# Archisketch — Sketch, Doodle & Draw to Scale

> Scale-aware sketching and design tool for architects and designers. (iPhone/iPad app by Open Screen Limited.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/archisketch/id725328455 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Open Screen Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/1185671896)
- Category: Productivity, Business
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 266 App Store ratings · 146 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.6 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2013-12-18
- Data updated: 2026-07-25
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/archisketch/id725328455/reviews.md

## What is Archisketch?

Sketch, Doodle and Design to Scale
Use Archisketch as you would a tracing pad. Sketch. Draw to 
scale. Layer over your sketch to further develop your ideas. 
Erase. Add symbols, colour, text and dimension lines. Import 
images or plans to set the scale. Zoom in without loss of 
quality. Rotate a shape, a layer, or the entire drawing to try 
different options.

Visualize your ideas in 3D and see them in context. Use smart 
one- and two-point perspectives, and adjust your perspective 
grid and view point. Align your perspective to an image, and 
your lines automatically snap to the vanishing point. Print your 
drawings to scale up to A1 size, or export sketches to use in a 
CAD application or Adobe Creative Cloud.

Archisketch is a scale-aware sketching program ideal for 
Architects, interior and landscape designers, product designers, 
design students, or anyone working with design on an iPad.

To learn more or watch a short video, visit our website.

Key features include:
* Apple Pencil support
* Smart one- and two-point perspectives
* Scaled grids, including isometric and axonometric grids
* Guide lines, which can be subdivided equally or into specific distances
* Infinite canvas size with infinite zoom
* Zoom in and out without losing quality
* Import and export PDFs
* Build new drawings layered on archival drawings
* Scrapbook for managing image assets
* "Share Extension" adds images and PDFs from other apps
* Cut and Paste retains scale awareness
* Dimension lines
* Add custom symbols to the set of included symbols
* Export sketches into CAD applications
* Add text and company logo to exports
* Adobe Creative Cloud support for both importing and exporting
* Print directly from the iPad up to A1 size

## Key features

- Sketch and draw to scale
- Layering and editing tools
- Import images to set scale
- 3D visualization with perspective tools
- Export to CAD and Adobe Creative Cloud
- Apple Pencil support
- Print drawings up to A1 size

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Archisketch - Full Version | $17.99 | one-time |
| Full Version with All Add-ons | $30.99 | one-time |
| Colour Plus Pack | $7.99 | one-time |
| iCloud Plus Pack | $8.99 | one-time |
| Advance Colour & iCloud Bundle | $14.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Archisketch?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Great for scale drawings
- 💡 Helpful for design ideation
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 💡 Useful for architects and designers

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🔒 Limited free trial
- 🔒 Paywall for full features
- 🐛 Inaccurate scaling and measurements
- 🐛 Clumsy erasing and editing

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Compatibility issues with iOS 11 and newer
- Disappearing toolbars and interface elements
- Inability to save or export drawings
- Unreliable performance and stability

**Most requested features**

- Dark mode option
- More export options (vector, higher resolution)
- Improved documentation and tutorials
- Better support for mixed units (feet + inches)
- Freehand drawing tools with less smoothing

## Recent user reviews (10 of 146)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/archisketch/id725328455/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Pas satisfaite de l’achat

*2025-09-19, version 3.5*

J’ai choisi de payer pour pouvoir utiliser et je n’ai pas été satisfaite de l’achat, d’autant d’essai possible.

### 4/5 — Love it!

*2025-04-09, version 3.5*

Can’t beat it for the money. Does pretty much everything I need. Using it to import scaled site plans and editing/adding structures, pools, etc..

### 5/5 — Great app for scale drawings

*2024-12-14, version 3.5*

This is the app I was looking for. It helped me build a concept of how I want to reorientate my bedroom without actually moving everything around.

### 1/5 — Don’t get this

*2024-03-27, version 3.5*

Bad app, it makes you pay after you have added a certain amount of things

### 1/5 — Waste of time

*2024-03-23, version 3.5*

This App proports to be a great digityal design tool. However, it's neither intiuitive nor easy to use. Unfortunately there are more problems. First, despite having an "English" option, support is not offered in English. Second, it does not work with MacOs. Subsequently, your work is not seemless across the many platforms that you might be using. Finally, it is very easy to purchase the in App upgrades, but there are no descritions of the various otions. "What am I paying for?" "WIll this fix the problems that I am having with this App?"

I cannot recommend this App.

### 5/5 — Just what I needed.

*2023-12-13, version 3.5*

I use it to make electrical drawings. Conduit paths and device layout in a commercial medical setting.

### 3/5 — Not Robust Enough🤷🏽‍♂️

*2023-11-13, version 3.5*

Very nice app.  Intends to do exactly what I need it to do.  The only issue I’m having is that it freezes whenever I’m trying to “duplicate” multiple objects at the same time.  I keep having to close the app and reopen it.  I waited about 20 mins the last time it froze and it never unfroze.  Perhaps it’s bogged down by too many elements??… That is unfortunate since I’m not even halfway done with my drawing.  (I have a fairly new [2022] iPad Pro and I have closed all other apps, I have other more robust apps (SketchUp) that work well on my iPad too so I don’t think it’s an issue with my iPads processing power…) Starting to regret the $18 I spent!!😔

### 4/5 — 実務レベルで使える

*2023-11-13, version 3.5*

PCで作成しpdf化した図面を読み込めるので、上のレイヤーからトレペに書くようにプランニングできます。
レイヤーが使えるのと、何より図に対してスケール設定できるのが良い。似たようなアプリだと図面に合わせてスケール設定するとかなり線が荒くなってしまうのですがこちらは大丈夫でした。
アプリ上で長さ・面積がすぐでるのでヒアリングにも使えそうです。清書までCAD開かなくていい、、、！ 
使い勝手がよくて課金プランも購入しましたが、課金プランが買い切りなのもいいです。
しばらくアプデは行われてないようですが、ぜひ今後も機能追加していってほしい、、、！という期待を込めて★四です。
一つ大きな不満なのが、消しゴムがマスク消しゴムで、オブジェクトを完全削除できない部分。せっかくアップルペンシル使ってるのに消しゴム機能が上記なせいでダブルタップ消しゴム切り替えも作動しません。
マスク消しゴムはそれはそれで便利なので、こっちの機能も残したまま普通の消しゴムも追加してほしいところです。ぜひ早急に…対応を… 
でも他のノート系アプリと比べて、設計者の方は圧倒的な使いやすさだと思います。

### 4/5 — Dark mode please

*2023-04-21, version 3.5*

I like to look at an inverted screen with a dark background and detail in light colors.  I can do that in the drawing, but tool/menu bars at the bottom and top of the screen are annoyingly bright.  If I could toggle those to dark with light detail, 5 stars.

### 3/5 — Good but occasionally frustrating

*2023-01-20, version 3.5*

First off, I use this app primarily for top-down scale drawings. So this review will be primarily focused on that.

Scaling is simple, but has a big caveat. The idea behind scaling is easy; Find two reference points, and set the distance between them. The rest of the drawing is scaled automatically, based on those two points. So if you know the distance between two walls, just set your ruler between them and tell it how far apart they are. The big caveat is that working in mixed units is imprecise. If I choose to work in inches, I can get precise control over the scale. If my reference points are 120 1/4 inches apart, then I can simply type 120.25 inches and I’m golden. But the carpenter side of my brain prefers working in mixed units, and feet only allow for a single decimal point when scaling. Since 1/4 inches is less than 0.1 feet, that same 120 1/4 inches (which is 10.0208333 feet) rounds to a flat 10 feet. Maybe not a big deal if you’re only working on a 10’ piece, but when another wall is 100’ long, it’s now 2.5 inches short on my drawing. The lack of precision adds up quickly. A quarter inch here, a half inch there, and suddenly my entire building is 6 inches too long/short. I know that the app supports fractions of an inch (because it allows for fractions when working in inches) but when working in feet you’re forced to round everything to the nearest 10th of a foot. Either allow me to enter fractions directly, or allow for more than one decimal point when working in feet.

Drawing is fast and easy once you get used to it. The magnet/snap option is great, and allows for easy straight edges. The shape tools are elegant, (although using the polygon tool can be frustrating, as they tend to de-select and close when zooming,) and you can build custom objects to “stamp” on any other drawings/projects. These objects can then be ungrouped into their constituent parts/shapes for modification once they’re in place. For things like tables, chairs, pillars, etc, this is a godsend. I can build a 60” banquet table once, and know that it will be the same scaled size across all of my drawings. But there is a distinct lack of fill/texture options for the shapes. You can fill with solid colors, transparencies, and a gradient. But you can’t fill with crosshatching, tiles, textures, etc… Adding a crosshatch/hexagon fill option would be an amazing improvement, as it would allow you to fill walls quickly and easily without using up all the ink/toner in the printer. There’s also no freehand object tool. The polygon tool is close, but sometimes I just want to make a bubbly round cloud or bush without having to place and move corner points, deal with rounding percentages, etc… 

Importing jpegs and pdfs is possible, but the latter can be a little convoluted. Jpegs are simple enough if they’re saved in your device’s photos, but pdfs require you to “share” the pdf, then open it in Archisketch via the share menu. That one took me a while to figure out, and there’s no clear documentation on it; All of their documentation simply says to import the pdf from your photos. Not exactly intuitive, (especially since you can’t easily save pdfs in your photos) when they could add a browser for your Files app to import them directly.

And my last note was touched on in the prior paragraph: There is a distinct lack of documentation or support. The only documentation is via the built-in Help menu, but that points to a series of video tutorials. If the tutorial doesn’t cover the specific thing you’re looking for, then you’re stuck figuring it out on your own. A written manual with an index/table of contents would go a long way towards solving this issue, as the videos are all very short overviews (usually only a minute or two long) and only scratch the surface of what each tool can do.

All in all, it’s a good app. It has increased my productivity, and I plan to continue using it. But it has some notable missing features, which would elevate the app from “good” to “must have.” If they add some/all of these features in the future, I fully plan on updating my rating to 4 or 5 stars.

## Frequently asked questions about Archisketch

### What can I do with Archisketch?

Archisketch allows you to sketch, doodle, and design to scale. You can layer drawings, add text, dimension lines, and symbols. It also supports importing images to set scale, 3D visualization with perspective tools, and exporting your work for use in CAD applications or Adobe Creative Cloud.

### What are the key features of Archisketch?

Key features include Apple Pencil support, smart one- and two-point perspectives, scaled grids, guide lines, an infinite canvas with infinite zoom without quality loss, PDF import/export, and the ability to build new drawings layered on existing ones. It also offers a scrapbook for assets and dimension lines.

### How much does Archisketch cost?

The application is free to download and use, but it offers in-app purchases. This means that while the core functionality is available for free, certain advanced features or content may require a purchase.

### What devices is Archisketch compatible with?

Archisketch is designed for use on an iPad. It fully supports Apple Pencil, enhancing the sketching and drawing experience on compatible iPad models.

### Can I use my Archisketch drawings in other software?

Yes, Archisketch is designed for interoperability. You can export your sketches directly into CAD applications or use them with Adobe Creative Cloud. It also supports importing and exporting PDFs, making it easy to integrate your work into various design workflows.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.5 — 2022-01-02

Resolved issue with multi-tasking with iOS15
Added printing facilities for sizes Arch A, B, C, D

### 3.1 — 2018-11-13

-Interface update for 11 and 12.9 inch third generation iPad Pros with Face ID.
-Now you can set a custom name when saving a PDF file - (saving pdfs requires the iCloud Plus-Pack).
-Fixed the issue when naming documents that included "/" character.
-Other minor bug fixes

### 3.02 — 2018-07-23

Version 3: Collaborate with others using the new iCloud Plus pack. Use colour like never before with the new Colour Plus pack. 
version 3.02: Interface changes.

### 3.01 — 2018-05-09

Resolved issue with exporting PDFs with gradient fills with transparencies. 
Some minor text corrections.

### 3.0 — 2018-05-03

Archisketch 3.0 – What’s New

Now for the first time, collaborate with others using the new iCloud Plus pack. Use colour like never before with the new Colour Plus pack. Archisketch 3.0 now provides the ability to add these (and future) Plus Packs to your Archisketch setup. In addition, Archisketch 3.0 adds a plethora of new features all geared toward giving you more granular control than ever before. For example, you can:

* Set up custom snap intervals to measuring units, and the snap intervals will remain consistent at all zoom levels for the drawing. 
* Fine tune adjustments to dimension lines and leader lines.
* Add dot terminators to your leader lines.
* Turn off "Draw with Finger" when using Apple Pencil. This feature is particularly useful when presenting with Archisketch, because the presenter can draw and edit using the Apple Pencil and the client or team member can touch all over the drawing without impacting the drawing. Each presentation becomes much more tactile and interactive.

With iCloud Plus pack, you can:
* Collaborate with others on a project or drawing.
* Save Projects and PDF files to iCloud Drive.
* Use projects and PDF files from iCloud Drive.

With Colour Plus pack, you can:
* Add gradient fills to your drawing.
* Extend the existing colour palette.
* Set multiple colour palettes for use with a drawing.
* Create a global colour palette to be shared in all drawings and projects.
* Pick-up a colour value directly from the screen.

The new features in version 3.0 add to those we introduced in v2.9 which allow you to select multiple points of a polygon for editing or deletion, search for projects by title, and much more. Plus Packs are available to all licensed Archisketch 3.0 customers.

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