Comparison

AR Anywhere vs Viewport 3D

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

Head to head
About

AR Anywhere

Features
Read full description

"AR Anywhere" let’s anyone place their 3D models in their environment through Augmented Reality. Both .gltf and .glb files with a size of up to 60 MB are supported! Use the Buttons on the bottom of the screen to load, place, reset and resize your models. You can also use the touchscreen: With two fingers to scale the model or three fingers to move it around!

About

Viewport 3D

This app allows artists to quickly open and inspect 3D models from various cloud storage services and local files. It offers professional viewing tools, animation playback, and augmented reality capabilities, all processed on-device for privacy.

Highlights
  • Open 3D models from cloud storage
  • Supports over 20+ 3D file formats
  • Professional inspection tools
  • Animation playback
  • Augmented Reality (AR) mode
  • On-device processing for privacy
Read full description

Viewport is a fast, focused 3D viewer built for artists. Open models straight from the Files app on iPhone or iPad — iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Downloads or AirDrop — and inspect them in a clean, professional viewport. No account. No cloud. No clutter. OPEN ALMOST ANYTHING • USD family + Reality load natively: USDZ, USD, USDA, USDC, .reality • OBJ, STL and PLY • FBX, glTF, GLB, DAE and 20+ more formats via an in-app importer • Pick a model and its texture files together to keep materials INSPECT LIKE A PRO • Smooth orbit, pan, pinch-zoom and double-tap to frame • Studio lighting presets + intensity, multiple backgrounds (studio, blueprint, gradient, checker…) • Render channels: shaded, albedo, normals, roughness and UVs • Turntable auto-spin and a reference ground grid • Scene info: bounding box, dimensions, vertex/triangle/material/texture counts — real values, never faked ANIMATION • Plays node/transform animation and skeletal (bone) skinning on supported models • Simple play / pause / loop transport AR • Place supported static models on real surfaces • Real World and Studio lighting modes • Stable placement, flexible scaling and grounding shadows MORE • Capture a screenshot and share it • Recent files with search, sorting, date grouping and thumbnails • Adaptive layouts and multitasking support on iPad PRIVACY FIRST All 3D processing happens on your device. Viewport has no accounts, no tracking, no ads, and never uploads your files. Made by Reimagine Fx. More formats and tools coming.

Screenshots

AR Anywhere1 screens
Viewport 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: AR Anywhere at 12.0 against Viewport 3D's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for AR Anywhere against 4.0 for Viewport 3D. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
AR Anywhere versus Viewport 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAR AnywhereViewport 3D
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarc-Andre MuellerAmar Shinde

In-app purchases

None

AR Anywhere

No in-app purchases

None

Viewport 3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AR Anywhere free?
AR Anywhere is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Viewport 3D free?
Viewport 3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AR Anywhere or Viewport 3D?
AR Anywhere and Viewport 3D are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do AR Anywhere or Viewport 3D have ads?
Neither AR Anywhere nor Viewport 3D shows ads.

Other comparisons