Featured App: MagicPlan by Sensopia | Ironwood Custom Builders

This week’s featured app is MagicPlan by Sensopia. MagicPlan is the leading application for surveying and transforming indoor spaces with more than 8.5 million downloads.
MagicPlan uses technology from Google’s Project Tango and Intel’s Real Sense Technology. This app allows you to create inside maps simply by taking pictures. The data from these inside maps can be collected, organized, and shared through the app.

With MagicPlan creating a comprehensive floor plan of an indoor space can be accomplished in minutes. The floor plan contains a rich set of data, including all measurements, shapes and objects. This set of data is the foundation for the new estimator.

“Our users are mostly professionals in the field of renovation and remodeling. We wanted to automate the quotation process. Creating a quote in minutes instead of days can be the difference between a signed project and a lost client”, says Pierre Gaubil CEO of Sensopia.

The estimator is adaptable to almost any business model and enables the quotation of flooring (carpet, tile, hardwood floor), painting, electrical installation, furniture or pest control to name a few. The user can easily create a custom catalogue including his products, tasks, discounts or taxes to estimate the cost. Each item can have a custom pricing model (per item, meter/feet, square meter/feet, hour, carpet roll, liter/gallon, tile/sheet, box, percentage or a flat fee). MagicPlan 5.0 estimator makes complex quotations such as carpet installation as simple as dropping a carpet onto the plan. The carpet roll cut is optimized, and can be manually adjusted to minimize the waste.

MagicPlan 5.0 is free to download and runs on all iOS platforms. Android will follow soon. The estimator is free to use on the device, however it necessitates a business subscription to enable the quote creation. The business subscription is $19.99 / month.

User Experience of MagicPlan

The app allows you to add objects, annotations, and other attributes to your map. There is no need to have any artistic talent when working with this app, you won’t be drawing, measuring, or moving any of your furniture, you simply need a phone with a gyroscope and the app will do the measuring for you.

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MagicPlan is incredibly simple to use. All you have to do is aim your device at the floor and door corners and click to add a marker.

MagicPlan Uses

The app is most useful for builders, but it can be a great way to get a floor plan of your current home so you can better plan out your interior design, home additions, or home renovations.

“We think that the estimator is a game changer. It creates a sense of confidence for the client, that realizes that the quote is part of a real process, where guessing is no longer a risk. It also creates a fantastic ROI for the professional by accelerating the process and enabling on the spot quotation” concludes Pierre Gaubil.

MagicPlan Cost

The app itself is free to download on your device, but if you want a copy of the inside map you must pay to get it in your chosen format, or to publish it as an interactive map for the web.

Additional feature that require in app purchases include; certain objects, commercial usage, cloud storage, and sharing your maps.

The cost of purchasing a map is $2.99 per map, or you can choose to purchase a subscription for $9.99 per month.

MagicPlan Objects

MagicPlan allows you to plan your home décor by offering a variety of furniture and appliance objects. Many of them won’t be exact, but it can certainly help give you an idea of how the home will look once you furnish it.