Planner 5D alternative: Planner 5D vs Scooch
Planner 5D is about seeing a room in 3D and styling it from a big catalogue. Scooch is 2D and answers one practical question: does the furniture fit?*
Pick Planner 5D if you want to see the room in 3D, furnish it from thousands of items and render it.
Pick Scooch if you need exact sizes and a clear answer on what fits, without an account or a subscription.
 Planner 5D |  Scooch | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | 3D interior design with a large furniture catalogue | 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 An account first; about half the sofas locked | 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** | $29.99 to $119.99 3× 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*** | Yes With premium (its free version has no furniture customization) | Yes To the centimetre, plus pieces you draw |
| 3D view*** | Yes | No |
| Scans the room with the camera*** | Yes With the camera; reviews describe an extra charge | No You measure and type |
| No account needed† | No An account before the first room | Yes No account |
| No ads† | Yes None seen | Yes No ads |
| No tracking (App Store privacy label) | No Declares data used to track you | Yes No data linked to you |
| Languages | Yes 10 or more | Yes 10 or more |
| Last update | Q4 2026 | Q4 2026 |
| Get it | App Store | Download |
Where Planner 5D is stronger
3D and renders
Planner 5D switches between 2D and 3D and renders photo-like images, good for seeing a style before you commit to it. Whether the sofa clears the door is a question of centimetres, though, and those show best in the plan from above.
A huge catalogue
Over 8,400 furniture and decor items with premium, against Scooch's 37 everyday pieces. It sounds like your sofa will be in there, but the odds are it is not. You scroll for minutes for something close, and then its size still has to match yours, which its listing says the free version cannot change. On the free tier, about half the sofas we saw were locked anyway.
Camera capture and AI
It can capture a room in 3D with the phone's camera and generate designs with AI, though recent reviews describe the scan costing extra on top of the subscription and the AI designer not always working. An AI design picks furniture for you; the question you came with, whether yours fits, stays open. Its Ask Copilot button floats over the top of the plan the whole time, about 40% of the screen's width.
More platforms and languages
It runs across platforms and on Vision Pro, in 24 languages to Scooch's 16.
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. Planner 5D offered us 'Test what furniture fits in a room' as a goal during setup, then, in a living room its own wizard had furnished, let us put the coffee table on the sofa without a word.
Exact sizes without a subscription
Every Scooch piece resizes to the centimetre with the one-time unlock. Planner 5D's listing says its free version has no furniture customization.
One price, no account
$9.99 once, nothing to sign up for. Planner 5D asked for an account before the first room, then offered a free trial of a yearly plan, and when we closed that, a one-time discount that disappears once closed.
No tracking
Planner 5D's App Store privacy label declares data used to track you, and it asked to track us before the first screen; Scooch's label declares none.
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
Planner 5D and Scooch, side by side
Screens we captured ourselves, Planner 5D 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
Planner 5D on first launch: create an account to save all your projects, with no way past it.
A room with furniture
A 4.50 by 3.40 m living room furnished by Planner 5D's Smart wizard, the size of ours. Ringed: its Ask Copilot button, floating over the top of the plan at about 40% of the screen's width.
Choosing furniture
Planner 5D's straight sofas on the free tier, about half of them behind a padlock.
A coffee table moved onto the sofa
The same room with the coffee table moved onto the sofa: nothing flagged.
The upgrade screen
Planner 5D's paywall after setup: a 7-day free trial, then a yearly plan.
Closing the upgrade screen
What Planner 5D showed when we closed its paywall: a one-time offer of 80% off the first year that disappears when you close it.
What we saw using Planner 5D
On 23 October 2026, on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with iOS 27.0.1, on an EU App Store account.†
- Before anything else it asked to send notifications and to track us, then showed its terms.
- Next came 'Create an account to save all your projects', with no way past it. We signed in.
- Three questions followed. One of the goals it offers is 'Test what furniture fits in a room'.
- Then its paywall: a 7-day free trial, then a yearly plan. Closing it brought up a one-time offer of 80% off the first year, gone once closed.
- On the free tier, about half the straight sofas in its catalogue carried a padlock.
- Its Smart wizard furnished a 4.50 by 3.40 m living room for us, the size of the one in our own screenshots. We moved its coffee table onto the sofa. Nothing was flagged.
- A large 'Ask Copilot' button floats over the top of the plan the whole time, about 40% of the screen's width.
What Scooch does not do
- Work in 3D or render. Scooch is 2D: it shows real sizes, door swings and the space drawers need, not a 3D view.
- Make you search a catalogue. Place a sofa, type the size from its product page or your tape measure, and you know whether it fits. 37 everyday pieces cover the usual furniture, and a drawing tool covers the rest.
- Ask for an account. Nothing to sign up for; plans sync through your own iCloud.
- Run trials or countdown offers. $9.99 once, the same for everyone.
What recent reviews of Planner 5D mention
From the 100 most recent US App Store reviews of Planner 5D, read on 23 October 2026. These are individual experiences, not tests we ran, but these themes came up more than once:
- free trials that turned into charges reviewers did not expect, and refunds that were hard to get
- scans, downloads and other features that each ask for another purchase
- an app that feels confusing, slow or prone to freezing
- saved projects that reverted or partly disappeared
- room and furniture sizes that are hard or impossible to set exactly
Pricing
Planner 5D is free with a limited catalogue and an account; its US purchase list shows subscriptions from $7.99 a week and $19.99 a month to $29.99, $69.99 and $119.99 a year, plus full-catalogue access at $6.99 for 30 days or $15.99 a year. In the app, its paywall offered a 7-day free trial of a yearly plan or a 30-day trial, and closing it brought up an offer of 80% off the first year. Scooch is a free download; planning needs a one-time $9.99 unlock.
Questions
Do I need a big furniture catalogue to check a fit?
No. What decides a fit is the size of your piece, from a tape measure or the product page. A catalogue rarely has your exact sofa, so you end up resizing a near match anyway. Scooch starts from the size: 37 everyday pieces you resize to the centimetre, and a drawing tool for anything else.
Is Planner 5D free?
It is free to download with a limited catalogue, but it asked us for an account before the first room. On the free tier about half the sofas we saw were locked, and its listing says furniture customization needs premium.
Does Scooch work in 3D?
No. Scooch is 2D. It shows real sizes, door swings and the space drawers and sofa beds need, but not a 3D view.
Which one tells me if a sofa will fit?
Scooch outlines furniture in red when it overlaps or sticks out of the room. In our test (Planner 5D 5.13.1, 23 October 2026), a coffee table moved onto the sofa was not flagged.
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: Planner 5D 5.13.1, 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.