Comparison

NAIIVE vs FoldVision

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

Head to head
About

NAIIVE

This tool visualizes and analyzes atomistic simulations. It supports various scientific formats like LAMMPS, VASP, and GAMESS, along with machine-learning force field formats. It's designed for researchers and students in scientific fields.

Highlights
  • Atomistic simulation visualization
  • Analysis tool
  • LAMMPS support
  • VASP support
  • GAMESS support
  • Machine-learning format support
Features
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NAIIVE is an experimental scientific visualization and analysis tool designed for atomistic simulations. ## Scientific Format Support Native support for widely used atomistic simulation formats, including: • LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) Dump files (including .gz compressed trajectories) • VASP (Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package) POSCAR, OUTCAR, CHGCAR • GAMESS (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System) Input and output log files • Machine-learning force field and extended formats DeepMD (deepmd/npy, deepmd/raw) extended XYZ (extxyz)

About

FoldVision

Visualize, analyze, and understand complex protein structures in interactive 3D. Explore detailed annotations, compare different structures, and generate plain-language explanations of protein functions. Export your work as images, videos, or 3D models.

Highlights
  • Interactive 3D protein rendering
  • Searchable Protein Data Bank
  • Plain-language protein explanations
  • Structure comparison tools
  • Detailed annotations and sequence view
  • Nucleic acid helix building
  • Exportable images, videos, and 3D models
Features
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FoldVision turns the world's protein structures into something you can hold, turn, and understand. Search more than 200,000 experimentally determined structures from the Protein Data Bank, load AlphaFold and ESMFold predictions, or build a DNA or RNA helix from a typed sequence. Everything renders in interactive 3D — rotate it with a finger, zoom into an active site, and switch between ribbon, surface, ball-and-stick and space-filling views. EXPLAIN ANY PROTEIN Tap Explain and the app writes a plain-language account of what the protein does, grounded in curated UniProt data and generated privately on your device with Apple Intelligence. A guided tour walks you through the key regions, lighting up each one on the structure as it's described. Available in 11 languages. COMPARE TWO STRUCTURES Load two structures and see exactly what changed. Structural-change coloring shades every residue from blue (superposes) to red (diverges). Sequence-change coloring separates conserved residues from substitutions. Watch a smooth morph between two conformations, or set them side by side. EXPLORE THE DETAIL • Annotations — domains, active and binding sites, modifications, variants and mutagenesis, drawn from UniProt. Tap any one to spotlight it on the structure. • Sequence view — the full amino-acid sequence with secondary structure, hydrophobicity, charge and B-factor tracks. Tap a residue to find it in 3D. • Color by secondary structure, chain, hydrophobicity, charge, domain or confidence (pLDDT), with color-blind-safe palettes throughout. • Measure distances, pin points of interest, and see the ligands and ions bound in the structure. NUCLEIC ACIDS Fold an RNA sequence into its predicted secondary structure with ViennaRNA, or build an idealized DNA or RNA double helix from any sequence. SHARE YOUR WORK Export a still image, a spinning video, or a 3D USDZ model you can drop into a presentation or an AR scene. BUILT FOR EVERY DEVICE Designed for iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro, with layouts tuned to each. Structure and annotation data come from the RCSB Protein Data Bank, UniProt, AlphaFold DB, ESM Atlas, InterPro and Reactome. Full credits are in the app.

Screenshots

NAIIVE4 screens
FoldVision4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FoldVision at daily against NAIIVE's monthly. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NAIIVE against 5.0 for FoldVision. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NAIIVE ships an update monthly, FoldVision daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
NAIIVE versus FoldVision: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNAIIVEFoldVision
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRui ZhouScot Federman

In-app purchases

None

NAIIVE

No in-app purchases

None

FoldVision

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NAIIVE free?
NAIIVE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FoldVision free?
FoldVision is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NAIIVE or FoldVision?
NAIIVE and FoldVision are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do NAIIVE or FoldVision have ads?
Neither NAIIVE nor FoldVision shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NAIIVE or FoldVision?
NAIIVE ships an update monthly, and FoldVision daily. Most recently, NAIIVE was updated on November 6, 2026 and FoldVision on October 31, 2026.

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