Scenic Augmented Reality vs VRCN for VRChat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scenic Augmented Reality
Experience live VTuber performances as 3D AR holograms in your own space. Interact with performers and fellow fans, or create and share your own 3D avatar scenes, including musical performances.
- Live 3D AR VTuber streams
- Place holograms in your environment
- Chat with other fans
- Send effects and gifts to creators
- Create and publish 3D AR scenes
- Guided Karaoke scene creation
- Upload VRM avatars
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Scenic lets you watch your favorite VTubers perform live as 3D AR holograms, right in your own space. LIVE AR STREAMS Open the Live AR tab to watch VTubers stream live as full 3D avatars in augmented reality. Place them in your room, walk around them, chat with other fans, and send effects that appear right in the performance. GO LIVE AS A VTUBER Stream with the Scenic Augmented Reality app for Meta Quest: choose your VRM avatar and go live, with your head, hands and body driving it in real time. Fans can follow you here to get notified when you go live. SCENIC SILVER Use Scenic Silver to send effects and gifts to creators during their live streams and show your support. BECOME A PAID CREATOR VTubers can join the Paid Creator program to earn from the gifts their fans send during streams. Manage your creator account, track your earned Silver, and cash out, all from the app. CREATE YOUR OWN AR SCENES Create, publish, and watch 3D VTuber and avatar scenes on your smartphone. Each AR Scene on Scenic has an avatar main character in it that performs or interacts with other 3D content in the scene. If you already have a VRM-based avatar, you can upload it through our website to use: www.scenic.ar
VRCN for VRChat
Monitor your VRChat friends' online status and see who is currently watching them. This unofficial app provides social insights without needing to launch the main VRChat application.
- Check VRChat friend status
- See who is watching friends
- Monitor social status
- Unofficial VRChat tool
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This is an unofficial app that allows you to check the social status of your VRChat friends without opening VRChat. *Some features are currently under development. *This is an unofficial, third-party VRChat application. It is not approved or supported by VRChat Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VRCN for VRChat at 3.1 against Scenic Augmented Reality's 1.0. VRCN for VRChat also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Scenic Augmented Reality sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. VRCN for VRChat asks for nothing beyond the download.
VRCN for VRChat holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VRCN for VRChat has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Scenic Augmented Reality ships an update every 3 weeks, VRCN for VRChat fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scenic Augmented Reality | VRCN for VRChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 3.1 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 57.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 411 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scenic Labs Inc. | NULL (Gunma) |
Customer experience
Scenic Augmented Reality
VRCN for VRChat
In-app purchases
Scenic Augmented Reality
- 100 Silver$0.99
- 550 Silver$4.99
- 1,200 Silver$9.99
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- 3,000 Silver$24.99
- 12,500 Silver$99.99
VRCN for VRChat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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