Quick STL Viewer vs OpenShape3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick STL Viewer
Easily open and preview 3D STL files in a smooth, responsive environment. Inspect models with rotation, zoom, and wireframe modes. Customize colors for better visibility without needing an account.
- Instant STL file opening
- Smooth 3D model exploration
- Rotate and zoom functionality
- Wireframe mode for mesh inspection
- Customizable object and background colors
- No account required
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Quick STL Viewer is a simple and fast app for opening and previewing 3D STL files. Open your files instantly and explore them in a smooth, responsive 3D environment. Rotate, zoom, and inspect models with ease. Switch to wireframe mode to examine mesh details, or customize object and background colors for better visibility. Built with a focus on simplicity and usability, Quick STL Viewer keeps the experience clean and distraction-free without unnecessary complexity. No accounts required. Just open and view your files. Whether you're quickly checking a model, reviewing print details, or inspecting geometry on the go, Quick STL Viewer provides a lightweight and streamlined STL viewing experience. Pro Features - Unlimited STL Viewing - Wireframe - Rotation - Rotation Speed - Background Color - Background Image Privacy Policy: https://important-anaconda-77e.notion.site/Quick-STL-Viewer-33443a8b7595809dbfd1e8a1bb0191ad Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
OpenShape3D
Create precise 3D models directly on your mobile device using intuitive touch controls. This app offers robust sketching tools, advanced solid modeling operations, and various viewing modes, all powered by a professional-grade geometry kernel.
- Direct-modeling CAD for touch
- Professional-grade B-rep kernel
- Advanced 2D sketching with constraints
- Extrude, revolve, sweep, and loft operations
- Live preview for fillets and chamfers
- Import/export STL, OBJ, DXF, and more
- AR preview with Quick Look
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenShape3D at none against Quick STL Viewer's 3. Quick STL Viewer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Quick STL Viewer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. OpenShape3D asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick STL Viewer holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Quick STL Viewer's written reviews are positive against 75% of OpenShape3D's.
Quick STL Viewer ships an update every 6 days, OpenShape3D every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick STL Viewer | OpenShape3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KEAT MEN TANG | Laan Labs |
Customer experience
Quick STL Viewer
OpenShape3D
In-app purchases
Quick STL Viewer
- Pro Plan Weekly$2.997 Days
- Pro Plan Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Quick STL Viewer Lifetime$34.99
OpenShape3D
No in-app purchases









