Comparison

DepthEye vs Layout Grove

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

Head to head
About

DepthEye

Transform your surroundings into a 3D digital world with a point cloud scanner. Visualize depth through color gradients and capture detailed scans. Export your creations in .PLY format.

Highlights
  • Capture LiDAR point clouds
  • Adjust point size
  • Customize color palettes
  • Export in .PLY format
  • View actual colors
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Explore and reveal the world in an entirely new way with DepthEye, a unique point cloud scanner app. Each capture transforms familiar spaces into a digital world, where depths are visualized through a color-coded gradient of depth effects. Close objects come alive in vibrant reds, while distant ones fade into cool blues, with yellows and greens defining the spaces in between. For an added touch of realism, toggle to view the actual colors of your surroundings. You can also use surface colors to better see different walls, floors, and objects. Inspired by the hypnotic visuals of industrial LiDAR scans, this app reveals the world as if all warmth has been stripped away, leaving behind a surreal digital beauty. While scanning, DepthEye gives you simple guidance to help improve your scan. You can also enable Live Scanning, where older points slowly disappear for a more dynamic effect. Highlights: - Capture detailed LiDAR point clouds - Get guidance while scanning - Adjust point size for optimal visualization - Customize the color palette to suit your style (surface, natural, depth, neon and reflectance) - Export your scans in .PLY point cloud format (XYZ, RGB, Normal values) - View scanned point clouds directly in the app, with tools to remove noise, measure and crop. - Explore scanned or imported point clouds at full scale in AR. This app requires a built-in LiDAR sensor (iPhone Pro models).

About

Layout Grove

Features
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Turn your photos into finished posts — Stories, swipeable carousels and four kinds of vertical reel — without uploading a single one. Layout Grove does the layout work properly. Pick a shape, drop your photos in, frame each one exactly, and export at full resolution straight to your camera roll. SIX WAYS TO LAY OUT A POST Story — arrange up to six photos and videos across 83 built-in layouts, exported at the perfect size for Stories. Gallery Post — slice one photo into two or three seamless panels that swipe as a carousel, cropped pixel-perfect at 1080 × 1350. Reel Slideshow — Ken Burns motion with silky crossfades, exported as vertical video. Split Reel — two landscape strips stacked top and bottom, taking turns as the reel plays. Pan Reveal — a cinematic pan across one landscape photo that pulls back to reveal the whole frame. Photo Drop — photos tumble in one by one and settle into a stack, like prints dropped on a table. DESIGN YOUR OWN LAYOUTS When none of the 83 built-ins is the shape you want, build one. Place up to ten photo wells by hand — drag, pinch, rotate, resize. Cut each well into a circle, diamond, arch, hexagon or triangle, turn the cut a quarter at a time, add a mat, set the corners. Everything snaps to edges, centres and neighbouring wells, and every change undoes. Save it and use it like any other layout. FRAME EVERY PHOTO PROPERLY Pan, zoom, straighten and flip each photo inside its slot. Rotation zooms to keep the frame covered and settles to level when you get close. Adjust spacing, margins and corner radius across a whole layout at once. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third-party SDKs. Your photos are processed entirely on your iPhone and are never uploaded — the only thing Layout Grove ever asks the network is whether you have bought Pro. Drafts live on your device, and deleting the app deletes them. LAYOUT GROVE PRO Layout Grove is free, and everything it does today stays free. The layout builder is free to test in full — every gesture, the inspector, undo and save. Pro is a one-time purchase that lets you export the layouts from the layout builder.

Screenshots

DepthEye4 screens
Layout Grove4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DepthEye at 15.6 against Layout Grove's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

DepthEye ships an update every 2 weeks, Layout Grove fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
DepthEye versus Layout Grove: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDepthEyeLayout Grove
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKnoet StudioWILLIAM BENJAMIN BURRARD-LUCAS

In-app purchases

None

DepthEye

No in-app purchases

None

Layout Grove

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DepthEye free?
DepthEye is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Layout Grove free?
Layout Grove is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DepthEye or Layout Grove have ads?
Neither DepthEye nor Layout Grove shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DepthEye or Layout Grove?
DepthEye ships an update every 2 weeks, and Layout Grove fortnightly. Most recently, DepthEye was updated on October 30, 2026 and Layout Grove on October 25, 2026.

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