Shining Glasses vs 3D Circle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shining Glasses
Control your LED full-color display screen with this app. Customize text, expressions, colors, and effects. Create unique patterns, music rhythms, and graffiti for a personalized device experience.
- Control LED full-color display
- Change display text and expressions
- Variety of color schemes
- Display and pattern effects
- Music rhythm effects
- Custom graffiti and display effects
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Shining glasses is a cool app that controls the LED full-color display screen. It can change the display text and expression in the app, provide a variety of color schemes and display effects, pattern effects, music rhythm effects, and customize graffiti and display effects as you like. With cool and diverse play methods, your device is unique. Shining Glasses是一款控制LED全彩显示屏的酷炫App,实现在app中更改显示文字和表情，提供多种配色方案以及显示效果，图案效果,音乐律动效果,可以随心所欲自定义涂鸦及显示效果，酷炫多样的玩法，让您的设备独一无二。
3D Circle
This utility app provides a simple and straightforward way to create and manage 3D circles. It's designed for users who need a basic tool for geometric visualization.
- 3D circle creation
- Circle management
- Geometric visualization
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Only playing real footage can prove true high definition; simply using anime materials is just a marketing gimmick.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 3D Circle at fortnightly against Shining Glasses's every 2 months. Shining Glasses's advantage is review sentiment (43% vs 25%) and ratings volume (61 vs 3). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Shining Glasses against 3.0 for 3D Circle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shining Glasses has 61 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Shining Glasses's written reviews are positive against 25% of 3D Circle's.
Shining Glasses ships an update every 2 months, 3D Circle fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Shining Glasses | 3D Circle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (61 ratings) | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 25.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Heaton Technology Co., Ltd. | 飞海 李 |
Customer experience
Shining Glasses
3D Circle
Bugs and requests
Shining Glasses
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
3D Circle
Reported bugs
20 issues- App does not recognize WiFi connection despite phone being connected
- WiFi network fails to appear in device settings
- App crashes when uploading videos
- App crashes when adding 3D text with character limits
- Rotation settings buttons non-functional
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- Brightness control not working
- Video orientation displays horizontally incorrectly
- Delete function is buggy and unreliable
- File deletion requires force quit and relaunch
- App shows 'Device disconnected' error repeatedly
- Bluetooth connection shows in settings but not in app
- SD card error messages during upload
- WiFi constantly disconnects and reconnects
- App does not support PNG or GIF files properly
- Deletion fails if file is currently playing
- App crashes on older iOS devices
- App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- Video upload shows 'no stream' error
- Recent update broke video upload functionality
- Videos display at reduced size after update
Requested features
16 requests- Increase file storage limit beyond 50 items
- Bluetooth connectivity option instead of WiFi only
- Hide top and bottom faces on 3D shapes
- File naming and description capabilities
- Offline mode for content creation
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- GIF file support
- Video rotation and editing tools
- Individual video reversal for bounce looping
- Subfolder or page organization system
- Ability to recover deleted factory content
- WiFi password reset functionality
- Better file deletion mechanism
- Character limit increase for 3D text
- Image/video shrinking with padding options
- Trash recovery before permanent deletion
- Mac/iOS desktop software support
In-app purchases
Shining Glasses
No in-app purchases
3D Circle
No in-app purchases
