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binse: Diagrams & Floor Plans · iPad

Floor plans to scale, flowcharts and a whiteboard, on an iPad.

The diagram canvas from Binse, made for a finger and Apple Pencil. Walls that join and rooms that know their area, flowcharts whose lines find their own way, and a whiteboard for thinking out loud. It needs no account and no connection, and the drawings are ordinary files.

Coming soon Built, and being finished for the App Store. Ask to be told the day it ships.

  1. A floor plan of a three-bedroom home on the iPad: living room, kitchen and dining, three bedrooms and a bathroom, each room tinted and furnished, with a terrace, a scale bar and a north arrow. Floor plans To scale, with rooms that know their area.
  2. An employee onboarding flowchart in four coloured swimlanes, before day one, first day, first week and first month, with steps, a decision and connectors between the lanes. Flowcharts Swimlanes, decisions and lines that route themselves.
  3. A sailboat retrospective on the whiteboard: four coloured areas for what moves the team on, what holds it back, the risks ahead and the goal, each with sticky notes. Whiteboard Sticky notes, ink and votes, for thinking out loud.
  4. The New diagram window on the iPad: every template listed by category down the left, all of them counted at the top, and previews of process maps, swimlanes and BPMN on the right. Templates A finished example to start from, every time.

220

templates in 134 categories, from floor plans to BPMN

10,374

shapes in 190 libraries, the same as Binse on a computer

32

formats to export to, from PDF and PNG to PowerPoint, Word and Visio files

39

formats it opens, from Visio and draw.io files to Mermaid and SQL

01 · Floor plans

Floor plans drawn to scale, and measured as you draw.

Walls that meet cleanly at the corners, doors and windows that cut their own openings, and rooms that work out their own area. Pinch in close to a counter, out again to the whole floor.

Walls, rooms and real dimensions

  • Walls with mitred corners and T-junctions, at the thickness you set.
  • Doors and windows that cut their own openings in the wall they sit on.
  • Rooms that know their size: each finds its own area and perimeter, and says so.
  • Units and scales: millimetres to miles, and the drawing scales plans use: 1:50, 1:100 or a quarter inch to the foot.
  • Dimensions that stay attached: linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, arc and area.
  • Precision when it matters: snaps, rulers and guides, and lengths and angles typed in.
  • 47 libraries drawn at real size: kitchens, bathrooms, offices, shops, warehouses, events and gardens.
  • Quantities and costs from the plan, and DXF files in and out.
Pinch in, pinch out. A café's seating plan, from the whole floor to the counter.

A plan you can hand to someone

A studio office at 1:100: four offices, an open studio and a kitchen, every room labelled with its area, dimension lines along the walls, a scale bar and a north arrow.

A studio office floor plan at 1:100 on the iPad: four offices across the top, an open studio and a kitchen below, each room labelled with its area in square metres, dimension lines of four metres along the top, a scale bar and a north arrow.
A plan at 1:100. Every room labelled with its area, and dimensions on the walls.

02 · Diagrams

Diagrams of every kind, with lines that find their own way.

Tap an arrow beside a shape and the next one appears, joined up. Move anything and the connectors route themselves around what is in the way.

A hiring process in four swimlanes, from an approved job to an accepted offer, with a decision and connectors that turn at right angles between the lanes.
Swimlanes. A hiring process, lane by lane.
A BPMN diagram of a supplier invoice approval: start and end events, tasks, gateways and a data store, inside a pool.
BPMN. A supplier invoice approval, with gateways and events.
An entity relationship diagram of an online shop's schema: its tables, their columns and keys, and the relationships between them.
Entity relationships. An online shop's schema, table by table.

What it draws

  • Flowcharts and swimlanes
  • BPMN, with a check and a simulation
  • DMN decision tables
  • Org charts
  • Mind maps
  • UML
  • Entity relationships, in three notations
  • C4 and ArchiMate
  • Cloud and network maps, and racks
  • Timelines, roadmaps and customer journeys
  • Wireframes for the web and for apps
  • P&ID, electrical and logic diagrams

Lines and layout that look after themselves

  • Connectors that are straight, curved or square-cornered, routed around shapes, with jumps where they cross.
  • Labels, waypoints and arrowheads, and flow that can be animated along a line.
  • 19 automatic layouts to tidy a whole diagram at once, from trees to layered flows.
  • Layers, frames and containers, with layers that can be hidden, locked or left off the print.
  • Styling in depth: gradients, patterns, shadows, a hand-drawn look, and themes in light and dark.
A small office network on the iPad: the internet connection at the top, a firewall and a switch, and the devices below it, grouped by area.
A network map. From the internet connection down to each desk.

03 · Whiteboard and Apple Pencil

A whiteboard, and a pencil that knows what you meant.

Sketch a box and it becomes a box. Write with pressure and tilt. Then gather the room's ideas on sticky notes, sort them and vote.

  • Ink: a pen that thins with pressure, a marker that widens with tilt, a highlighter and an eraser.
  • Sketches that turn into shapes: 10 of them, from a rectangle or a diamond to an arrow, a tick or a star.
  • Palm rejection, and the eraser on the Pencil erases whatever tool is in hand.
  • Sticky notes in six colours, with authors, tags and votes, and a way to cluster and sort them.
  • Workshop tools: kanban boards, timelines, dot voting, polls, estimation, card sorting and a timer.
  • Tables that take CSV in and give it back, stamps, and washi tape for the fun of it.
A mind map for a product launch plan: the launch in the middle, and coloured branches to either side, each with its own ideas.
A mind map. A launch plan, branch by branch.

04 · Start from something

Never a blank page, unless you want one.

The Binse Diagrams launch screen: Diagrams & Floor Plans, Flowcharts, whiteboard & CAD, with New Diagram and Start from a Template buttons, over a collage of diagrams.
Where it opens. A new diagram, a template, or a file you already have.
  • 220 templates in 134 categories, each a finished example rather than an outline.
  • Save your own as a template, to start the next one the same way.
  • 7 theme presets, each with a light and a dark version.
  • A first look around that points at the shapes and the properties, once, and then leaves you to it.
  • A user guide in the app, and the whole app in 7 languages.
The first look around on the iPad: over a studio office floor plan, one note points at Shapes, saying every shape library is there, and another at Properties, for colours, text, size and layout.
A first look around. Two notes, and then the canvas is yours.

05 · Files and formats

Ordinary files, in and out of every format that matters.

Saved as you go

Drawings live in Files and iCloud Drive, open where they are, and save themselves a moment after each change. A newer copy from iCloud is picked up by itself.

Out, in 32 formats

PDF, PNG, SVG and DXF, PowerPoint and Word, Visio and draw.io files, BPMN and Mermaid among them, through the share sheet. Or print it.

In, from 39 formats

Visio, draw.io and Excalidraw files, Mermaid and PlantUML, SQL tables, an org chart from a spreadsheet, and infrastructure described as code.

Offline, entirely

The editor, the templates, the shapes and the guide are all in the app. No account, no server, no connection needed.

A window for each diagram

Each diagram can open in a window of its own, and the app works in portrait and landscape alike.

A keyboard when you want one

139 shortcuts, menus with the iPad's own shortcut list, and a command palette to find anything by name.

06 · Buying

Bought on the App Store.

binse: Diagrams & Floor Plans is a yearly App Store subscription, bought and managed with your Apple Account. It is separate from a Binse licence for Windows or Mac, and not included with one. The price page has every price side by side.

Runs on
iPad
iPadOS 18 or later.
What it costs
€29.99 a year
An App Store subscription, bought and managed with your Apple Account.
When
Coming soon
Built, and being finished for the App Store.
On a computer
Binse for Windows and Mac
The full product, with its own licence. Diagrams on a computer.

Ask to be told the day it ships Data Analytics for iPad