BEFORE & AFTER PHOTOS (new) — Document every surface before you close it up and after it's finished. Photograph the open wall, floor, or ceiling with the cables exposed, then the plastered, painted result — so months or years later you know exactly where the wiring runs behind the surface. Add as many before and after shots as you need per surface, each with its own note. FLOOR & CEILING — Walls aren't the whole story. Add a floor or ceiling to any project as its own surface and give it the same before/after record — ideal for underfloor heating loops, ceiling light drops, and cable routes running overhead. BROWSE & EXPORT — Flip through every surface's before and after shots in one project gallery, and export a clean Before & After PDF to hand to the homeowner or keep on file — separate from your technical wiring plan. Plus fixes and polish throughout.

FIXTURE GROUPS (new) — Place a whole combination in one drop. Build a vertical or horizontal group of 2–6 fixtures — the classic bedside stack, a kitchen counter row, a TV wall — or start from a best-practice preset and tweak it. Drop it as one unit that moves and flips together, and save your own groups to reuse across projects. A group is fed by a single cable, so cable estimates and offers count it the way it's actually installed. SNAP TO CODE HEIGHTS — Drag any fixture and it magnetizes to the standard mounting heights for your region — sockets, switches, the panel — with a guide line showing the exact centimetre. REDESIGNED ON THE WALL — Fixtures now render as clean, consistent chips that scale with the wall, so a socket never dwarfs a door on a wide scan. Switches look like real wall switches, and the technical export still lists every fixture's dimensions. WALLS — The All Walls and Doors & Windows sheets open at half height so the canvas stays in view. Adding a fifth wall asks first, and you can delete a wall right from the All Walls grid. Plus a lighter, faster canvas and fixes and polish throughout.

One walk, the whole home. Scan room after room in a single LiDAR session — WireSketch chains them into one top-down floor plan. Every room is auto-named, created as its own project, and stays linked, so a rename shows up on the plan everywhere. ELECTRICIAN MODE (new) — Turn a property into a branded, priced customer offer PDF: your letterhead and logo, an itemised position table, and net → VAT → gross totals that always add up. • Add the circuit panel (every breaker priced), the solar system (modules, cabling, protection and fuses) and the floor plan as document sections. • One-tap VAT treatments: standard rate, EU reverse charge, small business, export — each printing the correct legal note. • Fill client details from Contacts and send the PDF straight from the preview — a completed share marks the offer as Sent. • Offers dashboard: month sections with totals, filters and sorting by status, name or amount, plus win-rate stats. Track offers as sent, on hold, accepted or declined — expired offers are flagged, a sent offer with no reply gets an optional follow-up reminder, and any offer can be reused for a new client in one tap. ALSO — The property screen renders the floor plan with a live room highlight, home cards respond to taps across the whole row, and plenty of fixes and polish throughout.

Point the camera, get the room. WireSketch can now scan your room with LiDAR: pan once and every wall becomes a measured canvas — real dimensions, doors and windows drawn at their true size and position, and a size review before anything is created. DOORS & WINDOWS — Fix a misread door, resize a window, or add one the scan missed. Openings are editable (size, position, name) and can be drawn onto blank-canvas walls too. STARTING POINT — One place to begin a plan: take a photo, choose from the library, start on a blank canvas, or scan the room (Pro, LiDAR devices). ROOM SKETCH SHARING — Export any wall or property as a calibrated Room Sketch file: the same photo and scale, ready for another trade in companion planners (PipeSketch for plumbing and RenovMate — coming soon). EASIER NAVIGATION — Projects reopen on the wall you left. See every wall at once in the new All Walls grid, and read walls, fixtures, load, and solar at a glance on the Plans list (with a legend). MORE ACCURATE — Deriving one wall dimension from the other now respects the photo's aspect ratio, and heights on blank canvases measure from the floor correctly. Deleting always asks first.

What's new: a more open Knowledge Base, optional reminders, and a note on how the free version is supported. KNOWLEDGE BASE, NOW OPEN — Browse the whole library and read the core articles free: what an RCD and an MCB really do, how IP ratings work, and the resilience essentials behind the Energy Plan — outage autonomy, critical loads, and self-consumption. The full reference library and the built-in calculators (Watts↔Amps, wire gauge, voltage drop, solar yield) stay Pro. OPTIONAL REMINDERS — Turn on gentle nudges to finish a plan you started, try the Energy Plan if you haven't opened it yet, or map your roof when the sunny months come around. Off by default, easy to manage in About. ABOUT ADS — WireSketch is free, now supported by ads for free users. Ads appear only at natural breaks, never while you're editing a plan. Any in-app purchase removes them completely and permanently — including for anyone who bought WireSketch before. In Europe we ask your consent before any ad loads, and you can change it anytime under About → Ad privacy choices. Plus a round of small refinements and fixes.

This update is all about energy freedom. The new Energy Plan weighs your home's real loads against your solar yield to show how much power you actually self-consume, how many days you'd stay running through a blackout, and when the system pays for itself. Group your rooms and roof under a Property, add rooftop or plug-in balcony solar and battery storage, see every site on a map, and hand your installer one complete Property Report. And every plan now exports to PDF — free. Plan for independence, and build the resilience to ride out whatever the grid throws at you. Circuit Panels (Pro) — Lay out every breaker with its label, amp rating, and curve type. The wand auto-fills the panel from the fixtures you've placed: kitchen appliances each get a dedicated breaker, EV chargers get the right amperage, and bedroom and living-room circuits are grouped sensibly. Live warnings flag overloaded circuits and code violations. Add main and sub-panels for larger properties and assign rooms to each, then export a printable Panel Report. Also in this update: smarter region detection based on your location, source citations on every Knowledge Base article, lots of small auto-validations, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

WireSketch 1.8 brings two big additions: Homes and Circuit Panels. • Homes — Group your rooms under a House, Flat, Apartment, Garage, or Commercial space. Each home knows its address and electrical region, and projects (rooms, gardens, outbuildings) inside it share a consistent set of code rules. Drop a project into a home from the projects list, or create it from inside the home. • Circuit Panels (Pro) — Lay out every breaker with its label, amp rating, and curve type. The wand auto-fills the panel from the fixtures you've placed — kitchen appliances each get a dedicated breaker, EV chargers get the right amperage, and bedrooms/living circuits get grouped sensibly. Live warnings flag overloaded circuits and code violations. Add main + sub-panels for larger homes and assign rooms to each. Export a printable Panel Report PDF. Also in 1.8: smarter region detection based on your location, source citations on every Knowledge Base article, lots of small auto-validations, performance improvements, and bug fixes. Thanks for the great feedback!

1.7 introduces the Renovation Brief — the polished PDF you hand to your electrician — and the new Knowledge Base. - Renovation Brief PDF (Pro): cover page with project details, all your wall sketches and materials list, plus a "Questions for my electrician" checklist to discuss before work begins. - Knowledge Base (Pro): 30+ entries on standards, symbols, formulas, fuse and cable markings, and region-specific codes. Plus 4 converters — Watts↔Amps, AWG↔mm², voltage drop, solar yield. A daily highlight appears on the projects screen for everyone. - Simplified Pro upgrade: one purchase unlocks the Renovation Brief, unlimited projects and fixtures, multi-wall sketching, six pre-built room templates, precise centimetre measurements, and the full Knowledge Base. - Solar Planner is a separate purchase: plan panels from a satellite snapshot of your roof and the inverter setup indoors. Automatic panel packing, yearly yield, inverter & battery sizing. - Quality of life: switch language instantly without restart, delete projects from the editor menu, new fixtures spread side-by-side instead of stacking, perspective correction no longer flips photos upside-down. Existing buyers of Multi-Wall, Pro Measurements, Solar Planner, or the Pro Bundle keep everything — the unified upgrade doesn't remove anything.

- Quick Sketch: skip the photo, start on a blank wall sized to your dimensions - Room Templates (Pro): six pre-built layouts for bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and more - Labor cost estimate alongside materials, with regional electrician hourly rates - Adjust Prices: override default unit prices and labor rates per region - Per-wall undo: each wall now has its own undo/redo history - Schematic export: black-on-white IEC 60617 line-drawing style for electricians - Share projects: send a .wiresketch bundle via AirDrop, Messages, Mail or Files - iPad split view and a new home-screen widget showing your most recent project - PDF fixes: column overlap and bloated symbol legend

Solar Planner - Plan your solar panel layout on satellite imagery - Draw your roof area, mark obstacles (chimneys, dormers, skylights) - Auto-fill panels with real-world sizing (300/400/450/500W) - System summary: kWp, yearly kWh yield, inverter & battery recommendations - Dedicated electrical room wall for inverter & balance-of-system planning - Professional PDF export with solar summary & safety disclaimers Editor Improvements - Canvas extends edge-to-edge with floating toolbar - Each wall remembers its own zoom level - Panels snap flush with no overlap — leave small gaps if you want - Faster, more reliable wall switching Reliability - Fixed data not saving when switching between walls - Fixed annotations and fixtures appearing on the wrong wall - Improved project persistence across app restarts

- WireSketch is now free to download - Free tier: 1 project, 3 fixtures — upgrade to unlock unlimited - Export requires any Pro purchase - Original paid users are grandfathered in with full access - Pro Bundle paywall shows all features side by side

- PDF fixture schedule now shows exact positions (distance from left wall, height from floor) for Pro Measurements users - Free PDF exports include a hint about Pro Measurements positioning - Pro Bundle paywall: see both Multi-Wall and Pro Measurements features side by side - All 23 missing fixture translations added (Cooker Hood, Phone Outlet, Dimmer, etc. in all 9 languages) - Liability disclaimers added throughout: export, PDF, materials, cables, onboarding, and new project screens - Privacy Policy and Terms of Use updated with stronger liability protection - Division-by-zero safety in scale calculations - Purchase button race condition guard - Auto-save after critical operations prevents photo loss on app kill - Wall image deletion now properly removes files from disk

- Floating toolbar: fixture details and sketch tools now overlay the photo — no more image resizing - Safety violation alerts: warning icon in the toolbar, tap to highlight violating fixtures in red with dismissable banner - Full localization: all 150+ strings translated across all 9 languages (EN, DE, FR, NL, TR, ES, IT, PL, PT) - Pro Bundle: unlock Multi-Wall and Pro Measurements together at a discount - Smart dimensions: enter width or height, auto-calculate the other (Pro) - Wall navigation redesigned: compact inline switcher with dropdown menu - WYSIWYG export: PNG and PDF now render exactly what you see on screen - Region-correct currency symbols in materials estimates - Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements

- 29 fixture types: sockets, switches, lights, data, kitchen, outdoor, and safety devices - Safety zones for EU, UK, US, and AUS/NZ electrical codes - Draw wall dimensions on photos with real-time height guides - Smart cable recommendations with wire type and circuit splitting - Freehand drawing and annotations on wall photos - Multi-wall projects (in-app purchase) - Material cost estimates in EUR, GBP, USD, and AUD - Built-in electrical code reference - Professional PDF export with title block and fixture schedule - 9 languages: EN, DE, FR, NL, TR, ES, IT, PL, PT