Minima Sculptor vs Lua IDE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minima Sculptor
Create 3D models by combining and adjusting basic shapes. Apply custom or pre-set materials to your designs. This app is ideal for beginners and children learning 3D modeling.
- Combine 3D primitives
- Adjust properties with sliders
- Paint models with custom materials
- Material library presets
- Export for 3D printing and game engines
- Cross-platform integration
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Construct 3D models by combining and fine-tuning properties of 3D primitives. Paint models with custom materials (or select from a library of material presets) in the Painting Studio. Designed to be as simple as possible – great for kids and novices to 3D modeling. Includes powerful editing tools & features like the Properties Editor, Material Previewer, Parts List, primitive grouping, property sliders, property text input, and much more. Export projects easily for 3D printing, popular gaming & physics engines, sharing with friends via Airdrop, editing via text-editor, or editing in another 3D modeling application. Exporting as Minima Model files keeps files sizes low and makes sharing easy. Includes detailed Help Center with walkthroughs for solving urgent technical questions. Part of the MINIMA Suite of powerful, accessible creative tools for the iPad and Mac. Includes cross-platform integration with Mac version of Minima Sculptor.
Lua IDE
A mobile integrated development environment for writing and running Lua code. It offers syntax highlighting, module support, and an offline reference manual. Cloud storage integration is also available.
- Syntax highlighting
- Module support
- Offline reference manual
- Works offline
- Cloud storage support
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• Lua IDE with syntax highlighting • Support requiring modules • Reference manual • Works completely offline • Cloud storage support, including iCloud
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Minima Sculptor at 4.5 against Lua IDE's 3.4. Minima Sculptor also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (95 vs 22). 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.
Minima Sculptor holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 95 and 22 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Minima Sculptor's written reviews are positive against 59% of Lua IDE's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Minima Sculptor ships an update every 11 days, Lua IDE every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minima Sculptor | Lua IDE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (95 ratings) — better | 3.4 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 59.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MagMHJ | Wenhuan Li |
Customer experience
Minima Sculptor
Lua IDE
In-app purchases
Minima Sculptor
No in-app purchases
Lua IDE
No in-app purchases
