PlanGrid changed the game when it launched. It was the first tool that made it genuinely easy to view construction drawings on an iPad in the field. Superintendents loved it. Field crews adopted it without being forced. For a while, it was the gold standard for mobile plan access.
Then Autodesk acquired it in 2018 and folded it into Autodesk Construction Cloud. The standalone product you could buy with a credit card has been gradually absorbed into a larger enterprise platform. If you are a smaller outfit trying to get PlanGrid today, you are navigating Autodesk sales reps, bundled pricing, and a product roadmap that serves enterprise customers first.
HomeFloorPlan picks up where the original PlanGrid left off — fast plan uploads, dead-simple mobile access, and a product that a five-person crew can sign up for and start using the same afternoon.
What PlanGrid Does Well
Where It Falls Short
Side-by-Side Comparison
The Verdict
PlanGrid earned its reputation. The original product was genuinely great for field teams. If your firm is already deep in the Autodesk ecosystem — using Revit, Navisworks, and ACC across your projects — then the PlanGrid features inside Autodesk Build make sense as part of that larger investment.
For everyone else, especially smaller GCs and subs who just need to get plans to the field and markups back to the office, HomeFloorPlan delivers that same ease-of-use PlanGrid was famous for. No enterprise sales call, no bundled software you do not need, and no waiting for your Autodesk admin to provision licenses.