iPhone has definitely revolutionized the world of mobile technology springing a whole new inter-generation love for its wide variety of applications to choose from. There are weight watcher apps, educational apps, games apps, fashion apps, and how can we forget, home improvement apps! Apple has it you all covered, from screw measurements, hardwood flooring, home maintenance and so much more.
1. Workshop
Rated: 4 Stars
Cost: $4.99
This app helps everyone from rookie to pro with basic to advanced home improvement items. Whether you are planning a new project or fixing an old one, this one stop guide helps you with options from a to z that you will need. It keeps a detailed record of all your orders, billing details and receiving inventory. It can also be used to make budget and lists.
2. Tap4RENOVATIONS
Rated: 2 Stars
Cost: Free
This app helps you locate a contractor closest to your house. This even stores call history of all your recent calls to the contractors and helps narrow down to the person according to your budget. It is highly useful in emergency situations as well.
3. Home logic mobile control
Rated: 4 Stars
Score: Free
This app serves great use to people who are picky about lighting, heating and alarm system. It helps the user control light, heat, alarm and audio at the touch of your phone. It work via a Wi-Fi connection or over the internet and you can even control your home video camera, air conditioning, and even the pool!
4. Handy Man DIY
Rated: 5 Stars
Cost: $ 2.99
This tool is probably the most used of all. It categorizes your products in a shopping list format, measures ‘take-offs’ for individual rooms and sums up all the measurements. Other than these, features include do it yourself step-by-step instructions for common projects and video.
5. Drywall Calculator
Rated: 3.5 Stars
Cost: $ 2.99
One of the most difficult jobs is calculating the dry wall area around the house. It is time consuming, boring and just plain confusing. Trying to keep track of the lengths and widths while removing doorways and window panes just takes away the happy home picture, but with this app you will be able to figure square footages faster and easily. It also has data area for measuring sloping walls as well as ceilings.
6. Home Maintenance
Rated: 3.5 Stars
Cost: $2.99
This is the perfect tool for all home related issues. It keeps track when the air filters need to be changed, and if the repair person fixed that cracked garage door. It helps you set reminders and even gives suggestions for proper maintenance and scheduling. You can even e-mail pictures to yourself to help keep the history of your house repairs. Now, isn’t that helper, guide and housekeeper in one?
7. Home sizer
Rated: 3 Stars
Cost: $2.99
Designing and improving a home need everything to be done in a systemic manner to keep tab on cost details and dates of installations of those supplies for further maintenance. This app’s easy to read interface allows you to even figure out the mortgage payments and interest rates before you build your dream home!
8. Dream Home
Rated: 4 Stars.
Cost: $2.99/ Free version also available
The dream home app inspires its users with a wide range of designs, colors, rooms to choose from. Designers from all over the globe have contributed inspiration photos for this app to help guide and direct you to make your dream of having a perfect home together sooner than ever. It’s like having a personal interior designer by your side at all times.
9. Home Improvement Glossary
Rated: 3 Stars
Cost: $0.99
This application has a very easy to use glossary/ handy dictionary based layout with a number of useful products. It has a list of Home Improvement terminology, equipments, jargon, and definitions.
The user can search through the database in alphabetical order or search using a keyword. Also, direct mail access and feedback features can also be easily accessed.
10. Palettes
Rated: 2 Stars
Cost: Free
One of the most interesting apps for your iPhone is the palette app that helps you choose and match a color from magazines, pictures or even websites. This is the best app fro choosing and matching colors to your internal or external projects. Now, it couldn’t have gotten better than this!