Your photo 1Photograph the house
One shot from the curb, in daylight. A phone snap is enough — no measuring, no color chips taped to the wall.
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Virtually paint your house exterior, free
Upload one photo of your house and see it repainted in any color in seconds — siding, brick, stucco, trim, front door and garage door. Pick a surface and a color below; every before and after here is unretouched output from the live Renovate AI engine.
What color should it be?
Repaint this house exterior charcoal gray with crisp white trim and a black front door. Keep the roof, windows, landscaping and everything else exactly as they are.
Painting rendered in 13s
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How it works
One photo, one sentence, one minute
No masking, no tracing round the windows, no color chips taped to the siding. The photo you can take right now from the sidewalk is the input.
Your photo Type the color you want
Your words Repaint this house exterior charcoal gray with crisp white trim and a black front door. Keep the roof, windows, landscaping and everything else exactly as they are.
2Name the color
Type it the way you would say it to a painter. Name a brand color or just say "warm white with black window frames" — everything you do not mention stays put.
13s The render 3See it painted
A photorealistic render of your house in that color, in seconds. Keep it, change the trim, or run three more colors on the same photo.
The render above came back in 13 seconds. Four colors on the same photo and you have a shortlist before the paint store closes.
Every surface
What you can repaint
The whole facade or a single element — just the front door, just the shutters, just the garage. Every image below is a real render from a real homeowner photo.
Siding
Vinyl, wood, fiber cement or board and batten — the whole body color changed at once, with the trim held separate.
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Brick
Painted brick, limewash and German schmear. Red brick is the hardest thing to picture painted, and the easiest thing to regret.
Three directions we tested on red brick
Stucco
Flat stucco takes color differently than siding. Try the warm end and the cool end of a palette on your own walls before you commit.
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Front door
The cheapest exterior change there is, and the one people notice first. A quart of paint and an afternoon.
Pick a front door colorTrim & shutters
Where a repaint reads modern or dated. Say "crisp white trim" or "black window frames" and only the trim moves.
Walk through an exterior repaint
Garage door
Usually the biggest flat plane on the street view. Matching it to the body or setting it against it changes the whole facade.
Change your home color freePrefer to read it first? See your house in any paint color compares the free exterior visualizers, and how can I upload a picture of my house and try paint colors? is the step-by-step.
Paint my house
Where the visualizer earns its keep
Nobody opens an exterior house paint app for fun. They open it at the moment a color decision has to be made and there is nothing to look at but a two-inch chip. These are the three moments people actually use it in.
Standing in the paint aisle
Two chips down and they look identical under the store lighting. Photograph the house on the way there, run both colors on it in the parking lot, and buy the one that won rather than the one you talked yourself into.
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Settling it at the kitchen table
Two people saying “navy” are describing two different houses, and neither of you can prove it. A render of your own facade ends that in about ten seconds — one picture, one decision, no repainting a test patch.
See a real before and after
Before the quote or the HOA
Painters and committees both respond better to a picture of your actual house than to a color name off a fandeck. Send the render with the request and you spend the conversation on the work instead of on what you meant.
Walk through an exterior repaintWhat all three have in common is that the house in the picture has to be yours. A color on a stock colonial tells you nothing about how it lands on your brick, under your trees, next to your neighbor’s siding — which is the entire question you were trying to answer. Pick a surface and try it on your own photo.
Straight answers
What it is, and what it isn’t
An exterior paint render is a shortlisting tool. It answers “would I like my house that color?” in seconds, for free, before you buy a single gallon.
- It keeps your house. Roofline, windows, landscaping and camera angle stay where they are, so you are comparing colors — not a different house.
- It’s free to start. New accounts get credits to repaint your own photos, no card needed.
- It handles brick and stucco. Not just siding — painted brick and limewash are the changes hardest to picture and most expensive to undo.
- It is not a color match. A render approximates a named color on a screen. Narrow it to two or three here, then hold real samples against the wall in daylight.
- It is not a quote. A render will not tell you what the job costs or how many gallons it takes. It will tell you which color is worth pricing.
Questions
Exterior paint visualizing, answered
Can I virtually paint my house exterior for free?
Yes. New accounts get free credits to repaint your own house photos with no card, and the free tier stays available after that. Pro unlocks higher volume, higher-resolution downloads and unwatermarked exports. Every before and after on this page was produced on the same engine you get for free.
Is there an app to paint my house exterior from a picture?
Renovate AI runs on iPhone and Android as well as in the browser. Stand at the curb, photograph the front of your house, name a color, and the repainted render comes back on your phone in seconds. The same account and the same renders follow you across every device.
Does the exterior paint visualizer work on brick and stucco?
Yes — siding, brick, stucco, board and batten, trim, shutters, front doors and garage doors all work from one street-view photo. The brick examples above are one real red-brick house painted four ways, and the stucco examples are one real stucco house painted four ways.
How accurate are the AI exterior paint colors?
The render keeps your house — rooflines, windows, landscaping and camera angle stay put — so you are judging the color and not a different house. Treat it as a photorealistic preview for narrowing a palette, not as a color match. Screens and daylight both shift color, so pull real samples of your shortlist before you buy a gallon.
Can I try a specific paint color like Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore?
Name the color in plain English and it will render it — "Benjamin Moore Hale Navy siding with white trim" works the same way "deep navy with white trim" does. It is a visual approximation, not a fandeck match, so use it to shortlist two or three and then confirm against a physical sample.
How long does an exterior paint render take?
Seconds. The renders on this page took 7 to 13 seconds each, measured end to end. You can run four colors on the same photo and compare them side by side in about a minute.
Do I need to mask or select the walls first?
No. There is nothing to trace, mask or select. You upload the photo and type the change — the AI works out which surface is siding, which is trim and which is roof, and leaves everything you did not mention alone.
What is an exterior paint visualizer?
A tool that shows you a house in a paint color before anyone buys paint — you will also see the same thing called an exterior house color visualizer. The old ones gave you a template house to recolor, which tells you what a color looks like on somebody else’s siding. This one repaints the photo you took of your own house, so the roofline, the windows, the brick and the tree in front of it all stay exactly where they are and the only thing that changes is the color.
Is there an app that lets me paint my house?
Yes — Renovate AI is an exterior house paint app on iPhone and Android, and it works in the browser too. Stand at the curb, photograph the front of the house, type the color, and the repainted render comes back on your phone before you have walked back inside. Nothing is installed on a desktop and nothing has to be traced or masked.
Can I see what my house would look like in a different color?
That is the whole job. Upload one street-view photo, name the color the way you would say it out loud — “warm white with black window frames”, “deep navy siding, white trim” — and you get your house in that color in seconds. Run four colors on the same photo and compare them side by side rather than one at a time from memory.
Is there a free exterior house paint app?
This one is free to start: new accounts get credits to repaint their own house photos with no card, and the free tier stays after that. Pro adds volume, higher-resolution downloads and unwatermarked exports — the renders themselves are produced by the same engine either way. Every before and after on this page came off the free one.
Does it work on a phone, standing at the house?
That is the most common way people use it. The photo comes straight from the camera, so there is no transferring files to a laptop, and a render takes seven to thirteen seconds on a normal connection — short enough to try a second color while you are still on the sidewalk.
How is this different from a paint brand’s visualizer?
Brand visualizers are built to sell one company’s fandeck, so they usually start from a stock house and stay inside that brand’s colors. This starts from your house and takes any color you can name, including a specific brand color. The trade-off is honest: a brand tool gives you an exact product code, and this gives you an approximation on your own walls. Shortlist here, then confirm against a real sample.
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The rest of the house
See your own house painted
Take one picture from the curb, name a color, and see your siding, brick or stucco repainted in seconds. Free to try — on iPhone, Android and the web.