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Doorchalk is an iPhone app. Write to support@doorchalk.com and include your iPhone model and what you expected the plan to do.

Make a plan

Open a new plan, then tap Guide me. The walk is the outline, the rooms, the main door, other doors and windows, north, then a stove, bed, or toilet when those rooms exist. Next waits until that step is done. Skip is only for extra doors and windows.

You can ignore the guide and use the tools yourself. Steps, under the drawing, opens any one of them.

Scan

Scan uses the camera and LiDAR, on iPhones that have that scanner. It traces one room. A scan does not replace the sample. It starts a new plan. If scanning is missing, use Import, Photo, or Grid.

The first scan asks for the camera. Doorchalk uses it only to trace the room. If you decline, turn Camera on for Doorchalk in the Settings app.

Sizes and north

The top row is the whole plan. Each chip is one room. Switch between meters and feet. Sizes are approximate. A scan or a finger trace is not a survey.

Tap North, drag on the plan, then lock it. If you allow location, Doorchalk can suggest north. That hint stays on the phone.

The sample

Open sample two-bedroom is a finished plan. It opens locked. Pinch to zoom, and drag to move it. Those touches do not change the drawing. Edit a copy makes your own plan. Edit sample turns drawing on for this visit. Reset puts the original back. The sample does not use your free plan.

Free and Pro

One saved plan is free, with room sizes, north, pins, and a shared picture. Pro adds more saved plans, a PDF, before and after, and the Layout, Vastu, feng shui, and kaso layers. The purchase sheet in the app shows the price, the yearly trial when you are eligible, Restore, and Manage Subscription.

A layer names a placement rule and points at the plan. It does not score the house. The drawing is useful with every layer off.

Delete your plans

Settings, the gear, has Delete all local data. That removes the plans stored on this iPhone. There is no account to sign out of, and no Doorchalk copy of the plan on a server.