Capture a room, trust the right lengths, read the takeoff, price it at your rates and hand the client a PDF. Nine short sheets, in the order you will use them.

Storyrod measures a room, draws it as a floor plan you can edit, works out the quantities, prices them from your own rates and exports a PDF. It runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 26.5 or later.

• Free jobs. Your first 3 jobs are free. A job is spent when you create it, and one job covers every room and level in the house. The sample plans don't count. See pricing.
• Started jobs stay open. With no jobs left, every job you have already started still opens, edits, re-prices and exports.
• Try a sample first. Restore Sample Plans on the Jobs list puts the samples back. Anything exported from a sample is stamped "SAMPLE · NOT FOR A REAL JOB".
• Account is optional. Sign in with Apple only so bought jobs follow you to a new phone. Everything else works signed out.

Tap Scan Room. What opens depends on the device you hold.

LiDAR: iPhone Pro and iPad Pro

1. Allow camera access.
2. Walk the perimeter slowly with the walls in view. Follow the prompts when they say slow down or move closer.
3. To scan more rooms in the same job, tap Scan Next Room at the end of each. Rooms scanned in one session line up with each other, and rooms on different floors go onto separate levels.
4. Tap Done Scanning. The plan opens in the editor.

Walls, doors, windows and fixtures come in automatically. LiDAR lengths print rounded to the half inch.

Camera: other iPhones and iPads

The same button opens Measure With the Camera.

1. Sweep the phone slowly across the floor until the guidance disappears.
2. Aim the dot where a wall meets the floor and tap Add Corner. Walk to the next corner and tap again.
3. Back at the first corner it turns green. Tap Close Room.
4. Aim where a wall meets the ceiling to set the height, or skip it.
5. Add each door and window with two taps at opposite corners.

Camera lengths are estimates, usually within a few percent. They print with ≈ and round to the inch. Turn the lights on, move slowly, aim at the floor line and clear a path first.

Sketch by hand

Choose New Blank Plan, or Scan Room then Sketch by Hand on a device that can't track. Drag to draw walls corner to corner, tap a wall and type its length from your tape, and add doors and windows from the panel underneath. Typed lengths print as measured. Walls you drew and didn't measure print with ~.

Add Rectangle Room

In the plan menu, Add Rectangle Room… draws a room from a typed width and length.

Storyrod marks each length on screen and in the PDF legend, so you know which numbers you can stand behind.

Mark	Source	Treat it as
Plain	LiDAR scan	Good to a couple of inches
≈	Camera estimate	Close, not exact
~	Drawn, not measured	Nobody measured it
Bold	Typed measurement	You taped it

Open Verify Lengths from the plan menu. It lists the walls worth taping first, ranked by how much certainty each costs, with what taping it is worth against the bid. Type what your tape says and that wall prints as measured.

• Retyping the number already shown counts as confirming it.
• Moving one wall can move the wall it shares a corner with. The list says which and asks you to tape it again.
• Verify Lengths is optional. An unverified wall never blocks an export.

• Walls. Drag a corner and every wall meeting there moves. Doors and windows stay on their wall. Tap a wall and type a length.
• Openings. Add a door, window or cased opening from the panel under a wall. Door types are hinged, sliding, bifold, pocket and double.
• Rooms. Each room can have its own ceiling height, which sets that room's wall area and crown in the takeoff.
• Add Room… in the plan menu captures another room into the same job. It arrives beside the plan: drag it, then place it.
• Levels in the plan menu add, rename, delete and switch floors. The takeoff and estimate cover every level, and the PDF has a sheet per level.
• Add Symbol… places an outlet, switch, light, panel, register or other mark from a list grouped by trade, plus fixtures such as a sink, toilet or tub. Marks are placed by hand and counted in the takeoff. They are not circuits, loads or code checks.
• Add Photo… pins a photo to the plan as a numbered marker. Photos print on numbered pages in the plan PDF.
• 3D Preview in the plan menu lets you orbit and pinch the model.
• Units. Imperial (feet and inches) or Metric.
• Undo and Redo are always available.

Quantities recalculate on every edit, by room and in total: net drywall and paint (walls and ceiling), flooring, baseboard, crown, door and window casing, and door and window counts. Rough openings are deducted, and flooring is net of cabinets, counters, tubs and stairs.

• Symbols are counted by kind in their own section.
• No waste factor is applied. Add your own before you order.
• Export CSV gives one row per room and a total.

Figures come from a field sketch. Verify them on site before ordering.

1. Open Default Rates and enter your material and labour prices once. Storyrod ships with none.
2. Open the job's Estimate. Each takeoff line is priced from your rates, with material and labour kept separate.
3. Add Markup, a Discount (off the marked-up price, before tax) and payment terms. Add or remove lines by hand.
4. The estimate keeps the prices it was made with. Re-price from my default rates updates it when you choose.

Two copies. The Client Copy is for the homeowner: priced lines, your terms and signature lines. It never shows your rates, the material and labour split or your markup. My Copy shows margin and is only for you.

• Export PDF makes a dimensioned plan on the paper size you choose (Letter, Legal, Tabloid 11×17, A4 or A3), with your logo and title block from Contractor Details, a room schedule, the takeoff and a legend of length sources. One sheet per level.
• Export DXF writes AIA layers (walls, doors, glazing, fixtures, dimensions, notes, and symbols on their own layers) for an architect or CAD user.
• Print Plan, Print Client Copy and Print My Copy use AirPrint.
• Estimates export as PDF and CSV.

Sheets fit the drawing to the paper; they aren't printed to a true scale. Every drawing says "Field sketch · dimensions approximate · verify all conditions before ordering or fabrication".

Plans live on your device. To move a job to your iPad or a colleague's phone, open the plan menu, choose Share then Send Job to Another Device, and send the file by AirDrop, Mail or Files. Opening it on the other device brings the job in, with its photos. It is free, and a newer copy replaces an older one. Samples stay samples.

Signing in with Apple under Account also lets bought jobs follow you to a new phone. Delete Account is in the same place.

Storyrod isn't CAD. It doesn't export DWG, doesn't print to true scale and doesn't come with material prices. Tape the walls you will bid against.

If this happens	Do this
Scan Room opens camera corner capture, not LiDAR	That device has no LiDAR. It is expected, and lengths are estimates (≈).
The Add button is grey during camera capture	Tracking is poor. Turn the lights on, slow down, aim at the floor line and wait for it to recover.
Camera access is off	Open Settings from the prompt, or choose Sketch by Hand instead.
You are out of jobs	Started jobs still open, edit and export. Buy jobs in the app, or enter a code under Have a code?, to start a new one.
A purchase doesn't show	Reopen the app. The balance updates on launch and when the network returns.