Setout and Floorplanner
Part of the questions on Setout and other planning tools
Floorplanner is a general floor planner with image exports up to 8K, free for up to 5 projects and then paid for by credits or a subscription. Setout is free, needs no account, reads a Singapore HDB or condo plan from a photo or PDF, and prices the paint and flooring off the same drawing.
Side by side
| Setout | Floorplanner | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. The one paid plan only takes Setout’s name off a firm’s quotes. | Free for casual use. Credits upgrade a project: 5 for $8.15, 10 for $16.30, 30 for $48.90, 100 for $163.00. Subscriptions for regular and professional use. |
| Account | None needed. Signing in only keeps a copy that follows you to another device. | A free account. |
| Projects | One design at a time in a browser. | Up to 5 free projects, kept in your account. |
| Floors | Several storeys, with stairs between them. | Free projects are limited to 3 floors with 3 designs in total; an upgraded project allows up to 7 floors. |
| Pictures out | A view-only link to walk through the design in 3D, and a quote as a PDF with the plan drawn to scale. No rendered image exports. | Basic projects export 2D and 3D images at 960 × 540 with a Floorplanner watermark. Credits remove it and unlock HD (1920 × 1080), 4K and 8K. |
| What it will cost to build | Measures the paint, flooring and mouldings off the plan and prices them at your own rates. | Its pricing page lists no quote or costing feature. |
| Made for | Singapore homes: HDB flats and condos, with furnished HDB layouts to start from. | Personal use, retail and manufacturers, real estate, and design professionals, by its own menu. |
Floorplanner’s column is from its own site, read 12 October 2026. Prices are as its page shows them.
Which to pick
Setout, if
- You have an HDB or condo floor plan as a photo or PDF and want its walls read off it.
- You want to know how much paint and flooring the design takes, and what that costs at the rates you are quoted.
- You do not want to make an account.
Floorplanner, if
- You want polished HD or 4K pictures of the design.
- You are keeping several projects going at once.
- You want the library and custom templates its plans list.
Where the two differ most
Floorplanner’s paid side is about pictures: its credits and subscriptions buy higher-resolution exports, more floors and no wait between exports. Setout’s whole point is the other end of the job: a quote measured off the plan, so the picture and the price come from one drawing. It makes no rendered images at all.
If you are choosing for a flat in Singapore, the practical difference is the start. Setout takes HDB’s own floor plan as a photo or PDF and finds the walls, or opens a furnished 4-room or 2-room Flexi layout to change.
Sources
- Floorplanner, Pricing · read 12 October 2026
Rules and fees change. The linked page is the authority; if it differs from this one, go by it, and tell us.
Questions
Is Floorplanner free?
For casual use, yes: its pricing page says you can make up to 5 free projects, limited to 3 floors with 3 designs in total, with SD-quality image exports that carry a watermark. Higher resolution and more floors are bought with credits or a subscription.
What is a free alternative to Floorplanner for an HDB flat?
Setout is free and needs no account. It reads an HDB or condo floor plan from a photo or PDF, lets you furnish it and see it in 3D, and measures the paint and flooring off the plan for a priced quote. It does not make rendered images.
Does Setout put a watermark on what I export?
A quote made with Setout ends with a line saying so, and a shared design link says it was made with Setout. A firm can pay to have both removed and its own logo put on the quote.
Try it on your own flat. Nothing to install, and no account.
Open the designer