Alternatives to Sweet Home 3D
Interior design software for drawing a floor plan, arranging furniture on it, and walking through the result in 3D. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Sweet Home 3D
Interior design software for drawing a floor plan, arranging furniture on it, and walking through the result in 3D.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Sweet Home 3D.
SketchUp Free
Browser-based 3D modeler that offers an easy start into 3D design.
SketchUp Free is a freemium browser-only 3D modeler without Sweet Home 3D's bundled furniture library or synchronized 2D plan view, and it is not open source.
BricsCAD
Native-DWG CAD software with 2D drafting, 3D modeling, BIM, and mechanical variants.
BricsCAD is a paid native-DWG CAD package with BIM variants on Windows, macOS and Linux, far more technical than Sweet Home 3D's furniture-layout workflow.
QCAD
A 2D CAD program for technical drawings: floor plans, mechanical parts, schematics and diagrams, with DXF and DWG in and out.
QCAD draws accurate 2D floor plans with DXF input and output, but offers no 3D view or furniture models, and DWG support needs the paid edition.
LibreCAD
A 2D CAD program for DXF and DWG drawings, built from the free edition of QCAD.
LibreCAD is a free, open-source 2D CAD program for DXF and DWG floor plans, dropping Sweet Home 3D's 3D walkthroughs and furniture catalog entirely.
Planner 5D
A web and mobile tool for drawing floor plans and designing home interiors in 2D and 3D.
Planner 5D is a closed-source freemium service on web and iOS with floor plan recognition, over 8,000 items and 4K renders, instead of free open-source desktop software.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Sweet Home 3D as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Chief Architect
Professional 3D home design software for residential architecture, interior design and remodeling projects.
Sweet Home 3D is free, open-source interior layout software on desktop and web, with large model libraries, but lacks automatic roofs, framing and professional construction documentation.
Floorplanner
Browser-based editor for drawing 2D floor plans and viewing rooms in 3D.
Sweet Home 3D is free and open source, running on Windows, macOS, Linux and in a WebGL browser, with over 10,000 models and video walkthroughs.
Homestyler
An online 3D floor plan and interior design tool with a large furniture library and cloud rendering.
Sweet Home 3D is free and open source under GPL-2.0, runs on desktop and in a WebGL browser, and includes over 10,000 models in the full download.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
FreeCAD
A parametric 3D modeller for real objects: design by sketching constrained 2D shapes, then change the parameters later.
Blender
The free 3D creation suite: modelling, sculpting, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and video editing.
Tinkercad
Create simple 3D designs and explore electronic circuits in a browser.
Archicad
Graphisoft's BIM software for architectural design, construction documentation and team collaboration.
Autodesk Revit
Commercial BIM software for designing, documenting and coordinating architectural, structural and MEP building projects.
Vectorworks
Commercial CAD and BIM software for architecture, landscape design and entertainment lighting and stage design.
