RoomScan Pro LiDAR floor plans

I have been using the original Roomscan app since 2012 and i was forced to move to the ‘Pro’ app (to make it easy to manage updates for the developer) now on an iPad pro with Lidar, I’m again forced to use the new Lidar app with annoying pop-ups, most of the editing options seems to be limited now and the free png export option is taken away, in this apparent upgrade. I don’t need your Lidar specific app, if you can give me one app that does not annoy me with ‘use Lidar app’ pop ups and lets me use what I got with my original purchase, back when people like me supported you in your early days of development. Update response: I am NOT asking to use 'LIDAR' app for free, please read again - I don't want to be told to use the Lidar app (annoying pop ups) just because I have a Lidar enabled device. I WANT TO USE THE REGULAR APP with my regular camera/tap/drawing/editing, the way it was a few days ago. Or give us a toggle in the original app to disable the pop-up reminders & automatic switch to Lidar app.

If you take a screenshot they disable the app entirely.

unusable app. it constantly freezes after a scan. once it freezes it corrupts all the previous scans, thus loosing all the work.

This app fills a hole for Symbility users. This has worked for me nearly 100% of the time. With a little practice, you can determine which method works best for you. Using the brick mode is very similar to using the exact mate AR mode. The measurements are accurate and import directly into Symbility and Xactimate. The developers are amazing and responsive. They have added features as requested, like being able to take photos with a room that are exportable in a zip file. The photos are labeled by the room name so you don’t lose track of them. It even has an exterior mode, so you can do a footprint of the house and use that to accurately draw the roof. The only issue seems to be that when imported into Symbility the window heights are not accurate, but the developers are working on that right now. I highly recommend this for anyone who needs to scan a room for accurate measurements and wants to use their mobile device. You can leave the clipboard at home.

Love the price and the accuracy! My biggest complaint is the inability to revise the sketches in Xactimate once you import the ESX file so I’m keeping it at 4 stars until that’s fixed

I got the premium version yet, I’ve been struggling with this for hours. It would’ve been so much easier to just measure the rooms and draw them. In brick mode It says take more scans if you want more precise, however, the more precise I try to make it the more wavy it makes all the walls. Despite it thinking that a wall is ending somewhere if you try and scan to show, it’s not ending there it will give you errors & just won’t move the wall. When scanning through door openings, it will see part of another room and capture it, but then, when you do that next room and try and join them, it will treat what it saw through the opening as a separate area than the new room. It will not let you delete walls. Some walls it won’t let you even move. It seems you have one option to rotate a room right after it’s made. But once it’s incorrectly added to the drawing it seems that option is gone so I had to delete the room and re add it. They’re also doesn’t seem to be an undo in some parts while there is in other parts. The typical apple shake does not undo anything. Because of the problem I had with it correctly orienting rooms to each other. I tried just a walk-through of a whole floor as a “room”, however, that did not work because it didn’t seem to want to put doors in the middle of this room, so it would ignore the thickness of walls, I went inside new rooms. I have an open concept stairway with a vaulted ceiling, and it seemed to confuse the program. It did not like that I was trying to map the staircase and would not acknowledge that a staircase was there and draw the lines associated with it. When I came to the mid-landing instead of treating it as a staircase landing it tried to move the entire floor of the upper floor, down to the landing, and it would jostle the floor back up the second floor and then back down to the landing it couldn’t figure out what to do. In one scan, I did like 50 precise brick wall scans and at some point it misinterpreted something and the entire room outline rotated by 10° and despite moving the camera around so it could see that the room was not positioned as it was showing it it would not correct itself I had to do multiple undos in order to go back and get it to correct itself. I would think that the LIDAR would see that all these data points are there but just misaligned and just correct itself - but it didn’t. I was looking forward to using this, unfortunately, this just is not working out.

I have tried dozens of times to try and get this app to work properly. It will never connect rooms together through the right door. And once you’re done, scanning the room, there is no way to fix the problem and tell the app which door it got wrong.it is incredibly frustrating, because you have to rescan the room every single time. I hate it.

It worked for about five minutes. I could not measure a room. It stopped working and all I get now is a nag screen.

This app tries to disable screenshots by putting an overlay on screen and stops working completely after you take a screenshot until you buy a recurring subscription. Apple should have rejected the app for that.

makes this extremely annoying to try to use. I’ve watched the videos several times, gone through the written instructions twice, searched for helpful YouTube videos and tried scanning a hall at least 10 times but still don’t have it right. If you have many hours to play around with the app I bet it’s great because it seems to have many useful features. With trial and error you’ll eventually get it right. And if you’ll use it a lot figuring it out in your own like that probably is worth it. If you only want to spend a couple of hours creating a plan for your house then you may find this very frustrating.