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A free floor plan furniture planner should take you from nothing to a finished layout without a payment — and most of them do, up to a line they draw somewhere specific. Here is where each free tier actually stops, read off the pricing pages of Planner 5D, RoomSketcher, Floorplanner, magicplan and Poché today, plus the five tests worth applying before you spend an evening in one.
"Free room planner" returns a hundred results and about six real products. These are the questions that separate them, in the order they will bite you.
Nothing passes all five. Which two a tool fails is the whole decision.
All of the below was read off each company's own pricing page on 2026-08-21. Prices and limits change — check theirs before you decide anything on ours.
| Tool | What free includes | Where free stops |
|---|---|---|
| Poché | Everything. Upload a plan, measure it, furnish it at true scale, export a PDF at the original drawing scale. Account needed to upload; the demo needs none | Nowhere — there is no paid tier. It stops at what the product does not do: no 3D, 280-piece library, web only |
| Planner 5D | Unlimited projects at $0, web and mobile, 50% of the furniture catalogue, Design Battles | Uploading a floor plan and turning it into a project is Premium, as is the full 10,000+ catalogue. Premium $4.99/mo billed annually ($59.99/yr) or $19.99/mo |
| Floorplanner | 5 projects kept for as long as you want, the full 260,000-model library, real-time 3D, insert and trace a plan image | 3 floors and 3 designs per project; exports are SD 960 × 540 with a watermark. 2 credits per project removes it; credits from $8.15 for 5, or Plus at $5/mo |
| RoomSketcher | Draw a complete floor plan, furnish it, take 3D Snapshots, 10-project archive, Room Size | Snapshots are watermarked; libraries are "Limited"; Measurements, Total Area, Print to Scale and Draw From a Blueprint are excluded. Renders $4 each, AI Convert $20/floor. Pro $12/mo billed $144/yr |
| magicplan | 2 free projects, "full features, no strings attached" — one project is one property | At two. Then per-project pricing from $25 on a 24-month plan, and plans start at 10 projects a month ($250/mo) |
Poché's own figures: 280 library pieces across 17 categories, 17 field guides, 15 free calculators, 40-plus stores searched for fit. Counted on 2026-08-21, not estimated.
It is worth saying, because the genre of article this page sits in usually implies otherwise. Every limit in the table above is printed on the vendor's own pricing page, in plain language, before you sign up. Nobody here is hiding the ball.
They are also all metering roughly the same thing: the expensive output. Rendering an 8K image costs real compute. Employing illustrators to redraw a blueprint overnight costs real wages. Running recognition over an uploaded plan costs something. Charging for those and giving away the editor is a coherent, honest design, and it is why Floorplanner can hand 260,000 models to everyone for nothing.
Which leads to the useful reframing: ask what the tool sells, and you will know what it withholds. Floorplanner sells pictures, so pictures are watermarked. RoomSketcher sells floor plan documents, so generating one costs $4. Planner 5D sells the catalogue and the conversion, so half the catalogue and all of the conversion sit behind Premium. magicplan sells the job site, so you get two.
Poché sells nothing, which is not a boast — it is a different arrangement with its own thing to be suspicious of. It earns money on affiliate commission when a shopping link you followed ends in a purchase, disclosed in the footer of every page. The thing to hold it to is the rule written into the product: results are ranked by fit, never by payout. A piece that does not fit your room does not appear in your results, whoever is paying for the click.
Go back to the fifth test — where does the plan come from — because it is where the hour actually goes, and because every one of these tools answers it differently.
| Tool | Starting from a plan you already have |
|---|---|
| Poché | Upload the PDF or a photo. It reads the drawing scale off the sheet and recovers each room's outline and floor area from the wall mass. Free |
| Planner 5D | AI Floor Plan Converter takes PNG, JPG, PDF, TIFF, DXF and DWG and recognises the plan automatically; you then work with it as a regular Planner 5D project. Listed under Premium |
| Floorplanner | Insert a JPG, PNG or PDF as an image, scale it to 1:1 yourself using the sidebar directions, then draw the walls over it. Free |
| RoomSketcher | Three routes: AI Convert ($20/floor on the free plan), Trace Over a Floor Plan, or Order Floor Plans from their illustrators ($38/floor free, from $18 on Pro) |
| magicplan | Not the model — you capture the building itself on site, by manual or laser-assisted measurement or a LiDAR scan on an iOS Pro device |
Read that column and the shape of the category comes clear. Four of the five ask you to redraw, retrace, pay for a conversion, or go and stand in the building. All four are legitimate answers. But if what you are holding is a builder's plan set for a house that is not finished yet, three of them cost an evening and the fourth costs a key you do not have.
That is the gap Poché was built into: the drawing is already to scale, it already has dimension strings printed on it, and its walls already say where the rooms are. Reading it is a measurement problem, not a drawing problem — so Poché measures it and gets out of the way.
Since this page grades everyone else's free tier, here is ours on the same terms, with the failures first.
And what it does do, free, with nothing above it: reads the scale off your sheet, recovers every room from the walls, places 280 true-dimension footprints with clearance rules — redline when two things overlap, amber when a walkway pinches — marks doorways for delivery verdicts, prints per-room placement sheets, exports a PDF at the original drawing scale, and searches 40-plus live stores for pieces that fit the footprint you just settled on.
Alongside it, off the app entirely and needing nothing at all: 17 field guides of dimensions and clearances, and 15 free calculators — rug size, sofa for a wall length, dining seats for a table, TV viewing distance, closet rod length, bed clearances, and whether it fits through the door.
There is a decent argument for using two: read the plan in one, make it pretty in another. Nothing here is exclusive, and all of them have a free tier you can test in an evening.
It depends on which half of the job you need free. If you want the biggest free furniture library and real 3D, Floorplanner is hard to beat — over 260,000 models available to every user at no cost, with 5 free projects. If you want unlimited projects, Planner 5D's free tier gives you that with half its catalogue. If what you have is a builder's floor plan and you do not want to redraw it, Poché is free with no tier above it, reads the scale off the sheet and measures the rooms from the walls. Pick by what you already have, not by the word "free".
Five things. It should get you from nothing to a finished layout without a payment. It should place furniture at real dimensions rather than approximate blocks. It should tell you when something does not fit, not just let you overlap it. It should let you get the result back out — printed, exported or shared. And it should be honest about where free stops, on the pricing page, before you spend an evening. Most tools pass three of the five, and which two they fail is the thing worth checking.
Floorplanner and Poché, on different terms. Floorplanner's free projects let you insert a JPG, PNG or PDF of a plan and then scale it to 1:1 yourself and trace over it. Poché takes the upload and does the measuring itself, free, though it requires an account because uploaded plans are private by default. On RoomSketcher's free plan, AI Convert is $20 per floor and Draw From a Blueprint is a Pro feature. On Planner 5D, turning an uploaded plan into a project is listed under Premium.
Mostly genuinely free, with the expensive output metered. Floorplanner says you can keep a Basic account for free as long as you want, but exports are SD at 960 × 540 with a watermark until you spend credits. RoomSketcher's free plan lets you draw and furnish but charges $4 per generated floor plan render and watermarks 3D snapshots. Planner 5D gives unlimited projects but holds back half the catalogue and the plan upload. magicplan gives 2 free projects and is then priced per job site. None of these are bait — they are all printed on the pricing pages.
Free, with no paid tier at all. The catch, stated plainly: there is no 3D — it was built and then deliberately removed — the library is 280 pieces rather than tens of thousands, it is web only with no app, and it launched this month. It earns money from disclosed affiliate commission when a shopping link ends in a purchase, and the rule that keeps that honest is that results are ranked by fit and never by payout. Uploading your own plan needs an account because plans are private by default; the demo plan needs nothing.
Poché's demo plan opens in the real editor with no sign-up — 2,080 square feet, 13 rooms measured off their own walls, 53 pieces standing at true scale, and you can drag any of them. Floorplanner offers a "Try DEMO" link beside its free-account button. RoomSketcher and Planner 5D both route their free tiers through account creation, and magicplan is an app you install. Trying before signing up is the cheapest way to find out whether a tool suits the way you think.
Start with the demo — 2,080 sq ft, 13 rooms measured off their own walls, 53 pieces at true scale with every clearance cleared. No account, no email, and it is the same editor your own plan opens in.
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