Why Tinkerspace
Most “AI interior design” tools hand you a picture or a video you cannot touch. Tinkerspace gives you a live, editable 3D scene — furnished with real products, costed as you build, and open to everyone in your household at once.
How it compares
AI photo apps regenerate a picture. 3D planners give you geometry but little sense of real products or cost. Single-brand AR apps stage furniture, but only their own. Here is where each lands.
| Capability | AI photo apps | 3D planners | Single-brand AR | Tinkerspace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interactive, editable scene — not a still image or AI video | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| True editable 3D geometry | No | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Move & rotate to an exact position (mm) | No | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Real, purchasable products | No | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-brand catalogue | No | Yes | one retailerNo — one retailer | Yes |
| Live budget as you design | No | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| AI-generated 3D objects | No | No | No | Yes |
| Photo → placed 3D object | Partial | No | Partial | Yes |
| Image-to-image restyle | one-shotYes — one-shot | No | No | from your sceneYes — from your scene |
| Real-time multiplayer collaboration | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| Built for HDB BTO | No | No | No | Yes |
Categories, not endorsements — examples include AI photo apps like RoomGPT or Interior AI, 3D planners like Planner 5D or Coohom, and single-brand AR like IKEA Kreativ.
What makes it different
The AI-room category hands you a static image, or an unrealistic fly-through video you cannot change. Tinkerspace gives you a live, editable 3D model you walk through and reshape. The output is the design itself — not a render of it.
Move, rotate and resize any object to the millimetre with an on-screen gizmo or typed values. Change one chair without re-rolling the whole room — impossible when the “design” is a single AI image.
Furnish from real products sized to scale, or pull a piece in from a retail link. Each item carries its real price and your total updates live, so the design doubles as a costed plan you can actually order.
Because your scene already has real walls, real dimensions and placed geometry, AI generation is anchored to reality — objects land at the right scale in a real layout, instead of a flat, hallucinated render.
From a rendered view of your real scene, run an image-to-image restyle for extra photorealism and fresh ideas — or turn a photo into a 3D object that drops straight into the editable scene. Generation grounded in your design, not a disposable one-shot.
Invite your partner, family or designer into the same live scene — edits and cursors sync in real time. A designer ↔ homeowner collaboration layer, matching you with pros to build inside your model, is on the way.
FAQ
Those apps take a photo and hand you back a new picture — or an AI fly-through video that looks slick but you cannot touch. Tinkerspace gives you a live 3D model of your actual unit that you walk through and edit. The output is a real, editable design, not a render you have to accept or reroll.
Something you edit. You draw your walls, place rooms and drop in furniture, then move, rotate and resize anything to the exact spot — down to the millimetre. Nothing is baked into a flat picture.
Yes. You furnish from a catalogue of real products sized to scale, and you can pull in a piece from a retail link. Every item carries its real price, so what you design is something you can actually order.
Every product you place carries its real price, and your total updates live as you add, swap and remove pieces. You can see the cost of the room build up as you design — no separate spreadsheet, no surprises.
Yes, in two grounded ways. You can turn a photo into a 3D object placed in your scene, and you can run an image-to-image restyle on a rendered view of your own design for extra realism and fresh ideas. Because it starts from your real, dimensioned scene, the results stay consistent with the room you actually have — not a one-shot guess from a random photo.
Yes — click to place, drag with an on-screen gizmo to move, rotate and scale, or type exact X/Y/Z values in millimetres. You can even stack items on top of each other.
That is exactly who it is built for. Start from a 3, 4 or 5-room BTO layout and model your real unit, instead of fighting a generic room planner made for detached houses overseas.
No. It is a sandbox — start from a preset layout, drag in furniture and play. You get a real, walkable design without knowing any CAD software.
Yes. Scenes are live multiplayer — invite others into the same room and edits and cursors sync in real time, so the whole household plans together.
Live collaboration ships today, so a designer you invite can work in the same scene with you. A dedicated designer ↔ homeowner collaboration layer — matching you with pros to build inside your model — is on our roadmap.
Yes, you can start designing for free. Create your unit, furnish it and walk through it before deciding anything.
