Comparison

AR Biodiversity vs FoldVision

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

Head to head
About

AR Biodiversity

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Discover sound and stories of native Dutch flora and fauna in augmented reality By scanning signs of plants located around Broedplaats de Campagne, Suikerlaan 43, Groningen (NL), other locations and various festivals in Europe, you can activate native plants and they tell their stories to you. Listen to the symphony of biodiversity. Learn about the importance of biodiversity. Using augmented reality technology you can experience nature like never before! Tip: tap spheres to reveal more stories about insects and more. Want to try the app at home? Download the plant markers: https://www.chantallapleiter.nl/?page_id=1852 Concept & development: Chantalla Pleiter In collaboration with: Jip De Beer; creative programmer, research; Lisa Biesot, Design plates: Pieter van Dijken, Inner plant sounds: Raphael De Cock, Bram Bosteels & Jurgen De Bruyn. Plant voices: Kasper Peters, P.M. O’sullivan, Fieke Gosselaar, Connie Esbach, Marc Roosenbrand, Chantalla Pleiter & Lisa Biesot. Sponsor of native plants: Kwekerij Cruydt-Hoeck Wildeplantenzaden https://www.cruydthoeck.nl/ Partners: Terra, Festival Lunalia, PΓΌckler Karawane, Station Noord. This project is an hommage to my parents; Henk Pleiter & Gerda Noordam. The pioneers and fighters for biodiversity since I’ve known them and before! https://www.chantallapleiter.nl/

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FoldVision

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FoldVision turns the world's protein structures into something you can hold, turn, and understand. Search more than 200,000 experimentally determined structures from the Protein Data Bank, load AlphaFold and ESMFold predictions, or build a DNA or RNA helix from a typed sequence. Everything renders in interactive 3D β€” rotate it with a finger, zoom into an active site, and switch between ribbon, surface, ball-and-stick and space-filling views. EXPLAIN ANY PROTEIN Tap Explain and the app writes a plain-language account of what the protein does, grounded in curated UniProt data and generated privately on your device with Apple Intelligence. A guided tour walks you through the key regions, lighting up each one on the structure as it's described. Available in 11 languages. COMPARE TWO STRUCTURES Load two structures and see exactly what changed. Structural-change coloring shades every residue from blue (superposes) to red (diverges). Sequence-change coloring separates conserved residues from substitutions. Watch a smooth morph between two conformations, or set them side by side. EXPLORE THE DETAIL β€’ Annotations β€” domains, active and binding sites, modifications, variants and mutagenesis, drawn from UniProt. Tap any one to spotlight it on the structure. β€’ Sequence view β€” the full amino-acid sequence with secondary structure, hydrophobicity, charge and B-factor tracks. Tap a residue to find it in 3D. β€’ Color by secondary structure, chain, hydrophobicity, charge, domain or confidence (pLDDT), with color-blind-safe palettes throughout. β€’ Measure distances, pin points of interest, and see the ligands and ions bound in the structure. NUCLEIC ACIDS Fold an RNA sequence into its predicted secondary structure with ViennaRNA, or build an idealized DNA or RNA double helix from any sequence. SHARE YOUR WORK Export a still image, a spinning video, or a 3D USDZ model you can drop into a presentation or an AR scene. BUILT FOR EVERY DEVICE Designed for iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro, with layouts tuned to each. Structure and annotation data come from the RCSB Protein Data Bank, UniProt, AlphaFold DB, ESM Atlas, InterPro and Reactome. Full credits are in the app.

Screenshots

AR Biodiversity3 screens
FoldVision4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: AR Biodiversity at 11.0 against FoldVision's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
AR Biodiversity versus FoldVision: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAR BiodiversityFoldVision
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS11.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size233 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChantalla pleiterScot Federman

In-app purchases

None

AR Biodiversity

No in-app purchases

None

FoldVision

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AR Biodiversity free?
AR Biodiversity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FoldVision free?
FoldVision is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AR Biodiversity or FoldVision have ads?
Neither AR Biodiversity nor FoldVision shows ads.

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