Draw it once — get a plan, a scope and a priced quote

A building plan app that prices the job as you draw

Most “building plan” and floor-plan apps stop at a pretty picture. Toolie works the other way round: you sketch the job, and the drawing becomes the scope, a priced NZS 3604 quote and a dimensioned plan — all from the one outline, on your phone, on site.

Two ways to capture the job: draw it, or trace a photo

• Draw it. Sketch the footprint freehand and the lines auto-straighten into clean, editable edges — or drop in rectangles, circles and lines. Tap any edge to type its real length; add piles, posts, joist hangers, downpipes, doors and windows.
• Trace a photo. Photograph the deck, room or site, tap the four corners of something you can measure (a sheet of ply, a doorway) and type its real size — Toolie calibrates the whole photo to real metres so you can trace straight over it.

It works in two planes: a plan footprint for area and perimeter, and an elevation face for runs and heights (retaining walls and fences).

From a sketch to a NZS 3604 quote

The drawing carries its true area and perimeter — an L-shaped deck quotes at its real 27 m², not its 36 m² bounding box — straight into the NZS 3604 take-off. Toolie sizes piles, bearers, joists and fixings, applies wind and coastal site intelligence from the address, and prices it off a real NZ QS pricebook. Counts you drop on the sketch (piles, posts) flow through to the quote.

From a sketch to a dimensioned plan

Toolie then draws a plan that matches what you sketched — decking boards and joists clipped to the footprint, slab mesh and control joints, or an NZS 3604 pile grid — with your real edge dimensions, doors and windows labelled. Useful for the client, the crew and your own take-off.

On site, offline, on your phone

The whole thing runs offline in the field and autosaves, so you can scope a brand-new client job from the ute with no signal. Re-open a saved job later and every edge is still typed to its real length.

See it inside the quoting workflow, the NZS 3604 take-off or the full feature guide. Start free at app.toolie.co.nz.