Floor Plan Creator Home Design

Review by eFreeware

Floor Plan Creator Home Design is a free Android app from Firehawk, filed under House & Home, that combines two jobs that often live in separate tools: drawing a layout and estimating the materials to build it. You get 2D plan drawing, a 3D view for checking how a room looks, and a set of calculators covering brick, flooring, cement, plaster, asphalt, steel weight and water sump tanks. The main reason to consider it is that the planning and the quantity estimates sit in the same place, so a layout you sketch can feed straight into the numbers you need before buying anything.

It has been on Google Play since December 5, 2023 and has passed 5 million installs, with a 3.8 average across 9,361 ratings. The last update, in June 2025, was a bug-fix release. It is free to install and supported by ads, and there are in-app purchases available.

Who will get the most from it

If you are sketching a remodel, an extension or a first draft of a house you hope to build, the drawing tools and the 3D view give you a way to work through ideas before committing money to them. The calculators then tell you roughly how much brick, cement or flooring that plan implies.

Small contractors and tradespeople may find the material calculators more useful than the drawing side. Working out plaster for walls and ceilings, asphalt for a driveway or the weight of steel in a structure is routine arithmetic that is easy to get wrong on site, and having it in the same app as the plan keeps the reference material together.

The app is not limited to new builds. Remodeling an existing home, planning a barndominium, laying out a driveway or sizing a water tank all fit the toolset the developer describes. Anyone who wants a single place to sketch a space and sanity-check quantities is the natural audience.

Drawing plans in 2D and viewing them in 3D

The core of the app is 2D plan drawing. The developer describes it as a modern, user-friendly way to turn ideas into detailed layouts, and that is the foundation everything else builds on: rooms, walls and dimensions first, then the extras. For a first pass at a floor plan, this is the part you will spend most of your time in.

From there, the 3D view lets you look at the same plan with furniture, colors and decor in place. That is the step that catches problems a flat drawing hides, such as a sofa that will not fit through a doorway or a color scheme that reads differently once it is on a wall. It is a visualization tool rather than a rendering engine, so expect it to help you judge arrangement and palette, not to produce photorealistic marketing images.

A library of templates is included, which matters more than it sounds. Starting from a template for a common room shape or house type saves you from drawing every wall from zero, and it gives you a reference point for how the tools are meant to be used. Between the templates, the 2D drawing and the 3D check, the app covers the full loop from rough idea to something you can show someone else.

The material calculators

The brick calculator is aimed at projects like house front elevations, and it uses charts and graphs so you are not guessing at quantities. The flooring calculator handles hardwood, tile and carpet for any area of the home, which is the kind of estimate that is easy to get wrong when a room is not a simple rectangle.

Cement estimates cover everything from foundations to walls, and the plastering calculator works on walls, ceilings and other surfaces. Asphalt is there for driveways and outdoor spaces, and the steel weight calculator is for the structural side of a project. The sump tank calculator helps you size water storage by capacity rather than by eye.

The value here is consolidation. None of these sums is difficult on its own, but doing them one at a time in a notes app or by hand is where mistakes creep in, and a wrong cement or flooring figure translates directly into wasted money or a second trip to the supplier. Having them next to the plan they refer to is the practical argument for this app over a plain drawing tool.

What it costs

The app is free to download, and it shows ads. There are also in-app purchases, so some spending beyond the initial download is possible. I would treat the free download as the starting point and check inside the app before assuming everything is included.

You can decide from there whether the paid options are worth it for your project.

How it compares with other approaches

The obvious alternative is a dedicated CAD or architectural drawing program. Those give you far more control over geometry and documentation, but they also assume you are willing to learn a professional workflow. This app sits below that line: quicker to pick up, narrower in what it can express, and paired with calculators that a general CAD package would not include.

A second option is a specialist estimating tool or a spreadsheet of your own. That handles quantities well but gives you no way to see the plan you are estimating for. The appeal of this app is that it does both, so a change to the layout and a change to the material estimate stay in step with each other.

For interior planning specifically, a general design app may offer richer furniture and decor libraries. This one leans toward the building side, with its calculators and structural estimates, so the choice comes down to whether you are planning how a space looks or working out what it takes to build it.

A practical pick for planning and estimating together

The 2D drawing, the 3D view and the seven calculators cover the ground between an idea and a shopping list, and the template library shortens the distance to a usable first draft.

The caveats are clear: it is free with ads and in-app purchases, and the 3.8 rating reflects that not everyone has been won over. It suits homeowners and DIY planners who want quick layouts and material estimates rather than professional-grade drafting or photorealistic visuals. If you are planning a build, a remodel or a driveway and want the numbers to follow the plan, it is a sensible place to start.

What's new in version 2.1.1

Bugs Fixed.