Urcrib

Your home, at its real size.

Measure your rooms by counting floor tiles, place real furniture, and know what fits before the carpenter comes. Urcrib is a floor planner for homes and shops in Nigeria. It is free, runs in the browser on any phone, and needs no account to start.

Start planning · Will it fit through the door?

How it works

  1. Choose. Start from a layout like yours: flats, bungalows, duplexes and shops — five layouts for every kind of home.
  2. Measure. Count the floor tiles along each wall, and how much of the cut tile is left. No tape needed.
  3. Furnish. Place real furniture at its real size — every piece drawn from above at the size it is sold.
  4. Check. Know what will not fit: a wardrobe that cannot open, a walkway it closes, a sofa that will not get through the door.

Then see the whole home in 3D — turn it, zoom into it and look into each room — on every floor, with the stairs between them.

Will it fit through the door?

Pick a piece, measure the narrowest doorway on the way in, and say how you measured it. The check answers that it goes through, that it does not, or that it is too close to call — and which measurement to take again.

Fitting out a shop, a salon or a buka? Plan it the same way.

Shops and pharmacies, supermarkets, salons and barbershops, restaurants and bukas, offices, and tailors — each with layouts to start from, their own fittings, and checks for aisles, counters and the room behind every chair.

Scanned it with a LiDAR app? Bring it in.

Export a DXF or IFC file from a LiDAR app such as OpenPlan3D Capture, Lagarsoft LiDAR Scanner, RoomScan Pro, magicplan or Polycam, and open it in Urcrib. It becomes your plan — walls, doors and windows where the scan found them. The file is read on your phone and never uploaded. A scan is recorded as a vector plan, good to about ±25 mm.

Who it is for

  • Anyone furnishing a home or a shop, before anything is bought, built or carried up the stairs.
  • Landlords and agents: draw a building once, and give each tenant their own copy to furnish.
  • Furniture makers and sellers: claim your pieces, and get quote requests with the room and the sizes attached.
  • Planning from abroad: plan a home in Nigeria with family, and pay in dollars.

Pricing

Plan one flat with the basic pieces for free. Unlock a plan once for everything else, and one monthly fee keeps all your unlocked plans editable. Help from AI is bought in credits, the way you buy airtime. Every price is in naira and shown before you pay.

Free — Free with an account

For finding out if the basics fit. One flat, the basic pieces, every check. Enough to know whether the bed, the wardrobe and the sofa fit.

  • 1 plan — a flat
  • 19 basic pieces, up to 12 placed
  • Every check, and the door check
  • A shopping list
  • Invite people to view and comment
  • No export

Pro — ₦12,000 a plan, once

For a whole home, a house, a shop, a client. Unlocks one plan for good, with 10 credits. Then ₦8,000 a month keeps every plan you have unlocked editable — one fee, however many plans — or ₦80,000 a year, 2 months free. Your first month is included.

  • The whole catalogue, and as many pieces as the plan needs
  • Any kind of plan: a flat, a house, a duplex, a shop — from a layout, or drawn room by room
  • Image and PDF exports, drawn to scale and signed by Urcrib
  • The 3D view as a picture, and the building as a 3D file (glTF or OBJ) for Blender, SketchUp and other tools
  • Collaborators who edit with you
  • Up to four layouts per room
  • Your logo on exports beside ours
  • Stop the monthly fee and your plans stay yours: to open, share and export

Credits — From ₦1,000 a pack

For when you want a hand from AI. Packs of 10, 25 or 60 credits for ₦1,000, ₦2,500 or ₦6,000. Work on any plan, Free or Pro. You see the cost before each use, and pay only for a result: if it fails, the credits come back.

  • Pictures of the pieces in your room — 1 credit
  • A suggested layout for a room — 3 credits
  • Read a sketch or a photo of a plan — 5 credits
  • A walkthrough video — 45 credits

Vendors — Free to join

For makers, showrooms and market sellers. Nothing to pay until a customer has paid you. We keep 8% of each order; ₦10,000 a month starts with your first paid order, taken from it, and keeps your pieces live after that.

  • Claim your pieces in the catalogue
  • Quote requests with sizes attached
  • Keep your prices current
  • See what customers look at

Every length says how it was measured.

A tape measure is good to ±30 mm, a tile count to ±5%, pacing to ±10%, and a typical size to ±15%. The plan records which you used, and when a piece is close to the edge it asks you to measure again before you buy.

Questions

Do I need a tape measure?
No. Count the floor tiles, or describe the room as you walk it in steps. A tape makes the plan surer, and the plan says how sure every size is either way.
My home is not like any of the layouts. Can I still plan it?
Yes. Start from one room — the one your front door opens into — then add the others one at a time, drag each to where it is, and give it its doors and windows. A room that is not a rectangle is described by walking its walls. Every size is a guess until you measure it, and says so.
Is it free?
One flat is free with an account — every check and the door check, with 19 basic pieces and up to 12 placed. The whole catalogue, a house, a duplex or a shop, exporting, and collaborators who edit are Pro: ₦12,000 unlocks one plan for good, and ₦8,000 a month keeps every plan you have unlocked editable.
How does Pro work with more than one plan?
Each plan is unlocked once, for ₦12,000. The monthly fee is not per plan: ₦8,000 covers editing all of them. Stop it and nothing is lost — every plan can still be opened, shared and exported, and editing comes back when you pay again.
Does it work on Android?
Yes. Urcrib runs in the browser on any phone, and can be installed to your home screen. It works offline once opened.
Where are my plans kept?
In your account, and on your phone so they open without a connection. Nobody sees them unless you share them, and they are never used to train anything.
Can I plan a shop, a salon or an office?
Yes — shops, supermarkets, salons, restaurants, offices and tailors, each with layouts to start from, their own fittings, and checks for aisles, counters and chairs.
What does “unverified” mean on a piece?
Its size is the size it is usually sold at, not yet checked against a real piece by a named reviewer. Confirm the size with the seller before you buy.
Can I bring in a scan from a LiDAR app?
Yes. Export a DXF or IFC file from an app like OpenPlan3D Capture or RoomScan Pro and open it in Urcrib. The file is read on your phone, never uploaded.
Can I open my plan in another 3D tool?
Yes, on a Pro plan. In the 3D view, Save 3D model saves the whole building — every floor, wall, door and piece — as a glTF (.glb) or OBJ (.obj) file. It opens in Blender, SketchUp, Unity, Unreal, 3ds Max and the 3D viewer on most computers, in metres, with every room and piece named. Save picture keeps the view as you turned it. The model is one to work from, not a survey: wall thickness is drawn, not measured.
Can a carpenter or seller see my plan?
Only if you share it with them, and they sign in to open it. On Free they can view and comment; on Pro they can edit with you, and you can export it for them.

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