My Kitchen: 3D Planner

Review by eFreeware

My Kitchen: 3D Planner is a free Android app from developer Ovchinnikov Andrey, filed under House & Home, for putting a kitchen layout together on screen before anything is ordered. The pitch is speed and convenience, and the core appeal is that you place real elements — cabinets, appliances, a hood, windows, doors — rather than sketching boxes on graph paper.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. A kitchen is a puzzle of fixed widths and awkward corners, and most of the expensive mistakes happen because a fridge door swings into a drawer or a run of cabinets stops short of a window. A planner that works in three dimensions lets you see those collisions while they are still free to fix.

The app has over a million installs and a 4.4 average from 4,720 ratings, which is a reasonable signal that the basic job gets done. It is free, with no ads, and there are in-app purchases behind a PRO tier.

Who tends to get the most from it

The developer describes the app as equally useful to homeowners and professional designers, and that framing is fair. If you are redoing a single kitchen and want to try two or three arrangements before committing to a carpenter, the free feature set covers the whole loop: build the room, drop in modules, adjust the finishes, save a picture and send it to someone for a second opinion.

For a designer, the value is in the draft stage. Being able to hand a client a rendered view of a proposed run of cabinets, or to export the geometry as a DAE (Collada) file for further work, is quicker than producing the same thing from scratch in a general-purpose modeling tool.

It also suits households where more than one person has an opinion. The app supports sending drafts to friends so they can weigh in on furniture arrangement, which turns a private decision into something you can settle with the people who will actually cook there.

Where I would temper expectations is precision engineering. This is a layout and visualization tool, not a substitute for a site survey, and the free tier's scope is what it is.

Building the room and filling it

The free version starts with the shell: you configure the room itself, set floor and wall colors, and then populate it with the elements that make up a kitchen. Cabinets, appliances, hoods, windows and doors are all handled as modules you add and position, so the layout grows the way a real installation would.

Finishing details are covered as well. You can pick the cabinet door and handle model, which matters more than it first appears — a shaker door and a slab door read very differently in a small room, and seeing that in the app is cheaper than discovering it after delivery.

There is also a color import feature, so you can bring in shades that match something real rather than approximating them from a preset swatch. The developer frames this as a way to make a design resemble the real thing as closely as possible, and it is the sort of option that separates a rough sketch from something you would show a supplier.

Projects can be created, opened and saved, and there is an undo for when an experiment goes wrong. You can save an image of the result, and export DAE (Collada) files if you need the model outside the app.

What sits behind the PRO tier

The app is free to download and there are no ads in it, which is a pleasant combination for a planning tool you might open repeatedly over several weeks. In-app purchases exist, tied to a PRO version that the developer says adds module editing — the ability to change the modules themselves rather than just place them.

There is a trial arrangement: one day of access after installing the app, and three more days after a subscription purchase. That is a short window, and it is worth treating the trial as a chance to check whether module editing is something you will actually reach for before you commit.

The free tier is not a demo in the usual sense. Saving and reopening projects, adjusting the kitchen contents, setting room colors, choosing door and handle models, importing colors, saving images, sharing drafts and exporting Collada files are all part of it. What you are weighing is whether customizing the modules themselves is central to how you plan or a refinement you can live without.

How it compares with the alternatives

The obvious comparison is with a general 3D modeling package. Those can produce a kitchen, but they ask you to learn a tool built for everything from furniture to film sets, and the learning curve is the price of that flexibility. This app is narrower by design, and the narrowness is the point: the vocabulary is already kitchen-shaped.

The other comparison is with a furniture retailer's planning service. Those tend to be tied to one manufacturer's catalog and are often run by a salesperson, which is fine if you have already chosen the supplier. A standalone planner lets you test ideas before you have committed to anyone.

Pen and paper is the third option, and it remains the cheapest. What it cannot do is show you the room from an angle you have not thought of, or let you change the wall color and see the result immediately, or hand a file to someone else to review. That is the gap this app fills.

Recent updates and what they signal

The most recent release added support for Android 17, a new unit of measurement in centimeters, and several cabinet modules with a built-in oven and microwave. The unit change is the small one that will matter to a lot of people, since metric measurements are the norm in most kitchen planning outside the United States.

The oven and microwave cabinets are a more interesting addition. Combination units are increasingly common in compact kitchens, and having them as ready-made modules saves building the arrangement by hand. It is the kind of update that suggests the developer is watching how the app is used rather than only fixing breakage.

The app dates back to 2018, and the fact that it is still receiving feature updates several years later is reassuring for anyone planning a renovation that may take months to complete. You are not learning a tool that has been left to sit.

A planner worth trying before you order cabinets

My Kitchen: 3D Planner earns a recommendation for the specific job it does: letting you see a kitchen arrangement before you pay for it. The free tier is generous enough to complete a full layout, the absence of ads keeps the experience clean, and the 4.4 average across 4,720 ratings suggests the fundamentals hold up for most people who try it.

The caveats are straightforward. Module editing sits behind the PRO tier, so if your plans involve custom cabinetry rather than standard units, the free version may feel constrained. The trial is short, and the app is a visualization aid rather than a replacement for measuring your actual room.

If you are planning a kitchen and want to test arrangements without committing to a retailer's design service or learning a full modeling suite, this is a reasonable place to start. Download it, build your room, and see whether the free tools answer your questions before deciding on PRO.

What's new in version 1.35.0

Support for Android 17 Added several new kitchen cabinets with a built-in oven and microwave Added a new unit of measurement - centimeters Bug fixes