Houzz Pro alternatives for interior designers in 2026

Seven realistic Houzz Pro alternatives, from Planify and NYA to Studio Designer and Gather, with each vendor's price checked on 2026-08-03.

By Idan Mann, founder of NYA

All competitor prices on this page were taken from the vendor's own pricing page on August 3, 2026 and are linked at the bottom. Prices change — tell us if you spot one that has.

Most people searching for a Houzz Pro alternative are not unhappy with the feature list. They are unhappy with the billing shape: a $249 Pro base, $60 for every extra seat, and a trial that rolls into a twelve-month minimum.

Why designers actually leave

• The Pro base is $249 a month. Houzz's own page now publishes that figure after the 30-day trial; Custom still requires a demo. Advertising remains a separate product starting at $499/mo.
• The seat fee compounds. At $60 per extra user per month, seats two through five add $240/mo — taking a five-person Pro team to $489/mo or $5,868 a year before advertising.
• The trial becomes a contract. The free trial auto-continues into a paid term with a 12-month minimum unless you cancel first, in Houzz's own words.
• Ivy. Houzz acquired Ivy and closed it to new members; its pricing page now redirects to Houzz Pro and the migration was one-way. Designers who lived through that are wary of the same thing happening again — it is the single most common reason we hear for wanting a vendor whose pricing and terms are in writing.

The alternatives, with real prices

Planify — lowest flat price, narrower scope

Planify is $29.99/mo flat, or $24.49 billed annually at $293.88, with unlimited active projects and unlimited studio team members. It focuses on FF&E, approvals, proposals, documents, budgets, schedules and a no-account client portal. Its published feature set describes no CRM, accounting or invoicing tools, so it replaces Houzz's project-delivery layer rather than the full lead-to-cash system.

NYA — flat per firm, ceiling plans included

We build NYA, so weigh this entry accordingly. It is $49/mo for a solo designer, $129/mo for up to five people and $299/mo unlimited — flat, published, no minimum term, 7-day trial, cancel anytime. It covers leads, proposals, selections with per-item client approval, a client portal, change orders, invoices and payments, and it is the only product on this list that draws reflected ceiling plans with dimensioned PDF export. What it deliberately does not do is replace your books — it exports to QuickBooks or Xero — and it does not sell leads.

DesignFiles — the e-design workhorse

DesignFiles publishes its pricing: $55/mo for e-Design, $75/mo for Full Service, plus $30/mo per additional user. It is the strongest fit for solo designers and e-design packages — boards, floor plans and 3D included on both tiers. At five people the Full Service bill reaches $195/mo, which is where the per-user model starts to bite.

Programa — specification-led, priced per seat

Programa runs $71/mo for the first seat plus $31/mo per extra seat on annual billing ($89 + $39 month-to-month), with a 7-day trial. Its strength is schedules and specification workflows. Two things to check before committing: the pricing page shows a bare dollar sign with no stated currency, and the annual rate is the one advertised — the month-to-month price is meaningfully higher.

Studio Designer — the accounting choice

Studio Designer is per-user software — $69 to $109 per user per month on annual billing depending on tier — built around genuine double-entry accounting. If you want your general ledger, client billing and time entry inside the same system as your projects, it is the strongest product here and no flat-priced tool honestly replaces that. The cost is the model: five Essentials seats run $345/mo.

Gather — FF&E specification depth

Gather publishes $99/mo (Spec Lite) and $199/mo (Spec Pro), plus $39/mo per extra seat. It is specification and procurement software more than a client-facing suite — a fit for teams whose day revolves around FF&E schedules rather than proposals and portals.

Mydoma — an option with an asterisk

Mydoma still sells standalone at $58/user/mo on annual billing, and it remains a competent project-management tool for small studios. The asterisk: Studio Designer acquired Mydoma in July 2024, its payments and onboarding already run on the parent's rails, and its own pricing page steers accounting-minded buyers toward Studio Designer — per-user at $69–$109/mo. If you are leaving Houzz partly because of what happened to Ivy, understand that Mydoma is in the early chapters of a similar consolidation story.

Which one to pick

• Want the lowest verified flat price for client delivery: Planify — $24.49/mo billed annually, unlimited studio team members, 21 days free and no card.
• Want a broader flat-priced business workspace: NYA — $49 solo, $129 for up to five, $299 unlimited. 7 days free, cancel anytime.
• Want full double-entry accounting in the same tool: Studio Designer. It is genuinely stronger here and we will not pretend otherwise.
• Mostly do e-design packages: DesignFiles, from $55/mo, floor plans and 3D renderings included on both tiers.
• Want a specification-led workflow: Gather, from $99/mo, or Programa at $71/mo plus $31 a seat.
• Actually want lead generation, not software: stay with Houzz — that is what the advertising package is for, and no product on this list replaces it.

What you give up by leaving Houzz

How to switch without breaking a live project

1. Find your dates first. Before anything else, confirm your contract's renewal date and the cancellation notice window — with a 12-month minimum and a notice rule, the calendar decides what leaving costs. Our cancellation guide walks through what Houzz's own pages say.
2. Export while you still have access. Pull client lists, project files, estimates and invoices out before the subscription lapses, not after — retrieving data from a cancelled account is always harder.
3. Run one project in parallel. Pick a new project and run it end-to-end in the replacement tool while existing projects finish where they are. Migrating mid-install is how approvals get lost.
4. Keep the profile decision separate. Your Houzz marketing presence and your project-management software are different decisions — deciding to leave one does not force the other.