Comparison

sheetMaker vs Surface Explorer

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

Head to head
About

sheetMaker

Features
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Mark Sheet Creation App SheetMaker Supports up to 150 Questions: Create mark sheets with up to 150 questions, including descriptive and question formats. Manage Answers: Check past answers by period and easily track your performance over time. QR Code Sharing: Easily share your created mark sheets via QR codes. Extensive Customization: Customize choices and answer formats in detail. Multiple answers allowed.Mark Sheet Creation App SheetMaker Supports up to 150 Questions: Create mark sheets with up to 150 questions, including descriptive and question formats. Manage Answers: Check past answers by period and easily track your performance over time. QR Code Sharing: Easily share your created mark sheets via QR codes. Extensive Customization: Customize choices and answer formats in detail. Multiple answers allowed.

About

Surface Explorer

Features
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Surface Explorer is a high-performance visualizer for intricate mathematical surfaces — 2D manifolds embedded in three- or four-dimensional space, and 3D slices of four-dimensional hypersurfaces — bringing abstract geometry to life with real-time GPU rendering. KEY FEATURES • Cross Section — slice four-dimensional hypersurfaces and watch their 3D sections change shape as you rotate them in 4D or slide the cutting plane along the fourth axis, even along a 4D camera path. • Ray Marching Engine — real-time rendering of implicit surfaces and signed-distance fields, with procedural displacement, transparency, adjustable shells, and a precise mode for high-degree equations. • Multi-Mesh Surfaces — build figures from several independent grids, each with its own color, transparency, texture and domain. • Geodesic Flow — explore intrinsic geometry on curved manifolds (S³, H²×R, SL(2,R) and more), integrating geodesics from initial conditions. • 4D Spatial Exploration — dedicated controls for hyperspatial rotation (Omega, Phi, Psi), projection, and 3D and 4D camera paths. • 4D Lighting Models — Directional, Observer, and Slice lighting designed for hyperspace. • Dynamic GLSL Scripting — write custom shaders for procedural textures and surface logic in the built-in editor. • Backgrounds — images and procedural effects, fixed on screen or wrapped around the scene as a sphere, cylinder or cube. • Audio-Visual Synthesis — synchronize geometric parameters with a mathematical sound synthesizer. • Video Recording — capture your explorations directly in the app and save them to your device. A library of ready-made presets ships with the app, from classic parametric surfaces to black-hole ergospheres, curved-space tori and slices of the 3-torus, together with a searchable built-in manual. Built with Qt and Metal for smooth, native performance on iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

sheetMaker4 screens
Surface Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Surface Explorer at none against sheetMaker's shown. sheetMaker's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

sheetMaker ships an update weekly, Surface Explorer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
sheetMaker versus Surface Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersheetMakerSurface Explorer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReiji YamaguchiGAETANO MOSCHETTI

In-app purchases

None

sheetMaker

No in-app purchases

None

Surface Explorer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is sheetMaker free?
sheetMaker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Surface Explorer free?
Surface Explorer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do sheetMaker or Surface Explorer have ads?
sheetMaker shows ads; Surface Explorer does not.
Which is updated more often, sheetMaker or Surface Explorer?
sheetMaker ships an update weekly, and Surface Explorer fortnightly. Most recently, sheetMaker was updated on September 28, 2026 and Surface Explorer on October 4, 2026.

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