Drawing a floor plan should take ten minutes.

What we saw

Drawing the plan of your own home is an ordinary need: moving, redoing a kitchen, publishing a listing, showing a tradesperson where a duct runs. The tools are not ordinary. On one side, architecture software that wants a week before the first wall; on the other, decoration apps where you furnish before you can draw.

Between the two, almost nothing. So people draw on the back of an envelope, photograph the sheet and send it. It works — and it does not travel.

What we chose

Planaira opens in a tab and asks for nothing: no install, no account to get started, no guided tour. The first room is drawn within the minute, and the volume rises while you draw — because 3D says instantly what a plan takes time to convey.

• The plan before the furniture: walls decide, sofas do not.
• Centimetres rather than roughly: a plan that does not close is not a plan.
• Your plans stay in your browser, not on our server.
• A PDF that opens anywhere, a 3D model that opens elsewhere.

What we refuse

Asking for an email address before being useful. Holding a finished plan hostage until payment. Filling the screen with features to look serious. Calling “intelligence” a tool that guesses on your behalf what you know better than it does.

The free plan is real: one project, the whole editor, PDF export, with no end date. What costs money is volume — a portfolio of properties, a book of listings.

What we will not be able to do

Planaira will not replace architecture software, and that is not a roadmap item: it is a boundary. No structural calculation, no construction drawings, no planning application. A tool that claims to do everything ends up doing badly the one thing it was opened for.

We will not build the buyable-furniture catalogue either, nor simultaneous multi-user editing. Others do both better, and our comparison says so on their behalf.

What comes next

The product is young, and it shows. We would rather say so than paper over it: the beta is open, the gaps are real, and fixes land faster when someone points at them. If you draw a plan this week, tell us where it got in your way.