Planner 5D is a freemium 2D and 3D home design application from Planner5D, UAB of Vilnius, used to draw floor plans, furnish interiors and landscape designs, and render the result as an image on the web, on iOS where the listing is universal across iPhone and iPad, on Android, macOS and Windows, with a visionOS app alongside them. The plans are Free, Premium, Professional and Enterprise, with monthly and annual billing on the two paid tiers the vendor’s pricing page sells, annual materially cheaper than twelve monthly payments, and Enterprise priced on application. The free plan reaches half the furniture catalogue by the vendor’s own statement, and the 5% figure two ranking review pages print is wrong by an order of magnitude. Export runs in 2D on every documented self-serve route. DWG and DXF export sits on the Professional tier, and the help centre states plainly that a project exports in 2D because no 3D export option exists. FBX and OBJ arrive as 3D model imports and never leave. IFC is read nowhere, and on export the vendor disagrees with itself, since the B2B API Technical Overview and a B2B vertical page for the Learning Space Planner both list CAD export to IFC, DWG and DXF, marked in beta, while the help centre and the Professional export page name DWG and DXF only. All read 26 August 2026. More than one one-time purchase route appears on the Mac App Store listing and none appears on the vendor’s web pricing page, and the same subscription carries different prices on the web, on the Mac App Store and on iOS. Planner 5D therefore has no single price to quote, since the number a buyer meets depends on the storefront and the date, and every other figure carries the date it was read, because the numbers circulating elsewhere do not.
What is Planner 5D?
Planner 5D is an architectural design application for creating 2D and 3D floor plans, interior designs and landscape designs for homes and offices. A 2D floor plan view carries the layout work and a 3D view carries the inspection, and users switch between them on the same project. Furniture, walls, floors and plants drag into the scene from a catalogue, and custom colours, patterns and materials apply to individual items. An HD rendering feature produces a lit image with shadows. The application runs in a browser and as native apps on iOS, Android, macOS and Windows, with a visionOS app alongside them, and projects sync across every one of them. Planner 5D is targeted at amateur home designers and DIY renovators rather than working practices, and its export ceiling follows from that positioning.
Catalogue size is a vendor claim, and the vendor has published different numbers for it across its own channels. planner5d.com/pricing advertises 10K+ premium furniture items, and on 21 September 2026 it was the only catalogue figure that could still be opened and quoted: the company’s FAQ blog returns a 404 and its Microsoft Store listing renders no readable description. The pricing-page number is the one to work from, dated and attributed to Planner5D, UAB. Counts of 2,000, 5,000 and 7,000 items circulated in 2023 with no source behind any of them, and one dated vendor figure replaces all three.
The Architecture Lab Verdict: Should You Buy Planner 5D?
Buy Planner 5D to visualise a home you are decorating, and not as a route into architectural documentation. On every documented self-serve route Planner 5D exports in 2D only, the vendor’s help centre says so in as many words, and that single fact decides the question for anyone who needs a model to leave the program. Within its own tier the software earns the recommendation, and that tier is amateur and prosumer work, well short of practice work.
Three things carry the buy case. Projects share by link, which puts a 3D walkthrough in front of a client or a contractor in a browser with nothing to install. The AI toolset is broad by the vendor’s own account, running from AI floor plan recognition through Design Generator, Smart Wizard, the Bernard assistant and metered AI Studio credits, and Planner5D, UAB describes all of it in its own marketing terms. The PRO subscription, sold on the pricing page as Professional, adds a branded profile page and a portfolio for putting work in front of potential clients. Those three were the buy case in 2023 as well, and they survive the fact-check.
Four things weigh against it. Professional is priced above what a hobbyist tool usually asks and below what a documentation tool usually delivers. Review scores split hard by platform, and the split is billing-driven. The vendor states plainly in its own help centre that partial refunds for unused subscription days and full refunds are not available, with two exceptions in its terms, digital content proven defective within 14 days and store-billed purchases, which Apple or Microsoft refund and the vendor does not. A mistaken renewal outside those stays paid. And the same product carries different prices depending on where it is bought, with a one-time Lifetime purchase available on the Mac App Store that the vendor’s own web pricing page never mentions. Start on the free plan, confirm that a 2D PDF or DWG handoff is enough for the work, and only then choose a storefront.
Which company develops Planner 5D?
The company that develops Planner 5D is Planner5D, UAB, of Vilnius, Lithuania. Co-founder Alexey Sheremetyev dates the company to 2011 and traces it to renovating his own first apartment, in his own words in an interview read on 21 September 2026. The widely repeated account of a Moscow founding, a named second founder, roughly $150,000 of initial funding and a move to Vilnius in 2014 rests on a Forbes profile that now returns a 403 and on no vendor page: Planner5D, UAB’s own About page states none of it. What the vendor does publish is the destination, and the company is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania. Andrey Ustyugov is chief executive today and Sheremetyev is co-founder and chief product officer. The legal entity name appears identically in the seller field of both Apple store listings, which is why the search demand for “uab planner 5d” resolves here.
Four attributions in the 2023 text were wrong and none of them survives. There is no Planner 5D LLC in the vendor’s own record, the entity is Planner5D, UAB. Renomania is an unrelated company and did not create the software. No Andrey Charshin appears among the executives Planner5D, UAB names on its own About page, where the chief executive is Andrey Ustyugov and Sheremetyev is co-founder and chief product officer. Planner 5D has no connection to Ubisoft and no connection to Adobe, and the seller field on both Apple listings reads Planner5D, UAB.
Scale is a vendor claim from end to end, and every scale figure stays attributed to the company that published it. The company does not hold one figure. Its about page claims over 100 millions of users and more than 540 million interior design projects created, in that phrasing, while its pricing page says the product is trusted by 120M+ people. Both were read on 25 August 2026, both are Planner5D, UAB marketing figures with no independent audit behind them, and they replace an older and unsourced “over 90 million users as of 2023”. A vendor publishing two user counts on two of its own pages on the same day is telling you the number is a marketing instrument. Treat the direction as informative and the decimal as the vendor’s.
On what platforms does Planner 5D run?
Planner 5D runs in a browser and in native apps, and the vendor groups those environments differently in different places, so the platform count depends on which vendor page you read. Its own Newsroom sentence names five, web, iOS, Android, macOS and Windows. A browser version sits at planner5d.com, with native apps for iOS through the App Store, Android through Google Play, macOS through the Mac App Store, and a Windows build through the Microsoft Store. The iPad build is not a separate platform, since it ships inside the same App Store listing under one app id. A sixth environment exists that the vendor leaves out of that sentence, a visionOS app with its own vendor landing page and help article, for which the vendor publishes no launch date, though it is positioned primarily as a review and client-presentation companion, with the help centre recommending primary design work on macOS and Scene Mirroring across. The vendor’s Vision Pro page nevertheless documents creating and editing on the device, customising interior items and surfaces and selecting from the furniture catalogue. There is no Linux build. Cross-platform cloud storage holds the projects, so a plan started on a phone opens on the desktop without a conversion step, without a file format to manage and without a download.
Two operating system minimums are published and readable, and both are far higher than the minimums quoted for Planner 5D in 2023. The Mac App Store listing states macOS 14.0 or later. The App Store listing states iOS 17.0 or later. The claim that the Mac version runs from Mac OS X v10.9 Mavericks up through macOS Ventura is dead, and so is iOS 11 as a mobile minimum. The Microsoft Store listing renders its system requirements block in JavaScript and could not be read on 24 August 2026, so no minimum Windows version can be stated from the vendor’s own material. Windows 7 as a minimum, Windows 10 as a requirement and full optimisation for Windows 11 have all circulated without a source, and search engines are now quoting that phrasing back as an answer. The Google Play listing was equally unreadable, so no Android minimum is printed and the Android 5.0 figure quoted in 2023 is withdrawn with nothing put in its place.
| Platform | Distributed through | Release cadence | Minimum OS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web | planner5d.com in a browser | Continuously deployed, no public version number | Not applicable, it runs in a browser |
| iOS and iPadOS | App Store, listing id606173978 | Frequent releases | iOS 17.0 or later |
| Android | Google Play | Frequent releases | Not readable from the Play listing |
| macOS | Mac App Store, listing id1310584536 | Updated far less often than the mobile apps | macOS 14.0 or later |
| Windows | Microsoft Store | Not readable from the store listing | Not published readably |
| Linux | No build exists | Not applicable, no build | Not applicable, no build |
Platform data as listed on the vendor’s own store listings, read 24 August 2026. Cells marked not readable are listings whose specification blocks render in JavaScript and returned nothing to a direct read.
Feature parity is close across platforms and purchasing parity is not, which is the part no competitor page states. The vendor’s subscription-types help article, read on 24 August 2026, gives the Premium Yearly trial as three days on macOS and seven days on iOS, gives no trial at all on Premium Monthly, and documents a Premium Weekly tier on Android and iOS alone at 7 days with 1 render and 1 texture. The same article lists PRO monthly, PRO yearly and the seven-day PRO trial as available on every platform except macOS, and the Mac App Store contradicts it. Listing id1310584536, read on the same date, carries House design for PRO and PRO yearly with trial in its in-app purchase list. Both sources are Planner5D, UAB’s own and they disagree on whether a Mac user can buy the Professional tier in the app, so a Mac buyer should trust the listing that takes the payment. The 2023 claim that Planner 5D is not compatible with macOS is gone; a native macOS app ships and requires macOS 14.0. Apple silicon and Intel Macs both run it, and the M1 chip and A15 chip performance claims made in 2023 are not something Planner5D, UAB documents, so they are withdrawn.
When was Planner 5D first launched?
Planner 5D dates itself to 2011, and the vendor does not hold one launch date. Its About and Careers timelines both put the launch at 2011 and the web app at 2012, while its Newsroom says “Since our launch in September 2012”. Company databases give 2011 as the founding year. Founded 2011, public on the web from 2012 is the wording that fits every vendor surface. 2015 is the year the iPhone, Android and macOS apps arrived. The 2023 account dated the launch to 2015 and put mobile at 2017 with macOS later still; the timeline puts the iPad app in 2013 and macOS alongside mobile in 2015, so the sequence was wrong in both directions. What the 2023 text described correctly is the design premise. Planner 5D was built around 2D/3D hybrid modeling with drag-and-drop modular libraries, aimed at homeowners and residential decorators, and that premise has not changed in fifteen years.
| Year | Planner 5D milestone, per the vendor timeline |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Planner 5D launch |
| 2012 | Web app release |
| 2013 | iPad app release |
| 2014 | Render feature release |
| 2015 | iPhone, Android and macOS apps release |
| 2016 | Windows app release. VR and AR modes added to mobile apps |
| 2017 | AI research and development start. White-label Enterprise version launch |
| 2018 | Planner 5D for Education launch |
| 2019 | AI Floorplan Recognition release |
| 2020 | Interior Design School and Design Battles launch |
| 2021 | Interior Design Council founded |
| 2022 | LiDAR-powered Scan Room and Automated Furniture Arrangement release |
| 2023 | Design Generator and Bernard AI assistant release |
The complete timeline as published by Planner5D, UAB on planner5d.com/pages/about, read 24 August 2026 and re-read 25 August 2026. Every milestone is the vendor’s own wording, with no row added and none omitted. The founding and relocation details sit elsewhere on that page: Moscow in 2011, Vilnius from 2014.
What are the licensing options available for Planner 5D?
The licensing options for Planner 5D are four plans, and not one of them appeared under its current name in 2023. The current lineup on the vendor’s pricing page is Free, Premium, Professional and Enterprise, and that page carries the current figure for each. There is no 5D Plus, no 5D Pro, no 5D Team and no 5D Business. Those four tiers, the dollar figures once attached to them, their euro and sterling conversions and their storage allowances appear on neither the vendor’s pricing page nor its help centre, read on 25 August 2026. Single sign-on appears on no self-serve tier, though the vendor’s Business Integrations page lists SSO among Enterprise integration options and asks prospects to state their SSO requirements when booking a demo, so scope and cost are set per implementation and no figure is published. Enterprise is the tier that covers organisational needs, priced on application, and Planner5D, UAB lists a white-label room planner, a customer’s own 3D product catalogue, a 3D product configurator with real-time pricing, APIs, cart, CRM and ERP connection and usage analytics under it.
The vendor uses two vocabularies for the same plans and searchers use both, so both are given once. The pricing page says Professional; the help centre still calls the same tier PRO. The pricing page says Free; the help centre calls that plan Basic. Professional throughout means the tier the help centre documents as PRO subscription, and Free means the plan the help centre documents as Basic. Cloud storage is the other legacy idea worth retiring. Every plan carries the same cross-device cloud storage and no gigabyte tiering exists anywhere in current vendor material, so the 2GB free allowance, the 5GB upgrade and the unlimited-storage tier described in 2023 have no counterpart in the product.
Is there a Planner 5D lifetime deal?
Yes, on one storefront only. A one-time purchase listed as “Lifetime” appears in the in-app purchase list of the Planner 5D listing on the Mac App Store, seller Planner5D, UAB, listing id1310584536, read on 24 August 2026. More than one one-time route sits in that list, at more than one price, so the Mac listing is the only place the question can be settled. Neither route appears on planner5d.com/pricing and neither appears on the iOS App Store listing. Anyone searching for a Planner 5D lifetime deal is looking for that purchase, and the coupon pages ranking on the query do not name it. The vendor’s web pricing page sells subscriptions and nothing else, so a reader who reads only that page will correctly conclude no lifetime option exists and will be wrong about the Mac.
Two qualifiers belong on that route. It is a store listing and not a vendor statement, so it is reported here as observed store data on a date and its price can change without an announcement. And what “Lifetime” covers inside the app is described on neither the Mac App Store listing nor the vendor help centre, so treat it as a one-time unlock whose price and whose exact scope the buyer should read off the listing before paying. That divergence is not confined to the Mac: the same annual subscription carried a different price on the web store, the Mac App Store and iOS when all three were read on 24 August 2026. There is no legitimate free unlock of the paid catalogue, and the mod and crack downloads that rank alongside the deal queries are neither the vendor’s nor safe.
Planner 5D Premium vs Professional
Premium and Professional are Planner 5D’s two paid self-serve subscription tiers, and Premium unlocks the catalogue while Professional unlocks the output. Premium gives full catalogue access, furniture resizing and retexturing, standard renders and 100 AI Studio credits on monthly billing or 1,200 on annual billing, in the vendor’s own accounting. Professional adds the things that leave the software. Export to CAD for technical documentation appears under Professional alone and is absent from Free and Premium. Unlimited 4K renders, 360° walkthrough and 360-degree panorama, a custom branded profile and 1,000 AI Studio credits monthly or 12,000 annually sit there too, all of them as Planner5D, UAB describes them.
Render allowance is the sharpest practical difference and the pricing page hides it. The vendor’s subscription-types help article, read on 24 August 2026, gives Premium monthly 30 days with 5 renders and 5 textures, Premium yearly 365 days with 60 renders and 60 textures, and PRO monthly and yearly unlimited renders and unlimited textures. Five renders a month is a real ceiling for anyone iterating on a scheme. Weigh that ceiling against what the tier gap costs on the pricing page before assuming Premium is the sensible middle.
What is the cost of Planner 5D?
Planner 5D costs nothing on the Free plan and carries a subscription on Premium and Professional, with Enterprise priced on application. Premium and Professional are each sold monthly or annually, and the annual commitment is materially cheaper than twelve monthly payments on both. The live figures sit on the vendor’s own pricing page and should be read there, because Planner5D, UAB reprices across storefronts and no figure printed on a review page survives contact with the till. The vendor sells directly from that page and the free plan opens without a card, which are the two routes to confirm a current number before committing. Planner5D, UAB lists its web prices in USD and publishes no euro or sterling figure, and the 2023 conversions were arithmetic applied to invented dollars.
| Plan | How it is sold | Catalogue | Renders | CAD export | AI Studio credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Permanently free, no card, no expiry | 50% of the catalogue, vendor claim | Unlimited screenshots, draft render | No | Not offered, the allowance starts at Premium |
| Premium | Subscription, monthly or annual. Annual materially cheaper | Full catalogue, vendor-claimed | Standard renders. 5 per month, 60 per year | No | 100/mo or 1,200/yr |
| Professional | Subscription, monthly or annual. Annual materially cheaper. Sold as PRO in the help centre | Full | Unlimited 4K, watermark-free | Yes — 2D only | 1,000/mo or 12,000/yr |
| Enterprise | Priced on application | Own catalogue | Not published, scoped per implementation | Not published, scoped per implementation | Not published, scoped per implementation |
Plan structure as documented by Planner5D, UAB on planner5d.com/pricing and in its subscription-types help article, read 24 August 2026. No price is printed, because the same plan is sold at different prices on different storefronts and repriced without announcement.
The billing arithmetic is worth stating because the whole search result garbles it. Twelve monthly payments cost far more than the annual commitment on both paid tiers, and the gap is wide enough on Premium to make monthly billing the expensive way to spend a year. The small per-month number the pricing page displays beside each annual plan is that annual total divided by twelve. It is neither a tier nor a rate anyone can pay month to month, and a competitor pricing page ranking on this search result headlines it as the Premium monthly price, converted into a currency Planner5D, UAB does not list on its web store. A reader carrying that number into a purchase meets the real month-to-month rate at the till, several times larger.
Where the subscription is bought changes what it costs, and this is the part no competitor page states. Planner5D, UAB sells the same product through its own web store, through the Mac App Store under listing id1310584536 and through the iOS App Store under listing id606173978, and on 24 August 2026 the annual subscription carried a different price on each. The iOS listing alone showed several annual SKUs at several different prices. The Mac listing is also the only one of the three that sells a one-time purchase, and it sells more than one. The web pricing page sells subscriptions and nothing else. The direction of the gap is not fixed and the specific spread is not worth memorising, because store prices move without announcement; the structural fact is that three storefronts sell one product at three prices, and only one of them offers a route out of recurring billing.
Two practical consequences follow. Compare all three storefronts before subscribing, because the cheapest of them is not always the vendor’s own page and the difference over a year is real money. And read the price in the store that will bill you, since store-billed prices are converted and taxed by the storefront, so a buyer in the United Kingdom or the European Union who converts a dollar figure arrives at a number nobody charges. Shorter windows exist on the Apple stores as well, with 30-day full-catalogue passes and render packs sold alongside the subscriptions, and those appear on the store listings and nowhere on the vendor’s web pricing page.
Is Planner 5D free?
Yes, Planner 5D has a permanently free plan, and it is a real plan with no expiry date attached. The free tier carries unlimited projects, cross-device access and, in the vendor’s own words on planner5d.com/pricing, “Access to 50% of the furniture catalog”. The help centre calls the same plan Basic and documents floor and wall customisation, unlimited screenshots as a draft render, and up to 5 custom textures on it. No credit card is needed to start.
The 5% figure is the myth to kill first, and two review pages ranking on this question print it. machow2’s Planner 5D review puts free access at 5% of the furnishings and items in the catalogue, and fixthephoto’s review says only 5% of interior items are available without paying, both read on 25 August 2026. A rival product’s comparison page goes further still and puts the free catalogue at roughly 80 items. The vendor states 50%, on its own pricing page, read on 24 August 2026. That is an order-of-magnitude error propagating across the review layer of this search result, and anyone deciding whether the free plan is usable has been reading a number ten times too small. What is genuinely limited on the free plan is input, editing and output, and catalogue breadth is the part that holds up. Furniture resizing and retexturing are Premium features, AI plan recognition starts at Premium, renders are draft quality, and CAD export belongs to Professional.
One more thing belongs in an answer about free access. Planner5D, UAB sells subscriptions, and there is no legitimate free unlock of the paid catalogue. The mod and apk downloads that rank alongside this query are not the vendor’s and carry the risks any unsigned build carries. The free plan and the Mac App Store one-time purchase are the two supported routes to using Planner 5D without a recurring charge. If the job needs a free tool with no paid tier above it, Sweet Home 3D is the alternative, and it exports without asking for a subscription.
What are the Planner 5D free version limitations?
The Planner 5D free version limitations, as Planner5D, UAB documents them on planner5d.com/pricing and in its subscription-types help article, read 24 August 2026, are:
- Half the furniture catalogue: the vendor grants “Access to 50% of the furniture catalog” on the free plan. The remaining half needs Premium or Professional.
- No furniture resizing or retexturing: the help centre puts both behind Premium. Free users place catalogue items at their supplied size and finish.
- Draft renders only: the free plan carries unlimited screenshots described as a draft render. Standard renders belong to Premium and unlimited 4K renders to Professional.
- Five custom textures: the help centre caps custom textures at 5 on the free plan, against 5 on Premium monthly, 60 on Premium yearly and unlimited on PRO.
- No CAD export: “Export to CAD for technical documentation” appears under Professional alone on the pricing page and is absent from Free and Premium. A PDF is still reachable, because help article 16527164 documents a dedicated Export to PDF as available to Free, Premium and PRO users, and help article 5876838 documents the older browser print-to-PDF step with no tier requirement stated. Both routes are web-only.
- No 4K, no 360-degree panorama, no branded profile: all three sit on Professional, and none appears on the free plan.
- No AI plan recognition: the subscription-types help article lists no recognitions on the Basic plan and marks them included on every Premium tier, and the pricing page carries “Upload a floor plan and instantly turn it into a 3D project” as a Premium bullet. Converting an existing drawing into a project is paid work.
- No AI Studio credits: the metered AI Studio allowance starts at Premium with 100 credits on monthly billing, in the vendor’s accounting.
- What is not limited: projects. The pricing page grants an unlimited amount of projects on the free plan, in those words, read on 25 August 2026. A one-active-project limit is nonetheless reported on the app surface, and the two accounts do not reconcile. Treat it as a vendor-surface conflict of the same kind as the vendor’s two different user counts, and check the limit in the account before planning around it.
Does the Planner 5D free version put a watermark on exports?
Whether the Planner 5D free version puts a watermark on exports is not documented by the vendor, which states watermark-free renders for one tier and stays silent about the rest. Planner 5D help article 8330658, published 4 September 2023, states that with a PRO subscription you can create watermark-free renders. PRO is the help centre’s name for the tier the pricing page sells as Professional. No Planner5D, UAB material in the help centre or on the pricing page states whether Free or Premium renders carry a watermark, and its pricing page describes Premium output as standard renders with no watermark statement in either direction.
So the sourced answer is narrow and it is the whole of what is documented. Watermark removal is a Professional-tier guarantee. Silence about the lower tiers is silence, and it does not convert into a claim about them. Exactly one competitor page on this search result states that free exports carry watermarks, and that page funnels to a rival product, which leaves it an interested source with a commercial stake in the answer. A reader who needs a clean image should render one on the free plan and look at it, which takes a minute and settles the question for their own account and platform.
Planner 5D free vs paid
Planner 5D free is the permanent Basic plan, which needs no card and carries unlimited projects, and Planner 5D paid is Premium or Professional, two subscription tiers that add catalogue access, render allowance, editing tools and CAD export in that order.
| Capability | Free | Premium | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| How it is sold | Free, no card | Subscription, monthly or annual | Subscription, monthly or annual |
| Projects | Unlimited, shareable | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Cross-device sync | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Furniture catalogue | 50%, vendor claim | Full, vendor-claimed | Full |
| Furniture resize and retexture | No | Yes | Yes |
| Custom textures | 5 | 5 monthly, 60 yearly | Unlimited |
| Renders per period | Unlimited screenshots, draft render | 5 per month, 60 per year | Unlimited |
| 4K renders | No | No | Yes, vendor claim |
| Watermark-free renders | Not documented by the vendor | Not documented by the vendor | Yes, per help article 8330658 |
| 360° panorama and walkthrough | No | No | Yes |
| Upload a Plan, AI plan recognition | No, no recognitions listed on Basic | Yes, recognitions included | Yes, PRO carries the Premium features |
| 3D model import, OBJ FBX BLEND STL | No | No | Yes, listed under Professional on the pricing page and on the vendor’s PRO import page |
| CAD export, DWG and DXF | No | No | Yes — 2D only |
| PDF export, web only | Yes — dedicated Export to PDF, stated for Free | Yes — stated for Premium | Yes — stated for PRO |
| AI Studio credits | Not offered on Free | 100/mo or 1,200/yr | 1,000/mo or 12,000/yr |
| Custom branded profile | No | No | Yes |
| Refunds | Not applicable, nothing is paid | Subscription fees non-refundable, except digital content proven defective, refundable within 14 days. Apple and Microsoft store purchases go to those stores, unauthorized payments to the bank | |
Free, Premium and Professional as documented by Planner5D, UAB on planner5d.com/pricing and in its subscription-types help article, read 24 August 2026. Cells reading not documented are capabilities the vendor states nothing about; no third-party figure is substituted.
How can Planner 5D help architects and designers?
Planner 5D helps architects and designers at the concept and client-conversation end of a project. The documentation end belongs to other software. Powerful and approachable 2D and 3D design tools let anyone lay out a floor plan, furnish it and show it as a rendered interior without a CAD background. The intuitive interface is the product’s genuine strength and its user scores say so. For a designer, the value sits in speed to a presentable image and in the shareable link that puts that image in front of a client on any device.
The AI toolset has grown further than the rest of the product since 2023, and every line of it is the vendor’s description of the vendor’s own features. Planner5D, UAB names AI floor plan recognition from 2019, LiDAR Scan Room and Automated Furniture Arrangement from 2022, and Design Generator and the Bernard AI assistant from 2023, alongside a Smart Wizard that generates complete room designs from a supplied style. AI Studio credits meter the generative work, at 100 a month or 1,200 a year on Premium and 1,000 a month or 12,000 a year on Professional in the vendor’s accounting. None of that has independent evaluation behind it, and artificial intelligence and machine learning are the terms Planner5D, UAB uses to describe the engine, neither of them verifiable from outside the company.
Extensive libraries of customizable design items carry the furnishing work, at the full premium catalogue on the paid plans, which the vendor advertises as 10K+ premium items on its pricing page. Realistic 3D visualization and walkthroughs let a client stand inside a scheme before anything is built, with virtual reality previews and 360-degree panorama output on Professional. Multi-platform access closes the loop, because the same project opens on the web, iOS, Android, macOS and Windows without a file to move. What the software does not give an architect is a document set, and that limit is why Planner 5D belongs at the concept end of a project and not at the documentation end.
What is Planner 5D output, and in which format?
Planner 5D output is 2D only on every documented self-serve route, and its export formats are DWG and DXF on the Professional tier plus PDF from the web version. No FBX or OBJ export is documented at any tier. FBX and OBJ are import-only formats in Planner 5D, accepted for 3D models and never written back out. IFC is not imported at any tier and is not exported on any self-serve tier, though the B2B API documents IFC export in beta. The vendor’s help centre states the ceiling in its own words — “The project will be exported in 2D, as we currently do not have an option to export it in 3D.” That article was published on 16 February 2025, which matters, because two pages still ranking on this question claim Planner 5D cannot export at all, a claim that was true before February 2025 and is false now.
Within that ceiling the output is straightforward. The primary product is a rendered 3D visualization of the designed space, delivered as a JPG or PNG image at draft quality on the free plan, standard quality on Premium and 4K Ultra HD on Professional, with 360-degree panorama and walkthrough on Professional as well. The underlying 2D floor plan exports to DXF and DWG on Professional, carrying walls, dimensions and layout geometry for opening in other tools. PDF is a separate route, and Planner5D, UAB documents two ways into it. Help article 16527164 covers a dedicated Export to PDF that builds a property report from the home report, blueprint, 2D floor plan, 3D renders and elevation views, with optional info cards and control over orientation, margins and floor plan placement, and it states availability for Free, Premium and PRO users. Help article 5876838 covers the older route, a print-to-PDF step through Share and Print inside the browser, and states no tier requirement. Both are documented for the Web version only. That makes PDF the one Planner 5D export the vendor does not place behind Professional, and it means a Windows, macOS, iOS or Android user reaches it through the browser rather than inside the native app. TIFF image export and MP4 video export were both claimed in 2023 and appear on neither the vendor’s pricing page nor its export help articles, read on 25 August 2026. Completed designs also publish to the vendor’s cloud, which generates a shareable link that opens a 3D walkthrough in a browser with nothing to install, and that link is the closest thing to a 3D deliverable the product has.
Is Planner 5D’s output format compatible with other industry-standard software?
Planner 5D’s output format is compatible with other industry-standard software only partly, and only in two dimensions. The 2023 answer was yes across the board and it was wrong. Planner 5D’s outbound compatibility is a Professional-tier 2D drawing in DWG or DXF, plus a PDF printed from the web version with no tier requirement stated, and nothing else leaves the program in a form another design tool can model with. Those are AutoCAD formats, readable by AutoCAD, DraftSight and every general CAD application, and a 2D plan handed off that way is a drafting starting point some way short of a finished drawing set.
The inbound direction is broader than the outbound one, and the 2023 text had the arrow pointing the wrong way. Planner 5D accepts DWG and DXF plans, along with JPG, PNG, PDF, BMP and TIF, through the Upload a Plan feature, and it accepts OBJ, FBX, BLEND and STL for 3D models on its PRO import page. SKP is on neither list, so a SketchUp file does not come in as a SketchUp file. Nothing goes out as OBJ, FBX or DAE, so a Planner 5D scene does not reach Blender, Maya or a rendering engine as geometry. The absence of any documented self-serve 3D export is the line between Planner 5D and a modeller such as SketchUp, whose files are meant to leave the program. Confirm the direction of any exchange a workflow depends on before committing to it, because the vendor’s help centre states direction plainly where its marketing pages leave it vague.
What file formats does Planner 5D support for exporting and importing designs?
Planner 5D supports DWG, DXF, PDF, JPG, PNG, BMP and TIF as import formats for designs, OBJ, FBX, BLEND and STL as 3D model imports, and DWG, DXF, PDF, JPG and PNG as export formats. Every direction is sourced to the vendor’s help centre and never to marketing copy. Two features feed the import column. Upload a Plan takes a drawing or a photograph of a plan and runs AI recognition on it, converting it into a Planner 5D project over a window the vendor gives as 10 minutes to 24 hours, and Planner5D, UAB states that its accepted format list is supported across all platforms. The PRO import page covers 3D models. Neither is a CAD round trip, and neither carries an export counterpart.
| Format | Import | Export | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| DWG (AutoCAD Drawing) | Yes, Upload a Plan | Yes, Professional only, 2D | Listed by name on the vendor’s Upload a Plan article |
| DXF (CAD Exchange) | Yes, Upload a Plan | Yes, Professional only, 2D | Same article, same tier rule on export |
| PDF (Portable Document Format) | Yes, Upload a Plan | Yes — dedicated Export to PDF, stated for Free, Premium and PRO | Help article 16527164 documents Export to PDF, help article 5876838 the older browser print route. Both are documented for the Web version and reached in a browser on any desktop OS |
| JPG, PNG | Yes, Upload a Plan, on every platform | Yes, renders and screenshots | The render output formats at every tier. Help article 14434484 states the upload formats are supported across all platforms |
| BMP, TIF and TIFF | Yes, Upload a Plan | No | TIFF export was claimed in 2023 and is documented nowhere |
| OBJ, FBX, BLEND, STL | Yes, 3D model import, vendor’s PRO import page | No | Named as exports in 2023. The direction was inverted |
| SKP | No | No | Named as an import in 2023. Absent from the vendor’s accepted list |
| IFC (Industry Foundation Class) | No | No | Not on any self-serve route, where the help centre and the Professional export page name DWG and DXF only. The B2B API Technical Overview lists IFC, DWG and DXF CAD export, in beta |
| DAE | No | No | Named in 2023. Documented nowhere by the vendor |
| MP4 | No | No | Video export is documented nowhere by the vendor |
Format directions as documented by Planner5D, UAB in its help centre and on its PRO import page, read 24 August 2026. Export rows are governed by the help centre’s statement that projects export in 2D only.
Is Planner 5D considered user-friendly for beginner users?
Yes, and its own users rate that specifically. On Capterra, read 24 August 2026, ease of use was the highest of the four sub-scores reviewers gave Planner 5D, above features, value for money and customer service. The interface carries built-in hints and tutorials. Getting started runs through four steps, choosing a template or starting from scratch, adding and adjusting rooms and walls, adding doors, windows and furniture, then decorating, and a beginner reaches a basic floor plan without advanced skills. Multi-platform access lets that beginner work on an Android phone, an iPad, an iPhone or a desktop. The free Basic plan is a permanent tier and not a trial, carrying unlimited projects and half the catalogue, so nothing has to be bought to find out whether the software suits the job. Separate time-limited Premium and PRO trials exist as well, with duration and availability varying by platform.
What are the rendering capabilities of Planner 5D?
Planner 5D’s rendering capabilities run on Planner5D, UAB’s own cloud service, and they are tiered. Professional carries what the pricing page calls unlimited 4K renders of professional quality, alongside 360° walkthrough and 360-degree panorama for showing a concept dynamically. Premium carries standard renders with a documented allowance of 5 a month on monthly billing and 60 a year on annual billing. The free plan carries unlimited screenshots at draft-render quality. The 2023 account opened by calling the software Adobe Planner 5D and promised unlimited 4K to everyone; it is not an Adobe product, and 4K sits on the top tier alone.
The rest of the rendering story is the vendor’s to tell. Planner5D, UAB describes AI-driven rendering that produces hyper-realistic images and describes switching between a 2D technical drawing and a 3D realistic view as a core motion of the software, which it is. Virtual walkthroughs let a user tour a rendered space from any position. Watermark removal is documented for the PRO subscription alone and the vendor states nothing about the other tiers. Output lands as JPG and PNG images from standard definition up to 4K Ultra HD; no video container is documented, and the MP4 export promised in 2023 does not exist.
Does Planner 5D include Building Information Modeling (BIM) capabilities for better project management?
No — Planner 5D includes no Building Information Modeling (BIM) capability at any tier and no extensive project management features. There is no BIM authoring and no IFC read, no IFC export is documented on any self-serve route, and no tier on the pricing page lists BIM file compatibility. The software creates a 3D floor plan, furnishes it, visualises it and documents it in 2D. It does not carry parametric building data, code validation, phase planning, model versioning or asset registers, and it does not coordinate across structural, MEP systems and multi-stakeholder disciplines the way commercial projects need. There is no linkage between the visual model and underlying building data, because there is no underlying building data.
Model-based coordination of that kind lives in tools built for it, and Revit is the reference case. ArchiCAD occupies the same ground in practices that prefer it. Anyone searching for Planner 5D IFC export should take the answer plainly. IFC is read nowhere, and on export the line runs between the self-serve product and the B2B track. Free, Premium and Professional document none, the help centre and the Professional export page naming DWG and DXF only. The B2B API Technical Overview, help article 15189751 of 2 June 2026, lists CAD export to IFC, DWG or DXF in beta. Read 26 August 2026. On the self-serve tiers a project still reaches a BIM environment only by being redrawn from an exported 2D plan.
How does Planner 5D facilitate collaboration abilities among teams?
Planner 5D collaborates two ways, and they are not the same thing. The first is a share link. A project publishes to the vendor’s cloud and generates a shareable URL that opens a 3D walkthrough in any browser, which is how a design reaches team members, clients and contractors across desktop, mobile and tablet without an account or an install on their side. The second is Live Collaboration, documented by Planner5D, UAB in help article 14602018, which puts more than one person in the same design at the same time with visible cursors and objects updating as they change. Spaces and individual projects are shared by link or by email invitation at one of two permission levels, Can view or Can edit, so a collaborator can be given editing rights and is not restricted to commenting back at the owner. Comments attach to specific items. The vendor documents the feature for Web and iOS and lists Following Mode and Smooth Editing as not yet released, and guests without an account join by entering a name. Read on 25 August 2026.
Two other layers sit around that. The Professional subscription, which the help centre still calls PRO, adds a custom branded profile and a portfolio page for putting completed work in front of potential clients, which is a business-development function more than a team one. Enterprise covers multi-user and integration needs, and Planner5D, UAB lists a white-label room planner, a customer’s own 3D product catalogue, a 3D product configurator with real-time pricing, APIs and cart, CRM and ERP connection under it, priced on application. Multi-seat licensing and single sign-on are not published capabilities of any self-serve tier, so a team that needs them is in an Enterprise conversation.
What are the minimum hardware requirements for running Planner 5D?
Planner5D, UAB publishes no minimum hardware requirements for running Planner 5D. It publishes operating system minimums on its store listings and nothing more. The Mac App Store states macOS 14.0 or later, the App Store states iOS 17.0 or later, and the Windows and Android listings render their requirement blocks in JavaScript and returned nothing to a direct read on 24 August 2026. The macOS app is a 336.6 MB download. Every hardware figure printed in 2023 was invented. A Windows 10 64-bit requirement, 2GB of RAM as a floor with 4GB advised and 8GB to 16GB for large projects, DirectX 11, a discrete GPU with 1GB of VRAM, an RTX 2060 for smoother real-time rendering, and 1GB of free SSD or HDD space are none of them sourced to the vendor, and all of them are withdrawn with no substitute printed.
What can be said is the shape of the load. Planner 5D is a cloud application whose heavy rendering runs on the vendor’s servers, off the local machine, which is why it runs acceptably on phones and tablets and why the browser version is the version users report as demanding on an older laptop. An Nvidia or AMD graphics processor helps the interactive 3D view stay smooth and is not a stated requirement. An internet connection is required, because the catalogue, the templates and the render queue all live online. Standard peripherals cover the rest, and a touchscreen or a stylus makes placement easier. Anyone sizing a machine specifically for this software should install the free plan on the hardware they own and open a full room before spending anything.
How frequently is Planner 5D updated?
Planner 5D publishes no release cadence, so the store listings are the only measure available. Read on 21 September 2026, the App Store listing showed version 5.8.0 dated 14 September and the Mac App Store listing version 5.18.1 dated 31 July, neither listing printing a year, while the Google Play listing returned nothing readable at all. The iOS build had therefore shipped within the week and the Mac build had not moved for at least six weeks. That contrast tells a buyer where the company is investing, and it is worth knowing before choosing the Mac as the primary platform, particularly since Planner5D, UAB’s own sources disagree on whether the Professional tier can be bought inside the Mac app. The biannual major releases and monthly minor releases in the 2023 account were an invented cadence, and the developers at Ubisoft named as their source have no connection to this software of any kind.
Is a mobile version or app available for Planner 5D for on-site work and presentations?
Yes, a mobile version of Planner 5D is available as full iOS, iPadOS and Android apps, with the iOS listing universal across iPhone and iPad. The apps reach cloud-saved projects created anywhere else and continue editing them, with modelling, visualisation and decorating translated to taps, swipes and pinches. Minimum operating system on iOS is 17.0. Mobile is also where the sensor features live. Augmented reality and virtual reality modes date to 2016 on the vendor’s timeline and still ship, LiDAR Scan Room captures a real room and Automated Furniture Arrangement fills it, both dated 2022 by Planner5D, UAB, and the company now runs a dedicated Apple Vision Pro page. Upload a Plan works the same on mobile as it does on the web. Planner5D, UAB states in help article 14434484 that the accepted formats are supported across all platforms, so a DWG or DXF plan uploads from an iPhone as readily as from a browser, with the file chosen from Photos or Files. The one mobile limit worth carrying is PDF, which help article 5876838 documents as a web-platform print step that the apps do not offer.
What are the advantages of Planner 5D?
The advantages of using Planner 5D are:
- User-friendly interface: ease of use is the sub-score Capterra reviewers rate highest, above features, value for money and customer service. Built-in hints and tutorials carry a beginner through the first plan, and the four-step start needs no technical proficiency.
- 2D and 3D design capabilities: a 2D floor plan view and a 3D view of the same project, switchable at any point, which is the motion the whole product is built around and the reason a layout decision can be checked visually the moment it is made.
- Cost-effective solution: a permanently free plan with unlimited projects and half the furniture catalogue, and an annual Premium subscription if the catalogue and the editing tools are the reason to upgrade. For visualising a room before committing to it, the arithmetic against a designer’s fee is not close.
- High-definition design support: HD rendering at standard quality on Premium and unlimited 4K Ultra HD on Professional, in the vendor’s description, with 360-degree panorama and walkthrough output alongside it on the top tier.
- Cross-platform availability: online, iOS, iPadOS, OS X in its current macOS form, Android and Windows, with projects synced through the account so the same design opens anywhere. That spread is unusually broad for a consumer design tool.
- Extensive library of objects and customizations: the paid plans open the full catalogue, which Planner5D, UAB advertises as 10K+ premium items on its pricing page, along with furniture resizing, retexturing and custom textures that the free plan withholds.
What are the disadvantages of Planner 5D?
The disadvantages of using Planner 5D are:
- 2D-only export ceiling: the vendor’s help centre states that projects export in 2D because no 3D export option exists. DWG and DXF are Professional-tier, no FBX or OBJ export is documented anywhere, and on self-serve tiers a Planner 5D model cannot be carried into a modeller or a BIM environment as geometry. The Enterprise integrations page lists 3D export, and a B2B vertical page names IFC, on marketing surfaces the technical documentation does not support.
- Limited free features: half the furniture catalogue, draft renders, five custom textures, no resizing or retexturing and no CAD export. The free plan is generous on projects and tight on everything that finishes a design.
- No refunds for unused subscription time: Planner5D, UAB states in its subscription help article that partial refunds for unused subscription days or full refunds are not available, its terms excepting only digital content proven defective within 14 days and store-billed purchases refunded by Apple or Microsoft. Auto-renewal charges and cancellation difficulty are the dominant complaint themes on consumer review platforms, and this policy is the mechanism behind them.
- Learning curve for advanced design techniques: users report the step up to complex schemes takes longer than the first simple plan suggests, and the five-render monthly allowance on Premium limits how often an iteration can be seen at full quality.
- Occasional glitches: user reports describe selections that do not stick and objects moving on their own. Customer service was the joint-lowest of Capterra’s four sub-scores, level with value for money, which matches the complaint pattern.
- Resource-intensive web version: the browser build is the one users describe as slowing an older computer, and it is the version with no store listing and no published requirement to check against before installing.
- Price fragmentation across storefronts: the same annual subscription carried a different price on the web store, on the Mac App Store and on iOS when all three were read on 24 August 2026, with several iOS SKUs at several different prices. A buyer who does not compare storefronts can pay substantially more for the same year.
- Poor customer service: slow or unhelpful support responses are a recurring user complaint, and the refund policy sends a billing dispute to the storefront that took the payment instead of to the vendor. A lack of prompt and effective support disrupts a workflow and, on a subscription, costs money.
What do customer reviews and feedback say about Planner 5D?
Customer reviews and feedback on Planner 5D split by platform, and the split carries more information than the averages do. On Capterra and on the iOS App Store, both read 24 August 2026, Planner 5D rated well on each, and the sub-scores are where the detail sits: ease of use was the highest of Capterra’s four, features next, and value for money and customer service the joint-lowest. A star average and a review count are both false within a week, so the order of the sub-scores is the durable part of that reading. Both platforms sample people who chose the software and kept using it, and both praise the same things. A straightforward interface, controls that suit touch and mouse equally, and 2D planning with 3D visualization in one affordable tool.
Consumer review platforms tell a different story and the 2023 claim that Planner 5D scores over 4 out of 5 stars consistently fails on that word. Trustpilot, which samples consumers more than it samples software buyers, carried a far lower score than the software-buyer platforms when the page was opened on 21 September 2026, and the complaints cluster on trial conversion, auto-renewal charges, cancellation and refused refunds. The mechanism behind it is documented by the vendor itself, which states that partial refunds for unused subscription days or full refunds are not available, excepting proven defective digital content within 14 days and store-billed purchases handled by Apple or Microsoft. A design tool can be well liked by designers and badly reviewed by people who forgot to cancel, and both of those are true here at once.
Is Planner 5D legit?
Yes, Planner 5D is a legitimate product from a real company. Planner5D, UAB has operated since 2011 and is headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, its apps are distributed through the App Store, the Mac App Store, Google Play and the Microsoft Store with the same seller name on each, and it is rated well by reviewers on Capterra and on the App Store alike. Nothing about the software is a scam and the safety question searchers are asking has a straightforward answer.
The complaints that drive the question are billing complaints, and they deserve a plain warning. Subscriptions auto-renew, the vendor states that partial and full refunds are not available, and consumer review platforms are dominated by people who discovered both facts at the same time. Two practical defences follow. Buy through a storefront whose cancellation controls you already know, because a subscription bought on the App Store is cancelled in Apple’s account settings and not on planner5d.com. And check the renewal date the day it is taken out. The free plan asks for no card at all, which makes it the safest way to find out whether the software is worth a subscription.
What other architecture software options are there?
The architectural software options apart from Planner 5D are:
- Cedreo: Cedreo is a web-based software that allows architects, designers, builders, and remodelers to create 2D and 3D floor plans, allowing virtual tours. It helps users save time, reduce costs, and improve client satisfaction by streamlining the design process, communication, and collaboration. Cedreo sits a tier up from Planner 5D, priced for builders who need client-facing documents more than a hobbyist catalogue.
- SketchUp: SketchUp is a 3D modeling software that is easy to use and learn. It enables architects and designers to create, edit, and share 3D models of buildings, landscapes, and interiors. SketchUp also offers an extensive library of 3D models, materials, and plugins that can be accessed online. Its files are built to leave the program, which is the capability Planner 5D does not have.
- Chief Architect: Chief Architect is software for residential and light commercial design. It allows users to create 2D and 3D floor plans, elevations, sections, details, realistic renderings, and 3D walkthroughs. Chief Architect also has a comprehensive database of building products, materials, and furnishings that drags and drops into the design.
- Revit: Revit is a software based on the BIM approach. It allows users to create 3D models of buildings that can be updated and modified automatically across all views and documents. Revit also offers features for analysis, simulation, and design documentation. It is the tool a Planner 5D user reaches for when a project needs model-based coordination.
- Live Home 3D: Live Home 3D covers the same consumer-to-prosumer ground on Apple hardware, and its vendor states that the Mac edition creates an unlimited number of renders on the device free of charge, which is the opposite of Planner 5D’s metered, server-side allowance.
- Sweet Home 3D: Sweet Home 3D is free software with no paid tier above it, and it exports without asking for a subscription. It is the option for a reader whose requirement is simply a floor plan at no cost.
SketchUp and Home Design 3D are the two products searchers most often set against Planner 5D, well ahead of Cedreo, Live Home 3D and Sweet Home 3D in the measured search demand, and the axis to compare on is the same one throughout. Ask what leaves the software. Planner 5D gives a 2D DWG or DXF on its Professional tier, a printed PDF from the web version, and a shareable browser walkthrough on every tier, and on its self-serve tiers it gives no 3D file at all. Any alternative should be checked against that single question before the catalogue size or the subscription price gets a look.
Does Planner 5D require any special peripherals for better productivity?
Some of the Planner 5D’s special peripherals for better productivity are:
- Virtual reality (VR) glasses: Planner 5D has carried VR and AR modes on mobile since 2016 by the vendor’s timeline, so VR glasses turn a rendered scheme into a walkable one. Navigation runs from a Bluetooth joystick or the built-in controls on the VR glasses.
- High-performance computer: rendering runs on the vendor’s servers, so the local machine carries the interactive 3D view alone. A laptop with a capable processor and enough RAM keeps the browser version responsive, and the vendor publishes no hardware requirement to size it against.
- Tablet with stylus support: a tablet with stylus support, an iPad Pro or a Microsoft Surface among them, gives finer control over placement and wall drawing than a fingertip does, and the iPad app is part of the universal iOS listing.
- Premium subscription: a paid subscription unlocks the full catalogue and the editing tools, and Professional adds the CAD export and the unlimited 4K renders. A subscription is a productivity purchase more than a hardware one, and the tier decides what the software can produce.
- Collaboration tools: sharing runs by link, so the useful accessory is anything that puts that link in front of a client quickly, from a tablet carried to a site meeting to a second screen in a studio.
- Multiple screens: multiple screens give room to hold a 2D plan and a 3D view open at once, which suits complex designs. Apple computers are well suited to multi-display work and to moving a project between devices on the same account.
