Draw walls and watch the millimetres change as you drag. A floor plan editor with snapping that holds, rooms that re-shape while a wall is still moving, and exports at real scale rather than approximately.
Free while in beta · no card · needs a laptop or desktop
Step 01
Scan a sketch, photo or PDF into editable geometry, or start from a blank canvas and draw the first wall.
Step 02
Drag walls with live dimensions, place doors, windows and furniture, and specify every surface from real product ranges.
Step 03
A 1:100 PDF with the flooring schedule, a DXF for CAD, PNG and SVG for everything else.
Most floor plan tools give you an empty canvas and a wall tool, which is fine if you enjoy that and slow if you do not.
Draftie also reads a drawing you already have (a sketch, a photo, a PDF) and turns it into editable geometry, which is usually the fastest route by a wide margin.
Most people end up using both. They scan the existing house, then draw the extension onto it.
Plenty of tools now produce a floor plan from a text prompt. They give you surprising, organic shapes, and they also give you rooms you cannot reach, corridors 600mm wide, and plans that look convincing and cannot be built.
Draftie does not compete there, and we would rather say so than ship something you cannot build from. What it does instead is take the drawing you already have (or the one you are drawing now) and hold it to the rules: every room above its minimum width, corridors wide enough to use, doors measured as clear width, the footprint inside your setbacks.
That is the part a prompt cannot do for you, and it is the part that decides whether a builder can price what you hand over.
The details that decide whether a plan editor is pleasant or infuriating are all in the same place: what happens while you are dragging.
Dimensions update live, so you drag until the number says 3,600 rather than dragging and then measuring. Rooms re-shape while the wall is still moving, so you see the consequence during the gesture instead of after it. Snapping holds to wall faces and centrelines, which is the difference between a wall that aligns and a wall that sits 3mm off and looks aligned until you zoom in.
Everything is to 1mm, in millimetres, throughout. And the plan checks run as you go, so a room that has just dropped below its minimum width says so immediately rather than at the point where somebody else finds it.
Every other tool in this space will give you something that looks like a kitchen. Draftie tells you which Godfrey Hirst plank it is, what size the board is, whether the tile is rated for a wet area, and what it takes to cover the room.
2,585 real products from five Australian manufacturers: Godfrey Hirst flooring, National Tiles, Dulux colours, polytec cabinetry decors and Smartstone benchtops, each with its real SKU, plank or tile size, slip rating and wet-area flag.
The flooring you specify comes out on a schedule under the plan on the export: one row per product, with brand, range, colour, SKU, the rooms it covers and the total area. You are not choosing a mood. You are choosing something your builder can order and price.
Where Draftie wins and where it plainly does not.
| Draftie | General platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Precision | 1mm, millimetres throughout | Varies; often imperial-first |
| Scan an existing plan into geometry | Yes | Trace-over backdrop, or paid tier |
| Live dimensions while dragging | Yes | Usually |
| Local code checks (NCC, QDC) | Yes | No |
| Real product SKUs and slip ratings | 2,585 AU products | Generic materials |
| DXF export | Yes, millimetre coordinates | Rarely, or paid tier |
| Photorealistic 3D renders | No | Usually yes |
| Furniture and decor library | Functional, not extensive | Extensive |
| Mobile and tablet | No | Often yes |
| Price | Free while in beta | Free tier, then $5–$30/mo |
You want a measured plan you can hand to a builder, without learning CAD or paying for a concept you cannot then change yourself.
Fast concepts for a client conversation, with a priceable schedule and the compliance problems surfaced before documentation.
Real products with real SKUs, specified into a plan that is actually to scale, and a schedule you can quote from.
A measured plan and a DXF, without a CAD licence or a term spent learning the interface first.
Free while Draftie is in beta, with no card required, no watermark and no export limits. Plans save to your account automatically. See pricing for what happens after beta.
No, it runs in the browser. You do need a laptop or desktop: the canvas needs a screen at least 900px wide and a mouse.
Yes, and it is usually faster. Upload a photo, scan or PDF and Draftie traces it into editable walls, doors, windows and rooms calibrated to real millimetres.
To 1mm, and true through to export, a 90mm wall measures 0.9mm on a 1:100 sheet. If you scanned the plan in, accuracy also depends on the calibration you gave it.
There is a visualisation for seeing the space, but photorealistic rendering is not what Draftie is for. If a marketing render is what you need, a rendering tool will serve you better and we would rather say so.
No. Draftie is a floor plan editor and creator: it scans a plan you already have into editable geometry, or gives you the tools to draw one, and then checks it against the room widths, circulation and setback rules. Prompt-to-plan tools do the designing; what they hand back is often not buildable, which is why we do not offer it.
Yes, the 1:100 PDF with its flooring schedule is made for pricing, and the DXF is made for your draftsperson. These are concept plans, not construction documents.
Export them and they are yours in formats nothing can take away, PDF, DXF, PNG, SVG. That is the argument for exporting anything that matters rather than leaving it in one account, here or anywhere else.
Most people begin by uploading the one on the fridge. Two minutes later it is a drawing they can edit.
Create a floor plan, freeDraftie produces concept plans, not construction documents, and its plan checks are advisory rather than a compliance certificate. Product specifications change, confirm current details with the manufacturer before relying on them.