Five tools for clearing clutter and furniture out of listing photos, ranked for agents rather than by feature count. Every price checked against the vendor's own page.
Avenue 510 is the best option for a working agent, because the same listing that needs a room cleared also needs the exteriors fixed, a video cut, and captions written. Collov AI is the strongest dedicated tool, with furniture removal on every tier from $19 a month. AI HomeDesign is cheapest at volume. BoxBrownie is the pick when a person should do it.
Object removal splits into two jobs that get sold as one. Clearing loose clutter, the bags and shoes and coffee cups a seller lives among, is the easy version: small objects, simple surfaces underneath, and a result that usually holds up at full size. Emptying a room of its furniture is the hard version, because a sofa hides several square metres of floor and wall that have to be reconstructed convincingly.
Almost every tool here does both, and the ones that struggle struggle on the second. That is the thing worth testing during a free trial: give it a fully furnished room rather than a tidy one with a stray bag, because the tidy one tells you nothing.
Removing furniture is also usually the first half of a two-step job. A vacant-looking room is rarely the goal in itself; you empty it so you can stage it. Several tools below sell both, and whether they do is worth more than a small difference in per-photo price.
One boundary applies to every tool here, ours included. Removing a seller's belongings is fine, because those leave with the seller. Removing something that conveys, a built-in unit or a fitted appliance, or painting out a defect like a stain or a crack, misrepresents the property. That line matters more than any feature on this page.
Ranked for a working listing agent by what it costs to take a whole listing to market, not by the price of a single removal. That framing decides the order: clearing a room is one step in a listing that also needs corrected exteriors, a video, and captions, so a tool that only removes objects leaves most of the week untouched. Per-photo cost and whether staging is available in the same place are reported on every entry so you can weigh them yourself, and the awards name who wins each outright. Pricing checked against each vendor's own public pricing page, verified September 2026, except BoxBrownie as dated on its entry. This is not a lab benchmark, no tool was assigned a score, and no tool paid for placement. Avenue 510 is our own product and is labelled as such. If clearing rooms is genuinely all you need, weight the dedicated tools above this order: Collov AI has the deepest removal toolset and AI HomeDesign is cheapest at volume.
Avenue 510 clears clutter and empties rooms from the same library that fixes the exteriors and builds the listing video, which is the whole week rather than one step of it.
- Declutter, remove furniture, and lawn repair grouped together as Cleanup
- Sky replacement, staging, and 4K upscaling in the same library
- Listing video and captions covered by the same subscription
- Two credits per edit at 2K, the standard output, or four at 4K
Where it falls short:
- No object-by-object selection. The edits clear a room or clear the loose items, and you cannot point at one specific chair and remove only that, which three tools below do allow.
- The most expensive entry price here by a wide margin, and impossible to justify if clearing rooms is all you need.
- Invite-only. You need an invite code from an existing Avenue member to create an account, unlike every other tool here.
Best for: If every listing you take needs a room cleared, the sky fixed, a video cut, and captions written, and you would rather hold one subscription than four.
Pricing: Solo $97/mo, Studio $297/mo, Signature $497/mo. Two credits per edit at 2K, four at 4K. 7-day trial. (verified 2026-09-18)
Collov AI includes a furniture removal tool on its cheapest tier and adds conversational add, edit, and remove control higher up, which is the deepest removal toolset in this guide.
- Furniture removal tool on every tier, starting at $19 a month for 60 credits
- Conversational add, edit, and remove control from the Advanced tier up
- Staging in the same product, so emptying and refurnishing happen in one place
- Unlimited regeneration and a commercial licence on every tier
Where it falls short:
- Trial credits produce watermarked output, so a proper evaluation means paying.
- Credit-based tiers mean a heavy month can run out partway through a listing.
- Deep on rooms, thin elsewhere. It will not touch your listing video or your captions.
Best for: If clearing and re-staging rooms is the core of your work and you want the tool that does that better than anything else.
Pricing: Standard $19/mo (60 credits), Advanced $49/mo (150), Premium $79/mo (263), Enterprise $127/mo (526). Annual billing is about 25 percent lower. (verified 2026-09-18)
AI HomeDesign removes furniture, clutter, people, and signage at the lowest published per-photo rate in this guide, reaching $0.49 an image on its top annual tier.
- $0.49 per photo at the Enterprise annual tier
- Removes people, signage, and reflections as well as furniture
- Free regenerations on every plan
- Staging available in the same product
Where it falls short:
- The headline rate needs both the annual commitment and the top tier. Monthly billing is roughly double.
- At the entry tier the effective rate is $1.17 a photo, which is no longer category-leading.
- Backup storage is time-limited below Enterprise, so older renders expire.
Best for: If you or your brokerage push hundreds of images a month and per-image cost is the number that decides it.
Pricing: Pro $35/mo or $19/mo annual (30 photos). Pro Plus $59/mo or $29/mo annual (80). Enterprise $99/mo or $49/mo annual (200+). (verified 2026-07-31)
InstantDeco reaches unlimited photos at $49 a month, or $35 on annual billing, which is the lowest price here for removal work without a per-image ceiling.
- Unlimited photos on the Pro tier rather than a credit allowance
- 4K downloads on both tiers
- Downloads stay valid for life per the vendor's own page
- No commitment, cancellable at any time
Where it falls short:
- The $14 Basic tier covers only 8 photos a month, which is one room set, so most agents are really choosing the $49 tier.
- Video credits are sold separately and are not part of either plan.
- No free trial is stated on the pricing page, though a try-for-free entry point exists elsewhere on the site.
Best for: If your volume is lumpy, with quiet months and then four listings in a fortnight, and a photo allowance would either waste money or run out.
Pricing: Basic $14/mo or $10/mo annual (8 photos). Pro $49/mo or $35/mo annual (unlimited photos). Video credits sold separately from $20. (verified 2026-09-18)
BoxBrownie has human editors do the removal at published per-image prices, which is the most reliable route when a sofa hides a complicated floor or an awkward corner.
- Item removal priced per image from $5 for minor work
- Human editors rather than generated output
- Sits alongside staging, floor plans, and enhancement from one vendor
- Transparent published per-image pricing
Where it falls short:
- Roughly 24-hour turnaround, which rules it out for a same-day listing launch.
- Per-image pricing adds up quickly across a full set compared with a subscription.
- Pricing was last confirmed 21 July 2026 from our own comparison research rather than re-checked for this guide.
Best for: If the room is difficult, the listing is high value, and you would rather a person rebuilt what was behind the furniture than regenerate and hope.
Pricing: Item removal and virtual cleaning $5 for minor work to $10 standard, per image. Roughly 24-hour turnaround. (verified 2026-07-21)
Entry cost is the cheapest realistic way to get usable removals out of each tool. Pricing verified September 2026 against each vendor's own page, except AI HomeDesign and BoxBrownie as dated on their entries.
| Tool | Entry cost | Cost per image | Pick specific objects | Staging in the same place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avenue 510 | $97/mo | 2 credits per edit | No | Yes |
| Collov AI | $19/mo | About $0.32 | Yes | Yes |
| AI HomeDesign | $19/mo annual | $0.49 to $1.17 | Yes | Yes |
| InstantDeco | $14/mo | Unlimited from $35/mo | Yes | Yes |
| BoxBrownie | $5/image | $5 to $10 | Yes, by brief | Yes |
These are different difficulties sold as one feature. Clearing loose items is easy and every tool here handles it. Emptying a furnished room means reconstructing the floor and wall behind a sofa, and that is where results diverge. Test on a fully furnished room during any trial, because a tidy room with one stray bag proves nothing.
Most rooms are cleared so they can be refurnished. Every tool in this guide offers staging as well, which is worth more than a small per-image saving, because moving a half-finished image between two products is where the time actually goes.
Credit allowances suit predictable volume and punish a sudden run of listings. If you have quiet months and then four properties in a fortnight, an unlimited tier costs more at rest and less when it matters. InstantDeco's Pro tier is the cheapest route to unlimited here.
With automated tools you regenerate, which costs seconds and maybe a credit. That is fine on a standard listing. On a difficult room, or a property where a visibly wrong floor would embarrass you, a human service produces a result somebody checked, and twenty dollars is cheap insurance at that level.
For an agent taking listings to market, Avenue 510 clears rooms from the same library that fixes exteriors and builds the video. If room work is the whole job, Collov AI has the deepest dedicated removal toolset from $19 a month, AI HomeDesign is cheapest at volume, and BoxBrownie is the pick when a person should do it.
Usually not, when what you removed belongs to the seller and leaves with them: bags, shoes, cups, and furniture are the occupant's belongings rather than features of the property. The line is whether the thing conveys. Removing built-in shelving, a fitted appliance, or a visible defect misrepresents the property, and no tool setting makes that acceptable.
No, and they are usually sequential. Removal takes out what is in the room; staging adds furniture that is not there. Staging almost always requires disclosure because it shows the buyer something that does not exist, while removing the seller's own belongings usually does not. Most vacant-looking listing photos are the result of doing both in order.
Automated tools run roughly $0.32 to $1.20 per image depending on tier and volume, with the lowest rates needing annual commitments. Unlimited tiers start around $35 a month on annual billing. Human editing runs $5 to $10 per image for item removal, more for a full furniture clear.
Because the tool has to invent what was behind the object. A sofa against a plain wall is easy; a sofa over a patterned rug, in front of a radiator, and across a floorboard seam is three reconstructions at once. Check the floor line where the furniture met the wall, and any repeating pattern, at full size rather than on a thumbnail.
A sofa against a plain wall is easy. A sofa over a patterned rug, in front of a radiator, across a floorboard seam is three reconstructions at once.
Removing a seller's belongings is fine, because those leave with the seller. Removing something that conveys, or painting out a defect, misrepresents the property. That line matters more than any feature on this page.