Get started with Vaya, step by step

Your account and first sign-in

An account keeps your designs and opens them on any device.

1. 1Press Start free on the home page, or open Create account.
2. 2Enter your email and a password of 8 characters or more. The name is optional, but it is the name shown if you publish a design in the gallery.
3. 3Press Create account. You land on My projects, with your free trial credits in your account.

The sidebar (computer)

New design, My projects, Ready prompts, My account, Billing, Gallery, Support. Your credits and your name are at its foot; press your name for language and appearance.

On a phone

Four buttons at the bottom: New design, My projects, My account, Billing. The top bar has your credits, the notifications and a circle with the first letter of your name: press it for Gallery, Ready prompts, User guide and Support, then language, appearance and Sign out.

Language and appearance

العربية / English, and appearance Auto / Light / Dark. Your choice is kept on this device.

Forgotten password

Press Forgot your password? on the sign-in page. The link you receive works for 30 minutes.

Your first design

You write what you want, Vaya, your design assistant, draws The plan, and nothing is built before you approve it.

1. 1Press New design.
2. 2Describe the room in the message box and press Enter.
3. 3The plan card appears: the idea, colours, pieces and size. Press Edit to change anything in it, then save the plan.
4. 4When you like it, press Build in 3D. The room is usually ready in under a minute and opens in 3D by itself.

Ready prompts

Written descriptions for every kind of space. Press Use this description and it is typed into the chat for you to adjust.

Adding pictures

Attach up to 6 pictures to a message and say what each one is: Sketch or floor plan is read exactly (size, shape, doors and windows), a style you like, My room, My sketch, or a piece you want exactly.

Room at my size / from a sketch

Start from your real room: type its size or read it from a plan picture, adjust the shape, doors and windows, then leave it empty to furnish yourself or have it designed for you.

Your real room

From My account: upload one photo per wall (up to 4) with the size, and your own room is redesigned.

Start from a shared design

Take a design from the gallery as the starting point of your room.

Moving around the 3D room

The room page fills the screen: the scene in the middle, your chat with Vaya in the side panel.

Orbit

The room opens on it. Drag to go round, scroll (or two fingers on a trackpad) to zoom, right-drag to pan.

Walkthrough

As if you were walking inside. Drag to look around; the arrows walk and turn.

Top view

The room from above, to see the whole layout.

Plan

The measured drawing. Tap a piece to see its size; drag it to move it.

On a phone

Use the on-screen arrow buttons (hold to keep moving); ⌂ takes you back to the first view. The chat and tools are in a sheet you pull up from the bottom.

More room

Full screen, and hide the side panel. The row of views slides left and right by its grip, and the eye hides it.

Editing pieces by hand

Everything you do by hand is free: moving, turning, deleting, colours and materials.

1. 1Tap any piece in the room. A bar appears above it with move, rotate and delete.
2. 2Drag the handles to move it, or use the arrow keys: 5 cm a press (25 cm with Shift).
3. 3To change several pieces at once: hold Shift or Ctrl/⌘ while clicking, or use the select pointer (V) on the floating bar.

Tools

A button under the chat opens four sections: Resources (the design's pieces and their sizes), Spaces (walls, size, doors and windows), Library (furniture, floors, walls, ceilings) and Display (how the scene is shown, and autosave). The back arrow returns to the chat.

Adding furniture

Add furniture or Library: search, then add it or drag the card onto the floor.

Colours and materials

In Library → floors, walls or ceilings: ready-made, colour, or materials. Tap a wall in the room to paint that one alone. A piece's colour is in Resources.

Room size and shape

In Spaces: width, depth and height in centimetres, ready shapes (L, cut corner, curved wall…) or draw it yourself, and add a window or a door.

Editing by chat with Vaya

Write what you want as you would tell a designer next to you, in any dialect. Only what you name changes; the whole room is redesigned only when you ask for it.

Build

Makes your request in the room straight away.

Chat

Ask and discuss ideas; nothing in the room changes.

Plan

Shows the steps first, then Run the plan or change something first.

Selected pieces

Select one or more pieces and then write: your request goes to them alone. “Use it for all its kind” puts the same model on every piece of that kind.

The pencil

On the floating bar: draw a circle around any spot in the room, write what you want there, then send it to the chat.

Product photo

From the + button beside the message box: a photo of a piece you like becomes a 3D piece and enters the room when it is ready.

Undo

Under every answer: puts the room back as it was before that request.

Saving and versions

There is no save button to remember: every change saves itself about a second and a half after you stop, and is kept as a version you can go back to.

Autosave

Always on, with no message. If the connection drops, Could not save; trying again shows above the chat and the save happens by itself when you are back online.

Before closing the page

If an edit has not been saved yet, the browser warns you before you leave.

1. 1Press Versions at the top of the chat. Every version is listed, newest first, grouped by day.
2. 2Click a version to see it in the room (↑ ↓ to move between them). Your design does not change while you look.
3. 3Restore this version makes it your design; Back to my design leaves it.
4. 4Changed your mind? Press Undo in the message shown after restoring, and your design is back as it was.

Save a named version

Before a big change, save a version under a name you choose (for example: before changing the sofa). From the … menu beside any version: Rename, Open in its own page, delete.

What is kept

Versions you named, and the copies taken automatically before big operations, are never deleted. Autosaves close together (within 5 minutes) merge into one, and the latest 40 are kept.

On the project page

The Versions card lists the latest versions with Preview and Restore.

Turning autosave off

Tools → Display → Autosave. Save and discard buttons then appear at the top, or save with Ctrl+S/⌘S.

Publishing to the gallery

Your design is yours and nobody sees it until you publish it. Publishing puts its pictures in the Gallery, where people can see them and start their own room from it.

1. 1Open the project from My projects (or go back to the project from the room page).
2. 2On the Share in the gallery card press Publish to the gallery.
3. 3Write a title and a short description (what makes the room special: materials, light, how it is used).
4. 4Choose up to 5 pictures. The first one you choose is the cover.
5. 5Under who can see it, choose everyone (shown in the gallery and in search engines) or only people with the link (not listed in the gallery).
6. 6Tick the consent box and press publish. The design is published at once.

What people see

The title, the description, the pictures you chose, the room's type, style, size and colours, and your display name. Your email is never shown, and the 3D room itself is not shown.

Before you can publish

The project needs a 3D room or a chosen picture, at least one picture, and must not be in the deleted projects.

After publishing

Published in the gallery shows with the views and uses, and the buttons View in the gallery, Edit and Unpublish.

Use as a starting point

A button on every published design: a visitor takes a copy into their own projects. Your original stays yours and does not change.

Sharing to work together

Want a partner, a designer or someone at home to edit with you? Give them the project's link.

1. 1On the project page press Share at the top.
2. 2Press Create a share link, then Copy link, and send it.
3. 3Or type their email under Invite by email and press Send: they get the link and the design's name by email.
4. 4Whoever opens the link and signs in joins as an Editor: they open the room and edit it, and the project shows in their list as shared with them.

Stopping sharing

Turn the link off stops anyone new from joining. People who already joined stay until you press Remove beside their name under People in this project.

Yours alone as the owner

Deleting, the share link, publishing to the gallery and versions.

Downloading and exporting

Take your design with you as pictures or as a 3D file.

Pictures

On the project page open any picture and press Download.

A 3D file

On the room page: the ⋯ More menu → Export glTF. A .glb file named after your project downloads, with the room, the furniture and the colours, and it opens in 3D design programs.

Pictures and a video of your room

On the room page: Tools → Display → Save and share your room: a 360° picture to look around in (seconds), a Tour video circling the room (12 seconds) and a Realistic photo with real light from the angle you see (a few minutes, on a computer only; you can stop it). The files download to your device; on the free trial they carry a small VAYA mark in a corner.

My projects and deleted projects

Every design you make is kept in My projects automatically.

Search and order

Search by name or description, filter by status and kind of room, and order by last edit, newest first or name.

Renaming

On the project page press the title and type the new name, then ✓.

Deleting

The delete button on the project page. The project moves to the deleted projects and stays there for 10 days; you can Restore it in that time.

Credits and plans

Credits are what you spend on the work the AI makes. You see your balance at the foot of the sidebar, at the top of the screen on a phone, and beside Versions on the room page.

1. 1Open your plan and credits from your balance, and choose a plan or an extra credit pack.
2. 2Press Subscribe now or Buy now to go to Al Rajhi Bank's secure page, and pay by card (mada, Visa, Mastercard).
3. 3Your plan starts as soon as the bank confirms, and you get a notification. If you see A payment is waiting for the bank, don't pay again.

Designer mode (optional)

For professionals who want every tool. You do not need it to design a complete room.

Switching it on

On a computer: press your name at the foot of the sidebar → Designer mode. Or on the room page: ⋯ More → Designer mode.

What it adds

The advanced form for a new design, the photo-perspective view, the scene's JSON file, pictures and tours of the scene, and the rebuild and check tools.

Help and support

If you get stuck on anything, we are here.

Support

In the sidebar (on a phone, a card on My account). Choose whether you need help or have a complaint, the topic, the project if you like, and write your message. The answer arrives on the same page and as a notification.

Notifications

The bell at the top: support answers, your plan switched on, and more. Emails are set in My account → email notifications.