Formline - Precision Drawing

Precise 2D plans

$2.99

Draw measured plans on iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Turn a path into walls, place openings where they belong, and keep only the dimensions you choose. Formline is a calm, precise planning app for iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Draw measured plans, arrange spaces in 3D, and work out what to build — all in one local document. Use it when you need more structure than a sketch but less overhead than full CAD. Plan a room, map a garage or backyard, check whether furniture fits, or design a project with a clear cut list. PLAN — measured 2D drawing - Draw lines, connected Paths, Walls, rectangles, circles, arcs, polygons, and text labels. - Work in millimeters, centimeters, meters, inches, or feet, including fractions (5 1/2") and feet-inches (5' 10 1/2"). - Type exact sizes. Tap once, enter a length, angle, width, height, or radius, and press Return. - Use smart snapping for endpoints, midpoints, centers, intersections, wall features, guides, and grid points. - Customize the grid for each drawing, including spacing, major lines, visibility, and a separate grid-snap switch. - Edit dimensions numerically, pin deliberate dimensions, offset them, and keep detached references when source geometry is removed. - Place doors and windows on Walls, then edit their width, offset, hinge, swing, duplicate, or delete them in place. - Use Apple Pencil on iPad for precise drawing, and export PDF, SVG, or PNG from drawing bounds. SPACE — 3D rooms, yards, and layouts - Start from measured Room & Site Starters, or send a closed Plan Path or Wall into Space as an explicit detached snapshot. - Add walls, windows, and doors with real swing arcs, hinge sides, and door types. - Place 29 furniture, appliance, and everyday objects at true scale. - Draw your own 3D shapes. Outline a profile, extrude it, then edit faces, edges, and vertices directly. - Color objects and individual shape faces with curated swatches, the full color picker, or hex values. - Use clearance presets and Fit Issues to check whether objects, door swings, and keep-out zones have room. - Rotate, move, and resize objects with direct handles, snapping, live measurements, and numeric entry. - Review a homeowner-friendly Project Report and materials shopping export. BUILD — parametric projects with cut lists - Create shelving, cabinets, wardrobes, workbenches, garden beds, planters, sheds, desks, dining and coffee tables, dressers, and TV stands. - See a live 3D preview plus dimensioned front and side elevations. - Get cut lists, hardware and fastener estimates, and cost estimates in your local currency. - Place a Build project into Space as a linked snapshot that updates only when you choose. IPHONE — the same work in portrait - Open and edit the same .formline documents you use on iPad and Mac. - Move between Plan, Space, and Build from the menu in the top bar. - Plan and Space keep their tools on a rail along the bottom of the screen. Edit opens the inspector as a sheet. Everything stays local. Native .formline documents can move between iPad and Mac, with no account, analytics, or cloud requirement. On Mac, Formline adds document windows, keyboard commands, Finder import and Save As, rulers, guides, and print. Formline is intentionally focused. It is not a full CAD suite or BIM tool — it is a compact precision workspace for people who want to plan clearly and keep moving. Formline is local-first. It does not require an account and does not collect analytics, telemetry, contacts, location, photos, camera, or microphone data.

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Formline 1.4 brings the app to iPhone and adds a more capable measured drawing workflow to Plan. • On iPhone, Plan, Space, and Build run in portrait. Plan and Space keep their tools on a rail along the bottom, and inspectors open as sheets. • Navigate freely. Pinch and pan in one gesture, even mid-drawing, with a far wider zoom range, one-finger panning in Select, and a live paper-scale readout. • Work in meters, centimeters, or feet as well as millimeters and inches. • Customize the grid for each drawing, including spacing, major lines, visibility, and a separate grid-snap switch. • Type exact sizes. Tap once, enter a length and angle, width and height, or radius, and press Return. • Draw connected Paths and Walls with stable vertices, live segment length, wall thickness, close/reverse, and one-step undo. • Place doors and windows on Walls, then edit their width, offset, hinge, swing, duplicate, or delete them in place. • Snap to endpoints, midpoints, centers, intersections, wall features, guides, and grid points. Find the global Snap control in the document top bar, with Mac Option bypass when you need free placement. • Pin only the dimensions you want to keep. Offset them, and keep detached references when their source geometry is removed. • Send a closed Path or Wall to Space as an explicit snapshot. Paths, Walls, openings, and dimensions export to PDF, SVG, and PNG. Existing Formline documents remain compatible.

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    Seller
    Dale Townsend
    Size
    10.1 MB
    Category
    Graphics & Design
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Dale Townsend