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Houzz Inc., the leading platform for home renovation and design, today launched Sketch within its app for iPhone® and iPad® devices. The feature is optimised for iPad Pro™ with Apple Pencil™ support. With Sketch, users can select any of the more than eight million retina-quality photos on the Houzz® platform, or take one of their own, to add products on Houzz and annotate photos with a number of tools, including stickers, for easy communication. Sketch also allows for real-time collaboration, where multiple people can simultaneously annotate the same photo.
“People use the Houzz app at all stages of a home project, whether they’re looking for design inspiration, hiring a home professional, discovering products, or collaborating with others through ideabooks,” said Alon Cohen, president and cofounder of Houzz. “We’re always looking for ways to make the home renovation and design process even more fun and productive. Sketch is a powerful new function in the Houzz app that enables people to add products on Houzz to any photo, and to communicate and collaborate more effectively through photos with their home professional or others involved in the project.”
Users flip through more than one billion photos on Houzz apps every month, and spend over an hour a month on average on the Houzz app for iPhone and iPad. Sketch makes design planning with photos easy and fun, by enabling users to:
To start Sketch’ing, users simply tap the Sketch button on any photo on Houzz or upload a photo to an ideabook.
The Houzz app is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPad or at www.AppStore.com/Houzz. Click here for screenshots.
About Houzz
Houzz is the leading platform for home renovation and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish – online or from a mobile device. From decorating a small room to building a custom home and everything in between, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community empowered by technology, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, browse products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin, Sydney, Moscow and Tokyo. Houzz and the Houzz logo are registered trademarks of Houzz Inc. worldwide. For more information, visit houzz.com.au.