Room Scanner

iOS

LiDAR-powered RoomPlan turns a walk through your space into a clean parametric floor plan - walls, doors, windows, and recognised furniture, exported as a single USDZ scene.

What You Can Do

RoomPlan Capture

Walk through a room with your iPhone's LiDAR sensor. NFC.cool builds a parametric model in real time - walls, doors, windows, and openings.

Recognised Furniture

Beds, sofas, tables, chairs, storage, stoves, sinks, toilets, bathtubs and TVs are detected and labelled inside the scene.

Floor Area & Dimensions

Every room reports floor area, ceiling height, and per-wall dimensions. Read them off the model or embed them in the exported USDZ.

AR Quick Look

Open the finished room in AR Quick Look or share the USDZ - recipients can walk around the model right inside Messages.

From a Walk-Through to a Working Floor Plan

Place your Room in AR

iOS

Once a scan is finished, drop it into AR Quick Look and physically walk around the digital twin. Useful for sanity-checking furniture placement before you buy, or for getting a sense of scale that drawings on a tablet just don't convey.

Multi-Room Workflows

iOS

Each scan is one room. Capture the kitchen, capture the living room, capture the bedrooms - they live side-by-side in your library, and a 3D editor of your choice can stitch them into a multi-room USDZ. Particularly useful for real-estate listings, renovation planning, or insurance documentation.

Shortcuts & App Intents

iOS

NFC.cool plugs straight into the iOS Shortcuts app with built-in actions: grab the last scanned NFC tag, write a message to a tag, open the scanner, or pull the last scanned QR code. Chain them into Shortcuts that scan a tag, parse its payload, and kick off whatever you want next - automation, logging, journaling, you name it. The same actions power the lock-screen Scan Button control on iOS 17+.

iPhone connecting an NFC tag to automation blocks

NFC.cool syncing across iPhone, iPad, and Mac

iCloud Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac

iOS

Scanned rooms live in your iCloud Documents folder, so the iPhone you scanned with, the iPad you reviewed on, and the Mac you'll edit on all see the same library. Walk the space once, refine the floor plan later at your desk.

Hardware & Output

Hardware Requirements

iPhone with LiDAR (12 Pro and newer Pro models)
iPad Pro (2020) and newer also supported
RoomPlan available from iOS 16; the latest improvements ship on iOS 17+

Output

USDZ scene with named entities
Walls, doors, windows, openings
Recognised furniture categories
Floor area and dimensions

Free vs Platinum

	Free	Platinum
Scan Rooms	✓	✓
Room Measurements	✓	✓
Area Calculation	✗	✓

Frequently Asked

Do I need LiDAR?

Yes. RoomPlan is a LiDAR-only API from Apple. (the 3D Object Scanner needs LiDAR too - Apple's Object Capture session checks for it.)

How long does a scan take?

Just walk through the room. The result is generated live and is ready when you finish.

Can I open the result in CAD software?

Yes - USDZ is supported by most modern CAD/3D tools. For SketchUp / Revit workflows, convert via Blender or a free USD-to-OBJ tool.