Comparison

Open UI vs Clay Shaper

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

Head to head
About

Open UI

Features
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Checkout Open UI, the only truly accessible app generator. Open UI is a sandbox where every aspect of the app’s appearance can be controlled by you. Do you want fun fonts, vibrant colors, and a picture of your pet on every screen? No problem. Do you need high contrast layouts, large touch points, and screen reader support? We’ve got you covered. Then, when the UI is just how you like it: click “Generate” and make that (app) dream come true.

About

Clay Shaper

This app offers a unique 3D sculpting experience, treating digital clay like real material. It provides intuitive tools for shaping, painting, and exporting your creations, with AR capabilities for viewing your models in real-world spaces.

Highlights
  • Realistic clay volume sculpting
  • Fourteen sculpting tools
  • Paint color into the material
  • Augmented Reality (AR) viewing
  • Export in multiple 3D formats
  • Hollowing for 3D printing
Features
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Clay Shaper is a sculpting app where the clay is actually clay. Most 3D apps hand you a mesh — a fixed cage of triangles that stretches, tangles and tears when you push it too far. Clay Shaper does not. Your sculpture is a volume, the way a real lump of clay is a volume. Push a thumb into it and it dents. Pull a limb out and material follows. Punch a hole straight through and the hole is simply there. Nothing to retopologise, nothing to break. SCULPT WITH FOURTEEN TOOLS Build, carve, smooth, move, inflate, flatten, pinch, crease, smear and roughen. Twist, bend and grow are brushes too — you do them by hand, on the spot, not through a dialog. Mirror across the centre line, or work in radial symmetry up to twelvefold for ornament and rosettes. PAINT INTO THE MATERIAL Colour lives inside the clay, not on a skin stretched over it. Brush, spray or stamp it on, polish it back, pick a colour off the surface. Keep sculpting afterwards and the paint stays where it belongs — carve deep enough and you cut back to bare material, exactly as you would through a glaze. TWELVE FINISHED PIECES TO TAKE APART Open a scanned marble bust, a bronze lion, a rearing horse, a bull's head, procedural coral, a lotus, a Solomonic column and a rose window. Every one arrives as ordinary clay from the first second. Recut the features. Break the nose. Ruin it happily. STAND IT IN YOUR ROOM See any sculpture in AR at real size, on a real floor, through AR Quick Look. Choose 10 cm, 30 cm, a metre or life size, then walk around it. TAKE IT ANYWHERE Export watertight GLB, STL, OBJ or USDZ — ready for a printer, a render, or another tool. Hollow the sculpture out to a set wall thickness first and a resin print costs a fraction of what a solid one would. Render a PNG. Save a .clay project file that stores the field itself, so you can pick the work back up later or move it to another device. BUILT FOR TOUCH One finger sculpts. Two orbit and zoom. Three pan. Apple Pencil pressure where you have it. A landscape layout that keeps the interface out of the way when you turn the phone on its side, and a full-screen mode for when you just want to look at the thing. FREE, AND PRO The sculpting is all free — every tool, every paint mode, every material, every light. Free includes three of the featured pieces, three saved sculptures, resolutions up to 160³, AR, and watermarked renders. Clay Shaper Pro is one payment, not a subscription. It adds: • 192³ and 224³ working resolution • GLB, STL, OBJ and USDZ export • Hollow out for printing • Import your own .glb and .obj models and voxelise them into clay • Import your own textures and bake them in as real relief • All twelve featured pieces • Unlimited saves • Renders without a watermark Nothing you make leaves your device. There is no account, no cloud, no tracking and no advertising.

Screenshots

Open UI4 screens
Clay Shaper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Open UI at none against Clay Shaper's 1. Open UI also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clay Shaper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Open UI asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Open UI versus Clay Shaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpen UIClay Shaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEmpathetechMAKEEN TECHNOLOGY

In-app purchases

None

Open UI

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Clay Shaper

One-time1
  • Clay Shaper Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Open UI free?
Open UI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clay Shaper free?
Clay Shaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Open UI or Clay Shaper have ads?
Neither Open UI nor Clay Shaper shows ads.

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