Floorplanner Reviews

Very pleased with the free online app. I only needed to workout the layout of one room; and while there are many things I wished for, I cannot complain as I was able to do it online for free.

Has usual array of glitches and irritations but far fewer than others I have tried in the past.

I had previously used Floorplanner to design both floors of my house that needed a complete renovation, with all interior walls being knocked down and relocated. I was able to simply print out the design and give them to my builders to work from directly. Pretty incredible to be able to do this with a free software. I paid for a couple of high quality renders to get a feel for walking around my house in 3D to make sure I was happy with the design.

I've recently been designing my garden and I didn't even consider Floorplanner in my head it was just for interior design. I looked on Google and found Planner5D. Great (I thought). Turns out almost all their items are locked in the free version. Okay, I'll spend €20 for a month of premium. Turns out they have about 5 different border plants/flowers to choose from, which all look a different shade of awful. Both the 2D and 3D views look terrible as well and things like paths (which were impossible to make into a smooth curve in the first place) regularly glitch when you change to 3D view. Also, on the €20/month premium plan, you only get 5 renders of *still images*. You have to fork out €50/month if you want to get a 3D render that you can walk around in, which costs about €5 on Floorplanner.

Anyway, out of desparation I checked back with Floorplanner because it had been so helpful with designing my interior. Well it turns out they have literally about 10x as many plants, flowers and trees as Planner5D. As well as greenhouses, pagodas, trellises and hottubs (none of which Planner5D has). You can also make a nice, smooth path so much more easily.

I don't mean to just crap all over Planner5D with this review, I'm sure it has its uses. But it baffles me that it is more popular than Floorplanner. When in reality the latter is 1/10 the price (for a render and completely free otherwise) and a much easier product to use with 10x the variation of items.

It is so rare nowadays that the "free" version of a product is anything other than bait to get you to pay for premium. But Floorplanner is completely useable unless you want high quality renders. It may not be perfect, for for a genuinely free product it is unbelievably good.

Idk who the hell made this product but they did a damn good job. Bravo.

I'm baffled to find so few reviews of Floorplanner. And some negative too! I've been using it for two years now and it's simply amazing, certainly for the pricepoint.

Also, their support is outstanding and very quick to reply.

I have absolutely no qualms about highly recommending Floorplanner to everyone thinking about remodelling or building their home.

After some very frunstrating experiences with other similar products I tried floorplanner for 5$ a month to plan the rooms in my new house and here I finally found all the functionality I was looking for. Yeah the credits model is bs but, fairly common and besides the 5 bucks a month I didn't have to spend any more money for my use case.
Also, cancellation is as easy as pressing one button, you still keep all your projects as a basic member and if you want to work on them later on you can upgrade your account again and off you go.

Date of experience: April 08, 2021

Working in Floorplanner itself is alright. They lack fixtures like built-ins, but maybe these are coming. However, I'm disappointed in the how the Floorplanner exports vector files. First, it only exports DXF files that require conversion if you're not using AutoCAD. Second, the files are a mess. All shapes are broken apart into individual lines. All the lines are straight, so bezier curves are lost. Even the text labels are converted to a mass of little lines. The furniture is just not exported at all. I wish I had used a more robust building tool in hindsight.