magicplan alternative: magicplan vs Scooch
magicplan measures rooms with the camera and turns them into plans, photos and estimates for jobs. Scooch starts from measurements you type and answers a narrower question: does the furniture fit?*
Pick magicplan if you work in remodeling, restoration or insurance claims and need plans, photos and estimates from the camera.
Pick Scooch if you are at home asking whether a sofa, bed or table will fit, and want one price instead of a plan.
 magicplan |  Scooch | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Professionals capturing existing rooms for reports and estimates | Checking that furniture fits a room before you buy or move it |
| US rating (average) | Yes 4.7★ | Yes 5.0★ |
| Plan without paying† | Limited A free sign-up; up to 2 projects | No A guided first room; planning needs the $9.99 unlock |
| Pay once, no subscription** | No Subscription only | Yes $9.99 |
| Cost for one year if subscribed** | $129.99 to $899.99 13× ours | No subscription |
| Warns when furniture does not fit† | No A table on the sofa went unflagged in our test | Yes Overlaps and pieces outside the room turn red |
| Furniture at sizes you type*** | Not described on the listing | Yes To the centimetre, plus pieces you draw |
| 3D view*** | Not described on the listing | No |
| Scans the room with the camera*** | Yes With the camera | No You measure and type |
| No account needed† | No A free sign-up before anything is saved | Yes No account |
| No ads† | Yes None seen | Yes No ads |
| No tracking (App Store privacy label) | Yes But collects data linked to you | Yes No data linked to you |
| Languages | No Fewer than 10 | Yes 10 or more |
| Last update | Q4 2026 | Q4 2026 |
| Get it | App Store | Download |
Where magicplan is stronger
It measures for you
magicplan builds the floor plan from the phone's camera. When it works, that is quick; recent reviews describe scans that miss closets, walls or doors. For the one room you are furnishing, a tape measure takes a few minutes, and you need it for the furniture anyway. With Scooch you measure the room and type its size.
Made for jobs
Photos, notes, forms, 360° panoramas, reports and estimates sit on the plan, and it connects to Xactimate and CoreLogic. That is what its prices pay for, from $129.99 a year. At home, with no one to bill, it is paperwork you will not use.
A long track record
Years on the App Store and far more ratings than Scooch, which is new. Its listing speaks to remodelers, restoration and claims professionals, and that is who its features and prices are built around.
Where Scooch is stronger
A warning before you lift anything
Scooch outlines in red a piece that overlaps another or sticks out of the room. In our test, in magicplan's furnished demo flat, the coffee table moved onto the sofa without a word.
Furniture that knows its size
37 pieces at real sizes, each resized to the centimetre, plus pieces you draw yourself.
No account, one price
$9.99 once, nothing to sign up for. magicplan's free Starter plan needs a sign-up and holds 2 projects; its paid plans start at $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year.
Languages
Scooch is in 16 languages; magicplan's listing names 5.
Room to open it, not just to stand it
Scooch draws each wardrobe door's swing, each drawer's pull-out and a sofa bed opened out, so you can see whether the door clears the desk and the drawer clears the bed, not only whether the piece fits.
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
magicplan and Scooch, side by side
Screens we captured ourselves, magicplan on the left, Scooch on the right. Ours ran on an EU App Store account, so prices on screen are in euros.†
Before your first room
magicplan for a new user: the free Starter plan, all features for up to 2 projects, after a sign-up.
A room with furniture
magicplan's furnished demo flat, every wall measured.
Choosing furniture
magicplan's objects by category.
A coffee table moved onto the sofa
The demo flat's living room with the coffee table moved onto the sofa: nothing flagged.
What we saw using magicplan
On 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account.†
- Its first screen asks whether you already have an account. As a new user we were offered the free Starter plan, all features for up to 2 projects, after a sign-up.
- Without an account there is a demo that warns 'Changes will not be saved'. It opens a sample flat with every wall measured.
- Selected furniture offers Set Distance, to place it a set distance from a wall.
- In its furnished demo flat we moved the coffee table onto the sofa. Nothing was flagged. A couch inserted from its catalogue had also landed across a wall and inside a door's swing without a word.
What Scooch does not do
- Scan a room. You measure it and type the size.
- Write reports or estimates. Scooch is for furnishing your own rooms; magicplan is built for jobs.
- Ask for an account. Plans stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.
What recent reviews of magicplan mention
From the 100 most recent US App Store reviews of magicplan, read on 23 October 2026. These are individual experiences, not tests we ran, but these themes came up more than once:
- core features, extra plans and scanning that need a subscription, with pricing some found unclear
- scans that miss closets, walls or doors, or struggle with open-plan rooms and sloped ceilings
- projects that did not save, or disappeared after an update or an account change
- a steep learning curve for first-time users
Pricing
magicplan's free Starter plan needs a sign-up and holds up to 2 projects; without one, its demo is not saved. Its paid plans are Sketch at $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year, Report at $39.99 or $399.99, and Estimate at $89.99 or $899.99 (US). Scooch is a free download; planning needs a one-time $9.99 unlock, with no subscription.
Questions
Can Scooch scan a room like magicplan?
No. Scooch has no camera or LiDAR scan: you measure the room and type or drag its size.
Does magicplan warn when furniture will not fit?
Not in our test (version 2026.41.0, 23 October 2026): in its furnished demo flat, a coffee table moved onto the sofa was not flagged. Scooch outlines both pieces in red.
Which is cheaper?
Scooch: $9.99 once. magicplan's paid plans start at $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year; its free plan holds 2 projects.
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: magicplan 2026.41.0, 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.