ARki: Room Planner & Designer

Plan, Design & Visualize Home

Price
In-App PurchaseYes
LaunchedSep 14, 2013

Total Ratings

United States

220
5 star
170
4 star
22
3 star
8
2 star
7
1 star
19

Description

Bring your dream spaces to life with ARki, the ultimate 3D Home Design & Room Planner App that blends simplicity with professional-grade power. Whether you’re a DIYer refreshing a bedroom, a homeowner planning a renovation, or an architect crafting a client’s vision, ARki makes interior design, house design, and architecture drawing accessible, fun, and precise.

Design My Room in Minutes - No Expertise Required!
ARki’s Smart Draw tools and LiDAR scanning let you create room layouts effortlessly. Skip the tape measure - capture room dimensions instantly or sketch floor plans freehand. Dive into a library of 1,000+ 3D furniture models to design homes or decorate house spaces with confidence. Test paint colors, swap flooring textures, and experiment with home decor styles in real time. Visualize every detail in stunning 3D or step into life-sized AR to “walk through” your 3D house design before making real-world changes.

Homeowner-Friendly Features:
- Instant Floor Plan Creator: Generate accurate room layouts with LiDAR or manual input.
- 3D Room Planner Library: Choose sofas, lighting, rugs, and decor to design room spaces that reflect your style.
- AR Visualization: See furniture scale and home decor choices in augmented reality - no guesswork!
- Sync & Share: Collaborate with partners or contractors via 2D snapshots, videos, or interactive plans.
- Drag-and-Drop Simplicity: Rearrange furniture, adjust wall colors, and test layouts in seconds.

For Architects & Design Pros: Precision Meets Creativity
ARki Pro elevates architecture design and interior decorating with tools tailored for professionals:
- Import 3D Models: Use FBX/GLB files from SketchUp, Revit, Blender, 3Dsmax or AutoCAD to build layered projects.
- Mixed Reality Mode: Overlay 3D house designs onto real-world sites for immersive client presentations.
- 1:1 Scale Accuracy: Position objects, apply real-time shadows, and animate models for flawless architectural drawing.
- Material Palettes & Explode Tool: Showcase texture options and deconstruct designs to highlight details.
- Unlimited Projects: Save, edit, and share unlimited architectural projects.

Why ARki Wins Over Home Lovers
- Room Designer Made Easy: Just intuitive tools to decorate house spaces like a pro.
- Budget-Smart Planning: Test bold room decor ideas risk-free. Love that emerald green wall? Preview it in AR first.
- Flexible Home Planner: Perfect for studio apartments, sprawling homes, or virtual staging.
- Cross-Device Freedom: Start on your iPhone, refine on your iPad, and present on your Mac - seamlessly.

Transform Your Space Today
ARki isn’t just a floor plan creator—it’s your partner in fearless design. Redesign a single room or reimagine an entire property with tools that empower everyone, from interior decorating novices to architecture design experts.

Perfect For:
- Homeowners craving a home design 3D makeover.
- Renters wanting to visualize room decor before moving in.
- Pros presenting 3D house designs or buildings in jaw-dropping AR.
- Compatibility: For floor scanning use LiDAR-enabled iOS devices

Unlock ARki Personal subscription to gain access to the full catalogue of 3d interior models, as well as accurate edit and draw features, which help you create designs faster.
Upgrade to ARki Professional Subscription to explore the full toolkit for professional designers.
Explore tutorials and inspiration: http://www.darfdesign.com/arki.html

Subscription Prices are set by Apple's App Store Matrix in $USD. Subscriptions are charged to your iTunes account at purchase and renewal. Free trials auto-renew to paid plans unless cancelled 24 hours before expiry in iTunes settings. Cancellations take effect after the current period, downgrading to free. Unused trial time is forfeited if you subscribe before it ends.

Privacy Policy: https://www.darfdesign.com/privacypolicy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.darfdesign.com/termsofuse.html

Screenshots

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Version History

Releasing updates every 14 days on average. Last update 23 days ago.

12.12Mar 09, 2025

Bug fixes, and improvements. New furniture models

12.11Jan 25, 2025

Minor Bug fixes and improvements

12.10Dec 27, 2024

Minor fixes

12.9Dec 15, 2024

New Christmas update with over 20 new models and textures to help you create festive interior designs!

12.8Dec 10, 2024

Push notifications, and minor bug fixes.

12.7Dec 05, 2024

Introducing the Dopamine Décor Update! With over 50 new models, textures, and colours, you can now experiment with this exciting trend in 3D. Visualise how bold furniture pieces, cheerful colour palettes, and funky patterns can transform your home before making any changes.

12.5Oct 24, 2024

Draw 2D/3D room layouts accurately with simple tools that help you unleash the inner designer! Design your floor-plans by carefully choosing and arranging furniture from a growing library of 1000+ furniture models. Create stunning room layouts and floor plans with easy design tools!
This update includes minor bug fixes and improvements

12.4Oct 23, 2024

Draw 2D/3D room layouts accurately with simple tools that help you unleash the inner designer! Design your floor-plans by carefully choosing and arranging furniture from a growing library of 1000+ furniture models. Create stunning room layouts and floor plans with easy design tools!
This update includes minor bug fixes and improvements.

12.3Oct 18, 2024

Draw 2D/3D room layouts accurately with simple tools that help you unleash the inner designer! Design your floor-plans by carefully choosing and arranging furniture from a growing library of 1000+ furniture models. Create stunning room layouts and floor plans with easy design tools!
This update includes minor bug fixes and improvements.

12.2Oct 08, 2024

Draw 2D/3D room layouts accurately with simple tools that help you unleash the inner designer! Design your floor-plans by carefully choosing and arranging furniture from a growing library of 1000+ furniture models. Create stunning room layouts and floor plans with easy design tools!
This update includes minor bug fixes and improvements.

12.1Oct 07, 2024

Draw 2D/3D room layouts accurately with simple tools that help you unleash the inner designer! Design your floor-plans by carefully choosing and arranging furniture from a growing library of 1000+ furniture models. Create stunning room layouts and floor plans with easy design tools!
This update includes minor bug fixes and improvements!

12Oct 03, 2024

Draw 2D/3D room layouts accurately with simple tools that help you unleash the inner designer! Design your floor-plans by carefully choosing and arranging furniture from over 1000+ furniture models.

10.4Nov 23, 2023

Minor Bug impacting sharing onedrive projects

10.3Nov 22, 2023

Major bug fix impacting onedrive links

10.2Aug 30, 2023

Minor improvements and bug fixes.

10.1Aug 03, 2023

ARki 10.1 includes new Maps integration for modular projects.
You can now add a map view when designing modular systems.
This update includes new tutorial videos and manuals.

10Apr 23, 2023

ARki 10 showcases the winning HUB station models, designed as a Kit-of-Parts by 7N architects.
Create your own station designs from the kit-of-parts models using the new Modular Builder.

9.1Mar 10, 2023

minor fix for opening Gdrive Files

9.0Oct 29, 2022

Major fix for loading zip files

8.9Oct 25, 2022

Minor bug fix for iOS 16 - AR view was shaky on some devices.

8.8Sep 21, 2022

Minor Bug fixes

8.7Sep 01, 2022

Includes a major bug fix preventing non-English language devices from importing models

8.5Aug 18, 2022

New Shaders lets you add material properties to your models, including transparency, metal, and AR occlusion.
Unlimited File import Limit
Minor Bug improvements.

8.4May 07, 2022

Minor bug fixes
People occlusion fix on devices that support People Occlusion
Google fix for projects that where giving a URL warning during share.

8.3Apr 15, 2022

minor bug fixes

8.2Feb 18, 2022

Bug fixes and improvements
Optimised saving and loading 2d data
Improved thumbnail texture size crop
Added option to delete account

8.1Nov 18, 2021

Minor bug fixes to:
Editing and saving annotations
Loading and saving world anchor
Changing names of projects.

8.0Oct 26, 2021

New Annotate feature lets you add annotations on the model or the real-world.
New Explode Feature lets you create explode animations
New Traction, gives you insight on how many views shared projects receive.
Minor bug fixes and improvements!

7.4Aug 02, 2021

ARki 7.4 includes a host of new improvements including:
New personalised Gallery page
Improved World Anchor - saving and loading
New transform controls allowing you to add pivot points for more precise move, rotation, and scale
Improved import settings on FBX files. Models less than 5m are imported at original scale

7.3Apr 29, 2021

Minor bug fixes with QR code scanner rotation on ipad
Minor Bug fix with Zip loading Sketchup files created on Mac

7.14Apr 19, 2021

New Feature:
Share projects with QR code

Improvements:
minor Bug fixes.

7.13Apr 08, 2021

Minor bug fixes

7.12Apr 02, 2021

Minor Bug fixes

7.1Mar 31, 2021

IOS 14 upgrade, with LiDAR integration and Environment Occlusion.
Improve AR tracking performance
People occlusion
Brand new UI
Night-light feature
Create and Share Video and Photos
Sync to Cloud for sharing on multiple devices.

7.0Nov 12, 2020

New Image anchor lets you save models to real world images
New Rotate, Scale and Move tools for accurate placement in AR.
New 100mb import size for fbx files
Improved loading of files.
Delete projects from Cloud
New Auto-layer system for importing layers easily from 3dsmax, maya, rhino, sketchup, and Blender
Improved UI
Animation support - import animated FBX files
Create custom icons for your project
Minor Bug fixes

6.21Jun 04, 2020

Bug fix relating to GDrive access

6.2Mar 15, 2020

Welcome to ARki 6.2.
Introducing Anchor for creating location-specific AR experiences.
New Share feature allows you to share projects with multiple users for private viewing.
New Apple sign-in.
Improved shadow resolution, and environment shadow performance.
Minor bug fixes relating to camera clipping

6.1Nov 27, 2019

Welcome to another awesome update!
Environment shadows now in AR for more realistic visualisations.
Improved integration with FBX files from Revit and Archicad
Rotation fix for some FBX models from Revit
Improved Touch Controls and UI.

6.0Oct 14, 2019

This update includes the NextGen Railway Footbridges catalogue of 3D models
Minor UI and Touch improvements

5.7Oct 01, 2019

ARki 5.7 includes many new improvements including:
1: Improved AR Tracking and surface detection
2: Twist Rotate finger gesture for accurate rotation
3: Improved Import orientation of models, Y/Z axis is now importing correctly from all 3d Softwares.
4: New Download Media Feature for saving Gallery Projects on device.

5.6Aug 20, 2019

Welcome to the best version yet!
1: Improved touch controls for better positioning of 3d models
Move models with single touch - rotate with 2 finger swipe - scale with pinch gesture
2: Added GDrive access for easy importing of 3d files directly from your personal GDrive account
3: Added accurate scale feature to allow easy viewing at 1:1 scale
4: Improved Loading and downloading of Models
5: Improved real-time lighting (same lighting across multiple layers)
6: delete models directly from dashboard
7: improved UI

5.5May 09, 2019

ARki 5.5 provides a series of improved features including:
Updated Facebook and Google Login,
Delete Files from your local device,
New Yearly subscription to ARki Pro toolkit.

5.4Dec 19, 2018

Updated UI
Updated Bug with Onedrive file import.

5.03Dec 06, 2018

Updated minor bugs impacting scale in AR, and user signup.
Improved shadows in 3d Mode.
Improved model positioning and shader performance in AR mode

5.02Nov 20, 2018

Minor Bug Improvements with email registration and UI

5.01Nov 14, 2018

Minor UI Bug Fix on iPhone X

5.0Nov 12, 2018

Create your own AR experiences with the ARki toolkit.
Import your own 3d models (.fbx) and start creating new realities.

4.9Sep 17, 2018

Optimised for iOS 12
New Image Detection for AR viewing.
Minor Bug fixes.

4.3Jul 03, 2018

Updated Minor Bugs for improved performance.

4.2Jun 16, 2018

Displaying new project for 169 On Main, Cape Town.

4.1Jun 12, 2018

Updated 3d Mode and Touch Interface
Minor Bugs

4.0Jun 08, 2018

Updated UI
Minor Bug fixes.

3.0Jan 07, 2018

Updated Member Page, and UI.
*requires iOS 11
*works on iPad pro, ipad (2017), iphone 6s or newer

2.5Jan 02, 2018

Updated Architectural Projects including:
Porter School of Environmental Studies by Geotectura,
One BlackFriars by SimpsonHaugh+Partners,
Ayla Peninsula Villas by OAOA.

*Requires iOS 11, IPhone 6s and newer, iPad (2017) or IPad Pro

2.4Dec 29, 2017

New Architectural Projects to view in AR including Porter School of Environmental Studies and more.

2.3Dec 19, 2017

Member Page for viewing custom ARki projects.

*Requires iOS 11
*Requires iPhone 6s or newer, iPad(2017), iPad pro

2.2Nov 28, 2017

*Requires ios 11
*Requires iphone 6s or newer, ipad pro or ipad(2017)

Includes Member Page to view custom projects.

Marker-less Augmented Reality: Now you can view 3d models in ANY environment without the need for printed images to work in AR. The inclusion of Apple's ARkit allows for seamless integration of virtual architectural propositions within the physical environment.

2.1Nov 13, 2017

*Requires iphone 6s+ newer , ipad (2017), ipad pro
*Requires iOS 11 to run

Marker-less augmented Reality: Now you can view 3d models in ANY environment without the need for printed images to work in AR. The inclusion of Apple's ARkit allows for seamless integration of virtual architectural propositions within the physical environment.

2.0Nov 07, 2017

Updated to work with iOS 11

Marker-less augmented Reality: Now you can view 3d models in ANY environment without the need for printed images to work in AR. The inclusion of Apple's ARkit allows for seamless integration of virtual architectural propositions within the physical environment.

New showcase projects to demonstrate the best of our Custom ARki projects, including One Blackfriars tower and more.

Requires iphone 6s and newer
ipad (2017)
ipad pro

1.1Oct 09, 2014

Bug Fixes

LaunchedSep 14, 2013

Other Information

In-App Products

1. ARki Pro Subscription$19.49
2. Personal Subscription $5.00
3. Personal Subscription $29.00
4. ARki Pro Yearly Subscription$219.99
5. Personal Subscription $12.00