Features — Arti floor plan editor for Mac

Drawing

Rooms you drag out, not coordinates you type

Pick the room tool and drag on the grid. Walls take real thickness, dimensions read out in metres as you go, and every edge can be dragged afterwards. For an L-shape or anything less regular, the free-form tool takes it vertex by vertex.

Rectangular rooms and free-form polygons
Walls with real, adjustable thickness
Live dimensions and per-room area in m²
Rooms snap to each other so shared walls actually meet
Alignment guides while you drag

Four rooms drawn on the grid in Arti, with live dimensions and each room’s area in square metres

Doors and windows

Openings that cut the wall for real

A door is not a symbol painted on a line. Drop one on a wall and it removes that stretch of wall in the 2D plan and in the 3D model, with a header above it and a sill under a window. More than twenty joinery styles ship with the app.

Doors, windows, French windows and open passages
20+ joinery styles, in several timber and paint finishes
Swing direction drawn correctly in 2D
A door on a shared wall appears from both rooms
Openings move along their wall by dragging

A close 3D view of a wall in Arti with a window and a doorway cut clean through it

Furniture

244 pieces, at their real dimensions

Beds, sofas, tables, kitchen units, bathrooms, desks, storage, radiators, lighting and garden furniture. Each one carries the dimensions of the real object, so a sofa that does not fit on the plan will not fit in the room.

244 models, drawn in 2D and modelled in 3D
Resize, rotate and tint any piece
Wall-mounted items stay attached to their wall
Nothing passes through a partition
Every asset is CC0 or made for this app — see Credits

The Arti furniture catalogue open on a list of sofas, with the piece previewed beside the plan

Materials

Floors and walls you can actually finish

Thirty-five tileable materials — oak, parquet, tile, marble, brick, concrete, carpet — applied per room, on the floor and on the walls, with a per-room tint when one space should read differently from the next.

35 materials, on floors and on walls
Per-room tint over any material
Applied per room, not globally
Visible in 2D as well as in 3D

A room selected in 3D in Arti, with the floor and wall material swatches open in the panel

3D

The same plan, standing up

One control switches between the plan and the model — it is the same data, not an export. Orbit it from outside, hide every wall at once to read the layout at a glance, or drop into walk mode and move through the rooms at eye height.

Orbit, pan and zoom the whole model
“Hide walls” clears every wall in one click
Walk mode at eye level, on the keyboard
Furniture, materials and openings all carry through

The same flat standing up in 3D in Arti, with walls, doors, windows and furniture in place

Floors

A house is rarely one level

Build the storeys the house actually has, up to 3 in a plan. Duplicate one to start the next from the same footprint, reorder them, and rename them — the names follow the plan wherever it goes.

Create, duplicate, reorder and rename storeys — up to 3 per plan
Duplicating a floor copies its rooms and layout
Each floor keeps its own furniture and materials

The floor menu open in Arti over a three-storey plan, with the duplicate action visible

Export

Something you can send to somebody

Export the 2D plan or the 3D view as a PNG image, framed as you see it on screen. It goes wherever you put it on your disk — ready for an email to a builder, an architect or a landlord.

PNG export from both 2D and 3D
Framed exactly as shown on screen
Saved wherever you choose — nothing is uploaded

The Arti export dialog over the 2D plan, offering PDF, PNG and the printable sheet

Being straight with you

What Arti is not

Not a measuring instrument

Arti draws the dimensions you enter. It does not check building regulations, structural loads, fire codes or accessibility rules, and it will happily draw something that could not be built. It is not a substitute for a survey, an architect's drawing or an engineer's calculation, and a plan from it is not a legally valid statement of floor area.

Not everything, yet

macOS only — no Windows, Linux, iPad or phone. No cloud, no collaboration and no shared links today. No CAD export: you get a PNG, not a DWG or an SVG. And no import of an existing plan or a scanned drawing.

Free, and free of sign-up.

Download it and draw your first room in about a minute.

Download free for Mac

Arti is not made for a phone yet

Open this on a desktop and you can use the whole editor in your browser — nothing to install, no account. The Mac app is free on the App Store.

artiplans.com/draw

What Arti does, and what it does not.