Sketch 3D vs Hexagon Place
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sketch 3D
Create and animate 3D models with intuitive touch controls. Import various file formats, apply video textures, and capture animations. Share your creations with a community of designers.
- Design 3D models with touch
- Apply video as model texture
- Create 3D model animations
- Import various 3D file formats
- Capture movie from 3D scenes
- Use True Depth Camera for face models
- Share designs with community
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Sketch 3D is a tool for designing 3D models from your fingertips. You could download models from others, and could also share your great designs with other users by saving models in Public space. New Feature: Integrated MaterialX library into the app. Mesh object can be applied with materialx documents. When Saving and Loading with material, the document relative path is stored as a diffuse map entry, similar to the way of handling movie textures. Other features like material adjustment and graph editing are not supported yet. User could download free material documents from public websites and import those zip files with this app, using ShareTo or AirDrop. Feature: Use True Depth Camera to capture face model. Feature: Support using video as model texture. You could use video clips from Photo Album, or from Internet URL (YouTube URL not supported), and then apply it onto a model as texture map. Feature: Capture movie from the 3D scene. Note! If your device could not capture movie, then, could try out a smaller output resolution (by tapping the control pane). However, arbitrary output size may stop capturing prematurely. Feature: Design 3D model animation with skeleton structure. You could design a skeleton structure by placing bones in hierarchical relation. Attach model to the skeleton, and then moving the bones to define different poses. Each pose represented as a keyframe in the timeline view. And animation sequence is produced by playing interpolation between the keyframes. Features: - Import 3D content directly from browser or email, either in .zip, .rar, .7z. - Support formats: Collada DAE, OBJ, 3DS, STL(for 3D printing), and others. - Import/export to iCloud drive, via iTune File Sharing, or to Public area via Apple CloudKit Service. - Supports AirDrop. - Support Quad faces. - Smooth surfaces using Subdivision. - Mirroring editing. - 2-fingers vertex movement, 3 or 4-fingers planar shape creation. - Versatile multi-touches drag-through-space gestures to support editing and changing viewing angle at the same time. - Flexible face strip drawing. - Stitching boundary faces. Stitch triangle soap into connected faces. Stitch over edge or vertex to form a larger face. - Stitching Triangles to Quads. - Loop Cut faces. - Bevel edges. - Extrude faces or edges. - Revolve (Spin). - Vertex Smoothing. - Vertex Slide along edges. - Crease Editing after mesh subdivision. - Split mesh from, or Join mesh to the editing one. - Support hierarchical mesh node structure. - Direct vertex color editing when texture map is not used. - Edit texture map UV coordinates, include atlas generation. - 3D Text generation. - Scene interaction with your created shape. - Design Animation with skeleton structure. - Capture movie from the 3D scene. - Support using video as model texture map.
Hexagon Place
Create and share digital art linked to real-world locations. Turn the world into your personal digital canvas and express your artistic vision anywhere.
- Create digital artworks
- Share art tied to locations
- Express creativity digitally
- World as a canvas
- Location-based art sharing
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Digital Arts: Express your creativity by creating and sharing digital artworks tied to specific locations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hexagon Place at 5.0 against Sketch 3D's 2.9. Hexagon Place also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Sketch 3D's advantage is ratings volume (443 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Sketch 3D sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Hexagon Place asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hexagon Place holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sketch 3D has 443 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sketch 3D ships an update every 3 months, Hexagon Place fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sketch 3D | Hexagon Place |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (443 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 443 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Victor Ng | Hexagon Place, Inc. |
Customer experience
Sketch 3D
Hexagon Place
Bugs and requests
Sketch 3D
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to load or save projects
- Texture and color issues when importing models
- Unresponsive controls and buttons
Requested features
4 requests- In-app tutorials and video guides
- Improved user interface and controls
- Support for importing custom 3D models
- Ability to save and load projects reliably
Hexagon Place
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sketch 3D
- Unlimited Keyframe Editing$1.99
- Unlimited Video Capturing$1.99
Hexagon Place
No in-app purchases
Questions
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