Apply Design vs BoxBrownie

Apply Design is a web service for staging, editing, and presenting real estate photos. Auto Stage adds furniture to empty listing photos, while its AI removal tool clears furniture, rugs, and décor while retaining photorealistic walls and lighting. It can stage panoramic and 360-degree views for virtual tours and keep furniture and layout consistent across several photos of the same room. AI Property Video turns 3–15 listing photos into a narrated video with captions and music, in vertical or widescreen formats. Other tools include a drag-and-drop editor, photo enhancements, and custom 3D models made from object photos. Users can also create a single-property website; the first one is free. The first image is free, and a new account receives one Apply Coin that allows up to five renders of that image. Coin packs cost $7 as a one-time purchase for 20 or more, $8, paid once for 10–19, or $10, paid once for up to nine. Coins are non-transferable, have no cash value, and expire one year after purchase unless otherwise stated at purchase.

BoxBrownie provides property marketing services for the real estate and building industries, including photo editing, virtual staging, renders and virtual tours. Its Image Enhancement service can adjust white balance, sharpen and straighten images, replace skies and enhance lawns. Virtual staging adds furniture to property photos, offers multiple styles and is advertised with a 48-hour turnaround. Other listed work includes floor plan redraws, item removal and virtual cleaning, color changes, virtual renovation, 360° editing, site plans, copywriting, background removal and portrait retouching. Customers can use the web service, iOS app or REST API to submit jobs and reworks. API access uses a public/private key pair; the private key is shown once and is not stored on BoxBrownie's servers. The company says it uses SSL on secure web pages and does not store credit card details; third-party processors handle payment data. Support is available 24/7 by phone, live chat and email. A free account includes three Image Enhancements and one Day to Dusk edit without a credit card. Image Enhancement is US$1.60 per image, with no subscription.