Comparison

braintrance vs SpatialCapture

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

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About

braintrance

Capture and relive life's moments in three dimensions. This app allows you to create and share spatial photos, even without a LIDAR-enabled phone, using its Depth AI. Explore your creations in VR, AR, or on desktop.

Highlights
  • Capture 3D moments
  • Share spatial photos
  • Depth AI for non-LIDAR devices
  • View in VR/AR/desktop
  • Create interdimensional videos
  • Community sharing
Features
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The best memories are ones that you can re-live. braintrance enables users to capture their life in three dimensions and share them with others. If you don't have a LIDAR-enabled phone, don't fret! You can still capture point clouds with braintrance's Depth AI. Have you ever struggled with sharing your spatial photos with others? Look no further! You can upload and share your spatial photos on braintrance, and view it in the app, or on braintrance.net, or in your VR headset, or in your AR glasses, or on desktop! Play with the point cloud capture to make viral interdimensional videos that you can share with friends, or build a following with internet strangers through the braintrance community.

About

SpatialCapture

Features
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Turn an iPhone or iPad into a camera for agents. SpatialCapture records the visual and sensor evidence that external AI tools, Blender scripts and reconstruction workflows need to understand a real scene. Make one take, then share one documented ZIP containing video, calibrated camera movement, timestamps and the sensors you selected. WORKS WITH OR WITHOUT LIDAR Every supported ARKit device records video and a calibrated camera pose for each accepted frame. A device with a LiDAR Scanner also records measured scene depth and confidence. On a standard iPhone or iPad, the same workflow produces a pose-and-sensor package without invented depth. CAPTURE • Select the physical 0.5× ultra-wide or 1× wide camera when both are available • Video with optional microphone audio • Calibrated camera positions, orientations, intrinsics and timestamps • Optional gyroscope, accelerometer, gravity and device orientation • Optional GPS coordinates, altitude, speed and accuracy when available • LiDAR scene depth, confidence and matched color references when supported EXPORT FOR AGENTS AND BLENDER Export a ZIP containing the movie, frame-by-frame JSONL metadata, sensor streams, a readable manifest, a README and a Blender Python importer. LiDAR takes also include lossless depth buffers and color reference images. Recordings remain available in the Files app. The bundled Blender importer creates an animated camera from every take. For LiDAR captures, it also creates measured surface patches. Use the package as source evidence for manual modeling or with an external reconstruction agent you choose. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, subscription, advertising or automatic upload. GPS is off by default. Everything stays on your device until you use the system share sheet. SpatialCapture has no built-in AI service and does not send recordings to a developer server. FOR BEST RESULTS The app starts with the 0.5× ultra-wide camera when ARKit supports it, giving agents more scene context in each frame. You can switch to 1× before recording. Move slowly around still subjects and capture several angles. Pose-only captures do not contain measured geometry. LiDAR can miss glass, reflections, distant surfaces and hidden areas. GPS provides approximate geographic context; it does not register the ARKit world to a map. Requires an ARKit world-tracking iPhone or iPad with iOS/iPadOS 26 or later. The recorder uses an available HD format, preferably 30 FPS. It does not record 120/240 FPS slow motion or create a finished 3D model on the device. Privacy: https://www.carspecslab.com/docs/spatialcapture-privacy.html Support: https://www.carspecslab.com/docs/spatialcapture-support.html

Screenshots

braintrance4 screens
SpatialCapture4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SpatialCapture at none against braintrance's shown. braintrance's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
braintrance versus SpatialCapture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbraintranceSpatialCapture
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size239 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBraintrance, LLCJIRI CHOMAT

In-app purchases

None

braintrance

No in-app purchases

None

SpatialCapture

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is braintrance free?
braintrance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpatialCapture free?
SpatialCapture is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do braintrance or SpatialCapture have ads?
braintrance shows ads; SpatialCapture does not.

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