this: unlimited projects, no time limit, cross-device, and half a catalogue is enough to test a layout. The personal, non-commercial licence fits exactly what a homeowner is doing.
Interior designers and architects with client work are well served by Professional's deliverables, but must understand that the tier is not merely a feature upgrade — commercial use requires a commercial account as a matter of licence, and watermark-free renders are tied to it. Budget it as a business cost from the start.
Design students and educators have a dedicated path: Education accounts with assignable, revocable student seats, and free access for verified teachers and professors. Note that education renders carry the Planner 5D watermark and are licensed for educational use.
Furniture retailers and manufacturers are the Enterprise audience: white-label planner, own product catalogue, 3D configurator with real-time pricing, and API connections to cart, CRM, ERP and quoting.
Hobbyists and casual planners get more from the free tier here than from most freemium tools, mainly because collaboration and unlimited projects are not paywalled.
People who need precision CAD work should look elsewhere. This is a visualisation and planning tool with CAD export, not a drafting environment. Reviewers specifically note difficulties with precise measurements and non-square angles.
Anyone whose designs are commercially sensitive or portfolio-critical should weigh the ownership assignment clause before committing significant work to the platform.
Planner 5D runs on the web and across a genuinely broad set of native platforms — cross-platform availability is listed as a headline feature rather than an afterthought. The company names Windows, Android, iOS and Apple Vision Pro, and there is additionally a macOS build in the Mac App Store.
The iOS/iPadOS application "Planner 5D: AI Home Design" holds 4.37 out of 5 from 40,380 ratings, with a 4+ content rating. The separate macOS application was released on 13 December 2017 and is at version 5.18.1 as of 31 July 2026, free to download, requiring macOS 14.0 or later, also rated 4+.
On Android, "Planner 5D: AI Home Design" holds 4.4 from 555,000 reviews with 50M+ downloads, an Everyone content rating, and in-app purchases. It supports phones, tablets and Chromebooks.
One platform disclosure deserves attention. The Google Play Data Safety section states that the app may share seven data types with third parties — including location and personal info — and may collect the same seven types. Data is encrypted in transit and deletion can be requested. That is a broader sharing declaration than many comparable apps make, and it is worth reading in full alongside the privacy policy before signing up.
Free — $0. Unlimited projects, sharing and shared editing, cross-device use on web and mobile, and access to 50% of the furniture catalogue. No time limit. There is also a route to Premium without paying: Design Battles offer Premium access as a prize.
Premium — $19.99 monthly, or $59.99 billed annually (an effective $4.99/month). Adds the full 10,000+ item catalogue, AI floor plan recognition converting an uploaded plan into a 3D project, creation of reusable 3D models from photos, Standard Renders, a Budget Widget for tracking project costs, and 100 AI Studio credits monthly (1,200 annually).
Professional — $49.99 monthly, or $399.99 billed annually (an effective $33.33/month). Adds unlimited 4K renders of professional quality without watermark, custom 3D model upload in .obj/.fbx/.blend/.stl, 360° Panorama and Walkthrough, CAD export, Specs & Docs Organizer, Price Estimator, a custom branded profile, and 1,000 AI Studio credits monthly (12,000 annually).
Enterprise — custom priced. White-label planner with your brand, catalogue and customer journey; your own editable 3D product catalogue; a 3D product configurator with real-time pricing and quote-ready output; APIs into your own systems, cart, CRM, ERP and quoting; plus usage and adoption analytics.
Education — free for verified teachers and professors, with purchasable, assignable and revocable individual student licences.
Two commercial terms matter as much as the prices. First, trials exist for both Premium and Professional, but eligibility and terms depend on the offer shown at checkout, and the trial converts automatically unless cancelled first. Second, the terms of service state that "Except when required by law, paid Subscription fees are non-refundable."
The realistic comparison set depends on which of three jobs you actually have.
For consumer home planning, the closest peers are RoomSketcher, Homestyler, Floorplanner, HomeByMe and Coohom — all of which appear alongside Planner 5D in Trustpilot's "people also looked at" panel. Their scores there are RoomSketcher 4.4 from 401 reviews, Coohom 3.4 from 200, HomeDesigns AI 3.3 from 1,000, Homestyler 2.9 from 11, HomeByMe 2.6 from 67, Floorplanner 2.4 from 16, Sweet Home 3D 2.3 from 7 and SketchUp 1.3 from 70. The entries below roughly 20 reviews are too small to support conclusions and should be read as noise; RoomSketcher, Coohom and HomeDesigns AI have samples worth weighing.
For mobile-first room planning, the App Store's own competitive set is instructive and in places outscores Planner 5D on larger samples: Home Planner AI: Room Design 3D by Room Planner Ltd at 4.60 from 45,709 ratings, 4Plan Home & Interior Planner by Alatona UAB at 4.58 from 2,859, and Houzz by Houzz Inc. at 4.84 from 323,291. None of these share a developer with Planner 5D — they are independent competitors, not affiliated products.
For precise architectural drafting, the honest answer is that this category is the wrong shelf. Planner 5D exports to CAD but is not a drafting tool, and reviewer complaints about precise measurements and non-square angles reflect that boundary rather than a bug.
Where Planner 5D distinguishes itself is breadth on one account: 2D and 3D in the same editor, a large catalogue, photorealistic rendering, AR and Vision Pro viewing, an AI layer, free collaboration and a white-label enterprise path. Few competitors span all of that. Where it is weakest against alternatives is the ownership assignment clause and the personal/commercial licence split, which several competitors handle more permissively.
The ownership assignment is the single most consequential term. Section 2.2 assigns to Planner 5D, irrevocably, all ownership, right, title and interest in each user contribution, including content created using the service. Users receive back a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use their own contributions within the service. This is unusual in its breadth and should be a conscious decision, particularly for professionals.
Personal accounts are licensed for non-commercial use only. The permitted uses are explicit: personal accounts may create designs "for personal, non-commercial or non-revenue generating purposes," with watermarked renders for personal use. Commercial or revenue-generating activity requires a commercial account, which is also what unlocks watermark-free renders. Using a personal account for client work is a licence breach, not merely a missing feature.
The underlying licence is revocable and narrow. It is limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable and non-sublicensable. Prohibited uses include service bureau or time-sharing arrangements and any other route by which third parties could exploit the service or materials. Catalogue models cannot be redistributed.
Review sentiment diverges sharply by channel. Trustpilot shows 2.5 out of 5 from 837 reviews; Google Play shows 4.4 from 555,000; the App Store 4.37 from 40,380; Capterra 4.5 from 118. The app store samples are two to three orders of magnitude larger. The Trustpilot distribution is also worth reading rather than just its headline: 60% five-star, 9% four, 3% three, 2% two, and 26% one-star — a bimodal split, not a uniformly poor product. A 2.5 score sitting on top of a 60% five-star distribution reflects recency weighting in the TrustScore, and taking the number alone would misread the picture.
Billing disputes around trial conversion are the dominant complaint theme. Trustpilot's own summary of 145 recent reviews reports that most reviewers were unhappy overall, most frequently over "billing discrepancies and automatic subscription renewals," alongside the app being "extremely slow to load, difficult to navigate, and prone to freezing or crashing." A concrete instance: a Finnish user reported an unexpected attempted charge of €399 with no cancellation confirmation received; the company replied publicly that the charge likely stemmed from a trial converting automatically. To the vendor's credit, the platform records that Planner 5D has replied to 86% of negative reviews, typically within a month — meaningfully more responsive than most products with comparable scores.
Some users report charges beyond the subscription. One reviewer described subscribing and then immediately being asked for a further payment to process a video, concluding the project was not worth it and seeking a refund. Confirm what your specific workflow costs before committing.
Free tier constraints are real. Half the catalogue, and Google Play reviewers additionally report that some décor options are limited or outdated and not deeply customisable, with one noting product search had stopped working. Free is a genuine tier, not a full product.
Vendor scale figures contradict each other across the company's own channels. The homepage cites 100M+ homeowners and professionals and 540M+ homes created or improved; the pricing page says "Trusted by 120M+ people"; the Google Play description says 40,000,000+ happy users and 300,000,000+ home design projects. Four figures, no reconciliation, none audited. Use the platform-reported 50M+ downloads and 555,000 reviews instead — those come from Google rather than the vendor.
The homepage's third-party rating claim cannot be fully verified. It cites "4.4 rating based on 645+ user reviews (G2 and Capterra)." Capterra first-hand shows 4.5 from 118 reviews. G2 blocked automated access from both channels, so the combined 645 figure could not be checked. The Capterra half is real; the total is unverified.
The terms have not kept pace with the product. The terms of service are dated 10 September 2021, well before AI Studio, Canvas Agent and the current third-party model integrations existed. They therefore say nothing specific about ownership of AI-generated output, data flows to model providers, or responsibility for generated content — a gap worth noting given how prominently AI now features.
The AI layer is orchestration, not proprietary modelling. Output quality is a function of Nano Banana, GPT Image, Seedream, Veo, Kling and the others. That is a reasonable architecture and the company states it openly, but it means AI quality is not something Planner 5D controls directly.
No independent media evaluation exists. Searches across technology media returned no editorial review or investigation of Planner 5D. For a product this widely installed, that absence is notable, though the platform-verified review samples more than compensate as evidence.
Minimum age is 16. The service is offered only to users 16 or older. Governing law is Lithuanian; disputes below €50,000 go to the Vilnius courts and those above to arbitration in Vilnius.
Yes, genuinely — the Free plan costs $0 with no time limit, allows unlimited projects, works across web and mobile, and includes sharing and collaborative editing. Its main limit is access to 50% of the furniture catalogue rather than the full 10,000+ items, and it does not include renders or AI Studio credits.
Only with a commercial account. This is the most important thing to understand about the platform. Personal accounts are licensed strictly for "personal, non-commercial or non-revenue generating purposes," and their renders carry a Planner 5D watermark for personal use only. Commercial accounts may create designs "for commercial purposes or revenue generating activities" and produce watermark-free renders for that use. Education accounts form a third class, watermarked and licensed for educational use. If you are designing for a client or for anything revenue-generating, sort the account type out before you begin.
Legally, Planner 5D does. Section 2.2 of the terms states in capitals that you irrevocably assign to Planner 5D all ownership, right, title and interest in each user contribution, including content you create using the service; Planner 5D then grants you back a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use your own contributions within the service. Read this clause directly before committing significant professional work.
Third-party models, disclosed openly. Images use Nano Banana 1 and 2, GPT Image 1.5 and 2, and Seedream 5 Lite; video uses Seedance 2.0 and 2.5, FLUX 3, Kling 3.0 and v2.1, Veo 3.1 and Luma Ray 2 720p; specialist editing uses FLUX Fill Pro, Fast Inpaint and Real-ESRGAN. Planner 5D describes its own role as "the interior-design orchestration layer that connects generative models to spatial concepts, room styling, project organization, and client communication."
They are a separate allowance from AI plan recognition. Premium includes 100 credits with monthly billing or 1,200 with annual; Professional includes 1,000 monthly or 12,000 annually. Cost per action depends on the model and settings — output count, resolution, quality, video duration, audio. As a rough guide, 100 credits yields about 50 Nano Banana 2 images at 1K or about 12 standard five-second video clips. Additional packs top up the same balance, and existing work stays saved if the balance reaches zero.
Yes, unless cancelled first. The company's own public statement is that "the trial automatically converts to a paid subscription unless it is cancelled before the trial period ends," and its pricing page advises checking the trial duration, any introductory charge, renewal price and first billing date before starting. This is the most common source of complaints about the product, and paid subscription fees are non-refundable except where law requires.
Web, plus native applications on Windows, Android, iOS and Apple Vision Pro, and a macOS build in the Mac App Store. The Android app supports phones, tablets and Chromebooks. Both mobile apps are rated for general audiences — 4+ on Apple, Everyone on Google Play.
Both, on paid tiers. AI floor plan recognition on Premium converts an uploaded plan into an editable 3D project. Professional additionally allows uploading custom 3D models in .obj, .fbx, .blend and .stl formats, and exporting to CAD for technical documentation.
Because the channels capture different things. Trustpilot's 2.5 from 837 reviews is dominated by billing and subscription disputes and weights recent reviews heavily — its underlying distribution is actually 60% five-star against 26% one-star. Google Play's 4.4 from 555,000 reviews and the App Store's 4.37 from 40,380 reflect day-to-day product satisfaction across vastly larger samples. Capterra sits at 4.5 from 118. Read the app store scores for product quality and the Trustpilot reviews for what can go wrong with billing.
UAB Planner5D, incorporated in Lithuania, with its office at A. Goštauto St. 12A, Vilnius, 01108. The same entity is named as the developer of the official iOS and macOS applications. The terms are governed by Lithuanian law, with disputes under €50,000 heard in the Vilnius courts and larger disputes going to arbitration in Vilnius. The service is available only to users aged 16 or over.
