ScanToScopeStart freemagicplan alternative
A magicplan alternative for the measurements you need before you drive out
magicplan is an app you open standing in the room. ScanToScope is a link you send to the homeowner so somebody measures the room before you get in the truck. If that difference is what you are shopping for, read on. If it is not, keep magicplan.
Your first two scans are on us and we do not ask for a card.
Why the alternative lists are useless here
Search this phrase and you get directory pages. Star ratings, review counts, a one line description each, and a list of so called alternatives that includes Jobber, Simpro and Contractor Plus.
Those are good products. None of them measures a room. A page that offers a scheduling CRM as an alternative to a measuring app has not understood the question, and that is most of what is ranking.
So here is the comparison those pages will not write, from a company with an obvious interest in the answer. Judge it on whether it is accurate.
What magicplan is actually good at
A tech walks the property with an iPhone or iPad, the app builds the plan as he goes, and photos and notes attach to the rooms they belong to. Out of that comes a field report, an estimate, and an export into the tools the insurance side lives in.
For a restoration crew, an adjuster, an inspector or a one truck remodeler documenting a job he is standing in, it is hard to beat, and the entry price is low. We are not going to pretend to replace it.
- Plans and field reports captured on site
- Estimating tied to the dimensions it captured
- Exports into the claims workflow
Where the two tools split
| magicplan | ScanToScope | |
|---|---|---|
| Who captures the space | You or your tech, on site | The homeowner, before anyone is dispatched |
| What gets installed | The app, on your iPhone or iPad | Nothing. She taps a link and it opens in her browser |
| On a phone without LiDAR | Manual or guided sketching, slower | Photos plus the room sizes she types in |
| What you end up holding | A plan, a field report and an estimate | Room measurements, her photos, and a price off your own cost book |
| Insurance restoration work | Built for it, exports included | Not built for it and no claims export |
| The moment it helps | Once you are in the house | While you are still deciding whether to go |
magicplan details read off public material in October 2026. Their plans and ours both change, so check both before you switch anything.
The question that decides it
Every honest version of this comparison comes down to one thing. Who has to be standing in the room when the measurement happens.
If the answer is you, a capture app is the right purchase and the cheaper ones are very good. The drive is already a sunk cost, so the only thing left to improve is how long you spend inside.
If the answer is nobody yet, you need the other kind of tool. The whole point is to see the room, the sizes and a price before anyone spends an hour in traffic on a lead that was never going to buy. That is the job we do, and it is the one job we do.
How a scan reaches you
Send the link
Straight after the first call, by text, while she is still thinking about the project.
She opens it in her browser
No download, no store, no account to make. It is a web page on the phone in her hand.
The phone does the measuring
A recent iPhone Pro measures the room with LiDAR. Anything else falls back to photos and sizes she types in herself.
Photos go up as she shoots them
One at a time, so poor signal halfway through costs you one photo and not the whole submission.
It arrives priced
Against the cost book you loaded, and into your CRM through Zapier when you want it there.
Pricing, side by side and honestly
magicplan starts cheaper than we do and there is no argument to be had about it. Their solo tiers run from roughly thirteen dollars a month for plans and exports up to about ninety for the estimating tier, with a free tier of a couple of projects. If budget is the deciding factor and you are happy doing the capture yourself, that is your answer.
What we charge buys something different, which is a scan taken by somebody who is not you, on a lead you have not driven to.
Solo runs $79 a month and covers 20 scans for one user. Crew is $149 for 60 scans and five users. Shop is $349 for 200 scans and unlimited users. Scans past your allowance are $4 each. Founding pricing closes on 30 November, and the first two scans cost nothing and need no card.
Questions contractors ask
Is ScanToScope a floor plan app?
No. We measure a room and price the submission against your cost book. If you want drafted plans, keep a capture app for that.
Can I export to Xactimate?
No. If your revenue comes through insurance claims, magicplan is the better tool and we would rather tell you that now than after you subscribe.
Would a remodeler keep both?
Many will. Ours qualifies and quotes the lead from the office. Theirs documents the job once it is sold and you are on site anyway.
What does the homeowner need?
A phone and the link. A recent iPhone Pro gives a LiDAR measurement. Any other handset falls back to photos plus the sizes she types in.
How accurate is the fallback?
It is a typed number and a photograph, so treat it as a rough input. It is usually enough to tell a real job from a tyre kicker, which is what it is for.
Does it connect to anything?
It reaches a CRM through Zapier. That is the integration that exists today.
Put it on two leads this week
Pick the two callers you were least sure about. Send them a link instead of an appointment and see what lands.