The blueprint already knows the answer.

The difference in one line

RoomSketcher's product is the floor plan. Poché's product is the furniture on it.

RoomSketcher is a floor plan business, and a serious one — more than ten million people use it, by their own count, and it has a whole service arm where their illustrators will draw your plan for you overnight. The output is a document: a clean, branded, print-ready 2D or 3D floor plan of the kind that goes in an estate-agent listing or a renovation quote.

Poché has no interest in producing a floor plan, because you already have one. It reads the drawing scale off the sheet you upload, recovers every room's outline and floor area from the wall mass, and hands you 280 true-dimension furniture footprints with clearance rules to push around on the architect's own linework. What you export at the end is your drawing with the furniture standing on it, at the original drawing scale.

What RoomSketcher is genuinely good at

• Three honest routes out of an existing plan. Their own page offers AI Convert (upload an image, get an editable plan), Trace Over a Floor Plan (import your drawing, sketch or blueprint and draw on top of it), and Order Floor Plans (send it in, their illustrators draw it). Most of this category offers one route or none.
• The redraw service is a real answer to a real problem. From $18 per floor on Pro, next business day, and you get an editable project back rather than a picture. If drawing is the part you dread, someone else doing it is the correct solution.
• It runs offline, on a desktop. Downloadable for Windows and Mac, usable on an iPad or Android tablet, with cross-device syncing.
• The paid tier is priced like a tool, not a subscription trap. $12 a month billed annually unlocks the full furniture catalogue, measurements, total area, printing to scale and Live 3D.
• Templates. Ready-to-edit apartment, house, office and kitchen layouts, which is a decent shortcut when there is no plan at all.

What their free plan actually includes

This is the part worth reading before you invest an evening, and to RoomSketcher's credit it is all printed on their own pricing page rather than discovered halfway through. Their free plan is called Pay As You Go, and it costs $0.

None of that is a criticism — it is a coherent business, and the free plan is a real trial rather than a demo video. But if what you have is a blueprint, note where the blueprint routes sit: Draw From a Blueprint is a Pro feature, and AI Convert is $20 a floor. Pro is $12 a month billed as $144 for the year; Team is $35 a month billed as $420.

Side by side

RoomSketcher figures read from roomsketcher.com/pricing and roomsketcher.com/features/draw-floor-plans on 2026-08-21. Prices and plan contents change; check theirs before you decide anything on ours.

The credit model versus no model at all

RoomSketcher meters its expensive outputs. Credits replenish monthly on paid plans and can be topped up; free users pay per render, per floor, per conversion. It is a defensible design — rendering costs them real compute, and their illustrators cost real wages — and it means a light user can pay $4 once instead of $144 a year.

Poché has nothing to meter because it produces nothing expensive. There is no render, no illustrator, no per-floor conversion — there is a drawing you already own, measured, with furniture on it. The money comes from affiliate commission if a shopping link you followed ends in a purchase, disclosed in the footer of every page. The promise that keeps it honest is that 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.

The trade-off is exactly what you would expect. RoomSketcher will sell you a beautiful finished artefact. Poché will not sell you anything, and there is no beautiful finished artefact — only a correct one.

When to pick RoomSketcher instead

And the reverse: if the drawing already exists and your real question is whether the king bed and both nightstands survive the walkway, Poché answers that in the time RoomSketcher takes to open a new project — and it does not charge $20 a floor to look at your blueprint.

What Poché does not have

• No 3D at all. It was built and then deliberately removed. This is the single biggest thing RoomSketcher has that Poché does not.
• No plan-drawing tools. You cannot start from nothing.
• No redraw service. Nobody at Poché will draw anything for you.
• No offline mode and no desktop app. Web only.
• A 280-piece library, chosen for dimensional truth rather than visual variety, drawn as top-down symbols.
• It launched this month. Judge it on the demo, not on a history it does not have.

Common questions

Is RoomSketcher free?

There is a free plan called Pay As You Go, at $0, and it is real: you can draw a complete floor plan, furnish it and take 3D Snapshots. Their own plan comparison shows what it withholds — the 3D Snapshots carry a watermark, the furniture and symbol libraries are marked "Limited", and Measurements, Total Area Calculator, Print Floor Plans to Scale and Draw From a Blueprint are all excluded. Generated floor plans are charged per render at $4. Pro is $12 a month billed as $144 a year and Team is $35 a month billed as $420 a year.

Can RoomSketcher work from an existing blueprint?

Yes, three separate ways, and they are honest about which is which. AI Convert turns an uploaded plan image into an editable RoomSketcher floor plan, priced at $20 per floor on the free plan. Trace Over a Floor Plan lets you import your drawing, sketch or blueprint and draw on top of it; separately, their plan comparison lists a "Draw From a Blueprint" feature that the free plan does not include. Order Floor Plans sends it to their own illustrators, at $38 per floor on the free plan and from $18 per floor on Pro, with next-business-day turnaround advertised.

What does Poché do that RoomSketcher does not?

It never converts the drawing into anything. The builder's sheet stays underneath at its own printed scale; Poché reads the drawing scale off the sheet, recovers each room's outline and floor area from the wall mass, and puts true-scale furniture footprints with clearance rules directly on the architect's linework. There is no tracing step, no per-floor conversion charge and no render to buy — and selecting a footprint searches 40-plus live stores for pieces that fit it, ranked by fit rather than payout.

Does Poché have 3D?

No, and that is a real trade-off rather than a roadmap item. A 3D view was built and then deliberately removed so the tool could stay pointed at whether a piece fits and where it goes. RoomSketcher's 3D Snapshots, 3D Photos, 360 Views and Live 3D have no equivalent in Poché at any price, because there is no price.

Which is better if I need a floor plan document to give someone?

RoomSketcher, clearly. Producing a clean, branded, print-ready 2D or 3D floor plan is what it is built to do, down to ordering one from their illustrators if you would rather not draw it yourself. That is an estate-agent and property-marketing job, and Poché produces nothing comparable. Poché exports a PDF at the original drawing scale, but it is your drawing with furniture on it, not a new document of theirs.

Do I need an account to try either one?

RoomSketcher's free route is "Create Free Account", and the app is downloaded to a Windows or Mac computer or used on an iPad or Android tablet. Poché runs in a browser and its demo plan opens in the real editor with no account at all — 2,080 square feet, 13 rooms, 53 pieces already standing on it. Uploading your own plan to Poché does require an account, because uploaded plans are private by default and privacy needs someone to be private to.