Facades vs NG Models
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Facades
Discover and explore retail store histories with this comprehensive field guide. Browse a catalog of over 500 locations, track your visits, and learn about store renovations and closures. Features include detailed timelines and shareable visit receipts.
- Browse and search 500+ store locations
- Track visited stores
- Explore store history and timelines
- Discover store renovations and closures
- Create and share custom store lists
- Find nearby stores with shortcuts
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Facades is a field guide to your favorite retail stores. Browse and search a catalog of more than 500 locations. Track which stores you’ve visited. Store Catalog: Facades includes a comprehensive directory of every official store opened since May 19, 2001. Browse & Search: Quickly sort stores with convenient categories. Browse store design styles and features. Search by name, location, year, or rollout number. Discover which stores have moved, renovated, closed, or been renamed. Timeline: Explore the history of any store with detailed documentation of notable events and grand opening information. Visit Receipts: Track which stores you’ve visited and share visit receipts to celebrate your accomplishments. Lists: Bookmark your favorite stores for quick reference or build custom lists to share with a friend. Shortcuts: Find nearby stores and search for any location with app shortcuts accessible from the Action button on iPhone 15 Pro. Facades is available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
NG Models
Access product information, view new releases, and manage your account. Participate in activities, redeem points for benefits, and discover retailers.
- New product releases
- Database inquiries
- Retailer information
- Product photos and videos
- Points redemption
- Account management
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With this app, you can better participate in our various interesting activities, you can get useful information, including new product releases, database inquiries, retailer inquiries, product videos and photos, new mold releases. You can also better participate in points redemption, submit suggestions, participate in model commission, and more. From section “New”, you can know the latest releases for this month and what will come in the coming few months. Of course, you can also bookmark some of these products for later reference. From section “Data”, you can search all the items we have released, including their photos, prices, released time, and other details. From section “Discover”, you can know who is selling our product in each country(region), what is our CRP(Collectors Reward Plan —— Collect More, Reward More), you can enjoy product photos and videos from product albums, also you can get our contacts. From section “Me”, you can create new account via Sign up or login via Sign in; you can redeem codes to points then points to free models and other kinds of benefits; you can review or edit profile, reset password, even close the account. More interesting features waiting for you to discover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Facades at 96% against NG Models's 0%. Facades also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). NG Models's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 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.
Facades holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Facades has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Facades's written reviews are positive against 0% of NG Models's.
Facades ships an update monthly, NG Models every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Facades | NG Models |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (77 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael Steeber | TOYSWORLD COMPANY |
Customer experience
Facades
NG Models
In-app purchases
Facades
No in-app purchases
NG Models
No in-app purchases







