Comparison

Niceboy Home vs Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

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

Head to head
About

Niceboy Home

Manage all your smart home devices from a single application. Automate daily routines for appliances, share access with family members, and easily pair new devices. Voice assistant integration offers convenient control.

Highlights
  • Centralized device control
  • Automated daily routines
  • Family access sharing
  • Quick device pairing
  • Voice assistant compatibility
Features
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The app for your entire smart home. Download Niceboy HOME for free. With the mobile app: 1.You control all your Niceboy smart products in one place. No need to switch between different apps. 2.You can create daily routines for your appliances, so they turn on and off automatically. The vacuum cleans, the light turns on, and the air fryer starts preparing food. 3.You can share access with the whole family. 4.You can pair a new device quickly, even without reading manuals. 5.You can control the products using voice assistants.

About

Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

Features
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Point Cloud & BIM Viewer opens laser scans and BIM models on your Mac, iPad and iPhone — 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 — 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.

Screenshots

Niceboy Home4 screens
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Niceboy Home at none against Point Cloud & BIM Viewer's 1. Niceboy Home also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Point Cloud & BIM Viewer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 17 months). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Point Cloud & BIM Viewer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Niceboy Home asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Niceboy Home ships an update every 17 months, Point Cloud & BIM Viewer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Niceboy Home versus Point Cloud & BIM Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNiceboy HomePoint Cloud & BIM Viewer
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB37 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRTB MEDIA S.R.OSew Grader by Virtalia

In-app purchases

None

Niceboy Home

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

One-time1
  • Pointclouds Viewer Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Niceboy Home free?
Niceboy Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Point Cloud & BIM Viewer free?
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Niceboy Home or Point Cloud & BIM Viewer have ads?
Neither Niceboy Home nor Point Cloud & BIM Viewer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Niceboy Home or Point Cloud & BIM Viewer?
Niceboy Home ships an update every 17 months, and Point Cloud & BIM Viewer every 2 days. Most recently, Niceboy Home was updated on October 5, 2026 and Point Cloud & BIM Viewer on October 14, 2026.

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