An InteriorAI alternative that also draws the floor plan
InteriorAI turns a photo of a room into restyled pictures of it. Loftshape does that too, and adds the plan the room belongs to: a furnished, to-scale floor plan you can edit in 2D and walk through in 3D.
Choose InteriorAI if
Your work starts and ends with pictures of rooms. InteriorAI is built around that: upload a photo and restyle it, fill an empty room with furniture, turn an interior sketch or a SketchUp screenshot into a render, or generate a design from scratch with no photo at all. If you want a tool given over entirely to that, it is a good place to look.
Choose Loftshape if
You need the layout as well as the look. Describe a home in a sentence and Loftshape draws a furnished plan to scale, which you edit in 2D and see in 3D at the same time. The photo tools — restyle, staging, sketch to render, brush edits — are in the same account, so a project does not have to live in two places.
Side by side
| Capability | Loftshape | InteriorAI |
|---|---|---|
| Restyle a room from a photo | Yes | Yes |
| Furnish an empty room (virtual staging) | Yes | Yes |
| Turn a sketch into a render | Yes | Yes |
| Restyle an exterior or a garden from a photo | Yes | See their site |
| Change one region of a picture with a brush | Yes | See their site |
| Floor plan generated from a written description | Yes | See their site |
| 2D plan editor with a 3D view and walkthrough | Yes | See their site |
| View-only link to share with a client | Yes, on every plan | See their site |
| Pricing | Free; paid plans from $15 a month | See their pricing page |
Comparison reflects each product’s public site as of October 2026. Check InteriorAI’s own site for their current capabilities and pricing.
People comparing these two are usually deciding between a picture tool and a planning tool. InteriorAI is the first: its own site describes modes for restyling a room photo while keeping the room, staging an empty space with furniture, rendering from a sketch or a SketchUp screenshot, and generating interiors from scratch.
Loftshape covers a good part of the same ground with photos — it restyles a room while keeping its walls, windows and layout, stages empty rooms, restyles exteriors and gardens, and turns sketches into renders — but it is built around the floor plan. You describe the home (rooms, size, plot) and get a furnished plan to scale, editable in a 2D editor and viewable in 3D, with a first-person walkthrough.
So the honest question is whether you need a plan. If you never do, a picture tool is enough. If your clients ask where the sofa goes and whether the door clears it, the plan is the part that answers them.
Which one fits your work
Interior designers presenting a concept
Restyle the client’s own photo for the mood, then show the layout it implies as a furnished plan in 2D and 3D. Send both by a view-only link rather than as loose image files.
Estate agents with empty listings
Either product stages an empty room from a photo. Loftshape is worth the look if you also want a floor plan of the property to go with the pictures; if you only need staged photos, compare the two on your own listing.
Homeowners planning a renovation
A restyled photo shows a finish. A plan shows whether the new kitchen fits. Loftshape lets you start from a picture of your existing plan or a hand sketch, and change it by asking the chat assistant.
Anyone working from SketchUp models
InteriorAI lists a mode for rendering from a SketchUp screenshot. If that is your workflow, start there.
Where Loftshape isn’t the right answer
- Loftshape plans are for design and presentation. They are not construction documents, and nothing in the product checks building codes or structure.
- It is a web app. There is no native phone or tablet app and no offline use.
- Furniture is the product’s own; there is no catalogue of real, purchasable branded pieces.
- The interface is in English only.
Questions people ask when comparing
Is Loftshape free?
The studio is free: the editor, the plan generator, the 3D view and Walkthrough cost nothing, and no card is asked for. The AI runs on credits. A new workspace is given 30 once; after that Starter is $15 a month with 200 AI credits a month, Homeowner is $29 a month with 500 AI credits a month, and Pro is $99 a month with 2,000 AI credits a month and 3 seats. Studio, for larger teams, is priced on request.
Does Loftshape restyle a photo of my room the way InteriorAI does?
Yes. You upload a photo and Loftshape restyles the room while keeping its walls, windows and layout. It also stages empty rooms and restyles exteriors and gardens from a photo.
What does Loftshape do that a photo tool does not?
It makes the floor plan. You describe a home in a sentence or a brief and get a furnished plan to scale, which you can edit in 2D, see in 3D and walk through in first person. On a paid plan, plans export as PDF and, from Homeowner, DXF.
Can I change just one part of a picture?
Yes. The brush tool lets you paint over one region of a picture and change only that, leaving the rest as it was.
Can I share my work with a client?
Yes: every plan can send a client a view-only link of a plan, Free one at a time and Pro as many as you like. Pro also has 3 seats, so a small team works in one account.
Try it on a project of your own
Loftshape is free to start. The quickest way to know whether it fits your work is to run it on something you are working on now.
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