Comparison

Microscope vs Pointclouds Viewer

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

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Microscope

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Discover the Microscopic World Did you know there's an invisible universe to our eyes? With this educational app, you can explore the fascinating microscopic world in a fun and simple way, thanks to your portable microscope. The app guides you step by step to use your compound optical microscope. Learn how light and lenses work together to reveal what we can't see with the naked eye. You'll see everyday objects like never before! Explore, learn and experiment 30 guided experiments to prepare your own samples. Learn to use all the accessories: viewer, focus drum, lights, slides and more. Discover how to observe opaque or translucent elements with direct and indirect light. Capture your discoveries Take photos and videos of what you see. Save your findings in the gallery. Three exploration modes - Explorer Microscope: portable and free, ideal for investigating in nature. - Compact Microscope: stable and precise with your samples, perfect for scientific observations. - Laboratory Microscope: with stability and precision, like in your own lab. Learn by playing Identify the parts of the microscope and its accessories. Prepare your own samples with tools like tweezers, dissection knife and slides. Observe opaque or translucent elements with direct and indirect light. Adjust focus and zoom to see every detail. Designed for curious boys and girls, this app turns learning into an adventure. Explore, experiment and awaken your passion for science!

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Pointclouds Viewer

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Pointclouds Viewer opens laser scans and BIM models on your Mac, iPad and iPhone — measure them, cut sections, see where the building differs from the design, and export the results. Everything happens on the device: no account, no upload, no network connection of any kind. FORMATS • E57 with registered scan setups, colour, intensity and spherical photographs • LAS and LAZ 1.0 to 1.4, with colour, intensity and classification; COPC opens as the LAZ it is • PLY, ASCII and binary; PTS and PTX; XYZ and TXT with intensity or RGB columns • IFC models, also zipped or gzipped; USDZ, USD, OBJ, STL, glTF and GLB • DXF floor plans laid under the scan, with the drawing's layers to switch off • A whole job at once: several files, a folder or a zip become one project Import turns a scan into an offline project on the device and never modifies the original. Reading is streamed: a scan of over a hundred million points imports within a few tens of megabytes, and detail is chosen for the current view. EVERYTHING IN ONE PROJECT The Scene panel lists what a project holds: the point cloud and each of its scans, every model file, floor plans and places. Show, hide, colour and look at each one on its own — give every scan setup its own colour to check how they were registered. Scans can be added to a project later, and several model files are shown together. THE SCAN AGAINST THE MODEL • Every point coloured by its distance to the model, with a tolerance you set • Which elements the scan shows as built, which are missing, and where it never went • The elements built out of tolerance, listed • Place a model by pairs of corners, by the walls in the scan, or where its georeference says • Measure from the scan to a surface of the model THE MODEL Browse elements by storey, class or file and find them by name, class, GlobalId or property. Select them in the view or by rectangle, colour them, keep your own groups. Read every property, including what an element inherits from its type. Check a model against IDS: what fails is listed, and each failure can become a note. MEASURE • Distance with its horizontal and vertical parts, and height straight up • Face to face: wall thickness, clear width, clear height • The shortest distance between two elements, or from an element to the scan • Polylines, angles and best-fit areas • Notes anchored to a point or an element • Every pick is verified against the cloud at full resolution; an uncertain one is refused SECTIONS AND ROOMS A box you move, turn and reshape by dragging, a plane or a slice. Where a cut passes through the model, its solids are filled and hatched and its outline drawn. Save a cut with its view under a name — Kitchen — and return to it. SEEING THE SCAN RGB, intensity, classification, a heatmap, or elevation over the whole scan or over a band of a few centimetres — to see where a floor sags or a wall leans. A horizontal grid, views from all six sides, and panoramas from the scanner's own position. ISSUES IN BCF Notes leave as BCF topics with a viewpoint, the element they are on and what the view hides, and BCF files from other tools open as notes. EXPORT CSV, JSON with sections, BCF, a PNG snapshot, and what is inside a section as a LAS file. FREE AND PRO The app is free and keeps one project. Pro removes that limit for a single payment. No subscription, and projects you already have stay open either way. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Point data is not edited, scans are not registered, and there is no AR. Clouds in two different coordinate systems are not brought into one. Models you open are read, never modified. The interface is available in English and Czech.

Screenshots

Microscope4 screens
Pointclouds Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Microscope at none against Pointclouds Viewer's 1. Microscope also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Pointclouds Viewer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Microscope asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Microscope versus Pointclouds Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicroscopePointclouds Viewer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerę©ęƒ 邱Sew Grader by Virtalia

In-app purchases

None

Microscope

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pointclouds Viewer

One-time1
  • Pointclouds Viewer Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Microscope free?
Microscope is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pointclouds Viewer free?
Pointclouds Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Microscope or Pointclouds Viewer have ads?
Neither Microscope nor Pointclouds Viewer shows ads.

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