Comparison

Scan Square vs Spool

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

Head to head
About

Scan Square

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Turn your space into a digital 3D model with ease! ScanSquare lets you capture, measure, and design your room in 3D – all with just your iPhone or iPad. Whether you're renovating, decorating, or planning a move, ScanSquare helps you: • Accurate Measurements – Scan rooms and get precise dimensions instantly. • 3D Room Models – View your space from every angle in an interactive 3D layout. • Floor Plan Export – Generate professional floor plans as PDFs. • Interior Planning – Experiment with furniture placement and room organization. • Save & Share – Export room layouts and share them with contractors, designers, or friends. • Fast & Easy – Designed for anyone, from homeowners to professionals. Perfect for: • Interior designers • Architects • Real estate agents • Homeowners & renters Plan smarter, save time, and bring your ideas to life in 3D! Subscription Information: ScanSquare offers flexible plans to fit your needs: Free Plan: • 1 measurement per week • Ad-supported Standard Plan (€6.99/month): • 1 measurement per day • No ads • Export & share PDFs Premium Plan (€12.99/month or €129/year): • Unlimited measurements • No ads • Export & share PDFs • All premium features Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime via your account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.notion.so/Scan-Square-Terms-Conditions-242af7982ea38005ab54e2a0a415448a Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Privacy-Policy-for-Scan-Square-Mobile-Application-242af7982ea3801d8227d8eae9ba2885 Unlock all features with ScanSquare Premium.

About

Spool

Manage your 3D printing filament inventory with detailed tracking of materials, costs, and stock levels. Log print details, monitor printer maintenance, and gain insights into your printing habits. Integrates with Bambu Lab printers for automatic data logging.

Highlights
  • Filament spool tracking
  • Cost and weight logging
  • Low-stock warnings
  • Print logging and analysis
  • Bambu Lab printer integration
  • Printer maintenance schedules
  • NFC/QR code spool tagging
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You have 40 spools. You're about to start a 12-hour print. How much PETG do you actually have? Spool is precision filament inventory for 3D printing. Know what you have, what it costs, and what's running low. Built by a maker tired of guessing. Now on Mac too. TRACK YOUR COLLECTION Fast spool entry with auto-fill from screenshots and product links. Material, brand, colour, weight, cost, storage. Remaining weight tracked to the gram, with low-stock warnings at the levels you set. THE HUB Tap the centre tab and a glass command centre opens over any screen. Add a spool, log a print, scan a tag, open analytics or your printers, all from one place. IMPORT FROM YOUR SLICER Send a sliced .gcode or .3mf to Spool and the print writes itself up from what the file carries: name, print time, filament weight, material and colour. Spool suggests the matching spool and finds the printer in your Workshop. Not every slicer's files can be read yet. THE PRINT TRAY Imported files wait in the tray with Bambu Cloud prints you have not logged yet. Nothing is recorded until you review it. With iCloud on, logging or discarding on one device clears it on the others. PRINT LOG & PRINT STORY Every print holds its full process settings, filled in for you when the print comes from Bambu Cloud. Rate each one and record why it failed. Tap any print and its story opens full screen: costs, telemetry and spool gauges, with previous attempts on Pro. YOUR INVENTORY AS A SPREADSHEET Choose your columns, sort and resize them, group your spools and total up their count and weight. Save the arrangement as a named view: free, with no limit. Exports to CSV. BAMBU LAB INTEGRATION Connect your Bambu Cloud account and your prints fill the tray ready to log. Free for everyone. AMS multi-material prints split per slot, and Spool remembers your last match. CATEGORIES Built-in categories, plus as many of your own as you like. Spool suggests one per print and learns your overrides. Colour, emoji, auto-tagging and per-category insights are Pro. PRINTER MAINTENANCE Schedules drawn from manufacturer documentation for popular Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality, Anycubic and Elegoo models, with a standard task set for the rest. A live health score per printer: overdue tasks turn red, completing one lifts it. SPOOLTAG Tap your iPhone to an NFC-tagged spool and everything opens instantly. Every label carries a QR code that scans from the camera. Spool reads and writes filament tags. Label Studio designs labels for thermal rolls, sticker sheets or A4, or exports vector PDF. AR Inventory overlays live data above every tagged spool. ANALYTICS & INTELLIGENCE Dashboards for Pulse, Economics, Energy, Material and Hardware. Add your electricity rate once and prints show material and energy cost together. WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT Shelves, dryers, AMS units and boxes, with humidity and seal date tracking. Shopping list and batch management for multi-packs. START FREE 20 spools, 2 printers, 4 storage locations, 30 days of analytics. Bambu Cloud sync, slicer import, the Print Tray, Saved Views, CSV import, SpoolTag, AR Inventory, widgets and Print Story included. GO PRO Unlimited spools, printers and storage. Lifetime analytics, category insights and print lineage. Label Studio with thermal, sticker sheet and vector PDF exports. Batch printing, category customisation, inventory value totals, maintenance notifications and Live Activities. SUBSCRIPTION & PURCHASE INFO Spool offers a one-time Spool Pack, which permanently adds 10 slots to a free account, and two auto-renewing subscriptions, Spool Pro Monthly and Yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation and renews unless cancelled 24 hours before the period ends. Manage in Account Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lance-studio.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Scan Square4 screens
Spool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Spool at 3 against Scan Square's 1. Scan Square's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). 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. Scan Square sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Spool sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Scan Square versus Spool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScan SquareSpool
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNOUREDDINE HAMOUDALucas Melo

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Scan Square

Subscriptions3
  • Standard Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$119.001 Year
3 purchases

Spool

Subscriptions2
  • Spool Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Spool Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • +10 Spool Capacity$0.99

Questions

Is Scan Square free?
Scan Square is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spool free?
Spool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scan Square or Spool have ads?
Neither Scan Square nor Spool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scan Square or Spool?
Scan Square ships an update every 2 weeks, and Spool every 2 weeks. Most recently, Scan Square was updated on October 2, 2026 and Spool on October 10, 2026.

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