Paper Free Scanner vs OpenShape3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Paper Free Scanner
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Paper Scanner turns your iPhone into a powerful document scanner. Whether you're capturing contracts, receipts, invoices or notes, Paper Scanner delivers crisp, ready-to-share files in seconds. SCAN WITH EASE Point your camera at any document and let Paper Scanner do the rest. The intelligent framing guide helps you align perfectly every time. CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT Save scans as: ⢠PDF ā multi-page documents, perfect for contracts and reports ⢠JPEG ā compact images, great for quick sharing ⢠PNG ā lossless quality for when every detail matters ORGANISE YOUR LIBRARY All your scans are stored in one clean, searchable library. Rename, browse and manage your documents with ease. SHARE ANYWHERE Send your documents via WhatsApp, Email, or save directly to Files and your Photo Library ā all from a single tap. DARK & LIGHT MODE Paper Scanner adapts to your preference with full dark and light theme support. MULTILINGUAL Available in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and Russian.
OpenShape3D
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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 ā 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 ā 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 ā 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 ā 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 ā steel, aluminium, brass, plastics, rubber, wood ā 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: OpenShape3D at none against Paper Free Scanner's shown. Paper Free Scanner's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paper Free Scanner ships an update every 3 days, OpenShape3D every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paper Free Scanner | OpenShape3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days ā better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No ā better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abderrahmen Ben Mariem | Laan Consulting Corp |
In-app purchases
Paper Free Scanner
No in-app purchases
OpenShape3D
No in-app purchases





