RoomScan Pro LiDAR floor plans Reviews

I paid for the old version of RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans and it never really worked right and this seems to be a variation of the same. I scanned one small room and it was ok, but then trying to do a larger room led to crashing and tracking glitches. It can easily get thrown off by anything moving within the space which then leads to large errors that require rescanning. Ultimately a laser tape measure will get you better results more quickly. Don’t waste your time or your money.

This looks like a really great app, and it probably is, but I can’t figure out how to work it. Of course it works differently on both my iPad and my iPhone. On the iPhone, I can’t figure out how to find the screen that has a little rotator that selects doors or windows. Actually, I can’t find it on the iPad either. It’s very easy to scan a room with my iPad just clicking on the walls, but I still don’t know how to add those doors and windows! I wish there was a tutorial. The little 10 suggestions at the beginning are OK but they show people adding doors but don’t say how to get to the screen. Very frustrating especially when you’re paying for it

I had high hopes for this on my x. It crashed constantly and scans produced unreasonable shapes. The editor is so terrible that I just ended up trying to rescan each time rather than battle the editor. I got the 12 pro max and hoped Lidar would help. Less crashes but it still produces absurd shapes when scanning my rooms. Z shaped walls, x shapes walls.

I thought maybe just delete a crazy erroneous wall to remove RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans ’s crisscross walls in my room? Nah. That’s not an option I can easily find. Ok, make one wall zero length. That doesn’t work.

Developers: you need to build in some “reasonable” checks into your scan. Sure, the math might check out but the shape you produced just isn’t reasonable. In addition to 5-6 walls at 90 degrees, who has six more walls in their room that are not 90 degree angles? Who has z shaped walls in the middle of the room? Nobody using RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans. What about x shaped walls in the middle of the room. Nobody.

Either add easy options to delete or repair absurd scan points/walls or build in something that checks for whether or not the shape is reasonable.

I subscribed to this exclusivily for xactimate use as it exports in ESX.
Wall thinkness seems to default to 1/4" and cannot be changed that I can find. As a result wall thinkness in X8 is 1/4" and if you try and change that X8 prevents it due to overlap of area or block requiring a resize or move.
The next problem is the corners. They will be out by 1 or 2 degrees and the corner cannot be changed in X8.
If it's a simple square room both the wall corner and thickness can be changed/corrected, but who needs a simple sq room? It seems once the room deviates from a sq you lose the abilty to correct it.
It scans great, it's just the result for X8 is near worthless.

If you want to scan one square room and get the dimensions, RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans 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. RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans 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 RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans then? If the room is has too many transitions, surprise!! —RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans 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 RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans . Hopefully something more stable and intuitive is on the market soon.

I am deducting a star.

I opened RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans to try it out, and it just crashed all the time. Over and over. I closed it, wrote my below review and went on to do other things. I then went to a different site to see if maybe a simpler or more basic room would scan, and now it wants me to sign up for a subscription so I can’t even experiment and see if changing any settings helps. Maybe they should get it to not crash before they’re asking people to sign up for subscriptions. Poor user experience.

My Original 3 star review: App has great potential, but it won’t make it through a single room without crashing. It just crashes all the time. I read other details about closing all other apps for memory savings. I closed everything on my phone and hard-rebooted. Still crashes all the time. This is on an iPhone 13 Pro Max. The most capable phone they currently make so I am not sure what else I could do. Running the current version of iOS as of this review:15.3.1

RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans has decent functionality. However, I do run into some bugs that tend to be rather frustrating while using Apple products (iPhone, iPad). One is when I go to Start Scan, and it doesn’t give me a chance to scan the room. Instead it tells me it did not find a complete ring of walls.
The 2nd is when I tap “Draw Room Manually” and it still starts the scan anyway.
The 3rd is when I am currently editing a room, I hit “Done”, tap on a different room (where I can move it around), tap “Edit [room name]”, and then it returns me to the main overview of that property. I can do it a 2nd time with success, but it is rather annoying.

This is a great tool to have for measuring homes as a Realtor when I need an approximate floorplan and sq footage size. However, it has issues with crashing, finding my bluetooth signal, and it runs my batter down fast and keeps my phone hot during use.
Another issue is not being able to add certain things after the fact without being in the room like the toilets and tubs. Having more selections like fireplaces and other items would be helpful. Maybe these features are somewhere in there, but I have yet to be able to find them.

RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans is great for getting a rough outline of a floor plan. But you end up having to go back and remeasure everything because a lot of the times I’m noticing that rooms are anywhere from 6 inches to 2 feet off. So then it negates speeding up the process because I still have to go back and read measure everything to confirm. I tried it on large homes and small homes. It’s better in small spaces and really struggles with open floorplans. Look forward to updates in the future. I wish it talked directly to Xactimate.

Just trying out RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans to see if I want to purchase. I have two Stained-glass Windows in my front room and for both of them RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans couldn’t figure out if it was a window or not. It tried to overcompensate on one side to make the window next to it larger and then eliminated the other one and made it more wall space. which completely threw off square footage of the wall I was trying to estimate . Useful but not 100% accurate. I have a rather unusual house so probably more accurate in a normal house. I just thought you might wanna know it does not recognize stained glass windows.

I’ve tried a half dozen room scanners with my iPhone 12 Pro, I have to admit that this one is the most accurate. Where other apps have you mark off exact floor corners, which may be blocked off or under counters, this one relies on only marking off the walls.

This input generates perfect accurate angles, distances, and proportions. Shelves, kitchen and bathroom counters, cabinets, nothing stands in this thing’s way.

The only thing is, many features are locked behind a monthly paywall. It gives you about 3 seconds of walk around in the 3d scan before yoinking you back and demanding $4 a month.

Maybe it’s worth the price, I don’t know, I don’t absolutely need it because I’m just doing basic measurement. If you’re a professional, you probably have something much much better. Who is this marketed for? Again, not my problem. One star off for ridiculous pricing model.

I know devs regularly respond to reviews, my suggestion is finding a better way to build a dedicated, enthusiastic user base and to let them help make RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans a success.

So far I’m liking it! I need more practice, but a few difficulties I’m having:

With an open floor plan it seems it wants me to scan the entire area, like when I try to mark an opening it won’t let me and I have to keep scanning the rest of the floor of the house.

We have cabinets and counters and it seems to have trouble getting measurements to the back splash/ just measures the cabinets as the wall.

After I finish a scan and am in the marker mode, I can’t figure out how to modify the base plan/ original scan. There’s a couple areas where the floor plan shows a diagonal angle where there isn’t.

Marking off a stair case as a wall is difficult, I needed to crouch down to the bottom step to do it.

For simpler rooms it’s great, open floor plan it’s a bit tough, but maybe I just need practice

Has great features and is pretty accurate BUT once you suspend your subscription then you no longer have access to a lot of the features and you can’t share or edit any scans you’ve done while on the subscription.

First off RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans 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 RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans , but even better if RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans 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.

Having been a user of the previous version i was exited to put the new Lidar version to work in our real estate projects. It does not disappoint and is amazing accurate as i confirmed each measurement with a laser measure during my initial tests. Lidar support makes an already great product even better and has already saved us a huge amount of time onsite. Roomscan Lidar is our new standard for quickly and easily capturing robust, highly accurate floor plans. Give it a try you will be amazed.

Getting my feet under me with RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans , and so far most of my issues have been due to me. It works well on flat walls with level floors and ceilings.

Issues: Tried it in an A-Frame with a 18:12 pitch on the side walls. It will not recognize the tilted plane as a plane, and let it be a wall, floor, or ceiling. Also, irregular hand layed rough stone walls, there are some hand layed walls in some buildings which RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans won’t resolve into a plane, and recognize as walls.

I was one of the beta testers for RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans, it was already amazing and the improvements in version 2 just make it so much more unbelievably mind blowing, I can’t say it any better than to simply tell you “buy RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans!” When you want to show off to your friends what LIDAR is and why it is so cool, RoomScan LIDAR is RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans you will use to show them.

RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans fills a hole for Symbility users. This has worked for me nearly 100% of the time. With a little practice, you can determine which method works best for you. Using the brick mode is very similar to using the exact mate AR mode. The measurements are accurate and import directly into Symbility and Xactimate. The developers are amazing and responsive. They have added features as requested, like being able to take photos with a room that are exportable in a zip file. The photos are labeled by the room name so you don’t lose track of them. It even has an exterior mode, so you can do a footprint of the house and use that to accurately draw the roof. The only issue seems to be that when imported into Symbility the window heights are not accurate, but the developers are working on that right now. I highly recommend this for anyone who needs to scan a room for accurate measurements and wants to use their mobile device. You can leave the clipboard at home.

I do Remodeling here in Houston TX and for the recent freeze RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans really came in handy when doing sketches for insurance work. I love the constant updates and the great price it’s at right now for extra features. I would like for the Bluetooth laser feature to be shown in a “Tips” video. Not sure if my laser is not compatible but it’s never worked for me. Overall a great and accurate app even without a Bluetooth laser. Another feature I would like to see added is a statistics tab where I can see Floor perimeter, ceiling perimeter, walls squared feet, ceiling squared feet, or walls and ceiling squared feet. Devs keep doing your thing because RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans is awesome!

Did my entire house in less than 30 mins on my first try, both floors. RoomScanProLiDARfloorplans was so fun to use and pretty easy to learn. I love that I can go back to add sinks and other things afterwards. I wish it could map vaulted ceilings, some of mine slope and have lights at different levels. Oh, and live support was awesome! I couldn’t figure out how to rotate one of the floors that I scanned and they helped me figure it out super fast. So excited to use this for our new house too! Awesome app!