The best free floor plan tool is the one that matches what you are actually trying to do. If you want to check whether your furniture fits in a specific room, you want a fit-checker that uses your own plan at real scale. If you want to design and render a room in 3D, you want a design suite. Those are different jobs, and the tools below are good at different ones. Here is an honest breakdown, including the part most roundups skip: whether you need an account at all.
We make one of these tools, Layoutr, so treat this as our point of view. We have tried to describe each option fairly and tell you plainly when another tool is the better choice.
Quick comparison
All of these run in a browser. The biggest practical differences are whether you can use a plan you already have, whether you need to create an account, and whether the tool is built for a quick fit check or full 3D design.
| Tool | Best for | Account | Own plan | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Layoutr | Checking what fits in a real room, fast | Not required | Yes, upload and set scale | 2D and 3D |
| Floorplanner | Drawing a 2D or 3D plan from scratch | Required | Yes, upload and trace | 2D and 3D |
| Planner 5D | 3D interior design with a big catalog | Required | Premium only | 2D and 3D |
| RoomSketcher | Polished, professional-looking plans | Required | Yes, via AI Convert | 2D and 3D |
| Homestyler | Photorealistic 3D renders | Required | Yes, upload to 3D | 2D and 3D |
| Coohom | AI plan generation and rendering | Required | Yes, AI conversion | 2D and 3D |
| PlanYourRoom | A quick 2D room sketch from scratch | Only to save | No, you build the room | 2D |
| Sweet Home 3D | A free, open source model of your home | Not required | Yes, import then draw walls | 2D and 3D |
| HomeByMe | Decorating a room and rendering it | Required | No, you build the room | 2D and 3D |
Free tiers and pricing change. Floorplanner, Planner 5D, RoomSketcher, Homestyler, and Coohom were checked against their own pricing pages on 3 August 2026. PlanYourRoom blocks automated checks, so its units and sign-in requirement were checked by hand in a browser on 3 August 2026. Sweet Home 3D and HomeByMe were checked against their own sites on 12 September 2026.
1. Layoutr
Best for: Checking what fits in a real room, fast. Free tier: Free core tool, up to 3 furniture pieces.
A fit-checker, not a design studio. Upload the floor plan you already have, set the scale by clicking two points a known distance apart, then drag real-sized furniture onto it. The core tool is free with no account and places up to 3 furniture pieces per floor. It also lets you draw your own rooms from scratch, and walk around the finished layout in 3D at true size. The planner is desktop only. Pro (€4.99 per month) and Lifetime (a one-time €19.99) add AI-vision room detection that reads your plan and detects the rooms automatically, AI-powered furnishing, unlimited furniture, and saving and loading projects.
2. Floorplanner
Best for: Drawing a 2D or 3D plan from scratch. Free tier: Free personal: 5 projects, 3 designs, SD exports.
A capable home design tool that has been free for personal use for years. You can upload an image and scale it, then trace walls over the top and switch to a 3D view. The free tier limits you to a handful of projects and standard-definition exports, and you need an account.
3. Planner 5D
Best for: 3D interior design with a big catalog. Free tier: Free basic plan, half the catalog.
A polished 2D and 3D design suite built around a large furniture catalog and AI suggestions. Its own pricing page lists the free plan as half the furniture catalog, with 10,000 or more items unlocked on Premium, and it blocks some editing such as resizing items. Uploading your own floor plan and turning it into a project is a Premium feature rather than part of the free plan. Premium is around €4.99 per month as of 2026, and an account is required.
4. RoomSketcher
Best for: Polished, professional-looking plans. Free tier: Free: 2 projects, 1 AI Convert.
Leans professional. It is widely used by real estate agents and serious DIY renovators, and its AI Convert feature turns a PDF, scan, or image into an editable project. The free plan covers two projects and one AI Convert, with higher-quality output and more projects behind paid plans. An account is required.
5. Homestyler
Best for: Photorealistic 3D renders. Free tier: Free with account.
Comes from an Autodesk lineage and is built for 3D visualization, with a very large model catalog and the ability to turn an uploaded 2D plan into a 3D model. Great if you want to see materials and lighting, heavier than you need if you only want to know whether the sofa fits.
6. Coohom
Best for: AI plan generation and rendering. Free tier: Free tier with account.
A design and rendering platform with AI floor-plan generation that can convert an uploaded file into an editable plan. Powerful for producing finished visuals, but it is a full design suite with the learning curve that comes with one.
7. PlanYourRoom
Best for: A quick 2D room sketch from scratch. Free tier: Free to use; account to save.
A simple, free browser planner where you set room dimensions and drag furniture to scale to try a layout. There is little to learn, but you build the room in the tool rather than uploading a plan you already have, saving your layout requires signing in, and it works in feet and inches only, so planning in meters means converting by hand.
8. Sweet Home 3D
Best for: A free, open source model of your home. Free tier: Free, with no paid tier at all.
The only genuinely open source tool on this list, distributed under the GNU General Public License, with no account and no upsell. You can download it or run it in a browser. You can import the floor plan you already have as a background image, but its own user guide is clear that this is a tracing aid: you then draw the walls on top of it. That step buys you a real model of the finished home, with materials and lighting.
9. HomeByMe
Best for: Decorating a room and rendering it. Free tier: Free version, sign-up required.
A polished home design tool whose own pitch is to design in 2D, decorate in 3D, and visualize in 4K images. You build your room in its interface rather than uploading a plan, and you sign up before you start. The payoff is the visual: real brand catalogs and images that look like photographs of the finished space.
How to choose
Match the tool to the question you are trying to answer:
- “Will this furniture fit, and how should I arrange it?” Use a fit-checker. You want your own plan, real scale, and no setup. Layoutr is built for exactly this.
- “I want to draw a clean plan of my home.” Floorplanner lets you trace a tidy 2D drawing over an uploaded image.
- “I want to design and render a room.” Planner 5D, RoomSketcher, Homestyler, Coohom, or HomeByMe give you photorealistic output, materials, and large catalogs. Sweet Home 3D does it free and open source, if you are willing to draw the walls.
A useful rule of thumb: the more a tool wants to render a beautiful 3D room, the more time it asks from you up front. If your real question is whether the bed and wardrobe will both fit with enough walking space, a scaled 2D plan answers it in minutes.
Where Layoutr fits
Layoutr deliberately does one job well. You upload the floor plan you already have, from a rental listing, a landlord's PDF, or a phone photo of a printed plan. You set the scale by clicking two points a known distance apart. Then you drag furniture from a built-in library, every piece sized at real-world dimensions, and see immediately what fits without blocking doors, radiators, or walkways. No account, no CAD skills, and you can work in meters, feet, or inches.
It is not the tool for photorealistic renders or full home design. For the common, practical question of what fits before you move or buy, that focus is the point.
Compare Layoutr head-to-head
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best free floor plan tool?
There is no single best tool, because it depends on your goal. If you want to check whether furniture fits in a room you already have a plan of, a fit-checker like Layoutr is fastest, since it needs no account and you place real-sized furniture on your own scaled plan. If you want to design and render a room in 3D, a design suite like Planner 5D, RoomSketcher, or Homestyler is a better fit.
Which free floor plan tools work without an account?
Most do not. Floorplanner, Planner 5D, RoomSketcher, Homestyler, and Coohom and HomeByMe all require you to create an account before you can use them, and with PlanYourRoom you can plan without one but need to sign in to save. Two do not ask at all: Layoutr, whose core tool runs in the browser with no sign-up, and Sweet Home 3D, which is open source and has no account system.
Can I use my own floor plan instead of drawing one from scratch?
Yes, with most of these tools, though not always on the free tier. Layoutr and Floorplanner let you upload an image and scale it directly, and with Layoutr that is part of the free core tool. RoomSketcher, Homestyler, and Coohom can convert an uploaded PDF or scan into an editable project using AI, and with Planner 5D uploading a plan is a Premium feature. Layoutr keeps the manual path the simplest, upload, click two points of known distance, and the scale is set, and its Pro plan adds AI-vision room detection that reads the plan and detects the rooms for you automatically.
Do I need 3D to plan a room?
No. Rendered 3D is useful for visualizing colors, materials, and lighting, but to answer whether furniture fits and how to arrange it, a scaled 2D plan is faster and clearer. You can see clearances, walkways, and door swings at a glance from above. Some tools, Layoutr among them, also let you walk around the finished plan in 3D, and that answers a different question: not whether a piece fits, which the plan already told you, but how the spacing feels once you are standing in it.
Are these tools really free, or is it a trial?
Most offer a genuinely free tier rather than a time-limited trial, though nearly every free tier is limited somewhere. Floorplanner caps projects and export quality, Planner 5D gives you half the catalog and blocks resizing, RoomSketcher caps projects and blueprint conversions, and Layoutr's free tier places up to 3 furniture pieces and does not save projects. Sweet Home 3D is the exception with no limits at all, because it is open source rather than a free tier of a paid product. On accounts, Layoutr and Sweet Home 3D ask for none; the rest do, and PlanYourRoom only to save. Paid plans lift those limits.
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