Revo Scan vs OpenShape3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Revo Scan
Transform your iPhone into a powerful 3D scanner. Capture complex objects, people, and large-scale items in full color. Generate high-precision 3D models for various creative and professional uses.
- Connects to Revopoint 3D scanners
- Wi-Fi only connection
- Scans complex, tiny, large objects, and people
- Full lifelike color scanning
- Automatic 3D data processing
- Export in OBJ, STL, PLY formats
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Connect your Revopoint 3D scanner to your iPhone (Wi-Fi only), and get scanning without complex preparations or professional scanning skills. With Revo Scan and Revopoint 3D scanners, you can scan complex-shaped objects, tiny objects, large objects, or even people in full lifelike color. After finishing the scan, Revo Scan 3D automatically processes the scanned 3D data to generate high-precision 3D models, which can be exported as OBJ, STL, and PLY formats. Whether you're an artist looking to turn your 3D creative designs into reality or an engineer making prototypes, Revo Scan provides a fast and smooth scanning experience.
OpenShape3D
Create precise 3D models directly on your mobile device using intuitive touch controls. This app offers robust sketching tools, advanced solid modeling operations, and various viewing modes, all powered by a professional-grade geometry kernel.
- Direct-modeling CAD for touch
- Professional-grade B-rep kernel
- Advanced 2D sketching with constraints
- Extrude, revolve, sweep, and loft operations
- Live preview for fillets and chamfers
- Import/export STL, OBJ, DXF, and more
- AR preview with Quick Look
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openshape3d is a direct-modeling CAD app built for touch. Sketch a profile, pull it into a solid, and keep cutting, blending and patterning until the part is done — no desktop, no subscription server, no file conversion dance. Geometry is computed by OpenCASCADE, the same open-source B-rep kernel used in professional CAD. Extrudes, primitives and booleans produce exact analytic surfaces, so a cylinder stays a true cylinder instead of a faceted approximation. SKETCHING • Sketch on a world plane, on any flat body face, or on an offset construction plane pulled off a face • Line, rectangle, circle, arc, ellipse, polygon and text-as-outline tools • Endpoint, midpoint, centre, vertex and grid snapping — draw with Apple Pencil • Trim, move/rotate gizmo, construction geometry, and reusable symbols • A full 2D constraint solver: coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, equal, concentric, symmetric and more • Driving dimensions with inline arithmetic (type 25.4/2) pull geometry to value • The sketch tells you where it stands — fully defined, or how many degrees of freedom remain SOLIDS • Extrude a profile, or push and pull a face directly with automatic booleans: pull to add material, push to cut • Revolve, sweep along a chained path, loft through sections, and helix • Fillet and chamfer edges with live preview and drag-to-size • Shell a body hollow, with optional open faces • Union, subtract and intersect between bodies, computed off the main thread • Split a body with a plane or a sketch profile • Linear and circular patterns with ghost previews • Move, scale, rotate, mirror, translate point-to-point and align VIEWING • Orientation cube, six standard views, isometric and orthographic toggle • One finger orbits, two pan, pinch zooms — the camera never locks up • Section view that clips live against a plane, with a drag arrow and flip • Shaded, shaded without edges, wireframe with proper hidden-line removal, and X-ray • Marquee select with window/crossing semantics, and Select Through to reach a body buried behind others • Isolate to hide everything but the selection MATERIALS AND REFERENCE • Material presets — steel, aluminium, brass, plastics, rubber, wood — plus custom colour with metallic and roughness • Drop PNG or JPEG reference images onto any plane and trace over them MEASURE • Face area, body volume and bounding box on selection • Two-point distance with X, Y and Z deltas over snap points IMPORT AND EXPORT • Import STL and DXF • Export STL, OBJ, 3MF, GLB, USDZ and sketch DXF • Preview your model in AR with Quick Look
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OpenShape3D at 75% against Revo Scan's 18%. OpenShape3D also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Revo Scan's advantage is ratings volume (38 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OpenShape3D holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Revo Scan has 38 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Revo Scan's written reviews are positive against 75% of OpenShape3D's.
Revo Scan ships an update every 6 weeks, OpenShape3D every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Revo Scan | OpenShape3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Revopoint 3D Technologies Inc. | Laan Labs |
Customer experience
Revo Scan
OpenShape3D
Bugs and requests
Revo Scan
Reported bugs
29 issues- Scanner not detected
- App crashes frequently
- Cannot connect scanner at all
- Ogre engine rendering setup only
- Power surge issues with USB ports
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- Wi-Fi connection always disconnected
- App not finding scanner due to local network permission issues
- Scanner not detected (Mini 2)
- USB does not work on Mac
- Intermittent WiFi connection
- Reboot required to reestablish WiFi connection
- Kopplung Range mit iPhone klappt nicht
- Barely works or doesn't work via WiFi
- App says 'No scanner detected'
- Spinning red dots prevent scanning
- App loses tracking of object
- WiFi connection drops frequently
- Scan rate is 1-2 frames per second
- App stutters and burps
- POP 3 not detected with iPhone 13 Pro
- Mac software not working
- Handheld stabilizer not recognized
- Cannot connect to the mini via WLAN
- App fails to maintain location
- App crashes when completing a scan
- App crashes on scan attempts
- Quickly closes out on every attempted scan
- Personal hotspot function not appearing
- Double cable does not work
Requested features
13 requests- Revo Scan 6 availability for on-the-go scanning
- USB-C support for newer iPhones and iPads
- Ability to save files in higher quality Mesh format
- Add function to change Mesh settings
- Russian language support
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- Option to not post-process point cloud
- Ability to transfer point cloud without fusing/meshing
- Mesh zoom feature
- Edit point cloud and watertight in recorded project
- Add USB connection option
- Improve RAM usage and marker support
- Add dark mode
- Advanced analytics dashboard
OpenShape3D
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Revo Scan
No in-app purchases
OpenShape3D
No in-app purchases









