Professional Floor Planning, Reimagined
Whether you're on a job site with your phone or at your desk with a browser, vPlan AR has the right tool for every step of the workflow.
📱 Mobile Scanning
The Most Accurate Room Scanner in Your Pocket
LiDAR-equipped iPhones turn your phone into a professional measurement tool — no surveyor required.
LiDAR Room Detection
Uses Apple RoomPlan API to detect walls, openings, and corners on iPhone 12 Pro+ and iPad Pro — typically within 1–2 cm per dimension.
Live Wall Visualization
See glowing cyan wall lines appear in real time as you scan. Know exactly what has been captured before you are done.
Automatic Measurements
Every wall length, room dimension, and door width is measured and stored automatically.
Multi-Room Sessions
Scan connected rooms sequentially. vPlan AR stitches them together into a complete floor plan.
Offline Capable
Scan without internet. Plans sync to the cloud when you reconnect.
Multi-Level Support
Scan each floor separately. Assign standard elevations. Build a complete multi-story building model.
RoomPlan Accuracy
Typically accurate within 1–2 cm (under an inch) per room dimension in residential and commercial spaces.
🖥️ Web Editor
Architect-Grade Drawing Tools. No Software to Install.
A full floor plan workspace in your browser: typed lengths, object snaps and CAD edit commands, a true-scale canvas, your own sheet layouts, and comments your clients can add to.
Precision Drafting
Type a wall's length and angle as you draw (14'6", 4.2 m, 12'+6"), chain walls corner to corner, and let object snaps find ends, middles, crossings and square corners. Ortho and Polar tracking keep lines straight or at 15° to 90° steps.
Wall Types & Clean Corners
Draw along a wall's centre, inside face or outside face, with built-in 2x4 and 2x6 wall types or your own. Walls meet cleanly at any angle: T, Y and X junctions, skewed corners and mixed thicknesses, on screen and in every export.
Edit Like CAD
Box or Shift-click several items, then move, mirror, array, align or space them evenly. Offset walls, trim or extend two walls to a corner, join walls in a line, and copy and paste between levels and plans.
Smart Snapping
Furniture, cabinets and stairs sit flush against a wall at any angle, back to the wall and facing into the room, slide into corners and line up with each other. Gaps to the walls show as you drag; click one to type an exact distance.
Room Shapes & Symbols
Stamp rectangular, L-shaped and other room shapes, then add single, double and sliding doors, windows, wall openings and a furniture and fixture library. Doors and windows snap to the centre of a wall or a set distance from a corner.
Drafting Canvas
Draw on a dark or paper canvas at true scale (1/4" = 1'-0", 1:50 and more), with rulers, guides you drag out of them, and the plan set's room tags and dimension strings shown live, so the screen matches the PDF.
Sheets View (Pro)
Lay out your own sheet set: level plans at a chosen scale, a 3D view, schedules, a photo grid and notes on each sheet, with your title block. The set is saved with the project and exports exactly as laid out.
Comments & Client Review
Pin comments to spots on the plan, reply and resolve them. Share a review link and clients can leave comments, arrows and clouds on the plan without edit rights (review comments on Pro and Business).
Versions & Compare (Pro)
Save versions of a project, then compare any of them with the plan as it is now: added, removed and changed walls, doors and furniture are coloured on the plan, with the change in floor area. Restore a version in one click.
Fast Workspace
Auto-save, undo and redo, a measure tool, single-letter tool shortcuts and a ⌘K command palette that finds any tool or action by name. Open the sample house to try everything before you scan.
Works on Any Screen
The full editor runs in a desktop or tablet browser with nothing to install. On a phone, plans open to view every level and mark up with notes, arrows and dimensions.
📑 Pro Reports
Trade-Specific Deliverables, Not Just Drawings
vPlan AR turns a scan into the exact document your job calls for — an insurance scope of work, a repair estimate, or an ANSI-compliant square-footage report. Tell us your trade and the app surfaces only the tools you need.
Built for insurance adjusters, home inspectors, restoration & general contractors, realtors, and architects.
Damage & Scope Reports
Tag each room’s condition, damage type, severity and affected materials, then export an insurance-ready scope-of-work PDF with a cover sheet, photo schedule, and signature block.
Cost Estimates
Turn tagged damage into a room-by-room repair estimate: material takeoff multiplied by your own unit-price rate card. On the web, rooms with finishes add a priced line for each floor, paint, ceiling and baseboard. Export to PDF or CSV.
Square Footage / GLA
ANSI Z765 Gross Living Area reports for real estate. Classify each room (living, garage, unfinished, below-grade) and export a compliant square-footage breakdown.
Branded Marketing Plans
Generate a watermark-free, branded listing plan with your logo and colors — a polished marketing deliverable realtors can hand straight to clients.
Room Photos & Details
Attach photos to each room as visual evidence and capture client, property and job details. Photos print in the PDF appendix, numbered on the plan, each with a permanent link and QR code to the full-resolution image.
🎨 Design Studio
What Will the Room Look Like, and How Much Do I Need?
The plan already knows every room and every wall face. Choose floors, paint, ceilings and baseboard on top of it, see them in 3D, and get the quantities and a priced material list straight from the same plan.
Built for interior designers, and just as useful to contractors and adjusters who need flooring and paint quantities. In the web editor on Pro and Business.
Finishes for Every Surface
Give each room a floor, wall paint, ceiling and baseboard from a built-in library of woods, vinyl plank, tile, stone, carpet and a curated paint palette. Paint goes on each wall face, so the room next door keeps its colour and an accent wall is just one face. Add your own finishes with a brand and colour code, typed, picked from a photo, or picked from the screen in Chrome and Edge.
3D Design Mode
See the rooms in their finishes, with planks, herringbone and tile drawn at real size. Switch between day, evening and overcast light, click a floor or wall to change its finish on the model, or walk through at eye height.
Material Takeoffs
How much to buy, worked out from the plan: flooring with waste for its pattern and rounded up to whole boxes, paint in gallons per colour from each wall face less its doors and windows, and baseboard less the doorways. Per room as you choose, and for the whole project.
Finish Schedules
A finish schedule for each level and a material takeoff on the PDF schedule sheets, and a Finishes tab in the Excel or CSV schedules with brand, code, quantity, what to order and cost.
Priced Material Lists
The Cost Estimate prices each finish at the cost you set on it, or at your rate card, so a designer or contractor gets a priced material list ready for a bid.
Finishes in 3D Files
GLB, USDZ and OBJ exports carry the finishes: each wall face is its own object with its paint and every finish is a named material, ready for Blender, other 3D tools or AR Quick Look.
📤 Exports
One Floor Plan. Every Format Your Workflow Needs.
From true-scale PDF plan sets to layered DXF, 3D models, IFC for BIM and Excel schedules, vPlan AR exports exactly what you need, when you need it.
Architectural PDF Plan Sets
True-scale sheets (1/4" = 1'-0", 1:50 and more) with room names, sizes and ceiling heights, exterior dimension strings, door and window tags, and a title block. Pro adds a cover sheet with a 3D view, a sheet per level, schedules and level overlays on sheets up to ARCH D, and a Sheets view to lay out your own: plans at the scale you choose, the 3D view, schedules, photos and notes on each sheet, in your order. The same sheets also export as SVG or PNG files.
CAD / DXF
Real-size DXF in inches or millimetres on AIA layers (A-WALL, A-DOOR, A-GLAZ…), with cut walls, doors and furniture as blocks, and exterior dimensions CAD can edit. Every level can go in one file, stacked or side by side.
3D Model: GLB, USDZ, OBJ
Walls with their doors and windows cut out, floors with stair openings, stairs and furniture, every level at its height, and floors, paint and ceilings in their finishes. GLB opens in Blender, Unity, Unreal and web viewers; USDZ opens in AR Quick Look on iPhone and iPad.
Schedules: Excel / CSV
Rooms (size, area, perimeter, ceiling height, finishes), doors and windows with the marks from the plan sheets, damage, and the finish takeoff, for every level, as numbers a spreadsheet can sum.
IFC (BIM)
IFC4 for Revit, ArchiCAD and BIM viewers: a storey per level, walls with their doors and windows, floor slabs with stair openings, and every room as a space with its area.
XML Export
Export structured XML containing all floor plan data — rooms, walls, dimensions, and openings.
Shareable Link
Share a view-only link to your floor plan. No app required for recipients.
🤖 AI Assistant
Your Floor Plan Analyst, Powered by Claude AI
Ask questions, get instant calculations, and receive expert suggestions — all in natural language. No formulas. No manual measuring.
- Ask questions about your floor plan in plain English
- Get room area calculations instantly
- Receive suggestions for layout improvements
- Identify potential code compliance issues
- Summarize plan details for reports
🤝 Collaboration
Share With Anyone. Control Who Sees What.
Generate view-only links for clients, assign team members to projects, and track who last edited what — all without requiring recipients to install anything.
Shareable Links
One click to generate a secure, view-only URL. Works in any browser.
Team Access
Invite team members to projects. Full edit rights or view-only — your call.
Cloud Sync
Projects saved to the cloud sync across all your devices automatically.
🏢 Multi-Level Buildings
Map Every Floor. Build the Complete Picture.
Give each floor its elevation and floor structure, line the floors up by the walls that stack, connect them with stairs, and export every level in one plan set.
Floor 1 Scan
Main floor — 0 ft elevation
Floor 2 Scan
Upper floor — 9 ft ceiling + floor
Stacked Model
Combined multi-story view
True Floor-to-Floor Heights
Presets for Basement, Main, Level 2, Level 3 and Attic. Pick each floor's structure (I-joist, 2x10, 2x12, concrete slab or custom) and the levels stack at the ceiling height plus the floor, not just the ceiling height.
Inter-Floor Alignment
Levels line up automatically by matching the outside walls that stack, or by hand from two matching corners, in the 3D view, the editor underlay and the plan set.
Level-Aware Stairs
Place a stair and it fits the rise to the level above: risers and treads sized to IRC or IBC limits, with riser, tread, width and headroom checks. It is drawn UP with a break line on its own level and DN through the opening above (Pro).
Open to Below
Mark two-storey foyers and open-to-below areas. They get a guard line and OPEN TO BELOW on the plan, cut through the floor in 3D, and come off the upper floor's GLA (Pro).
Draw Over the Floor Below
In the web editor, the level below or above shows faintly under the one you are drawing, and new walls snap to its walls.
Multi-Level Plan Sets
Export every level in one PDF at one common scale, with a cover sheet and area summary (Pro).
🏆 How We Compare
vPlan AR vs. The Alternatives
| Feature | ✦ BestvPlan AR | Manual Sketching | Generic Apps | Hiring a Surveyor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accuracy | ±1–2 cm | ±10 cm | ±5 cm | ±0.5 cm |
| Speed | Minutes | Hours | Hours | Days |
| Cost | Free / $19+ | Free | $10–$50/mo | $500–$2,000 |
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| Damage & Scope Reports | ||||
| ANSI Z765 Sq Ft / GLA |
FAQ
Feature Questions, Answered
Does vPlan AR work offline?
Yes. LiDAR scanning runs on the iPhone or iPad itself, so you can scan without an internet connection. Projects are saved on the device and, on Pro and Business plans, sync to the cloud automatically when you reconnect.
What is in a vPlan AR PDF plan set?
Each level prints on its own sheet at a true architectural scale (such as 1/4" = 1'-0" or 1:50) with poché walls, room names, room sizes, ceiling heights, exterior dimension strings, door and window sizes, a scale bar and a title block. Free exports one level on Letter or A4 with a watermark. Pro adds every level in one set at a common scale, a cover sheet with a 3D view and area summary, room, door and window schedule sheets, level overlay sheets and sheet sizes up to ARCH D and A1, and Pro can lay out its own sheets in the editor's Sheets view (plans at a chosen scale, the 3D view, schedules, photos and notes, in any order), saved with the project. Photos print in an appendix with a permanent link and QR code each. Plan sets are exported from the web editor.
What is included in a vPlan AR DXF export?
The DXF is drawn at real size, in inches or millimetres, on standard AIA layers: walls (cut, with a solid poché), doors, windows, wall openings, stairs, floor openings (open to below), furniture and fixtures, room outlines and names, exterior dimensions and notes. Doors and furniture are blocks, and the exterior dimensions are true CAD dimensions that update when you edit. A multi-level project can go in one file with a layer set per level, stacked or side by side. It opens in AutoCAD, DraftSight and other CAD tools. DXF export is on Pro and Business.
What 3D and BIM formats can vPlan AR export?
Pro and Business export a 3D model of the whole building as GLB (glTF), USDZ or OBJ: walls with their doors and windows cut out, window glass, floors with stair openings, stairs, furniture and fixtures, every level at its height, with each wall, floor and stair a separate object named by level and room. When rooms have finishes, floors, wall paint and ceilings come out in their colours, each finish a named material. GLB opens in Blender, Unity, Unreal and web viewers, and USDZ opens in AR Quick Look on iPhone and iPad. Business adds IFC4 for Revit, ArchiCAD and other BIM tools: a storey per level, walls with their doors and windows, floor slabs with stair openings, and rooms as spaces with their areas. These exports are made from the web editor.
Can vPlan AR plan finishes and work out how much flooring and paint to buy?
Yes, in the web editor on Pro and Business. Give each room a floor, wall paint, ceiling and baseboard from the built-in library or your own finishes (with a brand and colour code); paint goes on each wall face, so neighbouring rooms keep their own colours. Each finish shows its quantity: flooring is the room's area less any floor opening plus waste for its pattern (7% straight, 15% diagonal, 20% herringbone or chevron), rounded up to whole boxes if you enter the box size; paint is each wall face less its doors and windows at 2 coats and 350 sq ft per gallon (both adjustable), in gallons per colour; baseboard runs along the walls less doorways, plus 10%. The takeoff exports on the PDF schedule sheets, in the Excel or CSV schedules, and priced in the Cost Estimate. Design mode in the 3D view shows the finishes on the model and lets you change them there.
Can vPlan AR draw stairs between floors?
Yes, on Pro and Business. Place a straight, L-shaped, U-shaped or spiral stair in the web editor and it fits itself to the rise from its level to the level above: the number of risers, the riser height and the tread depth follow IRC (residential) or IBC (commercial) limits, and the panel checks riser, tread, width and headroom. The level it starts on shows it going UP with a break line where it passes the 4 ft plan cut; the level above shows it going DN through the floor opening it needs. Floor-to-floor heights include the floor structure (an 11 7/8" I-joist floor by default), so the rise is the real one.
Can I draw a floor plan precisely in the web editor?
Yes. While you draw a wall, type its length and angle (14'6", 4.2 m or a sum such as 12'+6") and walls chain corner to corner. Object snaps find wall ends, middles, crossings and square corners, Ortho and Polar tracking hold lines straight or at fixed angles, and walls can be drawn along their inside or outside face with 2x4, 2x6 or your own wall types. Edit commands work as in CAD: offset, trim and extend, mirror, array, align and copy between levels. The canvas zooms to true scale with rulers and guides. These drafting tools are on every plan, including Free.
Can I trace over an existing floor plan image?
Yes. The web editor lets you load an image — a scanned drawing, a listing plan or a sketch — as a background and trace walls, doors and windows over it. Image tracing is included on every plan, including Free.
Can I add furniture to a floor plan?
Yes. The editor includes a furniture, fixture and cabinet library you can place, move, turn and resize — useful for real estate staging and space planning. Items snap into place: beds, sofas, cabinets and appliances sit flush against a wall at any angle with their back to it, slide into corners and line up with each other, and the gaps to the walls show as you drag, so you can type an exact clearance. Furniture is an optional overlay, so it never changes room areas or measurements.
What does the AI floor plan assistant do?
The assistant answers plain-English questions about the open plan — room areas, totals and layout details — suggests layout improvements, and summarizes the plan for reports. Its suggestions are informational; they are not a substitute for a code review by a licensed professional.
Can more than one person work on the same floor plan?
You can pin comments to spots on a saved plan, reply and mark them resolved. On Pro and Business you can send anyone a share link that opens in a browser without an account, and turn on review so clients can leave comments, arrows and clouds on the plan without being able to edit it; you see their comments in the editor as they arrive. Business adds a team workspace where you invite members and manage their roles.
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