Comparison

Lidar Room Scanner vs FreeBeam

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lidar Room Scanner

Easily scan and document properties to create detailed 2D and 3D floor plans. Capture room layouts, attach photos, and share interactive property views instantly via a web link. Supports LiDAR scanning on compatible devices or manual creation on any device.

Highlights
  • LiDAR room scanning
  • Manual room creation
  • Attach photos to rooms
  • 2D & 3D floor plans
  • Instant web sharing
  • Editable plans
  • USDZ/GLB export
Features
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Scan, edit, and share complete properties in minutes with 5DPlan. 5DPlan is a LiDAR room scanner and 3D floor planner for iPhone and iPad. Capture multiple rooms across multiple floors, attach photos, and create a shareable property view that opens in any browser. Unlike a fixed room scan, your 5DPlan floor plan remains editable. Move walls, resize rooms, and refine the layout after scanning to create the plan you need. LIDAR ROOM SCANNER & 3D FLOOR PLANNER Use the LiDAR room scanner to capture walls, doors, windows, and room layouts in seconds. Scan multiple rooms across multiple floors and organize everything inside one property project. Explore your property as an immersive 3D floor plan or switch to a clean 2D floor plan for measuring, planning, and documentation. KEY FEATURES • Scan rooms with LiDAR on supported iPhone and iPad Pro models • Capture multiple rooms across multiple floors • Edit and modify floor plans after scanning • Move walls, resize rooms, and adjust layouts • Create rooms manually on devices without LiDAR • View properties as 2D and 3D floor plans • Attach photos and position them inside each room • Measure rooms, walls, doors, and windows • Share an interactive property view with one link • Open shared plans in any browser—no app required • Export designs in USDZ or GLB format • Keep projects updated across devices with iCloud MADE FOR PROPERTY PROJECTS 5DPlan is a practical floor planner for homeowners, architects, interior designers, real estate professionals, inspectors, property managers, and renovation teams. Use it for: • Real estate listings • Vacation and short-term rentals • Property inspections • Home documentation • Renovation and design planning From the first room scan to the finished floor plan, 5DPlan helps you capture, measure, edit, and share every part of a property. Download 5DPlan today and turn your iPhone or iPad into a powerful LiDAR room scanner. Capture multiple floors and create an editable 2D or 3D floor plan in minutes. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

FreeBeam

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Measure and mark up construction drawings on site, in your hand, at the scale the drawing was drawn to. Set the scale once and every length, area and angle you take is real. Nothing you open ever leaves your phone. FreeBeam works on the PDFs you already have. Open a plan from email, from Files, from anywhere iOS can share to, set the scale from the drawing's own dimension string or pick a standard one, and start measuring. Lengths, areas, continuous runs and angles come straight off the sheet. Snapping catches the drawing's real geometry - endpoints, intersections, perpendiculars - so a measurement lands on the line rather than near it, and the loupe shows you exactly where the point is going before you commit it. Mark up as you go. Text, arrows, clouds, dimensions and freehand, in the colours and weights you choose. Everything is editable afterwards: select one item or several, move them, restyle them, undo and redo your way back through the work. Copy and paste markup between drawings. Export the result as a sharp, real PDF. Not a photograph of your drawing - the original vector sheet with your markup on top, so it prints and zooms the way the source did, and anyone can open it. FreeBeam Pro, a one-off purchase with no subscription, adds the rest: unlimited drawings, exports with no watermark, and the tools that take it past measuring. Lay one drawing over another in colour to read a revision at a glance, and flatten the pair into a single sharp sheet. Join several drawings into one document, in the order you choose. Count and tally items by type for a takeoff. Set a datum and read coordinates off the plan, rotate a sheet to site north, and take bearings and distances between points. Built for the people who actually carry drawings: surveyors, site engineers, estimators, builders and setting-out crews. It runs on an iPhone in a pocket and on an iPad on a tailgate, and it works with no signal, because everything happens on the device. Nothing is collected. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, no cloud. Your drawings, your markup and your measurements stay on your phone, which matters when the sheet in your hand is a confidential tender. A sample drawing is included, in metric or in feet and inches, with dimensions printed on it you can check your measurements against. Questions or problems: freebeam.support@gmail.com

Screenshots

Lidar Room Scanner4 screens
FreeBeam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FreeBeam at 15.0 against Lidar Room Scanner's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lidar Room Scanner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and FreeBeam sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Lidar Room Scanner versus FreeBeam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLidar Room ScannerFreeBeam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (143 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings143 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGil NakacheThomas Blaxland

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Lidar Room Scanner

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Web Monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Pro Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year
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  • Web Annual3 Days trial$159.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$199.99
1 purchases

FreeBeam

One-time1
  • FreeBeam Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Lidar Room Scanner free?
Lidar Room Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FreeBeam free?
FreeBeam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lidar Room Scanner or FreeBeam have ads?
Neither Lidar Room Scanner nor FreeBeam shows ads.

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