swatchbook vs NunoX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
swatchbook
This app provides a cloud platform for sourcing, developing, and sharing digital materials. It allows users to search, filter, and request physical samples, and offers visual tools for creating and interacting with 2D and 3D swatches. Materials and collections can be shared internally or externally.
- Source and request physical material samples
- Develop materials with 2D and 3D visualization
- Create and share material collections
- Filter and fine-tune material searches
- Interact with swatches in 1:1 display
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swatchbook is the new home of materials. a cloud platform that revolutionizes the sourcing, development & sharing of digital materials. with the iOS app this means we are putting all the materials back in your hand. all the power of swatchbook focused inside the mobile app. source: Search, filter & fine tune your search. when ready, request samples for a wonderful touch & feel experience. you are making an actual physical product after all. develop: we've designed this to make the best use of all the visual tools swatchbook has to offer. it offers various display options to view the swatches including our incredible patent pending 1:1 display. interact with them in 2d & 3d & ultimately create materials & collections for your design line. share: Create collections that can be shared within your organization, with your team members, or externally with material consultants or you may receive them directly from your suppliers.
NunoX
This app allows users to control a fabric scanner and view scanned fabrics on a website. It analyzes scanned data to create 3D materials like color, normal, and specular maps for use in other applications.
- Fabric scanner control
- View scanned fabrics online
- 3D material generation
- Color-map creation
- Normal-map creation
- Specular-map creation
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NunoX is an app for controlling Fabric Scanner produced by NunoX. All the scanned fabrics will be displayed on NunoX Website (http://cloud.nunox.io). After the scanning process, NunoX submits data to cloud service, and then, analyze those data and produce the material for displaying fabric in 3D (such as color-map, normal-map, and specular-map). And those 3D material could be used on the other 3D products and applications.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: swatchbook at 4.7 against NunoX's 3.7. swatchbook also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 3). NunoX's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
swatchbook holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 3 respectively.
swatchbook ships an update every 2 months, NunoX every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | swatchbook | NunoX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | swatchbook Inc. | TG3D Studio Inc. |
Customer experience
swatchbook
NunoX
In-app purchases
swatchbook
No in-app purchases
NunoX
No in-app purchases
