roomephantRoomephant vs Planner 5D: a floor plan against a photograph
Short answer: Planner 5D asks you to draw your room and furnish the model from its catalogue. Roomephant asks for one photo and one product link. A plan is more precise and much more work; a photo is faster and looks like your actual room.
Planner 5D is a room planner. You enter the dimensions, the walls go up, and you furnish the result from a catalogue of thousands of models. Because you typed the measurements yourself, the plan is accurate by construction, and the app says so on its AR page.
The cost is the setup. Drawing a room properly takes real time, and the catalogue holds generic models rather than the specific sofa on the shop page you are looking at.
Roomephant works the other way round: your real photograph, your real light, and the actual product from the listing. Less precise as geometry, much closer to what you will see when it arrives.
Side by side
| Roomephant | Planner 5D | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | One photo | Draw the room and enter dimensions |
| What you see | The exact listed product | A catalogue model of a similar piece |
| Looks like your room | It is your room | A 3D reconstruction |
| Precision of the space | Estimated from the photo | Exactly what you typed in |
| Best for | One purchase decision | Planning a whole room |
Verdict
Planning a renovation or laying out an empty flat, use Planner 5D. Choosing between two sofas this evening, use Roomephant.
Frequently asked
What is the difference between Roomephant and Planner 5D?
Short answer: Planner 5D asks you to draw your room and furnish the model from its catalogue. Roomephant asks for one photo and one product link. A plan is more precise and much more work; a photo is faster and looks like your actual room.
Is there a free alternative to Planner 5D?
Roomephant is free to use: previews every day, no signup and no credit card. It solves a narrower job than Planner 5D — showing the exact product you are about to buy in your own room, at the size the store lists.
Does Roomephant use the real dimensions of the product?
Yes. Width, depth and height are read from the store listing and used as the scale anchor, and the room scale is estimated from visible cues such as floor and ceiling lines. That is what keeps a sofa from being rendered the size of an armchair.
Which should I use — Roomephant or Planner 5D?
Planning a renovation or laying out an empty flat, use Planner 5D. Choosing between two sofas this evening, use Roomephant.