The best floor plan app for iPhone in 2026

The short list

Eight iPhone apps that turn a walk through a home into a floor plan, and the job each one does best. Prices are what each company lists for US customers.

Prices and positioning from each company's own pricing page, help center or US App Store listing, checked November 8, 2026.^{[1][2][1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

App	Best for	Price
1. PlaceAnew	The whole job in one free app: measured plan, 3D, kitchen design and DXF	Free. Early access on TestFlight, not yet on the App Store
2. magicplan	Remodel, restoration and claims reports with estimates and Xactimate	2 free projects; app plans from $12.99 a month
3. RoomScan Pro	Surveyors and adjusters who need many trade formats and laser meters	Free to try; $9.99 a month or $119.99 a year
4. Polycam	Detailed 3D scans, with floor plans on its Business plan	Free for 3D capture; floor plans on Business at $400 a year per user
5. CubiCasa	Listing plans and appraisal GLA from almost any phone	Free LITE plans; PLUS $15 a plan
6. Twindo (formerly Canvas)	Revit, SketchUp and Chief Architect files modelled for you	From $0.14 a sq ft per drawing
7. Live Home 3D	Designing the home in 3D after a quick room scan	Free with watermarks; Standard from $6.99 a month or $59.99 once
8. Planner 5D	Decorating with a big furniture catalog	Free; Premium $59.99 a year; CAD export on Professional

How we compared them

One job: walk into a home with an iPhone and leave with a floor plan you can use. For each app we opened its own pricing page and its US App Store listing on November 8, 2026, and checked five things:

1. Does the scan draw the plan? A measured 2D plan from the LiDAR scan, not a sketch you draw yourself.
2. What is free? Scans, plans and exports you can use without paying.
3. Can it export DXF? The file CAD software opens, so nobody redraws the plan.
4. Where is the scan processed? On the phone, or uploaded to the company's servers.
5. What else comes from the same scan? 3D, room areas, design tools.

Every rival fact on this page links to the page we read it on. Prices change: check the vendor's page before you buy.

How the apps compare on those five things

Rival facts from each company's website, help center or App Store listing, checked November 8, 2026.^{[12][13][2][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]} PlaceAnew facts from its features page.

App	Plan from the scan	Free	DXF	Where the plan is made
PlaceAnew	Drawn as you walk, every room named and measured, plus 3D with furniture	Free: scan, plan, 3D, kitchen designer and all exports	DXF free	On the phone
magicplan	Drawn in real time with LiDAR; Auto-Scan takes several rooms in one go	Free: 2 projects with all features	DXF without dimensions	On the device and in the cloud
RoomScan Pro	Drawn on the device with RoomPlan, Brick or Touch mode	Free trial	DXF with a subscription	On the device
Polycam	2D plan with room labels from a Space Mode scan	Free: 3D capture, GLTF export	DXF on Business	On the device for LiDAR scans
CubiCasa	Drawn by CubiCasa after upload, checked by a QA engineer, within 24 hours	Free: LITE plan, no total area	CAD files (.dwg) as a $35 add-on	CubiCasa's servers and team
Twindo	A simplified Draft on the phone; the full drawing by its modelers in about 2 to 4 business days	Free: Draft	2D AutoCAD file, paid by the sq ft	Twindo's servers and team
Live Home 3D	Room Scanner places a 3D model of the room in a new project	Free: one project, watermarked exports	2D plans as PDF; DXF not listed on the pages we checked	Not stated on the pages we checked
Planner 5D	Scan Room makes a plan in your Planner 5D account; a furnished version takes 3 to 10 minutes	Free: unlimited projects, half the furniture catalog	2D DXF on Professional only	Not stated on the pages we checked

The apps, one by one

1. PlaceAnew: the whole job, free

Walk the home once. The plan draws itself with every room named and its square footage, doors and windows in place, and the total for the home. The same scan gives a 3D model with the furniture, Walk (the recording of your walk lined up with the plan) and a kitchen designer that opens on the real kitchen walls, with prices. Scanning, floor plans, 3D, editing, the kitchen designer with prices and exports are free: PDF report, SVG drawing, DXF for CAD and USDZ 3D model. Everything is made on the phone; nothing is uploaded unless you share it.

Why it is first: it is the only app here that ticks all five boxes at no cost. The catch: it needs iPhone 12 Pro or a newer Pro model, or an iPad Pro from 2020 or later, it scans one floor at a time, files from a free account carry a small "Made with PlaceAnew" line, and it is in early access on TestFlight. See every feature.

2. magicplan: reports, estimates and claims

magicplan is built for remodelers, restoration and claims pros, with reports, estimates and Xactimate and CoreLogic links.^[1] Its LiDAR scan draws 2D and 3D plans in real time.^[12] You get 2 free projects with every feature;^[2] after that, app plans run from $12.99 to $89.99 a month.^[1] It is rated 4.7 stars from 41K App Store ratings.^[1] PlaceAnew vs magicplan.

3. RoomScan Pro: the survey toolkit

Four ways to capture, including Touch Mode for phones without LiDAR and Bosch and Leica laser measures,^[3] and the longest list of trade formats: Xactimate ESX, IFC, FML, RapidSketch and more.^[16] $9.99 a month or $119.99 a year after the free trial.^[3] PlaceAnew vs RoomScan Pro.

4. Polycam: 3D first, plans on Business

One Space Mode scan gives a 3D mesh, a 3D floor plan model and a 2D plan with room labels, processed on the device.^[17][19] Floor plan exports as PDF and DXF come with the Business and Enterprise plans;^[18] Business is $400 a year per user.^[4] Pick it when the 3D scan itself is the product. PlaceAnew vs Polycam.

5. CubiCasa: listing plans from any phone

Works on iPhone XR and newer and on Android, LiDAR optional.^[27] You scan; CubiCasa draws the plan and a QA engineer checks it.^[20] LITE plans are free; total area and SVG start with PLUS at $15 a plan, and an ANSI Z765 GLA report is a $15 add-on.^[5] PlaceAnew vs CubiCasa.

6. Twindo (formerly Canvas): CAD modelled for you

Occipital renamed Canvas to Twindo.^[28] Its people turn your scan into native Revit, SketchUp, Chief Architect, Archicad or Vectorworks files,^[8] priced by the square foot from $0.14 for a 2D plan.^[7] PlaceAnew vs Twindo.

7. Live Home 3D: design the house in 3D

A full home design app whose Room Scanner drops a 3D model of the scanned room into a new project.^[24] It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and Android.^[24] The free version keeps one project at a time and watermarks exports;^[9] Standard is $59.99 for life.^[9]

8. Planner 5D: decorate the plan

A home design app with 8,400+ furniture and decor items and photo-real pictures.^[11] Its Scan Room option makes a plan of a room on a LiDAR iPhone.^[25] Free gives unlimited projects and half the catalog; DXF export needs Professional at $399.99 a year.^[10][26]

Which iPhone do you need?

An app that draws the measured plan on the phone from a scan needs the LiDAR Scanner. For PlaceAnew that means iPhone 12 Pro or a newer Pro model, or an iPad Pro from 2020 or later. Apple's RoomPlan, which most of these apps build on, works best with good light and rooms up to 30 by 30 feet per room scan.^[29] Whole single-floor homes up to about 2,000 square feet can be scanned in one go.^[30]

How accurate are iPhone floor plan apps?

Accurate enough to plan, quote and design from. In a 2026 peer-reviewed study, a RoomPlan app found all 8 rooms of a house and came within about 5% of a laser-scanned model's total room area.^[31] The same study timed the whole job at 32 minutes from scan to model, against 20 hours with a laser scanner and manual modelling.^[31]

We ran the same kind of check on PlaceAnew in our own office: all 7 wall lengths that compare one to one with a hand-measured plan came within 2.5 inches, median under 1 inch, and the longest wall, 17' 2", came out a third of an inch long.^[32] Wall by wall: How accurate is PlaceAnew?

Questions people ask

Is there a free floor plan app for iPhone?

Yes. PlaceAnew is free for scanning, plans, 3D and exports. CubiCasa's LITE plans are free but have no total area,^[21] and magicplan gives 2 free projects.^[2]

Can I make a floor plan on an iPhone without LiDAR?

Yes, with apps that do not need it: CubiCasa works on iPhone XR and newer,^[27] and RoomScan Pro has Touch Mode for any device.^[3] An automatic, measured plan from a room scan needs the LiDAR Scanner in PlaceAnew, magicplan's Auto-Scan and Polycam's floor plans.^[33][34]

Which iPhone floor plan apps export DXF?

PlaceAnew (free), magicplan (without dimensions),^[13] RoomScan Pro,^[16] Polycam on Business^[18] and Planner 5D on Professional.^[26]

Which app keeps my scans on my phone?

PlaceAnew makes the plan and 3D on the phone. Polycam processes LiDAR and Space scans on the device too.^[19] CubiCasa and Twindo draw the plan after you upload the scan.^[20][23]

Is PlaceAnew on the App Store?

Not yet. It is in early access through TestFlight; ask to join on the download page.