The things people ask before they try it.

No. There is no sign-up, no login and no email required. Open the page and start drawing. There is no server holding your work, so there is no account for it to sit in.

Once the page has loaded it makes no further network requests, so it keeps working in a basement, a stairwell or a location van with no signal. Nothing about your plan is uploaded at any point. It is not an installed app, though: keep the tab open, because loading the page in the first place needs a connection.

In one small plan file that you save to your own machine, the same way you would save a document. You choose where it goes, you back it up, you email it to whoever needs it. There is no cloud storage and nothing to sync.

The app quietly keeps a recovery draft as you work and offers it back the next time you open the page. It is a safety net only, it never loads on its own, and it never overrides a file you opened yourself.

It is built for a desktop or laptop browser, any current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on Windows, macOS or Linux. There is nothing to install and no extension to add. It will open on a tablet, but the three-panel layout is tight on anything smaller, and a phone is not a sensible place to draw a plan.

Both. Everything is stored in metres and degrees internally, and the feet toggle only changes what is shown and printed. Switching units never moves anything on the plan.

A4, A3 and US Letter, landscape, for one scene or a whole project. Exports are vector with selectable text, a legend, an object schedule, room dimensions and a scale bar.

Two things, both about the export. The watermark comes off, and you can export a whole project as one paginated PDF rather than a scene at a time. Everything else (drawing, editing, every fixture type, blocking, saving, opening files, as many scenes as you like) is free and has no limits. You pay once and it is yours: no subscription, no renewal.

Yes. Buy it once, share the file, and anyone can open it and change it for free. The payment covers the polish on your own export, not the work itself. A gaffer nudging a light never meets a paywall.

Yes, within 30 days, no questions asked. You can also export a watermarked PDF before paying anything, so you can see the exact output you are buying first.

Yes. It is a code you paste in, not an account tied to a device, so it works on every machine you draw on. See the browser answer above for what it is actually comfortable on, the short version is a laptop or a desktop.

Email us and we will resend it. The checkout provider keeps the record of the sale against the address you bought with, so the only thing you need to remember is which email you used; there is no account to lose.

A single line of small grey text in the bottom margin of the page, beside the drawing rather than across it. The plan itself, the legend and the schedule are untouched: a free export is perfectly readable, it just says where it came from.

No, deliberately. It draws a clear top-down plan fast. It does not do 3D previs, construction drawings, layers, or a fixture database with DMX addresses. If you need those, you want Vectorworks Spotlight or Lightwright, and a week to learn them.

A template is a printed grid you draw on by hand, and for one simple setup it is genuinely fine. It stops working the moment the plan has to change.

You cannot move a light on paper and have the throw follow it. You cannot swap a 35 mm for a 24 mm and watch the cone open. You cannot hand a legible revision to eight people in a minute. ShotPlots is what a template becomes once the plan has to survive contact with a schedule. More on templates versus a tool.

No. A shot list is a different document with a different job, and there are good tools for it. This one draws the floor.

No. The app makes no network requests once loaded. Your plan exists in your browser while you work and in the file you save. Nobody else can see it, including us.