3D LiDAR Scanner User Reviews

Top reviews

Paywall

Can’t even get in to the app, it just immediately shows the subscription page after a “welcome” screen. I don’t even know if the app is good or not cause I can’t even get into it!

Response for Developer:
I understand that but I don’t want to use an app that shoves a paywall without even letting me see the content. I don’t want to start a free trial immediately before knowing what I’m getting.

Thanks for responding but I’m not going to use this app.
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Response from developer

Hello GeniusGuy123, We understand your frustration. The subscription page appears right after the welcome screen as part of the trial setup, but you can simply close it and use the app — no payment is required during the free trial. We offer trial periods that allow you to fully test all features, including the improved LiDAR scanner, before deciding. We hope you give it a chance.

WENT IN REVERSE

Previously, when I downloaded this app a couple of years ago, there was a moderately free version that you could use and now there’s none at all so this should absolutely sucks. Don’t download this app. It makes you pay for it instantly now complete garbage

Response from developer

Hello beemerboyz, We understand your frustration with the changes since the previous free version. The app has been completely rebuilt with significant improvements, including enhanced LiDAR stability, new features, and a redesigned interface. To support this development, we transitioned to a subscription model. However, we offer free trial periods so you can test all the new functionality before any commitment and see the improvements for yourself. We hope you'll reconsider and give the updated app a chance.

Didn’t even get to use the app

Asked for review before even allowing you to open the app and use it for the first time.

Never worked once

“Sensor Failed” during scan every single try. Waste of time.

Response from developer

Hello AndrewCCM, Thank you for your feedback, and we're very sorry to hear about the "Sensor Failed" error you've been experiencing. This is certainly not the experience we want for our users. This type of error can sometimes occur due to specific device settings or permissions. Our support team would be happy to help you troubleshoot this issue personally. Please reach out to us at help@liview.app with your device model and iOS version, and we'll do our best to resolve it for you. We appreciate you giving the app a chance and hope we can turn your experience around.

Have to pay for a free trial to even try it

This is part of that new wave of apps where you literally can’t even see how it works without signing up for a free trial subscription. No thanks.

not possible to try

pay first try later

Entirely paid app!

This app used to be very useful and was accessible for free, but now I am locked out because this app is subscription only, even though it doesn’t say so! The subscriptions are very expensive for a simple LiDAR Scanner which you can find alternatives for.

Disappointing

This was a simple, serviceable and free app. Now it requires a subscription. Will be looking elsewhere.

Response from developer

Hello jdlarrimo, Thank you for your feedback. We're glad you found value in the original free version. Many users loved the simple, serviceable app, which is exactly why we invested in making it even better. The move to a subscription allows us to maintain and significantly improve the experience. We invite you to rediscover the app through our free trial and see how the core product you liked has become even more powerful.

Pretty good

This LiDAR scanner works pretty well. It’s easy to use, feels very reliable although with some very minor capture mistakes. It would be great to see some of the extra features that Polycam offers. For this price, it’s a really solid app.

Response from developer

Hello Shekou ren, Thank you for your thoughtful feedback! We're glad to hear you find our LiDAR scanner reliable and easy to use. We truly appreciate your suggestion about adding features similar to Polycam. Our team is continuously working on improvements, and user requests like yours help us prioritize which new tools to develop next. It's great to know that you consider our app a solid value for the price. We hope to keep impressing you with future updates!

Nice

Nice

Response from developer

Hi Raisukh121, Thank you for your brief, but positive feedback! We're glad to hear you're enjoying the app. We continue to work on improving LiDAR stability and adding new features to enhance your experience. Hope you continue to enjoy using it!

Scam

Earlier the app was free now they switched to paid

Response from developer

Hi! Thank you for your feedback. We understand your perspective completely. The transition to a subscription in V2.0 directly fuels the significant upgrades we've made, like enhancing the 3D LiDAR scanner stability, simplifying the UI for an overall better experience and more. The subscription model allows us to maintain and continually improve the app's performance and usability, which is crucial even for periodic use. While the core app has evolved, we offer different trial periods so you can choose the option that best suits your needs to experience the new value firsthand. We appreciate your understanding and hope you try the new version.

Paid now

Oh great- all of the scans I made while this app were free are now behind a paywall. Scummy business tactics to say the least.

Used to be free, now my scans are locked behind a pay wall

This app used to be a free, loose wrapper around Apple’s Object Capture framework. I scanned a few things and they came out great.

Now the dev updated it to require a subscription, and I can’t even access my old scans without paying. I’m not inherently against paying for subscriptions, even if most of the actual functionality is basically copied directly from Apple’s developer examples, but don’t offer it for free and then lock up people’s content.
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Response from developer

Hello d_arrington, Thank you for your detailed feedback, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this transition has caused. We are making adjustments to our product to ensure that access to all your existing object scans is clear and straightforward. The shift to a subscription supports the significant enhancements beyond the basic framework, including improved 3D LiDAR scanner stability, a redesigned interface, new features and so on. We offer different free trial periods so you can choose the option that best suits your needs to see the improvements for yourself and find your previous scans. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention and hope you give the updated app a try.

Locked out for a fee now

You need to grandfather in previous users to the app when adding.

According to Apple's App Store Guidelines, Section 3.1.2(a), this is not allowed. As per the guidelines - If you are changing your existing app to a subscription-based business model, you should not take away the primary functionality existing users have already paid for. For example, let customers who have already purchased a “full game unlock” continue to access the full game after you introduce a subscription model for new customers.
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V2.0 requires a subscription now

I get that development has ongoing costs, but a lot of us used this app once or twice a year and were happy with v1.1 basic functionality. If the same can be added back as free functionality, it would be great. Especially as I cannot downgrade to the older version of the app for the same unfortunately.
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Response from developer

Hello BottyBot07, Thank you for your thoughtful feedback and for being a long-time user. We understand your perspective completely. The transition to a subscription in V2.0 directly fuels the significant upgrades we've made, like enhancing the 3D LiDAR scanner stability, simplifying the UI for an overall better experience and more. This model allows us to maintain and continually improve the app's performance and usability, which is crucial even for periodic use. While the core app has evolved, we offer different trial periods so you can choose the option that best suits your needs to experience the new value firsthand. We appreciate your understanding and hope you try the new version.

Crashes when navigating library or with detailed scans

Frequent app crashes, especially when just scrolling down through the library to get to the latest project.

As long as you limit the scope of the project, the app functions better than a lot of the other free ones, it is just prone to crashing as soon as the dataset is too large. Unfortunately there is 0 warning and you won’t know until it is processing.

If the crashing with the library was fixed, then it would be 5 stars, as it does what you want it to do. If there was an internal measure or warning if your scan is too getting too big, that would be nice to help prevent crashing.

Right now I cannot access my latest projects and the library crashes as soon as I scroll down a little.
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Response from developer

Hi, Thank you for your detailed feedback and for sharing your experience with the app crashes. We sincerely apologize for the frustration this has caused. We want to let you know that we have made significant improvements in the latest updates, including enhanced stability and performance optimizations specifically designed to address library scrolling issues and prevent crashes with larger datasets. Your suggestion about adding a warning for large scans is excellent, and we are actively looking into implementing this feature. In the meantime, we encourage you to update to the newest version where these stability improvements should resolve the access issues you've described. We truly appreciate you taking the time to help us improve and hope you'll give the updated version another chance.

Best Free 3D Lidar scanner I’ve seen here

By far

Doesn’t work. App always crashes

This app is literally non functional. Each time I scan something, it crashes when it’s processing. Bad app

Response from developer

Hello, Thank you for your feedback and we sincerely apologize for the crashes you've experienced during processing. We understand how frustrating this must be. We want to let you know that we have made significant improvements in our latest updates, specifically addressing stability issues during the scanning and processing phases. The app's performance has been substantially optimized to prevent these crashes. We encourage you to update to the newest version where these improvements should resolve the processing issues you encountered. We truly appreciate you bringing this to our attention and hope you'll give the updated version another chance.