Gboard vs Scan3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gboard
Transform your iPhone or iPad into a comprehensive car dashboard displaying real-time G-force, speed, altitude, and orientation. Features include full-screen gauges, HUD reflection mode, live charts, and recording capabilities for your drives.
- Live G-force, speed, and attitude display
- Full-screen gauge layouts
- HUD reflection mode for windshield display
- Live GPS and motion-sensor charts
- Drive recording and playback
- CarPlay integration
- Live Activity on Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
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Gboard turns your iPhone or iPad into a compact car dashboard. • Live dashboard — G-force (acceleration), max G, speed, altitude, pitch, roll and yaw • Full-screen gauges — five layouts: Dual Dials, HUD Bars, Minimal, Attitude and 3D Attitude Ball, with screen mirroring and orientation lock • HUD reflection mode — mirror the display horizontally, vertically or both and boost brightness automatically, so the reflection on your windshield reads correctly • Live charts — six scrolling graphs for GPS and motion-sensor data, with pinch to zoom and drag to pan • Recording and playback — record a drive, save it on your device and replay every curve from the history list • CarPlay — see speed, altitude, G-force and attitude on your car's screen, and control recording from there • Live Activity — follow G-force, speed and more on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on the CarPlay Dashboard while recording • Metric or imperial units, plus in-app language switching No instrument cluster? Mount the phone at the windshield and use the full-screen gauges or HUD reflection mode as a head-up display — ideal for cars such as the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, which have no display in front of the driver. Data at a glance: • Acceleration — the device's current acceleration in G (9.80665 m/s²) • Speed and altitude — measured in real time with GPS • Pitch, roll and yaw — relative to the moment you tap Start For accurate readings, mount the phone in the car before starting. Gboard is a driving aid for reference only and does not replace your vehicle's instruments.
Scan3D
Transform your surroundings into 3D models using your device's camera. Capture rooms with LiDAR or objects with TrueDepth, then refine and export your creations in various formats. The app prioritizes user privacy with all data remaining on your device.
- Capture rooms with LiDAR
- Capture objects with TrueDepth
- Real-time geometry visualization
- Model manipulation (rotate, zoom, measure)
- Geometry editing (crop, smooth)
- Export in OBJ, PLY, STL, USDZ formats
- On-device processing and storage
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Turn spaces and objects around you into 3D models. Capture rooms with rear LiDAR on supported devices, or capture nearby objects with the front TrueDepth camera. See geometry coverage as you scan, review your capture, then calculate the model on your device. Rotate, zoom, measure and explore models. Crop and smooth geometry, reprocess saved captures, and export OBJ, PLY, STL and USDZ files. Original capture data stays on your device. Switch between English and Simplified Chinese inside the app. Use the volume buttons to start and stop Object capture. No account, ads, subscriptions or in-app purchases. Scene capture requires LiDAR; Object capture requires TrueDepth. Glass, mirrors and low-reflectivity surfaces may be incomplete. Measurement accuracy depends on capture conditions. Photo-only reconstruction is not supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Gboard at 15 against Scan3D's 18.0. 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.
| Parameter | Gboard | Scan3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 仕华 罗 | zheng zhou |
Customer experience
Gboard
Scan3D
In-app purchases
Gboard
No in-app purchases
Scan3D
No in-app purchases









