AR Anywhere vs Viewport 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AR Anywhere
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"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!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | AR Anywhere | Viewport 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc-Andre Mueller | Amar Shinde |
In-app purchases
AR Anywhere
No in-app purchases
Viewport 3D
No in-app purchases








