RoomScan Pro LiDAR floor plans 4+

This is one of three similar tools I use to build floor plans on the fly with the camera and LIDAR features on my iPhone. The other two are MagicPlan and Canvas. MagicPlan is better at editing drawings after a scan is done. Canvas allows you to upload a scan of one or more rooms and have a human assist with very high quality PDF, 2D drawing, 3D drawings and BIM (REVIT) files. The quality of the results with RoomScan LIDAR is lower BUT I use it the most. And that is because on some sites, like I am on this week, there are lots of construction materials, boxed appliances and other things that make it impossible to see the floor/wall connection. RoomScan still works fine, as long as you can see any part of a wall ... the other two, not so good. Also RoomScan makes it possible to make a 'good enough' floor plan with doors, windows and some auto symbol recognition very quickly. I was able to complete and forward a drawing set for two floors with wall and area measurements in PDF and Autocad to an HVAC engineer in about 20 minutes.

Thanks for this great review back in November, we just received it today. Fast floor plans in any room is what RoomScan is all about. If you have time to jot down a few wishlist items for improving the quality, please do email us at service@locometric.com and we'll get them addressed.

First off this app does an amazing job of building floor plans. Super intuitive and the 10 step guide was really helpful. The biggest issues I ran into were the crashes that occurred while trying to complete a scan and losing everything. The crashes seem related to running out of memory, so I recommend force closing all apps and restarting the phone as that worked for me. It would be nice if this tip was included in the app, but even better if the app could save a partial scan so that I don’t have to start from scratch after a crash. For example all of my crashes occurred after completing the wall scan and adding doors, openings and windows. If the initial scan was saved it would have been much easier to recover.

Hi TheSher, thanks for the really helpful review which we just received today. I wonder if you might have 3D Quality set to high in RoomScan settings? That can sometimes cause behaviour like you describe on the 12 Pro. If you’re still having trouble please tap (?) -> Get Assistance within the app and we’ll get it sorted.

If you want to scan one square room and get the dimensions, this app will do great. Use the Apple RoomPlan scanning (kudos to the dev for leveraging it so quickly) and away you go! If you have more than one room, budget some time and get ready for a frustrating experience. The app would identify and show scanned nooks, outdents, doors, openings, etc while scanning but the finished scan would loose much of this. I played the lottery by scanning rooms several times to try to land on a version that got most items. You can add doors afterwards, but then you’re back to measuring with tape…what’s the point of the app then? If the room is has too many transitions, surprise!! —the app crashes (iPad Pro 2021). The other big weakness was joining rooms. It would routinely join rooms in distorted locations, and once it’s joined it’s not possible (or at a minimum highly unintuitive to move them). I cancelled my trial and deleted the app. Hopefully something more stable and intuitive is on the market soon.

Hi there, for anything beyond a basic room shape and for reliability when scanning lots of rooms, please select “RoomScan LiDAR” mode and not “Apple RoomPlan” mode on the menu that appears every time you start a new room. Thousands of professionals use RoomScan for multi-room floor plans, using RoomScan LiDAR mode for most rooms (80%) with the benefit of being able to cherry-pick RoomPlan and manual drawing where appropriate.