Studio Designer vs. Casa
The Best Studio Designer Alternative

Casa is the modern design operations platform built for independent designers who want clarity and control - not complexity.
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From instant product clipping to budgets and client-friendly visuals, Casa gives you everything you need to run projects smoothly, at a fraction of the cost.

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Why designers switch from Studio Designer to Casa

Studio Designer has long been a heavyweight in the design software space - combining accounting, proposals, and project tracking in one system. But for independent designers, that all-in-one promise often comes with friction: complex menus, manual steps, and a steep learning curve.
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Casa reimagines the experience for the modern designer: lightweight, AI-powered, and built for collaboration with clients — not back-office bookkeeping. It’s everything you need, nothing you don’t.

AI-powered clipping

Casa automatically extracts high-res images, dimensions, pricing, and availability the moment you drop in a link - no extensions or manual input required. It’s instant, accurate, and saves designers hours every week.

Seamless budget tools

Casa generates budgets with preset sourcing targets. It factors in markup, freight, tax, and real-time tracking. In Studio Designer, budgets are buried in multiple tabs with separate views for markups, taxes, etc.

Ease of use & support

By-designers-for-designers user experience vs. Studio Designer's broader larger firm focus. A product that won't take you forever to get up and running with dedicated support to help you.

The modern alternative to Studio Designer

Casa delivers the tools designers love about Studio Designer - proposals, budgets, and project organization - in a faster, more visual platform that anyone can use. At less than half the price, it’s built for the next generation of interior designers.

Casa

Programa

Gathering Product Information

Drop in any link, get complete product data instantly

Manual browser extension required for each device

product Information Accuracy

Automatic extraction of specs, pricing, availability with accuracy due to being AI-powered

Manual selection and entry of product details

Budgeting

With the click of a button, Casa generates budgets with preset sourcing targets. It factors in markup, freight, tax, and real-time tracking.

Spending hours tracking client budgets with manual workflows.

Proposals, POs, and Invoices

Casa supercharges your workflow to instantly generate winning proposals, accurate purchase orders and invoices directly from your FF&E schedules.

Creating proposals, purchase orders and invoices by hand.

Workflow

Casa simplifies your day by providing one dashboard where you can quickly manage furniture details, deliveries and client communication.

Juggling spreadsheets, emails and open tabs.

Web Clipping & Product Sourcing

product Information Accuracy

Budgeting

User Experience & Onboarding

performance & Speed

Support

Reporting & Accounting

pricing

Casa

Casa uses AI to instantly extract images, specifications, pricing, and availability the moment you paste a link. No manual clipping needed.

Automatic extraction of specs, pricing, availability with accuracy due to being AI-powered

With the click of a button, Casa generates budgets with preset sourcing targets. It factors in markup, freight, tax, and real-time tracking.

Casa’s interface is built for independent designers - fast, intuitive, and visual. You can get started in minutes without any training.

Casa is built on a modern framework that’s fast, responsive, and designed for everyday use.

Every Casa plan includes chat and email support with real humans.

Casa includes essential financial reports like budgets vs. actuals and profitability by project.

$29 per month per user with free 30 day trial. All features included.

Studio Designer

Studio Designer relies on Studio Capture, a Chrome extension that requires installation and right-click selection for each product. Each field must be confirmed manually before saving.

Manual selection and entry of product details

Budgets in Studio Designer are nested under multiple menus and rely on filters for each client or room. To share, you must export to PDF or CSV, creating version-control headaches.

Studio Designer’s interface is dense and accounting-heavy, often taking weeks of setup and training to master. Many users describe it as slow and unintuitive

Users frequently report that Studio Designer can feel slow or unresponsive, especially with large projects.

Studio Designer limits direct support to higher-tier customers. Most users rely on articles and recorded webinars.

Studio Designer offers advanced accounting features (GL, AR/AP, accruals), but they add complexity most independents don’t need.

Starts at $72/month (month-to-month), with many features locked behind higher-tier plans.

Casa is built by a designer, for designers

The Story Behind Casa AI

Hi, I’m Cassandra, an NYC interior designer. 

When AI took off, most tools aimed to replace designers - not empower us. I didn’t need AI to take over my job; I needed it to handle the admin work so I could actually design.  

Like many in the industry, we’re a small team where every saved hour matters. I spent too much time on client presentations, budget updates, approvals, supplier emails, tracking deliveries, returns, and project timelines- leaving little room for real design.

That’s why I built Casa. Now, AI handles the busywork, freeing me to focus on creativity. I walk into client meetings fully prepared, projects stay on budget, and my business has never run smoother.  

Casa is built by designers, for designers -so we can spend more time creating, not managing spreadsheets.