Comparison

Material Count vs Room Scan

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

Head to head
About

Material Count

Features
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This app calculates drywall materials, including studs, top tracks, and bottom tracks. Simply input the wall length and height to determine the required materials. For a plasterboard ceiling or plasterboard wall, enter the ceiling width and length or the wall height and length to calculate the materials needed. For a tile ceiling grid, input the ceiling width and length, the ceiling height and the full height. For a steel framing ceiling, the app calculates materials for the Main Bar, C Channel, and Furring Channel, Locking Key and L bracket. For a Speedpanel wall, enter the wall length and height to determine the required tracks, Speedpanels, and sealants.

About

Room Scan

Instantly measure rooms and calculate material needs for paint, tile, flooring, trim, and wallpaper using your iPhone's LiDAR. Get accurate estimates for contractors, designers, and DIYers without manual measurements.

Highlights
  • LiDAR room scanning
  • Automated material calculation
  • Paint, tile, flooring, trim, wallpaper estimates
  • Customizable roll and tile sizes
  • 3D room preview
  • Shareable project reports
  • AI Pro Assistant for questions
Features
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Featured in The Telegraph's "30 Best Property Apps." Scan a room with your iPhone or iPad and know exactly what to order: wallpaper rolls, paint gallons, tile boxes, flooring and trim. No tape measure, no math. Point, scan, and get your numbers in seconds. Made by a working wallpaper installer with 35+ years in the trade, for contractors, designers and homeowners who need estimates they can trust. NEW IN 4.0 • iPad: your room in 3D on the big screen, with calculator cards you drag, flick and tuck away • See wallpaper, paint, tile and floors on the 3D model as you work • iCloud sync between your iPhone and iPad • Clients: every room organized by client, with address and notes, and one PDF report for the whole job • Share with Your AI: send a room or a whole job to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any AI app to price the job • Vaulted and sloped ceilings measured and counted WALLPAPER Rolls, not square feet. Pick your roll: 20.5" × 33' or 27" rolls, 36" grasscloth or 54" commercial goods by the yard, or a custom size. Enter the pattern repeat and match, and focalScan works out what to order, with waste that adjusts to the match and repeat, and doors and windows taken out. Pick a design for the width (florals, grasscloth, sisal, murals) and see it on the walls. PAINT Gallons or liters for 1 to 3 coats, with the coverage set coat by coat. Choose the walls, take out doors and windows, and add the ceiling if you're painting it. Coverage starts at 400 sq ft per gallon, like the can. Pick a color to see it on the walls. TILE Boxes, not square feet. Pick the tile size and how many come in a box, choose the layout (straight, brick offset, herringbone or diagonal), and the waste adjusts to match. Floors, walls, backsplashes and ceilings. FLOORING Floor area in sq ft or sq m for LVP, hardwood, laminate, carpet or tile, plus the perimeter. Pick the covering and see it on the floor. TRIM Baseboard, door and window casing, and crown, each counted separately, in linear feet and pieces. SEE IT IN 3D • Keep several finishes on the room at once and save them as one estimate • Scanned furniture drawn as real pieces (toilet, vanity, sofa, table and more). Tap one to say what it is • Tap a doorway to make it a door, bifold or opening • Walls facing you turn see-through, and the wall height shows on the corner EXACT WALLS • Add soffits and partition walls the scan misses: on the 3D model and in every count • Windows and doors: casing, or a drywall return the trim wraps into • Chair rail: count above it or below it, with wainscoting shown below • Tap a wall, door or window on the 3D model to leave it out REPORTS AND CLIENTS • PDF report for a room or a whole client, with the 3D view, floor plan, photos and saved estimates (notes optional) • Save estimates and reopen them anytime • Photos and the scan video stay with each room • Recently Deleted keeps rooms for 30 days, and you can back up everything to a file AI PRO ASSISTANT Ask trade questions in plain language: "Do I need to prime before wallpaper?" "What size brad nails for baseboard?" 31 LANGUAGES, in feet and inches or metric. DEVICES Scanning needs LiDAR: iPhone 12 Pro / Pro Max and newer Pro models, or an iPad Pro with LiDAR. No LiDAR? Enter the room by hand and get the same estimates. Privacy: https://www.focalscan.com/privacy/ Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Material Count4 screens
Room Scan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Material Count at none against Room Scan's 2. Material Count also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.6). Room Scan's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads 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. Room Scan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Material Count asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Material Count ships an update every 5 weeks, Room Scan weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Material Count versus Room Scan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaterial CountRoom Scan
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHONGYUN LIAOEEBarry Bernau

In-app purchases

None

Material Count

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Room Scan

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Material Count free?
Material Count is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Room Scan free?
Room Scan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Material Count or Room Scan have ads?
Neither Material Count nor Room Scan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Material Count or Room Scan?
Material Count ships an update every 5 weeks, and Room Scan weekly. Most recently, Material Count was updated on October 30, 2026 and Room Scan on November 5, 2026.

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