Draft Paper alternative: Draft Paper vs Scooch
Draft Paper and Scooch cost the same, $9.99 once, and both draw to scale. Draft Paper draws anything; Scooch knows what a room and a sofa are.*
Pick Draft Paper if you want a general drafting tool with layers and DXF export, on an older iPhone too.
Pick Scooch if you want rooms and furniture that already know their sizes, and a warning when they do not fit.
 Draft Paper |  Scooch | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Quick, precise 2D drawings and DXF export | Checking that furniture fits a room before you buy or move it |
| US rating (average) | No 4.4★ | Yes 5.0★ |
| Plan without paying† | Limited Pages 3 to 6 locked | No A guided first room; planning needs the $9.99 unlock |
| Pay once, no subscription** | Yes $9.99 1× ours | Yes $9.99 |
| Cost for one year if subscribed** | No subscription | No subscription |
| Warns when furniture does not fit† | No It has no furniture to check | Yes Overlaps and pieces outside the room turn red |
| Furniture at sizes you type*** | No You draw shapes to scale | Yes To the centimetre, plus pieces you draw |
| 3D view*** | No | No |
| Scans the room with the camera*** | No | No You measure and type |
| No account needed† | Yes No account | Yes No account |
| No ads† | Yes None seen | Yes No ads |
| No tracking (App Store privacy label) | Yes No data linked to you | Yes No data linked to you |
| Languages | No Fewer than 10 | Yes 10 or more |
| Last update | Q3 2026 | Q4 2026 |
| Get it | App Store | Download |
Where Draft Paper is stronger
It draws anything
Lines, shapes, text and measurements on up to 10 layers, not only rooms and furniture. The flip side is that it knows nothing about what you draw: every sofa and bed is a rectangle you size by hand, and when we drew a sofa against a wall, the two merged into one outline.
CAD export
It exports DXF, so the drawing opens in CAD software.
Older iPhones
It runs on iOS 15 or later; Scooch needs iOS 26.
Where Scooch is stronger
Furniture, ready made
37 pieces at real sizes, each resized to the centimetre, instead of shapes you draw. In Draft Paper the sheet starts blank and every line is yours.
A warning before you lift anything
Scooch outlines in red a piece that overlaps another or sticks out of the room. A drawing app has no furniture to check.
Languages
16 languages; Draft Paper's listing names English only.
About Scooch
A 2D room planner for checking that furniture fits, before anything heavy moves.
- Rooms drawn at their real measurements, joined into an L or a U
- 37 everyday pieces at real sizes, each resized to the centimetre
- A drawing tool for any other piece, at any size
- Overlaps and pieces outside the room outlined in red
- Wardrobe doors, drawers and sofa beds drawn with the space they need to open
- PNG and PDF export, metric or imperial, 26 themes
- iPhone and iPad, synced through your own iCloud
Draft Paper and Scooch, side by side
Screens we captured ourselves, Draft Paper on the left, Scooch on the right. Ours ran on an EU App Store account, so prices on screen are in euros.†
Drawing a room
A 3 by 4.5 m living room we drew in Draft Paper: the walls, a sofa, a coffee table, an armchair and a TV unit as rectangles, with one measured line.
The upgrade screen
Draft Paper's unlock: every feature for one price.
What we saw using Draft Paper
On 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account.†
- A short tutorial, then a blank sheet of grid paper. No account, no prompts and no furniture: you draw every line yourself.
- We drew a living room with its rectangle tool. Zoomed out, lines snap to whole metres; zoomed in, to 10 cm. Shapes that touch merge into one outline, so a sofa drawn against a wall turned into a notch in the wall.
- Pages 3 to 6 carry a padlock; tapping one asks you to unlock every feature, once.
What Scooch does not do
- Export DXF. PNG and PDF only.
- Draw anything. Rooms and furniture only, which is what lets it warn you.
- Run on older iPhones. It needs iOS 26, which every iPhone since the iPhone 11 (2019) can run.
What recent reviews of Draft Paper mention
From the 100 most recent US App Store reviews of Draft Paper, read on 23 October 2026. These are individual experiences, not tests we ran, but these themes came up more than once:
- a recent update (1.19.5) that changed scrolling and undo and made drawing harder
- crashes that lose minutes of work
- trouble switching between metric and imperial, or importing an image
Pricing
Draft Paper is free to download, with pages 3 to 6 locked; All Features is $9.99 once (US). Scooch is a free download; planning needs a one-time $9.99 unlock. Neither has a subscription.
Questions
Do they cost the same?
Yes: both are $9.99 once in the US, with no subscription.
Does Draft Paper have furniture?
No. Its listing describes drawing tools (lines, rectangles, ellipses, text, measurements), and in our test the sheet starts blank: every shape is drawn by hand.
Can Scooch export DXF?
No. Scooch exports PNG and PDF.
Try Scooch
Rooms at their real size, furniture at real sizes, and a red outline when something does not fit. $9.99 once.
* We make Scooch, so weigh our view accordingly. Facts about the other apps come from their US App Store listings, purchase lists, privacy labels and public US reviews, checked on 23 October 2026, and from using each app ourselves. Versions compared: Draft Paper 1.19.6, Scooch 1.0.2.
** US App Store prices. The US list does not name plan lengths, so a plan's length comes from the app's own upgrade screen, and a US price is used only where it clearly matches that plan. “Cost for one year if subscribed” is the cheapest listed plan that covers 12 months. A mark on “Pay once” only says whether a one-time unlock exists; “6× ours” compares a price with Scooch's $9.99 once.
*** As each listing describes it. A dash means the listing does not say, not that the app cannot do it.
† What we saw using each app ourselves, on 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account; screens from that account show euro prices, the prices on this page are the US ones. Offers can differ by country and change over time. On “Plan without paying”, a tick means free with no ads, amber means free with ads, an account or locked parts, a cross means a payment or a trial comes first, and a dash that we could not open the app. “Warns when furniture does not fit” is what happened when we took a furnished room from each app's own samples or templates and moved the coffee table onto the sofa.