Vi.Designer vs Formulair
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vi.Designer
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Brilliant in glassmaking. Innovative in all its facets. HEINZ-GLAS Virtual Designer. Create glass flacons or jars just as you like. Shapes, glass types, decorations, caps. Infinite configuration possibilities. Realistic, crystal clear and smart. With Augmented Reality mode for mobile devices.
Formulair
This app helps perfumers organize raw materials and create fragrance formulas. It allows detailed tracking of ingredients, dilutions, and costs, with tools for scaling and visualizing scent profiles. Export your creations in various formats for sharing or further analysis.
- Raw material organization with detailed cards
- Formula creation and management
- Customizable scaling engine
- Fragrance pyramid and category visualization
- Dilution tracking and management
- Formula export to PDF, Markdown, TSV
- Color-coding for raw materials
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Designed for apprentice and self-taught perfumers. As easy as using a pen and paper but allows you to make connections between raw materials and formulas which a traditional notebook can't provide. Keep your raw materials organised with collection of cards to store information. Keep track of basic information such as supplier, IFRA limits and cost per gram. Add dates for purchasing your stock and making dilutions to act as a reminder to when raw materials may have gone off. A table summarising concentration in formulas serves to quickly remind you which usage levels you found the most success with. Organise your formulas into custom categories and sketch out new ones with ease. Simply search your raw materials library and set a weight in grams up to 3 decimal places. Mark formula entries as too strong or weak. Change the dilution of a formula entry or swap out a raw material as you please. Formulair makes all of this quick and easy. Features: - A custom scaling engine helps you scale formulas up and down using a scaling factor, target weight or target concentration. - View a fragrance pyramid split into 5 levels of substantivity and a visual raw material category breakdown for each formula. - Keep track of different raw materials' dilutions and change dilutions in formulas using the existing solvent. - Includes a setting to scramble your raw material usage table, hiding sensitive formula information. - Your data is secured by apple in a private iCloud container. - Featuring a carefully designed colour palette, allowing you to assign colours to fully capture the essence your raw materials. - A rich interface supports light and dark mode. Even the raw materials colour palette adapts dynamically. - Raw material cards include a listing of every formula it's used in from strongest to weakest, showing any flags you set for too strong or weak. - Export formulas to pdf allowing you to print and share, markdown to open in note taking software, or tsv (tab-separated value) files, to load into spreadsheet software. Pricing: Formulair allows you to add up to 25 raw materials and up to 25 formulas for free. Once you try to go above this limit, you will be offered a one-time in-app-purchase to buy the full version, which allows you to create unlimited raw materials and formulas.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vi.Designer at none against Formulair's 1. Vi.Designer also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Formulair sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vi.Designer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vi.Designer ships an update every 5 weeks, Formulair every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vi.Designer | Formulair |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (190 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 86.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 190 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.6 GB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HEINZ-GLAS GmbH & Co.KGaA | Lux & Terra Ltd. |
Bugs and requests
Vi.Designer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Formulair
Reported bugs
5 issues- App does not open
- Forgets license after purchase
- Crashing when deleting material categories or materials
- Syncing issues between laptop and iPad
- Cannot remove imported materials all at once
Requested features
24 requests- Group formula raw materials by Top, Core, Base
- Group product printing by Top, Core, Base
- Allow sub-categories for formula grouping
- Formula batch log for tracking batches and inventory
- Copy images into notes fields
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- General notes section not tied to material/formula
- Incorporate/calculate accords in formulas
- More color variations for app/categories
- Image option to capture raw material appearance
- Spanish version of the app
- Additional fields like 'Manufacturer' or 'Country of Origin'
- Option to add custom fields
- Accord library option integrated into formulas
- Extensive CSV library of raw materials for full version
- Block information of raw materials
- Export/import Excel data
- Allow including created fragrances in new formulations
- Edit printed items
- Filter by FEMA
- Ability to use on Windows computer
- Pairing and correlation between raw materials
- Save formulas for accords into other formulas
- Add an ingredient that is treated as a base with its own formula
- Make adding infusions and tinctures more convenient
In-app purchases
Vi.Designer
No in-app purchases
Formulair
- Full Version$39.99
Questions
Is Vi.Designer free?
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Do Vi.Designer or Formulair have ads?
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