Comparison

3D Text Viewer vs IconForge

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

Head to head
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.

About

IconForge

Generate professional app icons in seconds using AI. Describe your app, choose a style, and get unique concepts. Preview your icon on all Apple devices before saving in HD.

Highlights
  • AI-generated icon concepts
  • Multiple professional styles
  • HD 1024x1024 output
  • Multi-device previews
  • Fast generation (under 60 seconds)
  • No design skills needed
Features
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Describe your app in one sentence, pick a style, and get six app icon concepts. Choose one, render it in HD at 1024 × 1024, and see it at real size on every Apple device. Type what the app does and what the icon should show, for example "a paper crane, for a journaling app". Before anything is drawn, your sentence is expanded into a full design brief: subject, composition, colour and what to leave out. Six concepts are then drawn from that brief at once, so you get six different takes rather than six near-copies. Seven styles: Glassmorphism, Flat, 3D Clay, Gradient, Minimal, Neon and Skeuomorphic. Every concept is full-bleed square artwork with no text in it. iOS and macOS apply their own rounded mask, and one clear subject holds up when the icon shrinks. Preview Sizes puts your icon, with your app name under it, at the sizes people will actually see: a 24-point Apple Watch notification, iPhone Spotlight and Home Screen, iPad and iPad Pro, the Mac from 16 × 16 up to 512 × 512, and the 1024 App Store tile. Most icon problems only show up small, and this is where you catch them before you ship. When it looks right, save the 1024 × 1024 image to Photos or send it anywhere through the share sheet, then drop it into your Xcode asset catalog. You can start a new icon from Control Center, or ask Siri to "make an icon with IconForge". It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Screenshots

3D Text Viewer4 screens
IconForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: IconForge at Free against 3D Text Viewer's $0.99. IconForge also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). 3D Text Viewer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

IconForge is free to download; 3D Text Viewer costs $0.99 up front. IconForge 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 3D Text Viewer against 5.0 for IconForge. 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

3D Text Viewer ships an update every 3 weeks, IconForge weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
3D Text Viewer versus IconForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter3D Text ViewerIconForge
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLino BaileyMahanti Corporation

Customer experience

3D Text Viewer

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

IconForge

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

3D Text Viewer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

IconForge

One-time1
  • Image Processing$0.99

Questions

Is 3D Text Viewer free?
3D Text Viewer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is IconForge free?
IconForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 3D Text Viewer or IconForge?
3D Text Viewer and IconForge are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do 3D Text Viewer or IconForge have ads?
Neither 3D Text Viewer nor IconForge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 3D Text Viewer or IconForge?
3D Text Viewer ships an update every 3 weeks, and IconForge weekly. Most recently, 3D Text Viewer was updated on October 24, 2026 and IconForge on October 24, 2026.

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