Comparison

EPIC vs FoldVision

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

Head to head
About

EPIC

Discover stunning daily images from NASA, including the Astronomy Picture of the Day, Mars rover photos, and views from Hubble and James Webb. Explore curated collections, search the NASA Image Library, and save your favorite space discoveries. Watch live NASA streams and engage with STEM activities for all ages.

Highlights
  • Daily Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Mars rover and Earth views
  • Hubble and James Webb images
  • Themed NASA mission collections
  • Searchable NASA Image Library
  • Save favorite images
  • NASA live stream
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EPIC – NASA Explorer Explore the universe with NASA — every day. EPIC brings together the best public NASA media in one app: the daily Astronomy Picture of the Day, Mars rover photos, Hubble and James Webb images, Earth views from space, and curated NASA video collections. Browse, search, save favorites, and dive deeper into the missions that inspire us. TODAY Start each day with NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day — stunning images with clear explanations. EXPLORE Browse themed collections: Mars rovers, Apollo, Artemis, Hubble, James Webb, eclipses, launches, and more. Young Explorers adds NASA videos and STEM activities for curious minds of all ages. SEARCH Search the NASA Image Library and discover photos and videos across decades of space exploration. FAVORITES Save images you love and build your own space archive. NASA LIVE Watch NASA’s live stream when available. Built for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro — one app for daily inspiration and deep exploration.

About

FoldVision

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

EPIC4 screens
FoldVision4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FoldVision at none against EPIC's 1. FoldVision also leads on update cadence (daily vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. EPIC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FoldVision asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EPIC ships an update monthly, FoldVision daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
EPIC versus FoldVision: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEPICFoldVision
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam KeeneScot Federman

In-app purchases

1 purchases

EPIC

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$4.99
None

FoldVision

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EPIC free?
EPIC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FoldVision free?
FoldVision is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EPIC or FoldVision have ads?
Neither EPIC nor FoldVision shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EPIC or FoldVision?
EPIC ships an update monthly, and FoldVision daily. Most recently, EPIC was updated on October 9, 2026 and FoldVision on October 2, 2026.

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