FloorDrafter

Most floor plan software asks you to draw the plan yourself. You open a blank canvas, pick a wall tool, and click corner by corner until the outline closes. The software's job is the rendering; the drawing is yours. That works if you have the time to learn an editor. It does not work if you already know the layout, need a drawing of it this afternoon, and have never opened a CAD program.

FloorDrafter goes the other way round. You either describe the space in plain English - plot size, room list, roughly where things sit - or you photograph what you already have: a sketch on graph paper, an old plan from a drawer, a printed blueprint. About ninety seconds later a floor plan comes back, with closed walls, doors and windows in place, rooms labelled with their areas, and dimension lines in feet or metres.

The same space can be returned four ways:

Rendered - full colour, the look used in property listings Technical - black-and-white line drawing that reads like a blueprint 2.5D - furnished overhead view with depth 3D - isometric dollhouse view Changes are made by saying what should change. "Turn the back porch into a bedroom." "Label the small room as a study." "Add dimensions to every wall." You can also circle a region on the drawing and describe what belongs there instead. Every revision is kept as a separate version on a canvas rather than overwriting the last one, so two layout options can sit side by side and any earlier version can be brought back.

Who it is for: homeowners planning a renovation, estate and letting agents with a property that has no drawings on file, interior designers presenting two options, small builders quoting a job, and hosts listing a holiday rental where guests want to know where everyone sleeps.

What it is not. FloorDrafter is an image-generation system, not a CAD model. You cannot type a wall length and watch the area recalculate, and there is no furniture catalogue to choose specific products from. Because it is generative, it makes the mistakes that class of system makes - we have seen duplicated room labels, the occasional room nobody asked for, and text artifacts in busy drawings. Read the plan before you send it on, and treat it as a drawing for presenting and communicating a layout rather than as a survey or construction documentation.

Pricing: the first plan is free, with no account and no card. A free account keeps your projects and adds credits. Paid plans remove the watermark, output at 4K, and add DXF vector export for CAD.