Vi.Designer vs Formulab Pro
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.
Formulab Pro
A professional workspace for perfumers and fragrance creators to manage materials, formulas, and trials. It offers features for saving, searching, and importing materials, building formulas with precision, and running multiple trials. Export your creations to PDF or Excel for easy sharing and backup.
- Manage fragrance materials with detailed information
- Build and scale perfume formulas with precision
- Run multiple trials and track versions
- Analyze formulas by category and olfactory pyramid
- Export formulas to PDF or data to Excel
- iCloud sync across devices
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Formulab Pro is a professional workspace for perfumers and fragrance creators. Keep your materials, formulas, and trials in one place — and stop losing your best work to scattered notes and spreadsheets. MATERIALS • Save materials with full details and categories • Search by name or any detail • Add from a built-in repository of 20,000+ fragrance materials • Import your Excel file in any format — the app maps it for you • Auto-fill missing details and IFRA limits with one tap FORMULAS • Build formulas with precision, or import from Excel • View by section, absolute %, relative %, cost, or description • Scale any formula up or down — quantities recalculate automatically • Sort materials by category, dilution, amount, and more BATCH MODE • Run multiple trials of the same formula • See trial quantities next to the original • Add notes, browse versions, save any trial as its own formula ANALYSIS • Detailed stats per formula by category and olfactory pyramid • Compare formulas side by side REUSE & RESTRICTIONS • Convert any formula into a material to reuse as an accord or base • Keep IFRA restriction context when reusing formulas EXPORT & BACKUP • Export formulas to PDF, or all data to Excel • Full backup and restore • iCloud sync across your devices Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Free to download and try. Subscribe to unlock full features. Privacy Policy: https://formulabpro.online/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://formulabpro.online/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vi.Designer at none against Formulab Pro's 2. Vi.Designer also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). Formulab Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). 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. Formulab Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Vi.Designer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vi.Designer ships an update every 5 weeks, Formulab Pro every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vi.Designer | Formulab Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.6 GB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HEINZ-GLAS GmbH & Co.KGaA | Badr vc Alshammry |
In-app purchases
Vi.Designer
No in-app purchases
Formulab Pro
- Formulab Pro (monthly)$4.991 Month
- Formulab Pro (Annual)$39.991 Year
