Comparison

OpenPlan3D vs Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner

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

Head to head
About

OpenPlan3D

Scan rooms with your iPhone to instantly generate accurate 2D floor plans and 3D models. Edit walls, doors, and windows, then export your designs in various formats. Share your plans or further design them on a free, open-source web editor.

Highlights
  • LiDAR room scanning
  • Automatic floor plan generation
  • 3D dollhouse model creation
  • Built-in floor plan editor
  • Multiple export formats (PNG, SVG, DXF, PDF, USDZ)
  • Open-source web editor integration
  • Private and no account required
Features
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Scan a room. Get a floor plan. OpenPlan3D Capture turns your iPhone into a room scanner. Walk the room once and Apple RoomPlan's LiDAR builds an accurate floor plan — walls, doors, windows, and furniture detected automatically. REVIEW IN 3D, INSTANTLY Every scan becomes an interactive dollhouse model and a clean 2D plan. Check dimensions, room areas, and detected objects before you export. FINE-TUNE EVERY WALL The built-in editor lets you correct what the scan missed: drag walls with live dimensions, add or move doors and windows, split walls, and label rooms. OPEN IN OPENPLAN3D Send your plan straight to openplan3d.com — the free, open-source floor plan editor — to furnish it with 140+ models, visualize in 3D, and keep designing on any computer. EXPORT ANYWHERE PNG, SVG, DXF, PDF, or USDZ. Bring your plan into CAD tools, share it with clients, or print it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No signup. No cloud. Your scans stay on your device until you choose to export them. 100% FREE & OPEN SOURCE No paywalls, no premium tier. The full source code is on GitHub. Requires an iPhone or iPad with a LiDAR scanner (iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro models, or Pro iPads). Perfect for real estate agents, contractors, interior designers, architects, landlords, and anyone remodeling, moving, or furnishing a space.

About

Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner

Transform your LiDAR-enabled iPhone or iPad into a professional measurement tool. Capture detailed room scans and generate industry-standard DXF floorplans, USDZ 3D models, and PDF reports with essential data.

Highlights
  • LiDAR room scanning
  • DXF floorplan export
  • USDZ 3D mesh export
  • PDF quantity reports
  • Multi-room project management
  • On-device project storage
  • Photo and note export
Features
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Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner turns your LiDAR iPhone or iPad into a pocket measure-up tool for buildings. Scan a room, a floor, or an entire house and walk away with professional files: • DXF floorplan — R12 dialect that opens cleanly in AutoCAD, LibreCAD, and QCAD, with walls, doors, and windows on named layers and floor outlines as closed polylines. • USDZ 3D mesh — Apple's AR-ready format, textured and ready for AR Quick Look. • PDF report — a branded A4 quantities sheet with floor area, wall area, and one-coat paint litres per room and as totals. Built for AEC, MEP, real estate, and trade professionals who need fast, defensible measurements without a tripod, target, or laptop. Features • Multi-room scanning — capture rooms one at a time; StructureBuilder fuses them into a single aligned model. • Projects — every scan saves on-device as a named project. Rename, archive, and a 30-day auto-purge on the trash. • Photos and dictated notes per project, exportable together with the model as a single ZIP archive. • Floorplan-on-map view with the recorded scan location. • Tri-lingual interface: English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil). Privacy Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no telemetry SDK, no ads, no tracking. The optional location tag is stored inside the project and only leaves your device in exports you share yourself. Requirements LiDAR-capable device: iPhone Pro (12 Pro and later) or iPad Pro (2020 and later). iOS 17 or later. Free. No paid tier, no watermark, no in-app purchases. About Lagarsoft Lagarsoft is a software engineering firm building tools for AEC, MEP, and real estate. Learn more at lagarsoft.com.

Screenshots

OpenPlan3D4 screens
Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner at every 2 weeks against OpenPlan3D's monthly. Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). OpenPlan3D's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OpenPlan3D against 5.0 for Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OpenPlan3D has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OpenPlan3D ships an update monthly, Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
OpenPlan3D versus Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpenPlan3DLagarsoft LiDAR Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaan Consulting CorpLagarsoft

In-app purchases

None

OpenPlan3D

No in-app purchases

None

Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OpenPlan3D free?
OpenPlan3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner free?
Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OpenPlan3D or Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner?
OpenPlan3D and Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do OpenPlan3D or Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner have ads?
Neither OpenPlan3D nor Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OpenPlan3D or Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner?
OpenPlan3D ships an update monthly, and Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner every 2 weeks. Most recently, OpenPlan3D was updated on October 31, 2026 and Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner on October 31, 2026.

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