Guides & tips
How to scan rooms with your iPhone's LiDAR, build floor plans, and share interactive 3D home tours.
ANSI Z765 square footage: what counts as gross living area
The rules behind a US square footage figure: finished area, above and below grade, ceiling heights, condos, and why the total is not the sum of the rooms.
A floor plan app for real estate agents: from viewing to listing the same day
What buyers look for in a listing's floor plan, a same-day workflow from scan to portal, and where the plan, the PDF and the 3D tour link each belong.
How to measure a room with an iPhone
The Measure app gives you one distance at a time; a LiDAR scan gives you every wall, the floor area and the ceiling height in one walk. Steps for both, and which to use when.
How accurate is iPhone LiDAR?
What a few centimetres of error means for a floor plan, what makes a scan better or worse, and where a phone stops being enough.
How to use LiDAR on iPhone
The iPhone has no LiDAR app and no LiDAR switch. These are the steps for the apps that use the sensor: Measure, a room scanner, the Camera and Magnifier.
Export a room scan as GLB, USDZ or OBJ: which format for which job
One scan gives you three file formats, covering Blender, AR Quick Look, SketchUp, Unity and the web. What's inside each file, and who reaches for which one.
Swiss privacy by design: why your scans never leave your iPhone
A scan maps every room, door and window of a home. FloorLens processes it on your phone, needs no account, and uploads nothing unless you choose to share. Deletable at any time.
What is LiDAR on iPhone (and what can you do with it)?
The iPhone's LiDAR sensor explained: which models have it, how it works, and what you can actually do with it, from faster camera focus and AR to 3D scanning, floor plans and measurements.
How to share a 3D home tour link clients can open without an app
Send an interactive 3D walkthrough as a plain web link and QR code that opens on any phone or laptop, nothing to install. How to share a scan, and where to put the link.
How to make a floor plan from an iPhone LiDAR scan
Turn a two-minute walkthrough into an accurate, north-aligned floor plan and 3D scene. It's ready the moment you stop scanning, editable in either view, and shareable as a 3D link.
FloorLens vs Matterport, CubiCasa & magicplan
An honest side-by-side for floor plans and 3D tours. Capture method, hardware, speed, how clients view the result, and pricing, plus some guidance on which tool fits which job.
Best iPhone 3D room scanner apps (2026)
Six room scanner apps for iPhone, sorted by what each one is built for: floor plans, shareable tours, model export or field documentation. Plus which iPhones can scan and what you can do for free.