# What Is GalleryPlanner?

> A gallery wall planner for desktop and mobile browsers, for real dimensions, real frames, and install-ready outputs.

GalleryPlanner helps you plan a gallery wall with the measurements you will actually drill in the room, starting from over 100 ready-made Starter Layouts or your own frames.

## Who It Is For
- Homeowners and renters planning a gallery wall with real frame sizes, and wanting fewer mistakes and fewer extra holes
- Interior designers, decorators, artists, and photographers planning client walls and exhibition displays
- Anyone shopping for frames who wants to plan before buying
- People planning around TVs, windows, sofas, and other wall fixtures
- Anyone with a staircase wall or tricky space who can't afford trial and error

## What Makes It Different
- Real-size planning in inches or centimeters
- Over 100 Starter Layouts: ready-made arrangements you can drop onto your wall and adjust, with many free
- Auto-Layout for fast arrangement ideas, with Shape and Included Frames controls
- Smart Fill for on-device photo matching
- Brands: real retailer frame sizes, with the mat opening built in when the frame comes with a mat, so what you plan matches what you buy
- Guided Setup that walks you through your first wall in five short steps, on desktop and phone
- Wall Objects (Pro): 11 presets plus a custom size, for planning around windows, doors, fireplaces, TVs, sofas, and more
- Staircase wall support for angled spaces, and multi-wall projects (Pro) for planning several walls at once
- Hanging Guide PDF export (Pro) for install day, with nail positions once you set each frame's Hanging hardware
- Local-first storage: photos are never uploaded to our servers

## Free vs Pro
- Free core planning includes Auto-Layout, Smart Fill, many Starter Layouts, and IKEA frame presets.
- Pro adds the Hanging Guide PDF and other premium exports, premium Starter Layouts, more retailer frame presets, Wall Objects, multi-wall and multi-project editing, and advanced layout tools such as the Curated Auto-Layout option.

## Start Here
- [Open GalleryPlanner](/app): Launch the planner in your browser.
- [Getting Started Guide](/learn/getting-started-with-galleryplanner): Your first wall in 5 minutes.
- [Understanding Auto-Layout](/learn/understanding-auto-layout): How the layout algorithms work.
- [Mastering Smart Fill](/learn/mastering-smart-fill): On-device photo selection.
- [Sample Hanging Guide](/hanging-guide-sample): See the Pro install-day PDF before you buy.
- [Pricing](/pricing): Free vs Pro, and the pass and Lifetime options.
- [Help Center](/help): FAQs, shortcuts, and troubleshooting.