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Interior design apps for Manchester's mill flats, rental towers and suburban homes.

This is interior design app development Manchester businesses can put in front of customers and crews alike: an app where homeowners and investors see schemes, place furniture in their own rooms, approve changes and track deliveries, while your designers and installers work from the same live project. It fits the city's mix of work, from exposed brick apartments in Ancoats and the Northern Quarter to rental blocks around Deansgate and family houses in Didsbury, Chorlton and Altrincham.

Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. There is no Codeeo office in Manchester. We work with Greater Manchester clients remotely, by video call, from discovery to launch.

Built for
Interior design practices, furniture and fit out companies, build to rent operators and landlords furnishing apartments across Manchester, Salford and the surrounding boroughs.
Typical timeline
Dates come after scope: discovery defines the first release, and the delivery plan is written against it before design work begins.
What you own
The full codebase, both app store accounts, the operations dashboard, your furniture and supplier data and all customer records, under your company's ownership.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What the app can include

Features chosen for the way Manchester interiors work is sold and delivered.

Manchester interiors work splits into a few strong patterns. Converted mills and warehouses bring awkward spaces with columns, deep window reveals and listed details. City centre towers bring volume, identical layouts and investors who may never visit. Suburban family homes bring extensions, kitchens and long conversations between partners about what goes where. A useful app reflects all of that rather than treating every room as a blank box. The list below is where most of our Manchester conversations land, though no client needs all of it on day one. We sequence the features with you so the first release solves the problem that costs you most time, and the rest follows in planned releases. Students and young professionals renting in the city centre also expect to book and pay on a phone, which shapes how simple the customer screens need to be.

Explain your project
  • Consultation and measure booking

    Customers book a video consultation, a showroom appointment or a measuring visit from the app, choosing slots that reflect where your designers already are that day. Travel between a Salford Quays apartment and a semi in Stockport is planned in, and intake questions about rooms, priorities and timing are answered before anyone sets off, so the first meeting is spent on design rather than form filling.

    Designer diaries fill with prepared, realistic appointments.

  • Character space room templates

    Mill and warehouse apartments rarely have square rooms. Designers can record cast iron columns, timber beams, exposed brick, radiators that cannot move and windows with deep sills as fixed elements in the plan. Furniture layouts are checked against them, so a sofa is never specified for a wall that turns out to be interrupted by a column.

    Layouts respect the building instead of fighting it.

  • Augmented reality furniture preview

    Customers point their phone at the room and see the selected dining table, bed or shelving unit at true scale. They can walk around it, try a different finish and save the view to share with a partner. Models come from your supplier files or are prepared for your hero products.

    Fewer returns from pieces that looked smaller in the brochure.

  • Designer chat tied to each room

    Questions and answers sit against the room or the item they concern, with photos and voice notes. Designers can reply from the dashboard or the staff app, and the full thread stays with the project when someone is on holiday, instead of disappearing into a personal WhatsApp.

    Every decision has its conversation attached.

  • Variations and change approvals

    When a customer swaps a tile or the installer finds a problem behind a wall, the change is raised in the app with its effect on cost and timing. The customer approves it with a tap, and the revised schedule updates for everyone who needs to know.

    Scope changes are agreed in writing before work continues.

  • Supplier lead time board

    Each item shows its supplier, order date, promised delivery and current status. Late items rise to the top, linked tasks such as fitting days are flagged, and customers see a simple delivery view without supplier names or trade terms.

    Delays are spotted while there is still time to act.

  • Rental apartment furnishing packs

    Build to rent and buy to let blocks around the city centre and Salford Quays repeat the same layouts many times. Operators choose a pack per apartment type, roll it out across floors and track installs unit by unit, with snag photos and sign off for each door number.

    A whole block can be furnished and signed off on one screen.

  • Investor and landlord portal

    Owners who bought off plan, often from outside Manchester, get a portfolio view of their units: chosen packs, invoices, install progress and handover photos. They do not need to travel to see that a flat is ready for tenants.

    Remote owners stay informed without calling the office.

  • Digital handover pack

    At completion the customer receives a handover inside the app with product details, care guides, warranties and supplier contacts, organised by room. Tenants can be given a reduced version so they know how to look after the furniture they live with.

    Fewer aftercare calls asking how to clean a sofa.

  • Reviews and referral prompts

    Happy customers are asked for a review after handover, and a referral link lets them pass your name to neighbours and friends. You decide the timing and the wording, and only customers who agreed to marketing receive these messages.

    Word of mouth gets a simple route to work.

Who this is for

Four Manchester businesses this kind of app suits.

Not every interiors firm needs the same app, and Manchester has a wide spread of them. Some sell premium design to homeowners, some furnish hundreds of rental units, some sit between the two. The following four cases come up most when we talk to firms across Greater Manchester. Each one changes which user matters most in the first release: the homeowner, the investor, the installer or the operations manager who has to keep it all moving.

01

A design practice working on converted mills and lofts

Your projects are full of character and constraints. The app records the fixed features of each space, presents schemes room by room and keeps listed building or conservation area notes with the project, which matters in places like Ancoats where many buildings are protected. Customers approve finishes from photographs and AR previews, and your joiners work from current drawings.

Constraints captured early save expensive changes later.

02

A build to rent or block furnishing operator

You furnish many near identical apartments to deadlines set by leasing teams. Interior design app developers Manchester operators bring in for this work need to think in floors and units, not single rooms. The app handles packs by apartment type, install sequencing, damaged item reports and sign off per unit, with exports for your property management system.

03

A suburban home renovation firm

In Didsbury, Chorlton, Sale or Bramhall the client is usually a household deciding together on a kitchen, extension or loft room. The app gives both partners logins, keeps their comments on the same scheme, books measuring visits, tracks the build and takes staged payments. Changes found on site are approved in the app before work goes on.

Shared accounts stop decisions stalling between partners.

04

A furniture retailer adding design services

Showrooms that sell furniture often add room planning to raise order values. The app lets customers book a design consultation, upload their room, try products in AR and receive a planned room with a single basket to order from. Your stock and delivery systems feed availability and dates straight into it.

Six steps to an interiors app your Manchester team will use.

  1. 01Remote discoveryVideo sessions with your designers, installers and office staff, built around real projects, so we see where approvals stall and where information gets lost between people.
  2. 02Scope with clear prioritiesA written first release with user roles, screens and integrations, plus a later list. Dates are attached to that scope, and you approve both before work starts.
  3. 03Design in your visual languageInteriors clients judge an app by how it looks. Screens follow your brand, photography and tone, and we test prototypes with a few real customers before building.
  4. 04Build, connect and demoCustomer app, staff app and dashboard are developed in sprints, with supplier, accounting and property systems connected and a working demo at the end of each sprint.
  5. 05Pilot with one teamA single designer and installation team use the app on live jobs, or a single block for rental operators, and we adjust the flows from what they report.
  6. 06Release and refineStore submission, onboarding sessions by video and a support route, followed by planned releases based on usage data and requests from your team.

Technology

What we build this with.

We normally use React Native or Flutter for the apps, ARKit and ARCore for furniture previews, and a web dashboard for staff. Choices are made around your stock, accounting and property management tools, and the people who will maintain the product. Everything is deployed to cloud accounts you control.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions Manchester interiors firms ask before commissioning an app.

One or two flows that cost you the most time today.

For homeowner studios that is often consultation booking, intake and scheme approval. For rental operators it is usually unit by unit installation tracking and sign off. We find the right starting point in discovery by walking through recent projects with you, then build a first release around it. Further features follow in planned releases once the team is using the app and we can see where it helps most.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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