Roomtape vs BurnPony

Roomtape measures your rooms and tells you exactly how much paint, flooring, baseboard and wallpaper to buy — with the doors and windows taken out. One purchase, no subscription, no account. Everything stays on your device. MEASURE ANY WAY YOU LIKE • Type what your tape measure says: 12' 6", 12 ft 6 1/2 in, 3.81 m or 381 cm all work, in any field • Or walk it: on iPhone, tap Start at one wall and End at the other, and your calibrated stride does the counting • Rectangles and L-shaped rooms (outer box minus the missing corner) • Squareness check: add the corner-to-corner diagonal to see the true corner angle • Switch between feet & inches and metric at any time without losing precision THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER • Floor area, perimeter and volume • Wall area: perimeter × ceiling height, minus every door, window and open passage you record (real sizes and quantities) • Ceiling area and baseboard run (door and passage widths removed; windows don't interrupt trim) MATERIALS WITH A WASTE ALLOWANCE • Flooring for hardwood, LVP/laminate, tile and carpet with pattern-based waste you can adjust • Paint for 1–4 coats, walls with or without the ceiling, at the spread rate printed on your can • Baseboard in 8 ft or 12 ft boards with adjustable waste • Wallpaper single and double rolls with waste for plain, small-repeat and large-repeat patterns • Your choices are saved per room, so the project shopping list matches every room screen PROJECTS • Group rooms into a home, rental or job • Whole-project totals and one combined shopping list • "Ready to order?" shows which rooms are missing a height, dimensions or doors and windows PLANS, PHOTOS AND EXPORTS • Floor plan sketch of every room with each wall labelled (L-shapes included) • Room PDF drawn to 1/4" = 1 ft when it fits, with surfaces, openings, shopping list, notes and photo notes • Project PDF report: cover page with totals and room schedule, then one page per room • CSV for Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets • Photo notes from the camera or your library, with captions FURNITURE FIT • Lay out furniture footprints in a rectangular room, rotate pieces, and see overlap and clearance warnings before you move anything YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE • One-file backup of every room, project, opening, photo and furniture layout; restore by merging or replacing (a safety copy is saved first) • No account, no ads, no tracking, no network access Estimates are quantities only and depend on the measurements you enter. Walked measurements are approximate; use a tape for anything that must fit exactly. Walk-to-measure needs an iPhone with a step counter; typing dimensions works on every iPhone and iPad.

Send a secret without making the other person install anything. Write a note, set the self-destruct rules, share one link. The note is encrypted on your iPhone with AES-256-GCM before anything is uploaded, and it decrypts only in the recipient's browser. The decryption key travels in the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to any server, so the server stores ciphertext it cannot read, plus a note ID, a view count, and an expiry. No accounts, no names, no analytics. THREE KINDS OF NOTE • Simple: one note, one link, optional passphrase • Double bottom: one link with separate compartments, each opened by its own passphrase. Hand over one passphrase and only that compartment shows; nobody can prove the others exist • Split key: the note opens only when enough key links are combined, for example any 2 of 3 WHAT YOU CONTROL • Views: burn after 1 reading, or allow up to 100 • Expiry: 5 minutes to 30 days, changeable later, counted from now • Scheduled opening: the note stays hidden, looking like it does not exist, until the time you pick • Optional passphrase, stretched with PBKDF2 and mixed into the key. Send it through a different channel than the link • Open immediately: skip the confirmation screen when a note should open on the first visit • Auto-hide: the revealed note re-hides after a timer • Read receipts, disclosed to the recipient before they reveal the note. BurnPony does not do silent read tracking • Defaults for new notes, set once in Settings • A private label for your own list; it never leaves your device • QR code for in-person handoff: the whole link, key included, transfers with no network at all SAVED COPIES (OPTIONAL, OFF BY DEFAULT) Keep a copy of a note you send so you can reread it after it burns. You choose per note. Each copy is encrypted to a key held in the Secure Enclave, which only uses it after Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. Double bottom notes are never saved. HONEST LIMITS Whoever has the full link (and passphrase, if set) can read the note. A recipient can always copy or photograph a note while it is visible. Self-destruction limits future access; it does not control the moment of reading. OPEN The app, the server, the viewer, and the wire-format specification are open source (Apache-2.0), with cross-implementation test vectors. Self-hosters can point the app at their own server from Settings. Protocol: https://burnpony.app/protocol BurnPony is part of the pony family of privacy tools: encryption you can inspect instead of taking a developer's word for it.