ScanToScopeStart freeCubiCasa alternative
A CubiCasa alternative for the remodeler, not the listing agent
CubiCasa is a good product sold to a different trade. It turns a phone walkthrough into a floor plan for a listing or an appraisal, overnight, reviewed by a person. If you tried it for as builts and found you still had to work the quote out yourself, that is not a fault in the product. It is who it was built for.
No card. Nothing for your customer to install.
Who CubiCasa is built for, in their own words
CubiCasa names its audiences on its own home page: real estate photographers, real estate agents, appraisers, inspectors, multiple listing services and enterprises. Contractors are not on that list. Remodelers are not on that list. That is not a knock on the product, it is the single most useful fact about it.
It still turns up in a remodeler's search, because the scan sounds exactly like what you want. Walk the house with your phone for five or ten minutes, upload it, get a floor plan back. A fair number of remodelers have tried it for as builts and come away saying the same thing, which is that the drawing arrived and the quote was still sitting there waiting to be done.
The pages ranking for this phrase never get near that. Capterra, G2, SoftwareSuggest, SaaSHub, spotsaas, SoftwareWorld and AlternativeTo list other floor plan tools. A RoomSketcher comparison and a Panoee piece argue about virtual tours. All of them answer the question of which other floor plan tool to buy. Not one asks whether a floor plan was the thing you were short of.
What comes back, and how long it takes
Their published flow goes: scan the property with the CubiCasa app, which they put at roughly five to ten minutes for an average house, upload it, and receive a floor plan within six to twenty four hours. Three to five days for anything over five thousand square feet. Every plan is reviewed by a person before delivery, which is why it takes hours instead of seconds, and also why it comes back tidy.
What you get is a 2D floor plan with room labels and dimensions, plus, depending on the package, a 3D plan, a video render, CAD exports and a GLA report. None of it is a price. There is no cost book anywhere in it, and nothing on their site pretends otherwise.
The overnight part is worth sitting with. For a listing that goes live Thursday, a plan on Wednesday afternoon is early. For working out whether Tuesday's caller is worth an hour of your truck, a day of waiting has already made the decision for you, and you made it the old way.
GLA is an appraisal number, not a takeoff
CubiCasa's plans for appraisers follow the ANSI Z765 standard, aligned to how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want gross living area measured. Getting that right is genuinely hard and it is exactly why appraisers pay for it.
It is also why it will not price your bathroom. GLA counts finished living area to a rule. A quote needs the numbers that rule throws away: the run of wall you are tiling, the width of the vanity, the feet of baseboard, where the window sits in the wall, what is on the floor now and what is going on top of it. A correct square footage is a correct answer to a question you were not asking.
So if what you need is a measured drawing for a listing, an appraisal or a permit set, we do not make one and you should buy something that does. CubiCasa is a sensible choice for that.
Where the two of us part company
| CubiCasa | ScanToScope | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the scanning | You, or whoever you send, with their app installed | The homeowner, in her phone browser, nothing installed |
| What lands in your inbox | A floor plan, and a GLA report if you buy one | A scope brief and a quote priced off your own book |
| How long it takes | Six to twenty four hours, reviewed by a person | Minutes, while the lead is still warm |
| Who it is sold to | Photographers, agents, appraisers, inspectors, MLS | Remodeling contractors |
| What it does about price | Nothing. Pricing is your job afterwards | Prices the scope line by line against your cost book |
CubiCasa details read off their own site in October 2026. Their packages change, so check before you cancel anything.
How a quote gets made without a drawing
You send a link
She gets a text or an email with a link in it. No app store, no account, no password to reset. It opens in whatever browser is already on her phone.
Her phone does the measuring
On a recent iPhone Pro the LiDAR sensor measures the room while she walks it. On any other phone she photographs it instead, one shot at a time as she goes, and types in the room sizes herself.
You get a scope and a number
A vision model reads those photographs and a model writes the scope brief out of what it sees. The scope is then priced against your cost book, line by line, with every quantity showing where it came from. The number is arithmetic on your figures, not a guess from a model.
What we do not do
No measured drawing. No CAD file. No GLA report. No 3D tour, and nothing an appraiser or an MLS would take from you. If that is what you came looking for, this is the wrong page and CubiCasa answers it better than we can.
We also do not fix your estimating. The cost book is yours, you load it, and the quote is only as honest as the numbers in it. What changes is that the room gets measured with you nowhere near it, and the scope turns up written down instead of living in your head until you get back to the office.
Two scans are free and there is no card. Solo is 79 a month for one user and 20 scans. Crew is 149 for five users and 60 scans. Shop is 349 for unlimited users and 200 scans. Extra scans are 4 dollars each and nothing locks when you run out.
Questions contractors ask
Can I use both?
Yes, and on some jobs that is the right answer. Use the scan from the homeowner to work out whether the job is worth your time, then buy the floor plan later if the job turns out to need a drawing for a permit or a designer.
Does CubiCasa price anything?
No, and it does not claim to. It produces floor plans, 3D output, CAD exports and GLA reports. Turning any of that into a number is still your evening.
Do I need an iPhone Pro?
You do not. Your customer gets more out of one. A recent iPhone Pro has the LiDAR sensor and measures the room as she walks it. Any other phone falls back to photographs plus room sizes she types in.
How much should I trust the measurements?
A LiDAR scan off a recent iPhone Pro is good enough to price a room from, and the quote shows you where every quantity came from so you can argue with any of them. Where she typed sizes in by hand, treat them the way you would treat sizes read out to you over the phone.
What about the drawing my designer wants?
We do not produce it. Get the scan first to find out whether the job is real, then buy the drawing from a tool built to make one once the job is actually yours.
Try it on one bathroom
Pick the next bathroom lead that would have cost you a round trip, send her the link, and see what comes back. Two scans free, no card, and you can stop there.