Comparison

Texture Forager vs Overlap Camera

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

Head to head
About

Texture Forager

Transform everyday photos into high-quality PBR texture sets for your 3D projects. Generate diffuse, normal, roughness, and height maps directly on your device. Own your assets forever with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • PBR map generation from photos
  • Diffuse, normal, roughness, height maps
  • On-device processing
  • Offline functionality
  • One-time purchase
  • 3D artist focused
Features
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Texture Forager turns the world around you into game-ready PBR materials. Photograph stone, bark, brick, moss or fabric and get a complete, seamlessly tiling material, ready for Unity, Unreal, Blender or AR. FLASH SCAN: REAL DEPTH, NOT GUESSWORK A single photo can only guess at depth. Flash Scan measures it. Hold your iPhone over a surface and tilt it around a guided ring while the flashlight lights it from every side. Texture Forager solves the surface's true normals and height, removes the lighting for a clean albedo, and records the patch's real-world size. A CAMERA BUILT FOR TEXTURES • Max mode captures at 48 MP for maximum detail • Measure mode uses LiDAR to record real-world scale and surface relief • Lock focus, exposure and white balance for consistent captures • Live warnings for clipped highlights, uneven light and motion • Or import any photo from your library A COMPLETE PBR MATERIAL Every capture becomes a full map set: Albedo, Normal, Height, Roughness, Ambient Occlusion and Metallic. Shadows and hotspots are evened out before tiling, so your material repeats without visible seams or bright bands. Smart presets tune the maps to each material's category. EDIT WITH PRECISION • Sliders for every map, with every map and the 3D preview updating as you drag • Crop, straighten and fix perspective with a four-corner editor • Clone Stamp to paint out blemishes and repeating details • Blend or Mirror tiling SEE IT IN 3D AND AR Try your material on a sphere, cube, plane or cylinder with real displacement, lighting presets and adjustable tiling. Then tap View in AR to place it on a real floor or wall at true scale. EXPORT FOR YOUR ENGINE • Presets for Unity, Unreal and Blender, with channel packing and the right normal-map format • 1K, 2K or 4K resolution, with 16-bit height • USDZ export that opens in AR Quick Look • Real-world scale travels with your export FORAGE AND COLLECT Your materials are pinned to the map where you found them. Sort your finds by category, rank them from Common to Legendary, and watch your collection grow. Your library syncs with iCloud, and you can publish your best finds to textureforager.com. DESIGNED FOR iOS 26 A Liquid Glass design that feels at home on iPhone and iPad. On iPhone Duo, open the phone to see your material and its live 3D preview side by side. Made for game developers, 3D artists, architectural visualizers, VFX artists, and anyone who has ever looked at a mossy wall and thought, "I need that in my scene." Flash Scan requires a device with a flashlight and ARKit support. Measure mode requires a device with LiDAR.

About

Overlap Camera

Features
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The biggest heartbreak in photogrammetry (3D modeling): you get home, start processing on your computer, and find out the photo overlap (lap rate) was too low. The model falls apart, and you have to go all the way back to reshoot. Overlap Camera lets anyone try photogrammetry, 3D scanning, and fixed-point observation with nothing but the phone in your pocket. No special gear, no professional equipment, no complicated setup. It overlays your previous photo semi-transparently on the live capture screen and shows a real-time overlap rate (LAP%) powered by your phone's IMU sensor. Because you can see the overlap as you shoot, you keep enough overlap every time, so your models don't break and you don't have to reshoot. Just point, line up the overlay, and capture. It's that easy to get started. New: choose any photo in a project as the reference. The app keeps overlaying that one shot, so you can return weeks later and line up on the very first frame. Free trial: every feature is free for 30 days after you install the app. To keep using them after that, an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription is required. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Texture Forager4 screens
Overlap Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Overlap Camera at Free against Texture Forager's $5.99. Overlap Camera also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Texture Forager's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads 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

Overlap Camera is free to download; Texture Forager costs $5.99 up front. Overlap Camera sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Texture Forager asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Texture Forager ships an update every 6 weeks, Overlap Camera every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Texture Forager versus Overlap Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTexture ForagerOverlap Camera
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAustin BeaulierQAEE CONPUUTENG

In-app purchases

None

Texture Forager

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Overlap Camera

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Plan1 Month trial$14.991 Month
  • month$15.001 Month
  • Yearly Plan1 Month trial$150.001 Year
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  • year$150.001 Year

Questions

Is Texture Forager free?
Texture Forager costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overlap Camera free?
Overlap Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Texture Forager or Overlap Camera have ads?
Neither Texture Forager nor Overlap Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Texture Forager or Overlap Camera?
Texture Forager ships an update every 6 weeks, and Overlap Camera every 9 days. Most recently, Texture Forager was updated on October 28, 2026 and Overlap Camera on October 28, 2026.

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