ContactMate eLead vs Point Cloud & BIM Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
ContactMate eLead
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Speed up the processing of business cards and survey forms, conduct raffles, or create digital assessment and feedback forms. This app allows you to collect trade show visitors' contact details easily and securely. Quickly navigate through your pre-prepared questions with a single tap and effortlessly select your customers' responses. Scanned visitors are stored in a digital register, enabling efficient and fast post-event marketing. Versatile features ensure reliable and rapid contact data storage. You can upload assessment forms to better target follow-up actions such as raffles, quote requests, procurement plans, or newsletter subscriptions.
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer
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Point Cloud & BIM Viewer opens laser scans and BIM models on your Mac, iPad and iPhone ā measure them, cut sections, see where the building differs from the design, and export the results. Everything stays on the device: no account, no upload. A sample project with a guide shows where everything is. FORMATS ⢠E57 with registered scan setups, colour, intensity and spherical photographs ⢠LAS and LAZ 1.0 to 1.4, with colour, intensity and classification; COPC opens as the LAZ it is ⢠PLY, ASCII and binary; PTS and PTX; XYZ and TXT with intensity or RGB columns ⢠IFC models, also zipped or gzipped; USDZ, USD, OBJ, STL, glTF and GLB ⢠DXF floor plans laid under the scan, with the drawing's layers to switch off ⢠A whole job at once: several files, a folder or a zip become one project Import never modifies the original; a scan of a hundred million points imports in tens of megabytes. EVERYTHING IN ONE PROJECT The side panel lists what a project holds: the cloud and each of its scans, every model file and floor plan, and saved cuts. Show, hide, colour and look at each on its own ā colour every scan setup to check the registration. Add scans later, show several model files together, send a project by AirDrop. THE SCAN AGAINST THE MODEL ⢠Every point coloured by its distance to the model, with a tolerance you set ⢠Which elements the scan shows as built, which are missing, and where it never went ⢠The elements built out of tolerance, listed ⢠Place a model by pairs of corners, by the walls in the scan, or where its georeference says ⢠Measure from the scan to a surface of the model SCAN WITH LIDAR On an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR, scan a room into a project, fit it to the other scans, and continue later. For orientation, not millimetres. THE PROJECT IN AR On iPhone and iPad, stand the project on a table, or at 1:1 in the building itself by a few shared points, with a scan's panorama over the walls. ON THE MAP Coordinates read as a surveyor writes them: S-JTSK Y and X, or E and N in the system the file or the IFC georeference names. Keep points by them, see the project on a map with an aerial view under the scan, or place it by hand. The map loads from Apple Maps only when switched on. THE MODEL Browse elements by storey, class or file and find them by name, class, GlobalId or property. Select them in the view or by rectangle, colour and group them. Read every property, inherited ones too. Check a model against IDS: what fails is listed, and each failure can become a note. MEASURE ⢠Distance with its horizontal and vertical parts, and height straight up ⢠Face to face: wall thickness, clear width, clear height ⢠The shortest distance between two elements, or from an element to the scan ⢠Polylines, angles and best-fit areas ⢠Notes anchored to a point or an element ⢠Every pick is verified against the cloud at full resolution; an uncertain one is refused ⢠Metric or imperial units SECTIONS AND ROOMS A box you move, turn and reshape by dragging, a plane or a slice. Where a cut crosses the model, its solids are hatched and outlined. Save a cut with its view under a name and return to it. SEEING THE SCAN RGB, intensity, classification, a heatmap, or elevation over the whole scan or a band of a few centimetres. A grid, views from all six sides, and panoramas from the scanner's position. ISSUES IN BCF Notes leave as BCF topics with a viewpoint and the element they are on; BCF files from other tools open as notes. EXPORT The cloud or a single scan as E57 with panoramas, LAS, PLY or XYZ; a section as LAS; CSV, JSON with sections, BCF, a PNG snapshot. FREE AND PRO Free with one project; Pro removes the limit for a single payment, no subscription. Projects you have stay open either way. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Point data is not edited, and tripod scans are registered in the scanner's software. Clouds in two different coordinate systems are not brought into one. Models you open are read, never modified.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ContactMate eLead at none against Point Cloud & BIM Viewer's 1. ContactMate eLead also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Point Cloud & BIM Viewer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Point Cloud & BIM Viewer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ContactMate eLead asks for nothing beyond the download.
ContactMate eLead ships an update monthly, Point Cloud & BIM Viewer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ContactMate eLead | Point Cloud & BIM Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AIDC Finland Oy | Sew Grader by Virtalia |
In-app purchases
ContactMate eLead
No in-app purchases
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer
- Pointclouds Viewer Pro$6.99
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