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COMPLETE MANUAL

 ItemAtlas3D, end to end

Every screen, and — the part that matters in this app — every route to every action. ItemAtlas3D usually gives you three or four ways to do the same thing, each quicker in a different situation. This manual lists all of them.

How to read this manual

Wherever there is more than one way to do something, you will find a table like this one. Nothing in it is a “correct” way; pick whichever suits where your hands already are.

Route	Where	Best when
The obvious one	Which screen and which button	The situation it wins in

Buttons are named exactly as the app labels them, like Decompose. Keys look like Esc. Menu paths look like More → Settings → Data.

1. Core concepts

Four ideas hold the whole app together.

That third one is worth dwelling on. There is no single “quantity” field on an item. Four screws in the garage and two in the kitchen drawer are one item with two rows; the total shown at the top of its page is the sum. Everything about stock — low-stock thresholds, expiry dates, the plus and minus buttons — works per row.

The four kinds of location

The kind is not bureaucracy: it decides which designer the location opens and what may go inside it. A Room may sit at the top of the tree with no floor or building above it, so you can use as much or as little of the hierarchy as you want.

2. A map of the app

Tab	Contains
Home	Live 3D tiles for the Room, Floor and Building you used last, each opening its designer on a tap and carrying a walk button of its own; counts; low-stock and expiring cards; a combined search over items and locations; recent and favourite items.
Items	The full item list. Toolbar: Quick Entry, Scan, Add, Select (and Refresh on desktop).
Locations	The location tree. Toolbar: Add, Expand/Collapse all (and Refresh on desktop).
Scan	The camera, recent scans, and manual code entry.
More	Three tabs of its own — see below.

The More page

Tab	Holds
Account	Sign in and out, the household picker, members and invite codes, joining a household, sync status and Sync now, and Delete account.
Settings	Appearance (light/dark, colour theme), notifications, step size, default heights, the label printer, category and furniture-type management, backup, restore, import, export, and About.
Subscription	Your current plan and what it allows; the Offline, Cloud 2 and Cloud 5 plans with their prices; Change your plan once you subscribe; Restore Purchases. See Plans.

The tab you were on is remembered, so changing the theme does not throw you back to the top.

3. Items

Creating an item

Route	Where	Best when
Add	Items tab toolbar	One item, with care — you land on the full page.
Quick Entry	Items toolbar, Home, or a designer’s toolbar	Unpacking a shopping bag. Pick the location once, then type name and quantity repeatedly.
Scan an unknown barcode	Scan tab → Add to Inventory	The product has a barcode — the name and category are filled in for you.
The inline entry bar	Room designer → the keyboard button in the toolbar	You are already looking at the shelf it belongs on. It goes straight into the selected piece.
Add new item	Inside a designer’s item list	You went looking for something and found it does not exist yet.

The item page

Everything about one item. The toolbar carries Save and Delete; Previous and Next step through your items alphabetically, saving as they go, and Locate jumps to where the item is.

Area	What it does
Photo	Take or choose one; tap it to view full screen with pinch-zoom; rotate it 90° at a time.
Name, description, category, unit	Units are free text with suggestions; categories carry a colour.
Barcode	Type it, or tap Scan to capture it with the camera.
Step size	How much one tap of + or − moves the quantity. Either a fixed number, or a percentage of what is there, set once in Settings.
Locations	One row per place this item is kept: quantity, expiry date, minimum stock, a default marker, and its own Locate.
History	Every change, in plain words — Quantity 3 → 5 in “Garage”, Moved from “A” to “B” — with a quantity chart above it. In a shared household it also says who made each change.

Changing a quantity

Route	Where	Best when
+ / −	The Items list row	Everyday counting. Acts on the default location, or the first one.
Tap the number	Items list, or an item’s location row	You know the exact figure and want to type it.
+ / − per row	The item page	The item is in several places and you mean a particular one.
Quick Entry	Anywhere	Adding stock to a location repeatedly. Typing an existing name adds to it rather than duplicating it.
Scan the barcode	Scan tab	You are holding the thing. It opens the item with the quantity ready to edit.

Taking more than one place has. If you subtract more than the default location holds, the app works down your other locations and shows you the plan before doing anything: Kitchen → Drawer 3: 6 → 0, Garage → Shelf 2: 4 → 3. Proceed? If the total is not enough anywhere, it says so and offers to zero everything.

Searching and filtering the list

• Type to filter as you go. Press Enter to commit the phrase as a chip — then keep typing to narrow further. Committed terms combine, so paint plus white finds only things matching both.
• Status chips — Low Stock, Expired, Favourites, Quick-added.
• Category chips — tap several; they combine as “any of these”.
• Sort — name, quantity, soonest expiry, recently updated.
• Every active filter appears as a removable chip, with Clear for all of them.

Working on many items at once

Tap Select in the toolbar, tick the rows you want, and the bar at the bottom offers: delete, set a category, mark as favourite, and move them all to another location.

Renaming without opening anything

Tap an item’s name in the list to edit it in place. Enter commits, Esc cancels, and the row re-sorts itself afterwards. Locations work the same way.

4. Locations

Creating a location

Route	Where	Best when
Add	Locations toolbar	A new top-level place.
Add with a row selected	Locations tree	A child of that location.
Draw a piece of furniture	Any designer	The usual way. Placing a cabinet creates its location for you.
Create new room	Floor plan → the room picker	You are laying out a floor and need a room that does not exist yet.
Create new floor	Building view → the floor picker	Same, one level up.
Subdivide	A container’s action bar	Many identical compartments at once — six drawers, eight shelves.
Auto-box	Quick Entry or a designer	Each item gets a box of its own as you add it.

What a row shows

• A live plan thumbnail of the space, drawn from your actual layout. Tapping it opens the designer.
• The location’s kind, with a colour down the left edge, and its type.
• Row actions: open the designer, open in 3D, Locate it inside its parent, edit, and — when the clipboard is armed — paste.

Reorganising the tree

Action	How
Rename	Tap the name in the tree and type. Or open it and edit the field.
Move somewhere else	The Move icon on the row, then choose the destination — the tree shows “Paste here” targets, including the root.
Copy a whole subtree	The Copy icon, then a paste target. Copies the structure — shelves, boxes, dimensions — but not the stock inside.
Delete	Open it and use Delete in the toolbar. If it has children the app says so and offers to delete the whole subtree.
Change its kind	Open it and pick a different kind chip. If that invalidates a floor plan or a building placement, the app names exactly what will be undone first.

Filtering the tree

Chips at the top narrow to Buildings, Floors, Rooms, Storage or Furniture, and there is a name search beside them. With any filter on, the tree flattens to a plain list of matches; clearing it restores the hierarchy.

5. Finding things — every route

The app is ultimately a machine for answering “where is it?”. Here is every way to ask.

Route	Where	Best when
Home search	Home tab	You are not sure whether you want an item or a place — it searches both and shows results as you type. Picking a place takes you to it: a room, floor or building opens its own designer, and a box or a cabinet opens the room it stands in with the piece framed and selected.
Items search	Items tab	You want the list itself narrowed, with filters and sorting.
Locate	An item row, the item page, or a single location row	You know what it is and want to be shown where. Opens the right designer, zooms in and highlights it.
Find	Inside a designer, and in the 3D view	Searching one space rather than everything. Lists furniture, loose items and items inside furniture, and jumps to whatever you pick.
Scan	Scan tab	You are holding the thing, or looking at a labelled box.
Inventory	Any piece, room, floor or building	“What is in here?” — a full indented list of a whole subtree.
Walk mode	3D view	You would recognise it if you saw it. Walk round and read the panel.

Locate, in detail

• An item in a room — opens the room designer, frames the pin and selects it. If it is in the room but not yet placed on the plan, it highlights its chip in the tray and scrolls it into view instead.
• An item inside a box — opens the room the box stands in and frames the box, because the inside of a box tells you nothing about where the box is.
• An item in several places — goes to the default location, or the first one, and tells you how many others there are. Each row on the item page has its own Locate if you meant a different one.
• A location — shows the location inside its parent: a cabinet in its room, a room on its floor plan, a floor in its building.

6. Scanning & labels

What a scan does

1. One of the app’s own QR labels → opens that item or location directly.
2. A barcode you have already linked → opens the item, ready to change the quantity.
3. Anything else → the app looks the product up online and offers Add to Inventory (creating it with the name and category filled in) or Link to an existing item.

You can also type a code by hand, which takes the same three routes.

Capturing a barcode for an item you already have

On the item page, tap Scan beside the Barcode field. The familiar camera opens with a banner across the top; scan the code (or type it) and you are returned to the item with the field filled in. Press Save to keep it. Cancel returns with nothing changed.

QR labels

Any item or location can produce a QR label that opens it when scanned. Every route reaches the same label screen:

Route	Where
Label	A selected piece’s action bar in the designer
Label	The container action bar, for the box you are inside
Print label	The location page toolbar
The label icon	A row in the Locations tree
The printer button	A Quick Entry row, to label something you have just added

A label carries the QR code and the name in plain text, so you can read it without a phone. The label screen shows a preview, the tape size, the printer, the darkness and the number of copies, and one Print label button.

7. The designers

Three plan views and one 3D view, sharing the same canvas, the same gestures and most of the same buttons.

Designer	You lay out	Opened from
Room designer	Furniture and items inside one room	A Room’s designer icon or its plan thumbnail
Storage designer	Shelves and boxes inside one container	Drilling into a piece of furniture
Floor plan	Rooms on a floor	A Floor’s row
3D view	Nothing — it shows, and lets you walk	3D in any designer, a Building row, or a Home tile

Every way into a designer

Route	Best when
The designer icon on a Locations row	You are browsing the tree.
The plan thumbnail on that row	You recognised the shape.
A 3D tile on Home	Carrying on where you left off.
Locate on an item	You want the designer and to be shown the spot.
Designer on a selected piece	Going one level deeper, into a cabinet.
The action button on a location page	You were editing its details anyway.
The expand button on the 3D preview inset	The little preview is not big enough.

Getting around the canvas

Gesture	Touch	Mouse & trackpad
Zoom	Pinch	Wheel, or the + / − buttons
Pan	Two fingers	Alt+drag (⌥ Option+drag on a Mac), middle-button drag, or two-finger scroll
Fit everything	The ⤢ button

Zoom goes to twelve times, which matters more than it sounds: badges and pins have a maximum size on screen, so zooming in genuinely separates things that overlap when zoomed out.

It also goes below the fitted view, down to a quarter of it, so you can pull back and see empty ground around a building — which is how you place a garage clear of the house. ⤢ still returns to the fit rather than to the smallest zoom.

The toolbar

Button	Does
Undo / Redo	Steps back and forward through everything you have done since opening the designer, including deletions of whole cabinets.
Add Furniture	Arms placement. Tap the canvas to put the selected type down.
3D	Opens this space in the 3D view. With a piece or a zone selected, it opens just that.
Walk	Drops you inside it in first person.
Quick Entry	Opens Quick Entry with this location already chosen. Room designer only.
Locations	Back to the Locations tree from any depth. Always the last button.

They are in that order, left to right, in every designer. A floor plan says Room and a building Floor where a room designer says Add Furniture, a floor plan carries its ceiling Height after Locations, and a building puts Zone walls and Find before it. On a phone the words are dropped and only the icons are shown.

The toggle strip

Small buttons that change how the plan behaves or reads. Each shows a banner naming its new state, and each remembers it — and these follow you between devices, so a plan looks the same on your phone as on your PC. (That can be turned off in More → Settings.)

	Toggle	What it does
	Multi-select	Tap several pieces to act on them together.
󰊢	Dimension lines	Measurements of the room’s walls, and of the selected room in a floor plan.
	Room dimensions	The whole room’s interior width × depth as one cross, as against Dimension lines, which measures each zone wall. On a multi-part room those are two different answers. A floor plan has the same pair, for the floor and for a room.
󰆷	Snap to wall	Seats a piece flush against a wall, both while you drag it and when you first place it. Snapping tightens as you zoom in, so precise work stays precise.
	Snap to zone	New zones snap and resize to line up with the corners of existing ones.
	Snap to corner/grid	Lines a piece up with the corners and edges of other furniture — and, when nothing else claims an axis, with the dot grid. Wall seating and corner alignment used to be one switch, so wanting one without the other was impossible.
	Grid	A dot grid at a real distance — see The grid.
	Floor beneath	Three states: off, drawn beneath your plan, drawn on top of it. Absent when there is nothing below — see The storey beneath.
	Merge shared wall	Draw a multi-part room as one outline, without internal partitions.
	Auto-zoom	Selecting a container frames it and opens the 3D preview beside it. The single most useful toggle in the app once a cabinet has eight shelves.
  	Labels	Cycles all names → only the selected one → none. In “all”, names on small pieces appear as you zoom in. Its icon changes with its state, as Contents does.
	Contents	Cycles auto → all → off. “Auto” shows what is inside a piece only when you tap it, which keeps a busy corner readable.
	Ruler	Measure between two points on the plan — see The ruler.
	Spacer	Drops a guide box of a size you type — a walkway, a door swing. Not furniture. See Spacers.
 	Lock zones	Protects the room’s shape while you rearrange furniture. The padlock closes when it is on. A floor plan calls it Lock rooms, a building Lock floors.
󰊑	Furniture list	Hides the contents list that a selected container draws beside itself, leaving just the tap-to-open bubble.
	Auto-box	Each item you place is wrapped in a box of its own. Hold it to choose which kind of box.
Walls / Interior	Dimensions include walls	Whether the sizes you type and read are measured over the walls or inside them. A word rather than an icon, because it is the answer that matters. Rooms only.
	Manage furniture types	The palette catalogue: add, resize and remove the types you place from.
	Find	Searches this space, and frames whatever you pick. Last in the strip.

That is the order they appear in, left to right. A floor plan carries the same strip without the room-only ones — no merge, no auto-box, no walls/interior — and adds Select and Inventory at the end. The 3D preview toggle is not in the strip at all: it sits on the edge of the canvas, beside the inset it shows and hides.

The grid

Both plan designers can draw a dot grid at a real distance, so whatever you line up against the dots stays lined up. Every whole metre (or foot) is accented, which makes the grid a free ruler.

• The spacing is named on screen, in a grey chip in the bottom-left corner. Tap the chip to pin a spacing — Auto, 5, 10, 15, 25, 30, 40 or 50 cm — with a tick beside the one in force. On Auto the app picks the finest spacing still legible at your current zoom.
• It is drawn over the floor and under the furniture, and starts at the inner corner — one wall in — so a piece snapped to a dot sits flush against the wall.
• Each designer keeps its own spacing, on this device. A room is laid out in 5–10 cm steps against furniture, a floor in 25–50 cm steps against walls.

The storey beneath

A floor plan can show the floor below the one you are editing, and a room designer the floor below the floor its room stands on: pale grey and dashed, with both wall faces drawn, so you have a wall to line a wall up with.

The  button cycles off → beneath (blue) → on top (amber). Drawing it on top is the useful one once you have laid something out, because an underlay is invisible exactly where it matters. The underlay never changes the fit, and the button is not shown at all on a ground floor.

The ruler

A measuring mode rather than an overlay: while it is on, pressing the canvas measures instead of selecting or dragging, so no measurement can move the sofa by accident. The button wears a violet border while the mode is live, and Esc leaves it.

• With a mouse or trackpad: click the first point, move — a live band follows the pointer — and click the second.
• With a finger: tap the first point, then press and drag to the second and release. A touch screen has no pointer to follow between two taps, so the ruler says Tap the second point rather than showing a measurement of zero.
• The readout gives the distance and its horizontal and vertical parts, because on a plan the question is usually one axis: how much wall is left.
• It snaps using the designer’s own toggles — corners first, then walls and edges, then the grid — and a marker says what it latched onto. Zone faces inside and out, furniture, spacers, door jambs and the storey beneath are all targets.
• Axis lock: a nearly level second point locks to the horizontal or vertical through the first, with a dashed guide and a right-angle mark. A corner within reach still wins.
• The last measurement stays on screen until your next first click.

Key	While measuring
Shift	Force a level or plumb line.
Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac)	Freehand — every snap off, the axis lock included.
Esc	Leave the ruler.

Spacers

A width × depth guide box: a clearance, a walkway, “the fridge goes here”. It is deliberately not furniture — it creates no location, holds nothing, counts for nothing and never appears in the Locations tree.

• Tap , give a width and a depth, then tap the plan. Sizes are in your usual units, and the last size is remembered.
• Square corners, a violet diagonal hatch, translucent — nothing else on either canvas looks like that, so it cannot be mistaken for a piece.
• It snaps like a piece, and furniture, zone edges and rooms snap to it, which is the whole point of drawing a clearance.
• Select one for a size / rotate / delete bar. Multi-select and drag-rectangle selection both catch spacers, and Undo covers them like everything else.
• Furniture under your finger always wins a tap; a room or zone wins only when it lies wholly inside the spacer, so a spacer drawn across a wall is still selectable.

The sidebar, on a phone held sideways

In landscape a designer splits into a sidebar and the plan, with a slim handle between them. Tap the handle to collapse the sidebar and give the plan the whole screen; drag it to put the split where you want it, anywhere between about a fifth and three fifths of the screen. It turns blue while you drag, so you can see it has taken the gesture rather than registering a tap.

The width is kept as a proportion, so it means the same after you rotate the phone, and it lasts as long as the app is running. Collapsing and re-opening restores the width you dragged to.

The 3D preview inset

A small live 3D view of what you are working on, updating as you edit. It is not decoration:

• It follows your selection — select a cabinet and the inset shows that cabinet.
• Drag to orbit it, pinch or scroll to zoom, Alt/⌥+drag or middle-drag to pan, and its own ⤢ resets it.
• Tap a piece in it to select that piece on the plan; double-tap to open it.
• While moving an item, tap a shelf in the inset to send the item there — which is often the only practical way to name one shelf out of eight.
• Drag its corner grip to resize it, and the expand button to open it full screen.

8. Selecting things on a plan

Three gestures, and they never disagree with one another.

Gesture	On a piece	On a badge or a pile
Tap	Selects it. Tapping again where pieces overlap cycles to the next one underneath.	Selects the pile. Tapping again cycles through anything else at that spot.
Long press	Picks the piece up to move it into something else — the next thing you tap is the destination.	Starts moving those items.
Drag	Moves it.	Moves the pile.
Double tap	Opens the thing — a piece’s contents, or an item’s page.

When things overlap

Stacked shelves and piles of items are the normal state of a full cabinet, so the app is deliberate about them:

• Repeated tapping cycles through everything under your finger, so anything buried is reachable.
• A badge sitting on top of something small turns semi-transparent so you can see what is under it.
• Whatever you cycle to comes to the front and shows its contents.
• Zooming in separates things properly — badges have a maximum on-screen size, so distance between them grows as you zoom.

Selecting several at once

Route	How	Best when
Multi-select	Turn the toggle on, tap each piece	A handful, chosen individually.
Drag a rectangle	Drag across empty canvas	Everything in one area. It asks whether you meant furniture or items when both are caught.
Find → Select	Search a word, then All	Everything called “paint”. Repeat with another word to add to the selection.
The 3D inset	Tap boxes in the inset while multi-select is on	Shelves that share a footprint and cannot be told apart on the plan.

With several selected, the bar at the bottom offers Fit, Move, Arrange, Pack, Unwrap, Rotate, Tip, Unify, Delete and Clear — each acting on the whole selection as one undoable step.

9. Furniture — place, move, edit

Placing a piece

Route	Where	Best when
Palette then tap	Pick a type from the strip, tap the canvas	The normal way. A panel opens for the name and real size, and the piece snaps as it lands — to walls, to other furniture and to spacers — rather than only once you pick it up again. The type stays selected, so each further tap places another (Box2, Box3…) until you press ✕ Cancel.
Palette then tap a piece	Same, but tap an existing piece	It goes inside, or on top of, that piece — you choose which.
The unplaced tray	The strip of locations with no place on the plan yet	A cabinet already exists in the tree and needs putting on the plan.
Subdivide	A container’s action bar	Many identical compartments at once.
Copy	A selected piece, then tap a spot	A second identical cabinet, complete with its shelves.
New type	The palette’s manage button	Nothing in the palette fits — define your own, with its own size.

The palette also holds two special pieces:

• Door — sits in a wall. Toggle which way it opens and which side it is hinged; a garage-style opening has neither.
• Divider — a panel that holds nothing. Use it to split a carcass. It can pass through pieces that sensibly contain a partition (a cabinet, a shelf, a chest) but not through pieces that cannot (a box, a bin, a basket).

Moving a piece

Route	How	Best when
Drag	Press and drag it	Anywhere on the same plan.
Long press, then tap	Hold the piece, then tap the destination	Putting it inside something. Works over any distance and needs no steady hand.
Drag it onto another piece	Release over it	You are offered Place beside (with a side to choose), Nest inside or Stack them.
Move	The action bar	The destination is not on this plan, or is a shelf you would rather pick by name.
Long press in the 3D inset	Hold a box in the inset, then tap the canvas	Getting a piece out of a cabinet and back into the room.
Arrange	Select several	Repositioning a whole group at once — see §11.

Editing a piece

Edit opens one panel that does everything: name, width, depth, height, how high off the floor it sits, whether it is inside or on top of what it belongs to, which edge it lines up with, and a nudge in centimetres.

Action	Where
Rotate	A quarter turn clockwise. Four taps return it to square. A container turns its contents with it.
Tip	Lays it on its side — a quarter turn in the vertical plane.
Fit	Grows it to fill its zone, or its container.
Type	Change what kind of furniture it is, keeping everything inside it.
Copy	Duplicates the piece and its whole inner structure — but not the stock.
Unplace	Takes it off the plan and puts it in the unplaced tray. The location and everything in it survives.
Delete	Removes the piece and what is inside it. Undo restores the lot.

Going inside a piece

Any piece can be opened as a designer of its own, so you can lay out its shelves the way you laid out the room. Designer on its action bar, or double-tap it in the 3D inset. Locations in the toolbar returns to the tree from any depth; the back arrow goes up one level.

10. Containers, stacks & subdivisions

Every piece except a door and a divider is a container. Three tools turn a pile of separate pieces into something you can handle as one thing.

Stacks

A stack is a transparent wrapper round several pieces so that they move, rotate and travel together. On the plan it is a faint outline; in 3D it is invisible, so you see the pieces themselves.

To	Do this
Make one	Drag one piece onto another and choose Stack them; or place a Stack from the palette and drop pieces into it; or select several and press Pack.
Add to one	Drag a piece onto the stack, or use Move.
Take it apart, leaving the pieces where they are	Unwrap — the wrapper goes, the pieces stay exactly where they were.
Take it apart and spread the pieces out	Decompose — the contents go back onto the floor, side by side, and the container is removed.

Subdivide

Fills a container with evenly spaced identical compartments: six drawers, eight shelves, three vertical dividers.

• Direction — stacked upward, side by side, or a grid.
• Count, gaps across and down, and an optional compartment size.
• Region — fill only part of the container, so seven shelves can occupy the left half and one the right.
• Render only — makes dividers rather than storage, for a partition that holds nothing.

The compartments stay a group: editing any one of them reopens the whole subdivision, and deleting one asks whether you meant that one or all of them. Break group turns them into ordinary independent pieces.

Sizes look after themselves

• A container is never made smaller than what is inside it — shrink it too far and it stops at the smallest size that still holds everything.
• A container never grows outside the room.
• Put something in that does not quite fit and the container grows around it, keeping its existing contents where they are, rather than refusing.
• Overhang % in the placement panel decides how much of a piece may hang off the edge of what carries it. Zero means fully supported.

11. Guided arrangement

Arrange is for the moment you have eleven boxes on the floor and want them stacked sensibly. It is an authoring tool: you describe the structure and it works out the geometry, checks that everything is supported, and shows you the result before anything moves.

Opening it

Route	Gives you
Select several pieces → Arrange	A fresh arrangement of exactly those pieces.
Arrange on a container	Arranges what is already inside it. Not offered on a plain stack — a stack holds pieces where they are, and re-laying them is not what it is for.
Edit on a finished arrangement	Reopens it exactly as it stands, so you can adjust one thing.

Authoring

1. Levels are listed bottom-first. Level 1 is the floor.
2. Each level has its own layout: Row (side by side), Column (one behind another), Grid (so many across, then wraps), Block (packed into a corner), Fill (fills the low spots to level a plateau) and Tower (one on top of another).
3. Move a piece by dragging its chip to another level, or by tapping the chip and then the level. Drop it onto another chip to insert it before that one.
4. The little 3D model at the top updates as you go. Tap it to enlarge it and it turns slowly so you can see the back.
5. With a mouse or a stylus, hover a chip and its piece lights up in that model — so you can tell which box a row is without selecting it.

Control	What it does
Auto	Proposes a compact structure: a sensible base, then stacked upward. Levels steers how tall, and Max width / Max depth keep it inside a given corner.
Add / Remove	Bring another piece in, or take one out, without starting again. Added pieces land together on a new level of their own, and a line says which — drag them down from there if you wanted them lower.
Rotate / Tip on a chip	Turns that piece for real, immediately.
Steps	The arrangement written out as numbered instructions — “put X on top of Y, 0.67 m up”. Copy it to the clipboard and build the real thing.
Reset / Start over	Back to how the editor opened, or discard the structure entirely.
Space	Inserts a deliberate gap into a level, beside the selected piece — the pieces after it move along. Sized from what is already on that level, and editable. Select the gap again to resize it.
Undo / Redo	Steps back through the edits you have made in this dialog. Nothing is written until you press Done, so this is separate from the designer’s own undo.
Deselect	Clears the ticked chips. Tapping the header does the same.
Pack into a container	Wraps the finished structure in a container so the whole thing becomes one piece.

12. Putting items in the space

An item can be loose in a room — pinned to a spot on the floor — or inside a piece of furniture. This is the part of the app with the most routes, because the right one depends entirely on what you can see at the time.

Putting an item into a piece of furniture

Route	How	Best when
Tap a tray chip, then tap the piece	The item tray under the plan	The everyday way.
Drag its pin onto the piece	The item is already on the plan	Moving something you can see. Dropping near the edge places it beside instead, so a near miss does not swallow it.
Select a shelf first, then tap the chip	Pick the shelf from the contents list or the mini-icons	The destination is one shelf out of many — naming it first is unambiguous.
Move on the item	Its action bar	Opens a banner: tap a shelf in the 3D inset, tap the piece on the plan, or press Other location for the full list.
Long press its pin	On the plan	Same move, started from the item itself.
Tap its badge in the 3D inset	The count badge over a piece	You are looking at the 3D and can see exactly which shelf.
Item page → Add location	Away from any designer	You know the destination by name and are not looking at a plan.
Quick Entry	Pick the location first	Adding several things to the same place.

Loose items on the floor

An item pinned in a room shows as a marker: a quantity badge, with its name on a pill beside it. Piles at the same spot collapse into one badge with a count — tap it for a list of what is in the pile.

To	Do this
Pin an item to a spot	Tap its tray chip, then tap the floor.
Move a pin	Drag it. Dropping it on another badge joins that pile.
Take it off the plan but keep it in the room	Unpin — it returns to the tray.
Split a pile up	Open the pile’s list, then Select the ones to move, or Move all.
Bring scattered items together	Select them and press Unify, or open a pile and use Merge.
Place several at once	Long-press a tray chip to start ticking, tick the rest, then Place.

Boxing

Wrapping an item in a box of its own is common enough to be automatic. Box on an item’s action bar makes one box per unit, named after the item, and puts the item inside. The Auto-box toggle does it for everything you place, and Quick Entry has its own switch for the same thing. You are asked for the box size once, and it is remembered.

Deleting a box does not destroy what is in it — the contents come back out as loose items in the room, and the app says so before it happens.

13. Zones, floors & buildings

Zones — rooms that are not rectangles

A room is made of one or more rectangular zones. One zone is a plain rectangle; add more and you get an L, a T or a U.

• Add zone — type a size, then drag a ghost to where it joins. It snaps to the existing walls and refuses to float free or overlap.
• Subtract zone — carve a rectangular bite out, for a chimney breast or a stair bulkhead.
• Select a zone to resize, move or delete it. The room must stay in one piece, so anything that would split it is refused.
• Walls / Interior switches whether the sizes you type include the walls.

Floor plans

A Floor holds rooms. Room in the toolbar offers the rooms not yet placed; drop one and drag it up against its neighbours. Rooms share a wall rather than sitting flush, and the app enforces that. The tray lists every room not on this floor, in two alphabetical groups: rooms placed nowhere at all first, then rooms already standing on another storey.

Feature	What it does
Fit to walls	Closes the few centimetres between a room and its neighbours that a tape measure and an architect’s drawing never quite agree on.
Red rooms	A room that overlaps a neighbour, or touches nothing, is drawn red with a warning triangle. Selecting it names which rule it breaks.
Teal rooms	A deliberately detached structure — a garage or a shed. With wall snap off, drop a room away from the others and the app offers this rather than refusing.
Height	The ceiling height of this floor, used by the 3D view and walk mode.
Lock rooms	Stops rooms being dragged while you work on furniture.

A recess in a wall

A niche — say 1.4 m wide and 10 cm deep — is not a special kind of object. Build it as three zones along that wall, with the middle one 10 cm deeper. Neighbouring zones overlap by exactly one wall thickness, and that overlap is the shared wall, so every wall stays one thickness and no furniture is spent on the niche.

One limitation: the outside bumps out by the depth of the recess — the wall is uniform, the outline is not — and that bump is real outline on a floor plan, so a neighbouring room will sit against the bump rather than the wall.

Buildings

A Building stacks floors, in 3D. Add a floor and it sits on top of the one below; drag it to line it up. A floor must rest on at least 60% of the one beneath it — anything less is refused, and a floor that stops being supported because you edited its rooms later is tinted red.

Removing a middle floor drops the ones above it down a level, so the stack stays continuous, and the app tells you before it does that.

14. The 3D view

The same model, from outside. It shows exactly what your plans describe: rooms with real wall thickness, doorways cut through them, furniture at its true size and height, and a badge over anything that has things in it.

Control	Does
Drag	Orbit.
Wheel, pinch, or + / −	Zoom.
Alt+drag (⌥+drag on a Mac), middle-drag, or two fingers	Pan.
Tap	Select. Tap the same thing twice to open it.

The buttons sit in two places. Along the top, in the window’s own toolbar: Undo, Redo, ＋Floor (or Room, on a floor), Walk, Zone walls, Find and Locations last. The rest are on the bar across the view, in this order:

Button	Does
Counts	The item-count badges: auto (as many as fit clearly — more appear as you zoom in), all, selected only, or off.
Ceiling	Shows or hides each storey’s ceiling. A ceiling is opaque, so you read the building from outside rather than through it.
Walls	Removes the room shell, leaving the floor and the contents. The quickest way to read a room from above. The icon fills in when the shell is drawn.
All walls / outer walls only	Merges a storey into one outline, so a floor reads as a single volume. Different from Walls, which takes the shell away altogether.
󰆷Wall snap / Corner snap	Line a floor up with the one beneath it — flush on one edge, or on a corner. They apply to moving a floor as well as to placing one.
Lock floors	Stops floors being dragged by accident. Last on the bar.

In a building, the floors are chips along the left of the bar: tap one to select that floor, and ＋Floor shows a ghost at the pointer, already snapped to where it would land.

You can open the 3D view of any level: a whole building, one floor, one room, one zone or a single cabinet. Drill in on a selected piece narrows to that piece and its contents.

15. Walk mode

Walk puts you inside the model at eye height. It exists for the question a list cannot answer: what does this room actually look like, and what is in that thing over there?

Getting in

The quickest route is the small walk button on a Home tile, which puts you straight inside without asking anything. Otherwise, press Walk in any designer or in the 3D view. If the floor has doors it asks you to tap one to come in through; otherwise it places you in the room.

Moving

Action	Touch	Keyboard
Walk	The on-screen stick	W A S D, Q E to sidestep
Look	Drag	Drag, or ← → to turn
Crouch / stand taller	The two round buttons, bottom right	C and R
Field of view	Pinch	[ and ]
Look behind something	The Behind button	X
Leave	Stop walking	Esc, or the back arrow

Walls stop you and doorways let you through. Clip turns that off if you would rather walk through walls.

What you see

• A reticle in the middle names whatever you are looking at.
• A panel lists what is inside it, updating as you look around. It can be frozen with the padlock so it keeps one thing while you walk elsewhere, set to stay open always, or turned off.
• Loose items stand as small coloured crates, so a pile on the floor is visible rather than implied.
• A container holding low stock is tinted red.
• Behind steps through everything on your line of sight, one thing at a time. Whatever is in front turns see-through and the thing you have stepped to is outlined, so a box at the back of a shelf is genuinely reachable.
• Go to jumps to another room or floor, which is also how you change storey — there are no stairs in the model.
• Double-tapping something opens its designer. Coming back puts you where you were standing.

16. Sharing & households

A household is one shared inventory. Everything you own belongs to exactly one of them, and the picker at the top of More → Account says which you are working in.

Kind	What it is
Local	On this device only. What you get on first run, with no account. Nothing leaves the device.
Cloud	Synced, and shareable with other people.

Setting up sharing

1. Both people sign in — More → Account → Sign In / Create Account.
2. The owner selects the household and presses New Code. An 8-character invite code appears, valid for seven days; Copy Code puts it on the clipboard.
3. The other person taps Join Household and types the code.

To lift a Local household into the cloud, select it and press Sync to cloud. This needs a Cloud plan; without one the app offers See plans and leaves the household as it is.

Members and roles

Role	Can
Member	See and edit everything in the household.
Owner	All of that, plus rename the household, issue and revoke invite codes, promote or remove members, hand ownership on, and delete the household for everyone.

Tap a member for the actions that apply to them. A household can have several owners; the last one cannot leave without either handing it on or deleting it.

A household can have as many members as its plan allows — two on Cloud 2, five on Cloud 5. A code for a full household is refused.

Sync

• It is offline-first. Edit with no signal and it goes when a connection returns.
• It runs at start-up, and whenever you press Sync now on the household row.
• Afterwards a banner says what actually changed — Added 3 items, 1 location · Updated 2 items · 1 photo downloaded — rather than merely that it finished.
• Signing out while a sync is running asks whether to Sync now, then sign out or Sign out anyway.
• Pull down on the Account tab, or press Refresh on desktop, to re-read membership and roles without a full sync.

When two people edit the same thing

The most recent edit wins. That is reported rather than hidden: the sync summary names the conflict and who won, and Use my version instead puts yours back.

Leaving, removing and deleting

Action	What happens
Leave household	You stop syncing. Your device keeps a local copy, complete, as it stood at that moment.
An owner removes you	The same — nothing is taken away from your device.
An owner deletes the household	The cloud copy goes. Every member keeps their local copy.
You remove it from this device	The local copy and its photos are deleted, and the app moves you to a local household. The cloud copy is untouched, so signing in and syncing brings it back. The trash icon on its row in More → Account.
You Delete account	See the account deletion page.

Plans

Plan	Price	What it gives
Free	€0	20 items and 10 locations, on this device.
Offline	€14.99 once	Unlimited items and locations, on this device. No cloud.
Cloud 2	€5.99/month · €49.99/year	Sync and sharing, 2 members.
Cloud 5	€8.99/month · €74.99/year	Sync and sharing, 5 members.

Buy in More → Subscription. Once subscribed, Change your plan switches tier or billing period; the change takes effect straight away and the time already paid for carries over. Cancel in your App Store or Google Play account. Restore Purchases picks up a plan you already own. Buying inside the Windows app is not available yet; a plan on your account works there.

Moving to a smaller plan

If a household ends up with more members than its plan allows, its owners see an amber card — Remove 1 member, or change plan — with Manage members and a date. If it is still over the limit by then, the newest members lose access (never the person paying). Their card reads You have lost access to this household; removing a member or raising the plan restores them immediately.

When a subscription ends

The household keeps working for 14 days, and its row in More → Account counts down: Subscription ended — 9 days to renew. After that it is locked: Home, Items, Locations and Scan send you to More, which shows This household is locked with See plans and Back up now. Nothing is deleted — renewing opens it again, and backup, export and account deletion keep working while it is locked.

17. Alerts & expiry

• Minimum stock — set per location, or as one total across every location. Reaching it — a quantity at or below the minimum — marks the item low and raises a notification the first time it happens.
• Expiry dates — per location, since two batches of the same thing rarely expire together. A reminder is scheduled for the morning of the date, and an already-expired item is flagged at once.
• Both appear as cards on Home, with a View button that opens the Items list already filtered.
• Low stock is visible in the designers too: a red dot on a piece means something inside it is low, however deep.
• Notifications are generated on your device. More → Settings → Notifications turns them off; Expiry Warning Days sets how far ahead to warn.
• Android asks for permission to show notifications the first time you open the app, rather than waiting until an alert is due — which is what used to make them silently never arrive.

18. Backups, export & your data

Feature	What it makes	Use it to
Backup	One file containing the database and every photo	Keep a complete, restorable copy.
Restore	—	Put a backup back, on this or any other device.
Export (JSON)	An open text file of your whole inventory	Move data elsewhere, or keep a readable archive.
Import	—	Bring an exported file back in.

All four are in More → Settings → Data, with a progress bar — a backup with hundreds of photos takes a moment.

Backups and exports are files you hold. Nothing is uploaded to us, and we keep no copy — see the privacy policy.

19. Settings reference

More → Settings, in order down the page.

Setting	What it does
Mode	Light, Dark, or follow the system.
Colour	The accent theme — Cool slate, Neutral grey or Classic blue.
Notifications	Low-stock and expiry reminders on or off.
Capitalise item names / location names	Capitalise the first letter of a new name typed entirely in lower case. Anything you type with a capital is left alone.
Sync designer appearance	Whether the designer view toggles follow you between devices. Grid spacing and spacers are not covered — both stay on this device.
Step Size %	How much one tap of + moves a quantity, as a percentage, when an item has no fixed step of its own.
Units	Metric or imperial for every dimension in the designers.
Wall Thickness	The default wall used when drawing rooms.
Default Floor Height / Door Height	Used by the 3D view and walk mode when a floor or a door has no height of its own.
3D Nesting Depth	How many levels of contents the 3D view draws — 1 to 4, so a cabinet, its shelves and a box on one.
Expiry Warning Days	How far ahead something counts as expiring soon.
Label printer	Find and remember a NIIMBOT Bluetooth printer; set the print darkness. Android and iOS only.
Categories	Add, rename, recolour, merge and delete categories.
Data	Backup, Restore, Export, Import, clear the activity log, and Reset to Defaults.
About	Version, this manual, Contact Support, and the privacy policy.

20. Keyboard & gesture reference

Keyboard (Windows & Mac)

Key	Does
Esc	Backs out of the innermost thing — a panel, then a mode, then walk mode, then the page. It never leaves a dialog stranded.
Delete	Deletes whatever is selected on a plan, with the same confirmation as the button.
Enter	Commits an inline rename, or a search term as a filter chip.
W A S D	Walk. Q E sidestep.
C / R	Crouch / stand taller, while walking.
X	Step to the next thing behind what you are looking at.
[ ]	Narrow or widen the field of view, while walking.
Shift	With the ruler on, forces a level or plumb line.
Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac)	With the ruler on, measures freehand with every snap off.
Alt+drag (⌥ Option+drag on a Mac)	Pan a plan, the 3D view or the 3D inset — the way to pan on a trackpad.

Gestures on a plan

Gesture	Does
Tap	Select. Again in the same place, cycle to whatever is underneath.
Double tap	Open it.
Long press	Pick it up to move it into something else; on a badge, start moving those items.
Drag	Move it. From empty canvas, draw a selection rectangle.
Drag off the canvas	Cancel — nothing is placed or moved.
Pinch / two-finger drag	Zoom / pan.
Click, move, click — or tap, then press–drag	With the ruler on, sets the two ends of a measurement. The first with a pointer, the second with a finger.
Drag the sidebar handle	On a phone held sideways, resizes the sidebar. A tap collapses it.

21. Getting help

Common questions, troubleshooting and how to reach us are on the support page. In short:

• Email support@infinet.gr, or use More → Settings → About → Contact Support.
• For a bug, tap the version number at the top of the More tab seven times to attach the diagnostic log — nothing is ever sent without you pressing send.
• Privacy policy · Delete your account.