Plaans - Site documentation3.2.0 - App Store

From our own experience in the construction field, we know that a huge amount of data needs to be collected and organized for quantity surveys and photo documentations of construction sites.

In order to optimize our own workflow we have developed Plaans - a practical assistant for the daily use to support us handling the following, frequently recurring tasks:

"Where should i put the camera, the various pens, the drawing board, the measuring laser, flashlight and the piles of building plans?"

Plaans offers basic functions for recording quantity surveys directly on digital construction plans. This helps you keeping your hands free.

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"Where did I take this photo? In what direction did i look?"

Take pictures and locate them on your floor plans - including the viewing direction. Place audio and text comments right where they need to be.

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"Lots of pictures, plans and comments. How do I get this organized?"

Plaans automatically organizes all collected data in an well-arranged file and folder structure and prepares your projects in interactive presentations.

The data and floor plans are easy to manage without additional software.

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Plaans at a glance:
- Localized information on digital floor plans
- Paperless assistence for quantity surveys
- Photos with location and viewing direction indicator
- Voice and text comments
- Easy data management
- Data export as interactive presentations

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Information about Plaans full version subscriptions:

- In the full version you can use all features without limitations.
- The subscriptions period is 1 month.
- The subscription price is 19,99 €.
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
- Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period.
- Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. Automatic renewals will cost the same price you were originally charged for the subscription.
- You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase.

You can find our terms of service and privacy policy at:
https://plaans.com/imprint?lang=en

Version History With this version you are able to import plans and project from third party file management apps via the Files app. 3.2.0 03/12/2025 We implemented a new functionality to make it easier and more intuitive to change the assigned color layer of an object.
We also fixed bug that happend after restoring of an in-app-purchase and updated the design of the "Magic Rulers". 3.1.0 02/28/2025 This version fixes a bug that prevented opening external URLs. 3.0.1 02/24/2025 We redesigned the user interface to make it look more modern. 3.0.0 02/23/2025 Fixes a bug that caused incomplete comments in the exported PDF files. 2.8.1 03/28/2024 2.8.0 09/10/2023 We added sorting to the project management. Now you can sort your plans alphabetically ascending and descending as well as by the last modification date. Also project groups are now sorted alphabetically.

When importing huge PDFs Plaans no longer deactivates vector rendering automatically. Meanwhile the device are powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data. Anyways: if you are experiencing performance issues when working with a plan you can deactivate the vector rendering in the plan settings.

Also, we removed the annoying popup that reminded you setting up a company profile in the project.

Last but not least: You'll now find a new tab "Online Tutorial" on the help screen. There you'll find detailed information on how to use plans. You need to have an internet connection to use it but you have probably already guessed that as there's a hint in "Online" :) 2.7.0 03/31/2023 This version fixes a bug when selecting an external laser meter. Now you can use external meters with your iPhone if it supports BluetoothLE. 2.6.0 02/16/2023 You can now use Plaans also with external laser meters from Hilti. 2.5.0 12/05/2022 We completely revised the import and export of plans and projects to support as many external services as possible. You can now import PDF and ZIP files from other apps directly into plans and export to these apps. 2.4.0 07/13/2021 Thise version fixes a bug that can occure when purchasing or restoring a subscription. 2.3.2 06/19/2020 From now on you can use twice as many color layers to organize your recorded data. You can define the names of the color layers as usual in the project settings. In the plan settings you can overwrite these names for each plan separately if needed. Here you can now activate a function that adds a preview of the plan including the location markers as cover sheet for the PDF reports.

Apart from this we fixed the wrong scaling of the location marker for plans with low resolution, we unified the measurement values received from Bluetooth-devices and the Magic Ruler, and made some small improvements in the user interface. 2.3.1 11/15/2018 Some users asked for a function to replace plans (i.e. to update with revised versions). You can do this now with local files or files from your dropbox.

In case you haven't got any measuring devices on hand, we implemented a neat little helper - the "Magic Ruler". In the measure tool tap on the new icon on the right side of the input field and follow the instructions.

Also: now there are more options to share your plans and projects. 2.3.0 10/13/2018 If you use Dropbox you can now organize your files in subfolders. Also when you export your plans and projects you now have more options to send the ZIP archives to your colleagues. As a few users requested it: In the exported interactive plans photos and audios are now linked to the actual files.

The biggest news is also based feedback we received from several users. We have implemented a new credits-based payment system to offer an alternative to our subscription model for users who use Plaans on a more occasional basis. You still can use Plaans for free for small projects with up to two plans. If you want to import complete projects or additional plans you can either subscribe to the full version or purchase credits if you don’t want to take out a subscription. Purchased credits cannot be transfered to other devices. Adding a plan to one of your projects uses one credit from your contingent. Importing a complete project uses two credits. You can purchase new credits at any time. 2.2.0 09/27/2018 With this version we fixed a bug that caused some PDFs to appear with a wrong rotation. 2.1.6 09/21/2018 This version fixes a bug that caused unreadable numbers when exporting large format PDFs. Also you can now unlink your Dropbox connection to work with multiple accounts. 2.1.5 09/14/2018 As many users requested, you can now change the size of the preview images in PDF reports. In the app settings you will find three options: Small (4 images per page), Medium (3 images per page) and Large (2 images per page). Also, we added some haptic feedback when you use Plaans if your device supports this feature and it is enabled. 2.1.4 08/30/2018 You can now use speech recognition to transcribe your voice recordings. Of course you can edit the automatic transcripts if needed. The transcripts will be exported in the reports. 2.1.3 08/23/2018 This version fixes a PDF rendering bug caused by an offset of the vectordata within some PDF files. 2.1.2 08/03/2018 We revised the design of the data sheets as many of you requested this feature and implemented a function to customize these sheets. 2.1.1 07/30/2018 In this version we revised the import functionality: You can now import PDF files with multiple pages as seperate plans. Also you can upload images files via the browser-based management console. If you want to share specific plans of your project with your team mates you can now import the exported ZIP files into other projects or on other devices. 2.1.0 07/20/2018 In this version we adapted the user interface for the iPhone X and fixed a bug where you could accidentially select hidden objects. 2.0.11 07/12/2018 This version fixes a bug that caused the app to crash. 2.0.10 06/30/2018 This version fixes a bug that could cause plans with transparent background to be rendered incorrectly. Line breaks are now supported when adding text notes. 2.0.9 06/27/2018 This version introduces a new setting for each plan that lets you decide whether the plan is displayed and rendered in high quality vector-based resolution or a medium quality bitmap-based resolution. This might be helpful when you are working with more complex plans that can affect your device's performance or cause export errors.

We also improved the camera user interface to be more efficient.

Last but not least: Plaans now runs on iPad and iPhone devices. That means: customers who have subscribed to the Plaans full version on their iPad can now use Plaans on their iPhones as well. 2.0.8 06/15/2018