VPET vs LinkTalk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VPET
This app provides real-time on-set editing tools for light and assets, supporting ARKit for professional 3D animation, VFX, and game cinematic creation. It integrates with existing film pipelines and is open-source.
- Real-time on-set editing
- ARKit support
- Asset editing
- Light editing
- Open-source development
- Integration with film pipelines
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VPET offers a holistic approach for collaborative tools that allow real-time on-set light and asset editing via an intuitive interface. The app supports ARKit. The development can be customized to any production environment and particularly considers established (offline) film pipelines. The application is intended for professional 3D animation, VFX, TV and game cinematic creation. Its development is open-source, with growing support for diverse film and VFX pipelines. VPET was initially developed in the scope of the EU funded project Dreamspace (610005). The development is continued after project Dreamspace ended in fall 2016 on behalf of Filmakademie Baden-Württembergs research and development department.
LinkTalk
This real-time communication app offers easy implementation for various scales. It demonstrates features like one-to-one video calls with screen sharing, multi-party audio and video calls, chatrooms, file transfer, and data transfer using the Skylink SDK.
- One-to-one video calls with screen share
- Multi-party video and audio calls
- Chatroom with custom messages
- File and data transfer
- Easy implementation for any scale
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This app is a real-time communication solution which brings industry-leading ease-of-use, an unrivaled speed of implementation, and support for deployments of any scale – big or small, it uses the latest version of the Skylink SDK for iOS, demonstrates its use to provide embedded real time communication in the easiest way. Excluding 'Settings', this app has 6 distinct view controllers, each of them demonstrating how to build the following features: One to one video call with Screen Share: One to one video call with screen sharing supported Multi party video call: Most four participants in a call at this time Multi party audio call: Unlimited people in an audio call Chatroom and custom messages: People can send text messages here, public, private, server message, P2P message File transfer: You can send your local files to the others here Data transfer: This is for you to send binary data to the others
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: VPET at monthly against LinkTalk's every 12 months. LinkTalk's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for VPET against 5.0 for LinkTalk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
VPET ships an update monthly, LinkTalk every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on June 30, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VPET | LinkTalk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg GmbH | Yuxi Liu |
Customer experience
VPET
LinkTalk
In-app purchases
VPET
No in-app purchases
LinkTalk
No in-app purchases









