Comparison

Nomad Sculpt vs Polymagical

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nomad Sculpt

Create 3D models with sculpting and painting tools. Features include layers, multiresolution sculpting, and PBR rendering. Supports various export formats for your digital art.

Highlights
  • Sculpting tools (clay, flatten, smooth, trim)
  • Vertex painting (color, roughness, metalness)
  • Layer system for sculpting and painting
  • Multiresolution and voxel remeshing
  • Automatic UV unwrapping
  • PBR rendering with post-processing effects
  • Export/import in glTF, OBJ, STL, PLY
Features
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• Sculpting tools Clay, flatten, smooth, mask and many other brushes will let you shape your creation. You can also use the trim boolean cutting tool with lasso, rectangle and other shapes, for hardsurface purposes. • Stroke customization Falloff, alphas, tilings, pencil pressure and other stroke parameters can be customized. You can save and load your tools preset as well. • Painting tools Vertex painting with color, roughness and metalness. You can easily manage all your material presets as well. • Layers Record your sculpting and painting operations in separate layers for easier iteration during the creation process. Both the sculpting and painting changes are recorded. • Multiresolution sculpting Go back and forth between multiple resolution of your mesh for a flexible workflow. • Voxel remeshing Remesh quickly your mesh to get a uniform level of detail. It can be used to quickly sketch a rough shape at the beginning of the creation process. • Dynamic topology Refine locally your mesh under your brush to get an automatic level of detail. You can even keep your layers, as they will be automatically updated! • Decimate Reduce the number of polygons by keeping as many details as possible. • Face Group Segment your mesh into subgroups with the face group tool. • Automatic UV unwrap The automatic UV unwrapper can use face groups to control the unwrapping process. • Baking You can transfer vertex data such as color, roughness, metalness and small scaled detail in to textures. You can also do the opposite, transfering textures data into vertex data or layers. • Primitive shape Cylinder, torus, tube, lathe and other primitives can be used to quickly start new shapes from scratch. • PBR rendering Beautiful PBR rendering by default, with lighting and shadows. You can always switch to matcap for a more standard shading for sculpting purposes. • Post processing Screen Space Reflection, Depth of Field, Ambient Occlusion, Tone mapping, etc • Export and Import Supported formats include glTF, OBJ, STL or PLY files. • Interface Easy-to-use interface, designed for mobile experience. Customization is possible as well! • Quad Remesher (separate in-app purchase only) Remesh your object automatically with a quad dominant mesh that follows the mesh curvatures. It supports guides, face groups and density painting.

About

Polymagical

Transform your words into 3D low-poly meshes using AI and augmented reality. Generate and preview creations instantly, then share them across the web or in popular 3D formats. Unlock unlimited generation with a subscription.

Highlights
  • AI-generated 3D low-poly meshes
  • AR preview mode
  • Instant mesh generation
  • Web and .glb export
  • Subscription for unlimited generation
Features
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PolyMagical is the first 3D AI x AR app that turns your words into low poly 3D meshes. You can prompt the AI to create anything - anywhere, all at once… so auto-magically awesome, it’s AIMagical! Features: - Generate any 3D low poly mesh… in seconds! - Preview and create in AR mode.
 - Share easily: Export to the web, .glb, .usdz (coming soon) Please help support our Club Infinity by subscribing, for infinite generation powers! Made by an indie dev with love. :-) EULA link required by Apple: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Nomad Sculpt4 screens
Polymagical2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Polymagical at Free against Nomad Sculpt's $19.99. Polymagical also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). Nomad Sculpt's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (15K vs 5). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Polymagical is free to download; Nomad Sculpt costs $19.99 up front. Nomad Sculpt sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Polymagical sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nomad Sculpt holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nomad Sculpt has 15K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Nomad Sculpt's written reviews are positive against 100% of Polymagical's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Nomad Sculpt versus Polymagical: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNomad SculptPolymagical
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (15K ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews87.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#3 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size294 MB130 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHexanomadYosun Chang

Customer experience

Nomad Sculpt

All ratings14,470 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews791 reviews
Positive87.2%
Neutral4.2%
Negative8.6%

Polymagical

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Nomad Sculpt

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when importing/exporting certain file types
  • Glitches with symmetry and transform tools
  • Inconsistent performance on older iPad models

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add UV mapping and unwrapping tools
  • Implement a more robust autosave system
  • Include rigging and animation capabilities
  • Add support for more file formats (e.g., FBX)
  • Improve palm rejection and gesture controls
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  • Provide more brush customization options
  • Implement a timeline or layer system for sculpting

Polymagical

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Nomad Sculpt

One-time1
  • Quad Remesher$15.99
4 purchases

Polymagical

Subscriptions4
  • Crew at Club Infinity Monthly$5.991 Month
  • TimeLord Club Infinity Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Crew Yearly$59.991 Year
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  • Timelord Yearly$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Nomad Sculpt free?
Nomad Sculpt costs $19.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Polymagical free?
Polymagical is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Nomad Sculpt or Polymagical?
Nomad Sculpt is rated higher. Nomad Sculpt averages 4.8 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while Polymagical averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Nomad Sculpt or Polymagical have ads?
Neither Nomad Sculpt nor Polymagical shows ads.

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