Floor Plan Software With No Sign-Up: The Short List

Four tools let you draw a floor plan without creating an account: Sweet Home 3D, Arti, SketchUp Free's desktop predecessors, and pen and paper. Everything else in this category — RoomSketcher, Planner 5D, Floorplanner, Coohom, Homestyler — is a web app that asks for an email address before you can place a single wall. The reason is not technical. It is that a browser app has nowhere else to keep your work.

That distinction is worth understanding before you pick one, because it decides what happens to your plan in two years.

The list

Checked August 2026. If you find one of these has changed, tell us and we will correct it.

In short: the no-account list is short because it is really a list of desktop applications. That is the actual dividing line, and everything else follows from it.

Why web apps always ask

It is not a dark pattern in the usual sense. A browser tab has no permanent storage you would trust a project to — clear your site data and it is gone — so a web-based editor genuinely needs a server to keep your work, and a server needs to know which plan is yours. The account is load-bearing.

A desktop app has your disk, so it needs none of that. Sweet Home 3D and Arti do not ask who you are because there is no question to answer: the file is already on your machine, under your control, backed up by whatever backs up the rest of it.

So the honest framing is not "some companies respect you and others don't". It is that you are choosing between two architectures, and the account is a symptom of the choice rather than the choice itself.

What you give up by refusing an account

This page would be worthless if it only listed the upside. Going account-free costs you four real things:

1. One machine. Your plan is on that disk. Moving to another computer means moving the file yourself.
2. No collaboration. Nobody else can open the plan, comment on it, or edit it with you. For a homeowner this is irrelevant; for a professional working with clients it may be disqualifying.
3. No recovery if the disk dies. A cloud tool's servers are backed up by people whose job that is. Your laptop is backed up by you. If you take the account-free route, Time Machine stops being optional.
4. Usually weaker rendering. The photorealistic output from RoomSketcher or Coohom comes from render farms you are not going to reproduce locally.

The key question is which failure you would rather risk: a company changing its pricing, its terms, or its mind about your file — or a hard drive failing while you had no backup. Both are real. Only one is under your control.

Sweet Home 3D

Free, open source under the GPL, runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, no account, no tier, no watermark, maintained since 2006. It imports and exports more formats than anything else here and has two decades of community plugins.

It is the benchmark, and any tool claiming to beat it should say what it gives up. If its interface — dense, Java, visibly of its era — does not bother you, stop reading and go download it. It is genuinely good and it costs nothing, forever.

Arti

We make this one, so weigh the section accordingly; the rest of the page is written to be useful whichever way you go.

Arti is a free native macOS app. It opens on an empty plan with no account, no sign-up and no network connection. Rooms are drawn by dragging, doors and windows cut real openings, there are 244 pieces of furniture at real dimensions, materials on floors and walls, multiple floors, and a 3D view you can walk through at eye level. Plans live in a single SQLite file inside the app's own sandbox.

What it does not do: macOS only. No Windows, Linux, iPad or phone. No cloud, no collaboration, no shared links. No CAD export — you get a PNG, not a DWG. No import of an existing plan.

And what it is not: a measuring instrument. It draws the dimensions you type. It does not check building regulations and its areas are not a legally valid statement of floor space.

The wall you actually hit

For most people the account is not the real obstacle — the export is.

Free tiers of subscription products are tuned so that you invest an evening in a plan and discover at the end that the PDF is watermarked, or capped at a resolution that is useless for anything. That is the intended moment. It is not dishonest, it is just the business model, and it is worth knowing about before you start rather than after.

Check the export before you invest the evening. Draw one room, export it, look at the file. Five minutes spent there tells you more about a tool than any comparison page, including this one.

Frequently asked questions

Is there free floor plan software with no sign-up? Yes — Sweet Home 3D and Arti both let you draw, edit and export without an account or an email address. Both are desktop applications, which is what makes it possible: they store your plan on your own disk, so there is nothing for an account to identify.

Why do floor plan websites always ask for an email? Because a browser tab has no durable storage they can trust with your project, so the plan has to live on their server — and a server needs to know which plan belongs to whom. The account is a technical consequence of being a web app, not only a marketing choice.

Can I use floor plan software offline? Desktop tools, yes — Sweet Home 3D, Arti and Live Home 3D all work with no connection at all. Web-based tools need at least an initial connection and usually a continuous one. See offline floor plan software.

Will a no-account tool watermark my export? Sweet Home 3D does not. Arti puts a small mark in the corner and nothing else. Free tiers of subscription products often do, or they cap the export resolution instead — and that is the most common place people discover the limits of a free tier, after the work is done.

Is my floor plan private if I use a web app? It is on their servers, governed by their privacy policy and terms, which can change. For most people planning their own home this is a perfectly acceptable trade. If your plan is of a property you would rather not have stored elsewhere, a desktop tool removes the question entirely.

See also

• Free floor plan software for Mac — with prices
• How to draw a floor plan of your home

Written by Mickael Romaniello, who makes Arti — one of the tools listed above.