Comparison

ALPHABETICON vs 3D Text Viewer

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

Head to head
About

ALPHABETICON

Transform your text into visually appealing animations with a variety of handcrafted typesets. Easily create and share unique text messages directly from your favorite messengers or iMessage. Explore romantic, aesthetic, creative, cool, funny, and viral styles.

Highlights
  • Animated text creations
  • Handcrafted typesets
  • Multiple style options
  • Direct sharing via messengers
  • iMessage integration
  • In-app purchases for premium content
Features
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Sometimes your text deserves better. Make your text stand out of the bubbles - leave boring text messages to others. With ALPHABETICON you can turn your text into visually appealing little animations. Plenty of carefully curated typesets are available for you to choose from. Romantic? Aesthetic? Creative? Cool? Funny? Viral? Just as the fancy takes you. We have animated each typeset with all our heart. By hand, not with AI. And we are adding constantly new pieces. Most of them are free of charge, some of them can be baught as InApp-purchases. It's as quick and easy, as inserting an emoji and sharing a photo. With three clicks simply type your text, choose your typeset and share your beautiful creations. You can use the app on its own. Soon to come: directly from iMessage or your favorite messenger. No subscription, no advertisement, no hidden costs. Pay once and share as many messages as you like. This app was made possible by a team of genious brains, fast fingers and endless endurance. Idea, concept, design, fontdesign 2d and 3d: Ben Schmuecking (Switzerland) Frontend programming: Dwayne Smith (Gemany) Backend programming: Philip Mancarella @ voltadigitale.de (Germany) Thank you for your perseverance with ALPHABETICON and me over such a long period! 3d artists: Ben Schmuecking (Switzerland) Ahmed Mifrah (Maldives) Dino Pham (Vientam) Raakesh Manoharan Ram @ x-band pixels (India) Ye Pai (Myanmar) This project would not have been possible without the mental and physical support, unwavering backing, patience and understanding of the spouses and children of all the team members (you know who we mean). A huge thank you for that!

About

3D Text Viewer

Create personalized 3D text for photos and projects. Manipulate text into any orientation, choose from millions of characters, and customize facets with colors or textures. Save creations as screenshots or 3D files.

Highlights
  • Convert text to 3D objects
  • Manipulate 3D text orientation
  • Access millions of characters and shapes
  • Color and texture 3D facets
  • Map images onto 3D surfaces
  • Save creations as screenshots or USDZ files
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*** NEW! Long-press the snapshot button to save your creation as a 3D file (USDZ). This app allows you to accent your creativity with 3D text. You can wish someone a happy birthday, happy anniversary, congratulations, or add flare to any event or creative project. When you enter text in the text field, it is converted into a 3D object which you can manipulate around into any orientation. Not just letters and numbers, but any of the vast range of characters (glyphs) - you have millions of characters and shapes to choose from - make a photo frame from a rectangle character and pick your photo to put in it! The 3D text has 3 primary facets (unique faces) - the face surface, which is the normal face you see whenever you look at 2D text on the screen or in print; the extrusion surface, which make up the sides of the face as it is extruded into 3-dimensions, much like toothpaste squeezing out of it’s tube; and the chamfered edge, which is the corners where the face and it’s extrusion connect. The chamfered edge is also loosely known as a beveled edge, edge, rim, corner, lip, and by a few more terms. The face and chamfer facets are also mirrored on the back side of the 3D text. Each of the facets can be colored with any color, or mapped with a texture/shader (an image). You can select any color imaginable, and this app also allows for the colors to have opacity (transparency) for other advanced uses. You can also ‘color’ the facets with an image from the Photos app. Much like a blanket, an image is wrapped against the 3D facets where every 3D point adopts a 2D pixel from your image. The background can also be colored or textured. There are nearly unlimited uses for 3D text in the world of graphic design, movies/entertainment, marketing, signage, advertisements, … the list goes on. The app tries to simplify the complex processes and calculations involved by handling the math behind the art. Fonts are notoriously complex and extremely intricate - things don’t always work well together in this field, but the app does it best to allow you to do so much with only a few clicks, taps, or swipes. While this area of graphics has uncountable commercial applications, the intent here is to allow you to create beautiful, unique, and personal greetings for your friends and loved ones. You can always snap a screenshot to Photos as usual, but the app also has a built-in snapshot button to only capture the 3D view (without having to later crop out all the controls, etc.). You can also save the 3D objects you create as a 3D file (USDZ) to view|share later. The USDZ object file can also be opened|imported-into many other 3D programs. Pricing: it was decided to make the app available at the lowest conventional base price, rather than wear you down with a subscription, or drive you mad with advertisements or in-app upgrade purchases. Surely you have this little under your car seats. Pay a few pennies once… use and enjoy it everyday after. AND, it will also available for you on your iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and your Mac. Give it a try, and in a short time, you will be creating very unique works of art to enjoy and share. Please enjoy! Developer Note: This app was coded using the SceneKit API Framework exclusively, with special thanks and appreciation to all who have contributed, and will contribute, to the development of SceneKit.

Screenshots

ALPHABETICON4 screens
3D Text Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 3D Text Viewer at none against ALPHABETICON's 1. 3D Text Viewer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). On rating, review sentiment 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

ALPHABETICON costs $4.99 and 3D Text Viewer $0.99 up front. ALPHABETICON sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 3D Text Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ALPHABETICON against 5.0 for 3D Text Viewer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3D Text Viewer has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ALPHABETICON ships an update every 9 months, 3D Text Viewer every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ALPHABETICON versus 3D Text Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterALPHABETICON3D Text Viewer
Price$4.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlphabeticon GmbHLino Bailey

Customer experience

ALPHABETICON

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

3D Text Viewer

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ALPHABETICON

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Version$1.99
None

3D Text Viewer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ALPHABETICON free?
ALPHABETICON costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is 3D Text Viewer free?
3D Text Viewer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ALPHABETICON or 3D Text Viewer?
ALPHABETICON and 3D Text Viewer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do ALPHABETICON or 3D Text Viewer have ads?
ALPHABETICON shows ads; 3D Text Viewer does not.
Which is updated more often, ALPHABETICON or 3D Text Viewer?
ALPHABETICON ships an update every 9 months, and 3D Text Viewer every 3 weeks. Most recently, ALPHABETICON was updated on October 30, 2026 and 3D Text Viewer on October 30, 2026.

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