Comparison

Shademix vs Shapely 3D

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

Head to head
About

Shademix

Features
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Shademix is the color toolkit professional designers, decorators and brand teams keep on their phone. Sample any color from a photo, the live camera or the screen - then instantly see how it sits inside ten of the world's color systems: RAL Classic, NCS, Pantone (approximate visual equivalents), HKS and Munsell. Get the closest matches with a perceptual ΔE distance, copy the code with one tap, jump to the same hue family, or build a palette from harmonies that are perceptually tuned in OKLCH so they look as balanced as they read. KEY FEATURES • Eyedropper that works on photos, the live camera and any screen capture • 10 cross-system matches per color, with a one-tap copy on every swatch • 8 color formats - HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, HSV, LAB, LCH and OKLCH • 7 perceptually-tuned harmonies - complementary, analogous, monochromatic, triadic, tetradic, split-complementary and square • 30 curated mood palettes - Tokyo Neon, Studio Ghibli, Bauhaus, Cyber Mint, Velvet Plum and 25 more • WCAG contrast checker with full pairwise table for the active palette (AA, AAA, large-text) • Color blindness simulation (Brettel) for protan, deutan and tritan deficiencies • Lighting / metamerism preview under D65, D50, F2 and incandescent illuminants • OKLCH gradient generator with copy-ready CSS • Print gamut warning that flags out-of-CMYK saturation and proposes an in-gamut substitute • Save unlimited palettes - compare up to four side-by-side, share via signed link • Export to JSON, CSS, PDF, Tailwind, Adobe .ase, GIMP .gpl, Photoshop .aco, SVG, Figma, Sketch and Procreate OFFLINE FIRST Shademix runs entirely on your device. Nothing you sample, save or share leaves your phone unless you explicitly hit Share. No accounts. No tracking. No ads. EVERYTHING UNLOCKED Every color system, every format, every harmony, every export — all available to every user. No paywalls, no upgrade prompts, no nag screens. WHY DESIGNERS CHOOSE SHADEMIX Most color apps stop at HEX/RGB. Shademix bridges screen and material - the OKLCH value your CSS needs and the RAL or Pantone code the printer or paint shop wants. The same toolkit for designers, architects, decorators, illustrators, photographers, brand strategists and anyone who has ever stood in front of a wall trying to match a swatch. Pantone equivalents notice. Shademix includes a curated set of approximate visual equivalents labelled with the prefix PE-. They are for design exploration only and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed from Pantone LLC. PANTONE® is a trademark of Pantone LLC. RAL®, NCS® and HKS® are trademarks of their respective owners; codes are listed for reference only.

About

Shapely 3D

Features
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Shapely 3D is a fast, native 3D modeling app built for iPad — sketch, sculpt, and export real 3D models with just your finger or Apple Pencil. Build scenes from simple primitives, then move, rotate, and scale them with an on-screen gizmo. Snap to a configurable grid, measure distances as you work, and use the orientation cube to jump straight to any view. Shapely 3D saves your work as a native document you can open again anytime, right where you left off. Shapely 3D Pro unlocks: • CSG boolean operations — union, subtract, and intersect shapes to build more complex forms • STL export — send your models straight to a 3D printer or another CAD tool • Sketch & Extrude — draw a 2D profile and pull it into a solid • Smoothing — round any object with adjustable, non-destructive subdivision • Cut tool — slice objects apart along a face or a drawn line • Edit Faces — move, extrude, and reshape the individual faces of any object Whether you're prototyping a part, teaching geometry, or just enjoy building things in 3D, Shapely 3D keeps the fundamentals simple and gets out of your way.

Screenshots

Shademix4 screens
Shapely 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shademix at none against Shapely 3D's 1. Shademix also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Shapely 3D sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shademix asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Shademix versus Shapely 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShademixShapely 3D
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRosen GanevFabrizio Brancati

In-app purchases

None

Shademix

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Shapely 3D

One-time1
  • Shapely 3D Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Shademix free?
Shademix is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shapely 3D free?
Shapely 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shademix or Shapely 3D have ads?
Neither Shademix nor Shapely 3D shows ads.

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