Scan your apartment once and keep every measurement

What is saved after one walk

• The floor plan, with every room named and its square footage, and the total.
• Room sizes on the plan, and a measure tool for any distance: the wall where the sofa goes, the gap for the desk.
• Doors and windows, each with its width in the PDF report: the number you need before a sofa or a mattress goes through it.
• A 3D model with the furniture PlaceAnew recognized, from above like a dollhouse.
• Walk: the video of your walk, lined up with the plan, to look at an outlet or a radiator again.
• Every version. Edit the plan and earlier versions are kept, so you can always go back.

Measure for furniture before you buy it

Standing in a store wondering if the sectional fits? Open the plan, measure the wall, check the width of the doors on the way in. The 3D model shows how the room looks with what is there now, so you can picture what changes.

Moving into a new place

Scan the apartment while it is empty, before the boxes arrive. You get the cleanest plan, room sizes for every rug and bed, and a record of what the place looked like on day one. For renters, the guide to documenting a rental at move-in shows how to add that record to your move-in photos.

Where the measurements live

On your phone. PlaceAnew processes and keeps the scan on the device, with no account or internet connection needed, and does not send it anywhere unless you share it. To keep a copy somewhere else, export it from the share button and save it to Files, or send it by AirDrop or Mail.

File	Open it with
PDF report	Any phone or computer: plan, room areas, doors and windows
SVG drawing	Drawing and design apps
DXF	CAD software, for an architect or contractor
USDZ	3D viewers; on an iPhone or Mac it opens in Quick Look

How accurate is an apartment scan?

Apartments suit room scanning well. Apple designed the multi-room scanning PlaceAnew uses for single-floor homes up to about 2,000 square feet, and recommends at least 50 lux of light.^[1][2] In a 2026 peer-reviewed study, an app on the same Apple RoomPlan technology found every room of a home and came within about 5% of a laser scanner's total room area.^[3]

Mirrored closet doors and glass are hard for every LiDAR scanner.^[2] Check walls drawn dashed, and tape-measure anything that must fit to the inch, like a built-in or a custom blind.

Questions about scanning an apartment