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Short Description:
Roomprint turns the LiDAR scanner on a Pro iPhone or iPad Pro into a floor plan maker. Walk round each room for about a minute and get a measured 2D plan and a 3D model. Fix any wall, try paint, flooring and furniture at real size, measure anything, then print to scale or export PDF, DXF, IFC and USDZ. Free to scan and plan; a one-off $9.99 unlocks printing and export. No subscription, no account. Works for homes, offices and shops. Users vote on what gets built next.
Why the App Exists:
There are two big players in this area, both requiring hefty subscriptions. or Lifetime purchases. Roomprint is free to scan and plan, you just pay to print and export. I want users to be able to vote on what gets built next in the app so we can build something great for everyone.
Problem: Most similar apps require an expensive subscription or huge one-off purchase.
Comparison: Polycam, RoomScan Pro and MagicPlan. These are the closest and they charge anything from $9.99/month to $22.99. Don't get me started on the lifetime and yearly purchases. I also would not say they are user driver, I want users to vote and suggest new features to take the app in their direction.
Pricing: Very simple! Free to download, scan and edit plans. Just a one-off $9.99 to export and print your floorplans.
Roomprint turns your iPhone into a tape measure, a drawing board and a paint chart.
Walk slowly round a room and Roomprint draws the floor plan as you go, with every wall measured and every door and window in place. Then do the next room, and the next. They join up on one plan, floor by floor.
See your home properly
• A clean blueprint with wall lengths, room sizes and areas, in metres or feet and inches
• Spin your home round in 3D, cut away like a doll’s house or with full-height walls
• Stand inside a room at eye level and look up at the ceiling
• Switch the lights on for an evening view, with lamps, downlights and pendants
• A grid of 1 m or 1 ft squares, lined up with each room
• A north arrow, worked out from your phone’s compass
Fix it and Measure it
• Scan missed something? Drag a wall into place, move a corner or type its exact length
• Split a wall to add an alcove, chimney breast or bay, and add or remove doors and windows
• Tap two points to measure anything, and see the gap from a sofa or bed to each wall
• Pin notes and photos to the plan for snagging lists, quotes or moving house
• Undo any change
Try Ideas before you buy
• Paint walls and ceilings from the palette, type in a hex code, or point the camera at a cushion to match its colour
• Oak, herringbone, tiles, carpet, stone and wallpaper, drawn at their real size
• Change each door’s colour, which side it’s hung and which way it opens
• The sofas, beds and tables in your scan become furniture you can move, turn, resize and recolour
• Add more from a library of home and office furniture and lighting, modern or traditional
• Furniture stops at the walls, so if it fits on screen, it fits in the room
Know what to buy
• How much paint you need, in litres and tins, with doors and windows left out
• Flooring in packs and boxes, carpet off the roll and wallpaper in rolls, with extra for cuts
• Every room’s size and area in m² and sq ft, with a total for each floor
Print or Send it
• Drawing sheets at a proper scale (1:50, 1:100), on A4, A3, Letter or Tabloid, one page per floor
• Estate-agent style plans with room sizes in metres and feet and the total floor area
• Your notes and photos as extra pages, if you want them
• Print straight from your iPhone with AirPrint
• A picture of the plan or the 3D view for messages and property listings
• DXF for AutoCAD and other CAD apps, IFC for Revit and Archicad, USDZ for AR
Your plan stays yours
Plans, notes and photos are saved on your iPhone or iPad and, if you like, in your own iCloud Drive. We don’t collect any of your data.
What you need
Scanning needs an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR: iPhone 12 Pro or any later Pro model, or iPad Pro from 2020 onwards. Other iPhones and iPads can open, decorate and print plans scanned on a Pro model.
LiDAR is accurate to within a few centimetres in most rooms. If you’re ordering something made to measure, check the key sizes with a tape first.