Comparison

Flash Studio vs OpenShape3D

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

Head to head
About

Flash Studio

Manage your 3D printers remotely from your smartphone. Monitor print status, view live video feeds of your printer's operations, and control multiple printers simultaneously.

Highlights
  • Remote printer monitoring
  • Real-time video feed
  • Manage grouped printers
  • On-the-go management
  • Smartphone integration
Features
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Flash Studio is an integrated mobile app developed by FLASHFORGE for on-the-go management of 3D printers. Users can monitor print status via smartphones, view real-time video of printer operations remotely, and efficiently manage grouped 3D printers.

About

OpenShape3D

Features
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openshape3d is a direct-modeling CAD app built for touch. Sketch a profile, pull it into a solid, and keep cutting, blending and patterning until the part is done — no desktop, no subscription server, no file conversion dance. Geometry is computed by OpenCASCADE, the same open-source B-rep kernel used in professional CAD. Extrudes, primitives and booleans produce exact analytic surfaces, so a cylinder stays a true cylinder instead of a faceted approximation. SKETCHING • Sketch on a world plane, on any flat body face, or on an offset construction plane pulled off a face • Line, rectangle, circle, arc, ellipse, polygon and text-as-outline tools • Endpoint, midpoint, centre, vertex and grid snapping — draw with Apple Pencil • Trim, move/rotate gizmo, construction geometry, and reusable symbols • A full 2D constraint solver: coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, equal, concentric, symmetric and more • Driving dimensions with inline arithmetic (type 25.4/2) pull geometry to value • The sketch tells you where it stands — fully defined, or how many degrees of freedom remain SOLIDS • Extrude a profile, or push and pull a face directly with automatic booleans: pull to add material, push to cut • Revolve, sweep along a chained path, loft through sections, and helix • Fillet and chamfer edges with live preview and drag-to-size • Shell a body hollow, with optional open faces • Union, subtract and intersect between bodies, computed off the main thread • Split a body with a plane or a sketch profile • Linear and circular patterns with ghost previews • Move, scale, rotate, mirror, translate point-to-point and align VIEWING • Orientation cube, six standard views, isometric and orthographic toggle • One finger orbits, two pan, pinch zooms — the camera never locks up • Section view that clips live against a plane, with a drag arrow and flip • Shaded, shaded without edges, wireframe with proper hidden-line removal, and X-ray • Marquee select with window/crossing semantics, and Select Through to reach a body buried behind others • Isolate to hide everything but the selection MATERIALS AND REFERENCE • Material presets — steel, aluminium, brass, plastics, rubber, wood — plus custom colour with metallic and roughness • Drop PNG or JPEG reference images onto any plane and trace over them MEASURE • Face area, body volume and bounding box on selection • Two-point distance with X, Y and Z deltas over snap points IMPORT AND EXPORT • Import STL and DXF • Export STL, OBJ, 3MF, GLB, USDZ and sketch DXF • Preview your model in AR with Quick Look

Screenshots

Flash Studio3 screens
OpenShape3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: OpenShape3D at none against Flash Studio's shown. Flash Studio's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flash Studio ships an update weekly, OpenShape3D every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flash Studio versus OpenShape3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlash StudioOpenShape3D
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.4K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer浙江闪铸三维科技有限公司Laan Labs

In-app purchases

None

Flash Studio

No in-app purchases

None

OpenShape3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flash Studio free?
Flash Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenShape3D free?
OpenShape3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flash Studio or OpenShape3D have ads?
Flash Studio shows ads; OpenShape3D does not.
Which is updated more often, Flash Studio or OpenShape3D?
Flash Studio ships an update weekly, and OpenShape3D every 5 weeks. Most recently, Flash Studio was updated on September 30, 2026 and OpenShape3D on September 15, 2026.

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