Tinkercad vs Anaglyph 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tinkercad
This app empowers aspiring designers and engineers with essential skills in 3D design, electronics, and coding. Learn through hands-on projects, build confidence, and bring your creations to life in the real world. It's a safe, ad-free environment for all ages to explore innovation.
- 3D design optimized for mobile
- Circuit simulation with Arduino/micro:bit
- 3D design from code (Codeblocks)
- AR viewer for designs
- Import/export various file formats
- Educational tools for teachers
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Tinkercad is a free app that equips the next generation of designers and engineers with the foundational skills for innovation: 3D design, electronics, and coding. • FREE FOR EVERYONE: No strings attached. Start creating from the first click. • LEARN BY DOING: Build confidence, persistence, and problem-solving skills. • SAFE FOR ALL AGES: Ad-free. kidSAFE certified. Privacy first. KEY FEATURES • Easily build 3D with controls optimized for your device. • Connect, code, and simulate circuit components with Arduino and micro:bit microcontrollers. • Make 3D designs from code using Tinkercad Codeblocks. • Bring your designs into the real world with the Tinkercad AR viewer. • Import STL, OBJ and SVG files into the 3D design space to build on an existing design. • Export your files including STL, OBJ, USDZ, and SVG or send them to other programs. • All you need is a device and an internet connection. • Apple Pencil compatible. FOR EDUCATORS • Tinkercad Classrooms allows teachers to assign Activities, send and receive assignments, invite co-teachers, and monitor student progress—all from your dashboard. • Tinkercad Lesson Plans and starters available for students to get started with 3D CAD design, electronics simulation, and block-based programming. • Compatible with Google Classroom. Tinkercad is a free product from Autodesk, a leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. Tomorrow's innovators start here. Children’s Privacy Statement: https://www.autodesk.com/company/legal-notices-trademarks/privacy-statement/childrens-privacy-statement
Anaglyph 3D
This app generates 3D anaglyph images and videos from single photos or videos using depth prediction and machine learning. It creates stereo image pairs that, when viewed with special glasses, produce a convincing 3D effect.
- Generates anaglyphs from photos, Live Photos, and videos
- Uses depth prediction and machine learning
- Creates stereo image pairs from single images
- Adjustable disparity intensity for 3D effect
- Supports viewing with red-cyan glasses or VR headsets
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Anaglyph 3D creates anaglyphs for photos, Live Photos and videos by generating stereo image pairs from depth prediction. Two photos taken with a slight horizontal offset—mimicking human vision—form a stereo image pair. When viewed with special glasses, Virtual Reality headsets, or free-viewing techniques like cross-eye or parallel viewing, this offset allows the brain to perceive depth, creating a 3D effect. An anaglyph combines the left and right images of a stereo pair into a single image, creating a 3D effect when viewed with red-cyan glasses. Specifically, the left image is represented in shades of red, while the right image appears in shades of cyan. The color-matching lenses ensure that each eye receives the correct image, enabling depth perception. Traditionally, a stereo pair is captured with a dual lens or double shot camera, as in our app Cameranaglyph. This app offers an alternative approach, using a single image to generate a stereo pair from depth prediction and machine learning. Each of your eyes sees a slightly different view because they are spaced apart horizontally. This causes objects to appear slightly shifted between the left and right views. The amount of horizontal shift between common objects in both views is called disparity. Closer objects have a larger disparity than those farther away. You can observe this effect by looking at an object with one eye closed, then switching to the other eye. The closer the object, the more it appears to shift between views. Your brain uses this difference to perceive depth and distance. Machine learning is a process where computers analyze data to make predictions without being explicitly programmed for each task. It employs a model to detect and analyze patterns within the data. Training involves optimizing the model by iteratively adjusting its parameters using labeled data to minimize prediction errors and improve performance. One application of machine learning is depth prediction in images, where the model estimates how far objects are from the camera. By training on millions of images, the model learns to recognize visual patterns that indicate depth. A depth map is an image that represents object distances by encoding them as grayscale pixel values. Using machine learning, it’s possible to predict depth from a single photo or video frame, creating a depth map. The depth map is used to create a disparity filter to generate a right and left image stereo pair by shifting pixels in the original image. The stereo pair can then be used to create an anaglyph. The Disparity Intensity parameter adjusts the pixel shift between the left and right stereo images generated from depth prediction. Increasing the value exaggerates depth differences, enhancing the 3D effect, while decreasing it reduces the disparity for a more subtle stereo effect — similar to adjusting contrast in an image. Select a photo or video using the browser or from the sample media in the app menu. For a conventional video stereo pairs are generated from depth prediction on the single image extracted from a video frame. Each stereo pair is then used to generate three types of video output—Anaglyph, Side by Side and Spatial—as follows: Anaglyph: Each output video frame is an anaglyph created using a stereo image pair generated from depth prediction on the input video frame, for 3D glasses. Side by Side: Each output video frame is a juxtaposition of the images using a stereo image pair generated from depth prediction on the input video frame. The placement of images is intended for parallel viewing. To see the 3D effect, the viewer must train their eyes to focus as if looking at a distant object, allowing each eye to align with the corresponding image. Spatial: Each output video frame consists of a stereo image pair generated from depth prediction on the input video frame to create a spatial video. A spatial video is a stereoscopic 3D video format introduced for the Apple Vision Pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tinkercad at 4.6 against Anaglyph 3D's 3.0. Tinkercad also leads on ratings volume (20K vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.2). Anaglyph 3D's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Tinkercad holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tinkercad has 20K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Tinkercad's written reviews are positive against 67% of Anaglyph 3D's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tinkercad ships an update every 4 months, Anaglyph 3D every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tinkercad | Anaglyph 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (20K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.4% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 719 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Autodesk Inc. | Limit Point Software |
Customer experience
Tinkercad
Anaglyph 3D
Bugs and requests
Tinkercad
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues and lost connection problems
- Dimensions box repeatedly appearing
- Designs reverting to earlier versions
- Overlapping UI elements
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for Apple Pencil and trackpad
- Improve alignment and grouping tools
- Provide offline functionality
- Expand library of shapes and templates
- Implement better tutorial and documentation
Anaglyph 3D
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tinkercad
No in-app purchases
Anaglyph 3D
No in-app purchases
Questions
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