Comparison

Nomad Sculpt vs MeshVault

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

MeshVault

Features
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Open a 3D file, look at it properly, and get the numbers you actually need. OPENS WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE STL, OBJ, FBX, PLY, GLB/glTF, 3MF, USDZ, DAE and Alembic. Drop in a ZIP, 7z or tar.gz and the models inside open directly - no unzipping first. If an archive holds a whole assembly, tick the parts you want, or load all of them at once. BUILT FOR BIG FILES A 1.2 GB assembly with millions of triangles loads without falling over. When a model is larger than the device can hold at full precision, it is reduced automatically so you still get to see it, and a banner tells you exactly what happened. EXPLODED VIEW Drag the slider and the parts move outward from the centre - the assembly opens up like a workshop diagram. Drag it back and everything returns to where it was, exactly. Files loaded together from an archive separate part by part. MEASURE AND WEIGH Tap two points for a distance in mm, cm, m or inches. Pick a material - PLA, ABS, PETG, resin, nylon, aluminium, steel, stainless, brass, copper, titanium, gold, silver, wood or your own density - and get the weight, alongside volume, surface area, bounding box and triangle count. Volume comes from the full-precision mesh, so simplified display never changes the numbers. SEE IT THE WAY YOU WANT Front, back, left, right, top, bottom, isometric, and fit to view. Lighting follows the camera, so the underside is as clear as the top. Set the model colour, the background, the light direction and its strength. CONVERT BETWEEN FORMATS Export what you opened as STL, OBJ, PLY, GLB, 3MF, FBX or USDZ. Handy when a printer wants STL and the model arrived as FBX. ALSO A WORKING ARCHIVE TOOL Extract any ZIP, 7z or tar.gz, 3D file or not, and save the contents to Files. Compress files into a standard ZIP anyone can open. Everything runs on the device. Nothing is uploaded. One-time purchase removes ads, drops the watermark from exported images, and unlocks unlimited format conversion. Free without it: three conversions, plus one more each time you watch a short video, up to five a day. Not supported: RAR archives, and CAD formats such as STEP or IGES.

Screenshots

Nomad Sculpt4 screens
MeshVault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MeshVault at Free against Nomad Sculpt's $19.99. Nomad Sculpt's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

MeshVault is free to download; Nomad Sculpt costs $19.99 up front. Nomad Sculpt sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MeshVault sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Nomad Sculpt versus MeshVault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNomad SculptMeshVault
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#3 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size294 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHexanomadSui Fai Law

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

MeshVault

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Nomad Sculpt

One-time1
  • Quad Remesher$15.99
1 purchases

MeshVault

One-time1
  • Remove Ads + Clean Export$2.99

Questions

Is Nomad Sculpt free?
Nomad Sculpt costs $19.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is MeshVault free?
MeshVault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nomad Sculpt or MeshVault have ads?
MeshVault shows ads; Nomad Sculpt does not.

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