The iPhone & iPad app: what's different

Step by step

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   Install and sign in

   App Store → RoomSketch3D. Install, open it, and tap Continue with Apple or Continue with Google. Use the same account as on the web: an account is one email address, so Google, Apple or (on the web) an emailed code with the same address all open the same designs and the same purchase. Two cases catch people out: Apple's Hide My Email gives the app a private relay address (`…@privaterelay.appleid.com`) that doesn't match your real email, so it's a separate account; and the email-code sign-in exists only on the web, so if that's how you signed up, pick Google or Apple with that same address in the app. Under the buttons the app reminds you: Already purchased? Sign in with the same Apple or Google account and your access is restored automatically.

   

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   Key mobile features

   AR Scan — measure a room by walking it. Touch editing — drag, pinch, two-finger rotate. Often faster than mouse. Press and hold to move furniture — rest a finger on a piece for a moment and it's picked up and follows your finger; a quick swipe still moves the plan. Drag magnifier — from the moment a piece starts moving, the plan is magnified around it so you can see exactly where it sits against a wall or the next piece. Deep pinch zoom — zoom in much further than before for fine placement. Multi-select delete — select several pieces and delete them together. On-device photo capture — snap a room photo and run the AI floor-plan generator immediately.

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   Moving furniture with your finger

   Press and hold a piece for a moment (about a quarter of a second) to pick it up, then drag it; you don't need to tap it first. A quick swipe that starts on a piece still pans the plan, a tap still selects, and a piece that's already selected follows your finger straight away. Holding a piece doesn't open the long-press menu (hold an empty spot for that). While you drag, the plan is magnified around the piece until you lift your finger. More in Adding, moving, and arranging furniture; to stop a finished piece moving by accident, lock it in place.

   

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   Materials in one place

   On the phone, the Materials button under the plan opens one popup with three tabs: Surfaces (with Flooring Material, Wall Paints and Ceiling Paints inside, and a live 3D view of your pick on top), Picture Gallery (your photos for picture frames) and Tile Planner. Tap a room on the small plan in the middle and its choices appear underneath (for a floor: None, Tiles, Hardwood, Carpet); the 3D view on top shows the room with your pick, and you can drag it to look around. See per-room flooring, paint your walls and paint your ceilings.

   

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   Panels and plan settings, sized for your thumb

   The Structural & Interior, Furnish, and Symbols panels (buttons along the bottom of the plan) open as tidy bottom sheets you can reach one-handed. Labels and measurements are switched on and off in Layers, the first icon in the toolbar row above the plan, and Plan Settings (top row) holds the plan's Layout, Rotation, exterior Walls placement and Ceiling height. Room labels are tag-shaped pins that are easy to tap, with an option to keep them open. On iPad in landscape you get proper fullscreen, with collapsed panels tucked into floating tabs you can pull back out. The phone screen, top to bottom: the house (Home), the design name and its ⋮ menu, then Share / Export, help and the bell; a row with Flow check, the floor picker, Plan Settings and the save cloud (green when everything is saved); the toolbar (Layers, snapping, box select, tape measure, Auto-furnish, sticky notes, undo/redo, View in 3D, elevations, fit and full screen); the plan; and the four buttons along the bottom.

   

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   On an iPhone Duo

   With version 1.1.0 or later of the app, RoomSketch3D follows the iPhone Duo's fold. If the layouts below don't appear, update the app from the App Store. Pictures of each pose and tips for the big screen: Using RoomSketch3D on the iPhone Duo. - Open flat: the editor fills the inner display edge to edge and turns with the phone, upright or sideways. Every time you fold, unfold or turn the phone, the whole plan re-fits the screen. - Half-open on a table (fold running across, like a small laptop): the plan fills the upper half, and the lower half, where your hands are, holds Structural & Interior, Furnish, Materials and Symbols as tabs, with Furnish open first. Tap a tab and its items open right under the tabs, with nothing popping up over the plan; whatever you add appears on the plan above. Furnish fits about twice as many items as usual, and Materials shows the surface options and a 3D view of your pick side by side. The full 3D view is still one tap away: the cube (View in 3D) button on the toolbar. - Half-open like a book (fold running up and down): the usual phone layout, across both halves. - Closed: it works like any iPhone, except that the editor's tools run down the column beside the clock (the way Safari puts its buttons there), so the plan gets the full height of the screen, and panels stop at that column instead of sliding under the clock and battery.

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   Saving is automatic

   There's no Save button on the phone — saving is fully automatic. Every change is stored as you make it; keeping your work safe is our job, not yours.

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   What's the same as web

   Full editor: walls, doors, windows, furniture, 3D view, Smart Flow Check, photorealistic AI renders and sharing. Same designs, same library.

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   What's different

   Exports: the app's Share / Export menu has Share with a link, the image (PNG/PDF) export and print, and Photorealistic AI Renders. The GLB 3D model, DXF CAD file and Backup (JSON) are exported on the web at app.roomsketch3d.com, and From Backup on Home is web-only too. Open the same design there; it's already synced. Codes: Gumroad licence keys and gift codes are redeemed on the web, not in the app. AR scan is only in the iPhone and iPad app. Sign-in: the app offers Continue with Apple and Continue with Google; the emailed-code sign-in is on the web only.

   	iPhone / iPad app	Web app
   Share with a link, PNG/JPG/PDF or Print, AI renders	Yes	Yes
   GLB, DXF, Backup (JSON) export	No	Yes
   From Backup (import a JSON)	No	Yes
   AR Scan	Yes	No
   Gift codes and Gumroad keys	No	Yes
   Restore an Apple purchase	Yes (Restore purchase on the unlock screen)	Sign in with the account you paid on

   

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    Start a plan with AR Scan (iPhone and iPad only)

    On Home the app shows an AR Scan tile among the ways to start a plan (the web shows From Backup in its place). Tap it, name the design and walk the room, tapping each corner on the floor; RoomSketch3D builds the outline to scale. It uses ordinary ARKit camera tracking, so no LiDAR sensor is needed. Full walkthrough: Measure your room with AR.

    

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