vPlan AR vs Lidarmeter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
vPlan AR
Transform your iPhone into a powerful floor plan scanner using its LiDAR sensor. Capture room dimensions, generate detailed 2D and 3D floor plans instantly, and export them in professional formats like PDF, DXF, and OBJ. Edit and share your plans easily online.
- LiDAR-powered room scanning
- Instant 2D and 3D floor plan generation
- Professional export formats (PDF, DXF, OBJ)
- Cloud sync with web editor
- Offline scanning capability
- Team collaboration features
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Scan a room with your iPhone or iPad and get a true-scale floor plan in minutes. vPlan AR uses LiDAR and Apple's RoomPlan to measure walls, doors and windows as you walk, typically within 1–2 cm (under an inch) per room dimension. Square footage, ceiling heights, a 3D model and professional exports come from the same scan. Built for insurance adjusters, home inspectors, contractors, realtors, architects and designers who need accurate measurements on site, fast. SCAN ROOMS AND WHOLE HOUSES • Walk each room and watch walls, doors, windows and openings appear on a live 3D model. • Scan every floor in one session and the levels line up for multi-level plans and 3D. • Cabinets, appliances, fixtures, furniture and stairs found in the scan go on the plan. • Room photos while you scan (Pro and Business), pinned where you stood. Faces in automatic photos are blurred. NO LIDAR? MEASURE ROOM (BETA) • vPlan AR is built first for LiDAR iPhones. To help you get work done on other iPhones, Measure Room measures with the camera: tap each floor corner, set the wall height, then mark doors and windows. ACCURATE FLOOR PLANS AND SQUARE FOOTAGE • Room-by-room area, perimeter and ceiling height, and the total square footage. • ANSI Z765-style square-footage (GLA) report for appraisals and listings (Pro and Business). EDIT ON IPHONE AND IPAD • Move and resize walls, add doors (swing, double, sliding, pocket, bifold and garage), windows and openings. • Place furniture and fixtures that snap to walls, stairs sized for the level above, and floor openings. • Floor, wall, ceiling and baseboard finishes, shown in 3D. • Pin photos on the plan and view 360° photos. 3D MODEL AND AR • Every plan in 3D, with furniture and finishes. • View in AR lays the plan over the real rooms; Tabletop Model sets a small 3D model on any table. EXPORT FOR WORK • True-scale PDF floor plans: Letter or A4 on Free, multi-level plan sets on Pro with a 3D cover, room schedules and large sheet sizes. • DXF for AutoCAD and other CAD software, at real size with editable dimensions (Pro). • 3D models as GLB, USDZ and OBJ (Pro). • Excel and CSV schedules and room-by-room measurement sheets for estimating (Pro). • IFC (BIM) for Revit and ArchiCAD, and XML floor plan data (Business). INSURANCE, INSPECTION AND REPAIR ESTIMATES • Tag damage by room: water, fire, smoke, mold and more, with severity and affected materials (Pro and Business). • Damage and scope reports with photos and a signature block. • Scope lines from your rate card, your own items or starter packs (Water mitigation, General repair, Adjuster), with formulas that follow the room. • Repair cost estimates from your own price list, exported to Excel. AI ON YOUR PLAN • Ask the AI assistant about areas, materials and quantities. • Draft a scope of work, suggest damage from room photos and name rooms (Pro and Business). SHARE AND WORK TOGETHER • Share links that open in any browser. Client review links and version history on the web (Pro). • Projects sync to the web editor at vplan.ai for detailed drafting, sheets and design work. PLANS • Free: 2 projects a month, a watermarked PDF of one level, the 3D viewer, 20 AI messages a month and cloud sync. • Pro: unlimited projects, multi-level PDF plan sets, DXF, 3D, Excel and measurement sheets, damage reports, estimates, finishes and AI tools. • Business: everything in Pro plus IFC and XML export, team projects, your logo on plan sets, and the API. Pro and Business are auto-renewing subscriptions, billed monthly or yearly through your Apple ID. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. LiDAR scanning needs an iPhone 12 Pro or newer Pro model, or an iPad Pro from 2020 or newer. Measure Room (beta) works on other iPhones with iOS 16 or later. Terms of Use: https://vplan.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://vplan.ai/privacy
Lidarmeter
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Lidarmeter turns your iPhone or iPad into a floor plan tool. Walk through a home with the LiDAR scanner and get a measured floor plan, a 3D model and a PDF report in minutes. No LiDAR? Draw the plan by typing the lengths you measured, or trace over an architect's PDF or a photo of a paper plan. SCAN WITH LIDAR • Scan room after room in one go; rooms snap together on their own • A live radar shows where you are and which rooms are done • Walls, doors, windows and furniture are recognised as you scan • Floor area, ceiling height and room type update live DRAW AND EDIT, ON EVERY IPHONE AND IPAD • Draw a room as a rectangle, corner by corner or by typing wall lengths • Put a PDF or photo of a plan underneath, scale it with a length you know and trace over it • Move, rotate and reshape rooms, type exact wall lengths, add doors, windows and furniture • Floors: duplexes and multi-storey homes, lined up and stacked in 3D • Text notes and dimension lines on the plan 3D MODEL • A true-to-size 3D model built from your plan • Walk inside, look from above, choose floor materials and wall colours SITE MODE • Pin photos of cracks, damp or damage to the exact spot on the plan, with their height above the floor • Tags, voice notes turned into text on the device, and walkthrough recordings WALKTHROUGH TOUR • Record while you scan: the video plays next to the plan and a dot walks through the rooms • Tap the plan or a room to jump the video there • Share it as an MP4 with a moving map in the corner • Or send a link: it opens in any browser, in the viewer's language, no app needed SHARE • PDF report with a scaled plan, room schedule, room-by-room pages and photo findings • DXF for AutoCAD, ArchiCAD and Revit, plus SVG, USDZ, OBJ and CSV • With Pro, reports carry your company logo and contact details • Pro reports also open with a 3D cover and net and gross area, add a quantities page (flooring, paint, ceiling, skirting), number the walls, doors and windows, list the furniture, say which way each window faces and carry a QR code for the walkthrough tour PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account needed. Your scans, photos and plans stay on your device, and scanning, drawing and exporting work offline. Only a tour you share as a link goes to our server, for the time you choose. FREE AND PRO Lidarmeter is free to start: 2 new projects a month, scanning, drawing, plans, 3D and watermarked PDF and PNG exports. Lidarmeter Pro, monthly or yearly with a 1-week free trial, adds unlimited projects, watermark-free vector reports, your logo, room pages and the photo report, DXF and SVG, USDZ, OBJ and CSV, tour links for 7 or 30 days or until you remove them, and backup to your iCloud Drive. Scanning needs an iPhone Pro (iPhone 12 Pro or later) or an iPad Pro (2020 or later) with LiDAR. Drawing works on every iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. Measurements may differ slightly from the actual building; check critical dimensions before construction. Terms of Use: https://lidarmeter.com/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://lidarmeter.com/en/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lidarmeter at every 2 days against vPlan AR's fortnightly. vPlan AR's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. vPlan AR sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.00 per month and Lidarmeter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
vPlan AR ships an update fortnightly, Lidarmeter every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | vPlan AR | Lidarmeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ValidPixel LLC | Serdar Keskin |
In-app purchases
vPlan AR
- vPlan Pro Monthly$19.001 Month
- vPlan Business Monthly$39.001 Month
- vPlan Pro Annual$182.991 Year
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- vPlan Business Annual$374.991 Year
Lidarmeter
- Lidarmeter Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Lidarmeter Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$79.991 Year









