Spacely organizes design work around a canvas and studio workflows. Starting from a photo of my own room, I prefer NovaVerto’s guided tasks and the way the design connects to actual furniture offers.
I’m a co-founder of NovaVerto. This comparison explains why I prefer its workflow, using the original September browser trial and the product review on 3 October.
Where NovaVerto makes the difference against Spacely AI
I’ve chosen these comparison points specifically for Spacely AI. The final column explains why each matters to my preference for NovaVerto; it does not treat an untested competitor feature as absent.
| What matters in this comparison | NovaVerto | Spacely AI | Why it matters to my choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start with a guided home-design brief | Yes — Room, 23 styles, palette and budget; custom descriptions. | Tested — Preset, removal and variation controls. | Room, style, palette and budget give me a direct starting point for my room photo, without making a canvas the center of the task. |
| Move to a named job from the current room | Yes — Touches → More tools: 28 tools within the project. | Advertised — Canvas with furnishing, rendering and editing tools. | The 28-tool picker sits in the project’s Touches section, which is where I expect to continue refining the result. |
| Reach the room details directly | Yes — Walls, floor, lighting, windows and doors in the inspector. | Advertised — Point and Edit, materials and lighting tools. | Walls, floor, lighting, windows and doors are exposed in the inspector, making the next home-design decision easy for me to find. |
| Connect the concept to retailer products | Yes — Retailer matches and saved list; current Pieces/List UI inspected. | Not found (free plan) — No retailer-product matching or shopping route exposed in the inspected free home, tool catalogue, furnishing form or saved-result menus. | The shopping flow is a decisive part of my NovaVerto preference; no equivalent retailer-matching entry was exposed in the free home, furnishing setup or saved-result menus I checked. |
| Keep offers and a shopping total together | Yes — Offers per piece, prices, list total and area re-selection. | Not found (free plan) — No retailer offers, product prices or saved shopping-list panel exposed in those inspected free-account views. | I can use the Pieces and List panels to turn a concept into a shortlist, without managing a separate document for those finds. |
| Visualize selected furniture | Yes — Reference images; up to four furniture pictures/catalogue pieces. | Advertised — Style transfer and collage-to-render tools. | The placement setup accepts catalogue pieces or furniture pictures, fitting a makeover built around items I want to buy or retain. |
| Explore model families in the same project | Yes — 11 model families, search, filters and visible credit costs. | Not found (free plan) — No named-provider/model selector exposed in the inspected Auto Furnish and Image to Video forms; task-specific settings and costs are visible. | NovaVerto’s named-model picker gives me another way to explore the result, with the credit estimates visible. |
| Compare the room’s versions | Yes — Original plus version history, Hold for before and Compare. | Seen (free plan) — September canvas and all four Auto Furnish results remain saved; Projects, History and per-result download/menu controls inspected. | I prefer a visible original and version sequence for a home project. Spacely’s canvas also held multiple results in my test. |
| Continue to the balcony or garden | Yes — Exterior, garden, outdoor planner, balcony and front door. | Advertised — Creative Exterior and Creative Landscape. | The named outdoor tasks fit how I work through different parts of a home; Spacely also lists exterior and landscape tools. |
| Choose the run settings with the estimate beside them | Yes — Live credit estimate beside model, speed, size and variants. | Seen (free plan) — Current Auto Furnish setup showed 10 credits; Image to Video showed 50. Costs depend on the operation and selected settings. | The cost is visible beside the chosen model, speed, size and variants. That placement helps me make the next rendering decision. |
| Where Spacely can be the better fit | No — No native CAD plug-in; the public API and MCP server are the integration routes. | Edge — SketchUp extension: better fit for a studio working inside SketchUp. | For a studio already designing inside SketchUp, Spacely’s advertised extension is a stronger fit for that specific working environment. |
Tested = I ran it, in the September trial or the 3 October revisit. Seen / Not found (free plan) = what the free account showed on 3 October; not found there does not mean the paid product lacks it. Advertised = documented by the vendor, often on higher plans. Paywalled = my trial stopped at a subscription screen. Unconfirmed = I could not establish it either way. Edge = a specialist case where I would pick the competitor. NovaVerto’s column was checked in the logged-in app on 3 October. This is a workflow comparison, not a controlled image-quality score. Sources and test scope.
NovaVerto in short
We built NovaVerto around the steps that come after “that room looks nice.” A new design starts with one of three routes, Redesign, Place furniture or Run a tool, and every run stays in the same project: the original photo, numbered versions, Hold for before and Compare.
More tools opens 28 focused tools from the room itself, from walls, floors, lighting, windows and doors to staging, decluttering, exterior, garden and balcony design. The model picker covers 11 model families with search, filters and the credit cost shown before I run: 65 credits for NovaVerto AI, 126 to 176 for the Gemini options at 1K.
After the render, Catalogue, Pieces and List turn the room into retailer offers with prices, a saved shortlist and its total. Placing furniture accepts up to four catalogue pieces or furniture pictures.
The full NovaVerto walkthrough in my comparison of all eleven tools covers each of these in more detail.
Spacely AI: a studio-oriented canvas, while I want the home project together
Website: www.spacely.ai
Spacely produced four bedroom concepts in the earlier test using its supplied sample. I selected a Modern preset, furniture removal and four variations. The output was coherent and the room remained recognizable.
I also had to pay attention to how the selected operation changed the estimate. One Auto Furnish variation showed five credits; the removal-plus-four-output setup showed 24. That experience is why I like NovaVerto’s current estimate sitting next to the model, speed, size and variant settings.
Spacely’s advertised SketchUp extension is a specialist reason to choose it. If a studio already works inside SketchUp, rendering from that environment is a better fit than moving screenshots between tools. Its website also describes a shared Team Canvas. I did not test the extension or team collaboration. Spacely’s studio and SketchUp workflows
For a photo-based home project, I prefer NovaVerto’s guided starts and the connection between the room, focused edits and real-product offers. I don’t need to make a design canvas my main working environment to explore a sofa, paint color or balcony concept.
The free-account revisit on 3 October recovered the original canvas and its four results. I also opened Image to Video Beta: it offered an eight-second silent video, one image or first-and-last frames, presets or a prompt, and a 50-credit Generate control. I did not render a video. The current Auto Furnish setup showed 10 credits for its selected settings. I found no retailer-product matches, offers or saved shopping-list panel in the inspected home, tool catalogue, furnishing form or saved-result menus. That leaves NovaVerto’s shopping workflow central to my preference, while acknowledging Spacely’s video controls.
Why I prefer NovaVerto overall: it puts the controls I need for a home makeover and the shopping follow-through close to the result.
What a NovaVerto render actually costs
The cheapest current NovaVerto render is 65 credits. The current Standard offer is $17.99 for the first month, then $24.99 per month, with 7,000 credits per month. I’m showing both rates so the introductory saving and the ongoing cost are clear. Annual discounts are not used in these calculations. NovaVerto pricing
| Observed setup | Credits | $17.99 first month | $24.99 regular month |
|---|---|---|---|
| NovaVerto AI · cheapest render | 65 | $0.17 | $0.23 |
| Gemini · Fast · 1K | 126 | $0.32 | $0.45 |
| Gemini · Balanced · 1K | 149 | $0.38 | $0.53 |
| Gemini · Best · 1K | 176 | $0.45 | $0.63 |
Calculation: the monthly price ($17.99 introductory or $24.99 regular) ÷ 7,000 × the displayed credit cost. These are allocation estimates, not separate pay-per-image prices. They assume the allowance is fully used and exclude credits spent on other actions. At 65 credits, 7,000 credits cover 107 complete renders with 45 credits left; dividing the full month’s charge across those 107 renders rounds to $0.17 with the introductory offer or $0.23 at the regular price. The introductory rate applies to the first month, not every renewal. Other models, sizes and variant counts change the cost.
The current plan cards list watermark-free renders and API access on Standard. Pro is $49.99 monthly for 13,000 credits and includes 2K/4K output; those resolutions were disabled with a Pro requirement in the free account I inspected. One-off credit packs are also available, with a 30-day validity period. Plans and credit packs
Spacely AI price context
This is the regular paid entry recorded in the September review. It is historical context, not a fresh checkout quote. NovaVerto’s table above separately shows the $17.99 first-month offer and $24.99 regular monthly price.
| Tool | Reference paid entry | Approximate unit cost on that basis |
|---|---|---|
| Spacely AI | $25/month / 500 credits | $0.25 for the observed five-credit action |
Credits, source photos and unlimited plans represent different units. Unit-cost estimates assume full use of the relevant allowance; they do not measure rendering quality.
Why I’d choose NovaVerto
I’d choose NovaVerto for a home makeover built around room photos, targeted changes and shopping decisions. A studio already working inside SketchUp has a separate reason to consider Spacely’s advertised extension.
My starting point: use the 65-credit NovaVerto AI option for an initial direction, then explore the focused tools and furniture options around that result. At full allowance use, that is about $0.17 per render with the $17.99 first-month offer, or $0.23 at the regular $24.99 monthly price. Explore NovaVerto
Sources and what I actually checked
The original browser trials took place in September 2026. The September trial includes a completed Spacely AI generation, described above. NovaVerto also had a completed redesign and a saved shopping-list item. Photos, modes and prompts differed, so these observations are not a controlled image-quality benchmark.
On 3 October I inspected NovaVerto’s logged-in project workspace, New project/New run dialogs, Touches and its 28 tools, focused wall settings, model picker, speed and size menus, furniture-placement controls, shopping panels and live pricing. No new render or paid purchase was submitted during that revisit.
Official product and pricing pages were checked again on 3 October. Controls I inspected, completed September actions and vendor-documented features are labelled separately. Older prices stay dated where current amounts were not verified.
Free-access follow-up, 3 October: The free-account revisit on 3 October recovered the original canvas and its four results. I also opened Image to Video Beta: it offered an eight-second silent video, one image or first-and-last frames, presets or a prompt, and a 50-credit Generate control. I did not render a video. The current Auto Furnish setup showed 10 credits for its selected settings. I found no retailer-product matches, offers or saved shopping-list panel in the inspected home, tool catalogue, furnishing form or saved-result menus. That leaves NovaVerto’s shopping workflow central to my preference, while acknowledging Spacely’s video controls.
- NovaVerto: tool catalogue, pricing, assistant integration, and the logged-in UI inspection described above.
- Spacely: Team Canvas and SketchUp extension and plan/tool coverage. Free home, September canvas, result menus, Auto Furnish and Image to Video setup checked on 3 October.
Disclosure: I’m a co-founder of NovaVerto. The recommendation reflects my preferences and the workflow we’re building. Observed controls, earlier completed tests and vendor claims are distinguished throughout; access to a tool does not guarantee identical results across photos or models.
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