Home design app privacy ratings
Floor plan, interior design and home 3D modeling apps.
11 home and floor plan design are rated against 9 public criteria, and 11 have enough evidence for a letter grade. Of the 10 with a known jurisdiction, 2 are based in a Five Eyes country, and 8 in the wider Fourteen Eyes.
Criteria for this category · Suggest an addition · Markdown
| Name | Grade | Score | Data | Jurisdiction | Open source | No trackers or telemetry | No ads or data sales | Independent audit | Transparency report | Tells users about requests | TLS configuration | Security headers | Modern web standards |
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Free, open source 2D CAD application for Windows, macOS and Linux that reads and writes DXF files and reads DWG files, used for technical drawings and floor plans. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Free, open source interior design application for drawing 2D floor plans, placing furniture and viewing the home in 3D. Available as a desktop program, an online version and paid mobile apps. |
Grade D | 50 | 100% | Italy Fourteen Eyes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Browser-based service for drawing 2D and 3D floor plans and furnishing rooms, used by homeowners, real estate agents and furniture retailers. |
Grade F | 34 | 100% | Netherlands Nine Eyes | No | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Not tested yet |
Browser-based home design service from Dassault Systèmes for drawing floor plans, furnishing rooms with products from real brands and rendering images in 3D. |
Grade F | 25 | 100% | France Nine Eyes | No | No | Partial | No | Partial | No | Yes | No | Not tested yet |
Mobile floor plan app that creates plans by scanning rooms with a phone or tablet camera or LiDAR, with estimates, reports and photos for contractors, and a cloud web app for office work. |
Grade F | 22 | 100% | Canada Five Eyes | No | No | Partial | Partial | No | No | Partial | Partial | Not tested yet |
3D modeling software from Trimble for architecture, interior and landscape design, available as a desktop application and as SketchUp for Web in the browser. |
Grade F | 22 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | No | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Partial | Not tested yet |
Floor plan and home design service for creating 2D and 3D floor plans and furnished 3D views, with apps for Windows, Mac and tablets and a web portal for projects. |
Grade F | 13 | 100% | Norway Nine Eyes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Not tested yet |
Home design application from BeLight Software for drawing floor plans, furnishing rooms and viewing designs in 3D, for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows and Android. |
Grade F | 10 | 100% | Ukraine Outside Eyes | No | No | Partial | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Home and interior design service for drawing floor plans and furnishing rooms in 2D and 3D, available in the browser and as apps for mobile and desktop. |
Grade F | 9 | 100% | Lithuania Outside Eyes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Partial | Partial | Not tested yet |
Blender Creative tools A 3D creation suite for modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking and video editing, extendable with add-ons. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | Netherlands Nine Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
FreeCAD Creative tools A parametric 3D CAD modeler for product design, mechanical engineering and architecture, with a Python scripting interface. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | Belgium Fourteen Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Questions
What is the most private option among home and floor plan design?
No pick has been made yet. The table above is sorted by score, based on public evidence.
How are home and floor plan design rated?
Each entry answers 9 questions: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, TLS configuration, security headers and modern web standards. Answers need links to evidence. See the full criteria.
Does jurisdiction matter?
Jurisdiction decides which laws can compel a provider to hand over data. Each entry shows its country and whether it is in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. The data a provider can hand over depends mostly on what it stores and who holds the keys. Read about jurisdictions and the CLOUD Act.