Comparison

Depthy Pro vs Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

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

Head to head
About

Depthy Pro

Features
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Depthy Pro turns your iPhone or iPad into a professional room scanner — and now works completely without LiDAR too. GET STARTED — GO PRO WHEN READY Start scanning right away and unlock Depthy Pro when you need the full set of professional features. FLOOR PLANS WITH PRECISE MEASUREMENTS • Auto-detect walls, doors & windows via LiDAR • Draw manually without LiDAR — chain mode, wall thickness, templates • 4 door types & 8 window styles with opening direction • 21 symbols: furniture, plumbing, kitchen, electrical, heating • Dimension chains, columns, room labels, area per room • Layer system — show/hide 8 element types • 3D model with furniture — view in AR • Import existing floor plans — photo, OCR, auto-detection iPAD PRO • Apple Pencil: draw with stylus, move with finger • Keyboard shortcuts: ⌘Z, ⌘F, 1-7, ⌫ and more • Multi-select, drag & drop, context menus PROFESSIONAL EXPORTS • PDF floor plan (Standard & Blueprint style) • DXF for CAD software with layers and symbols • IFC/BIM for ArchiCAD & Revit • OBJ/STL/PLY for Blender & 3D printing • USDZ for 3D view in AR • CSV, measurement protocol (VOB), handover report • PDF branding with your logo FACILITY MANAGEMENT • Maintenance log with photos & due dates • Damage documentation with severity • Meter readings with OCR & voice dictation • Renovation planner with cost calculation • Room book, timeline, tasks & shopping list PHOTOS & DOCUMENTATION • Photo markup: pen, marker, arrow in 6 colors • Before/after comparison with slider • Voice notes & panorama tours • Floor plan annotation with Apple Pencil SIRI & SHORTCUTS • "Scan a room with Depthy" • "Room stats for kitchen" • 5 shortcuts for the Shortcuts app STAIRS & ELEVATORS • Vertical connections between floors • Stairs, elevators, ramps, openings SYNC & SHARE • iCloud between iPhone & iPad • Share projects with team members • Backup as .depthy file • Home Screen Widgets (configurable) REQUIREMENTS LiDAR scan: iPhone 12 Pro+, iPad Pro 2020+ Manual floor plan: all iPhones & iPads iOS 18 or later APPLE INTELLIGENCE • AI room description — automatically from scan data • AI project summary — all rooms at a glance • Voice note → automatically create tasks, maintenance, damage reports • AI damage classification — severity & responsible trade • AI task suggestions — from room-book condition & open damage • Apple Intelligence (iOS 26+) or template fallback Terms of Use: https://depthy.de/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://depthy.de/privacy.html Questions? support@depthy.de

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Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

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Point Cloud & BIM 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 stays on the device: no account, no upload. A sample project with a guide shows where everything is. FORMATS • E57 with registered scan setups, colour, intensity and spherical photographs • LAS and LAZ 1.0 to 1.4 with colour, intensity and classification, and COPC • PLY, PTS, PTX, and XYZ or TXT with intensity or RGB columns • IFC models, also zipped or gzipped; USDZ, USD, OBJ, STL, glTF and GLB • DXF plans under the scan, with layers to switch off • Several files, a folder or a zip as one project Import never modifies the original, and a hundred million points take tens of megabytes. EVERYTHING IN ONE PROJECT The side panel lists the cloud and each of its scans, every model file, floor plan and saved cut. Show, hide, colour or look at each on its own; colour the scan setups to check the registration. Add scans later, send a project by AirDrop. THE SCAN AGAINST THE MODEL • Every point coloured by its distance to the model, with a tolerance you set • Which elements are built, which are missing, and where the scan never went • The elements built out of tolerance, listed • Place a model by pairs of corners, by the walls in the scan, by matching the floor plans, or where its georeference says • Measure from the scan to a surface of the model SCAN WITH LIDAR On an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR, scan a room into a project, fit it to the other scans, and continue later. For orientation, not millimetres. FLOOR PLAN RoomPlan draws the walls, doors and windows as you scan and divides the floor into rooms with their areas; walls found in any scan make a draft. Correct the plan, then export IFC, DXF, SVG or a PDF to scale. THE PROJECT IN AR On iPhone and iPad, stand the project on a table, or at 1:1 in the building by a few shared points, with a scan's panorama over the walls. ON THE MAP Coordinates as a surveyor writes them: S-JTSK Y and X, or E and N in the system the file or IFC georeference names. See the project on a map with an aerial view under the scan, or place it by hand. The map loads from Apple Maps only when switched on. THE MODEL Browse elements by storey, class or file; find them by name, GlobalId or property. Select, colour and group them, and read every property, inherited ones too. Check a model against IDS: what fails is listed, and each failure can become a note. On an IFC 4.3 alignment, read station and offset, with cross and long sections. MEASURE • Distance with its horizontal and vertical parts, and height • Face to face: wall thickness, clear width, clear height • The shortest distance between two elements, or from an element to the scan • A model's edge length and planar area; polylines, angles and best-fit areas • Notes anchored to a point or an element • Every pick is checked against the cloud at full resolution • Metric or imperial units SECTIONS AND ROOMS A box you move, turn and reshape by dragging, a plane or a slice. The model's solids are hatched where a cut crosses them. Save a cut with its view and return to it. SEEING THE SCAN RGB, intensity, classification, a heatmap, or elevation over the scan or a band of a few centimetres; a grid, six side views, panoramas from the scanner's position. ISSUES IN BCF Notes leave as BCF topics with a viewpoint and the element they are on; BCF files from other tools open as notes. EXPORT The cloud or a single scan as E57 with panoramas, LAS, PLY or XYZ; a section as LAS; CSV, JSON with sections, BCF, a PNG snapshot. FREE AND PRO Free with one project; Pro removes the limit for a single payment, no subscription. Projects you have stay open either way. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Point data is not edited, and tripod scans are registered in the scanner's software. Clouds in two coordinate systems are not brought into one. Models you open are never modified.

Screenshots

Depthy Pro4 screens
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Point Cloud & BIM Viewer at every 3 days against Depthy Pro's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Depthy Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Point Cloud & BIM Viewer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Depthy Pro ships an update weekly, Point Cloud & BIM Viewer every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Depthy Pro versus Point Cloud & BIM Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDepthy ProPoint Cloud & BIM Viewer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarko KonigSew Grader by Virtalia

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Depthy Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Depthy Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Depthy Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Depthy Pro Lifetime$17.99
1 purchases

Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

One-time1
  • Pointclouds Viewer Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Depthy Pro free?
Depthy Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Point Cloud & BIM Viewer free?
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Depthy Pro or Point Cloud & BIM Viewer have ads?
Neither Depthy Pro nor Point Cloud & BIM Viewer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Depthy Pro or Point Cloud & BIM Viewer?
Depthy Pro ships an update weekly, and Point Cloud & BIM Viewer every 3 days. Most recently, Depthy Pro was updated on October 31, 2026 and Point Cloud & BIM Viewer on October 31, 2026.

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