Realform vs ScanForged

Pro-quality 3D scanning — free to use, completely private. Realform turns your iPhone into a pocket 3D scanner. Walk around an object, sweep a room, or capture a person, and get a real, shareable 3D model in minutes. Your scans are processed on your device — no account, no cloud, and your scans are never uploaded. WHAT YOU CAN SCAN • Objects — circle anything you can walk around for a clean, textured 3D model. • Rooms — sweep the walls and get an automatic floor plan with real dimensions, doors, windows, and furniture. • Whole buildings — scan room by room in one walkthrough and merge them into a single floor plan. • People — capture a full-body statue, a bust, a hand, or any body part. Great for AR and 3D printing. EXPORT — 3D PRINTING IS FREE Every format is generated on your phone: • USDZ — Apple AR & Quick Look — free • STL — 3D printing, in millimeters — free • 3MF — 3D printing: PrusaSlicer, Bambu Studio, Orca, Cura — free • Floor plans as PNG — free REALFORM PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • OBJ — the universal classic, opens everywhere • GLB — game engines & Blender (Unity, Unreal, Godot, web) • PLY — scanning & research tools • Floor plans as PDF, SVG, and DXF (AutoCAD / CAD) • No ads, ever Not ready to buy? Watch a short ad to unlock a single Pro export. A REAL EDITOR, BUILT IN Tidy up your scan right on your phone: crop, trim, and cut away what you don't want, fill holes, blend, paint over rough spots, and measure real-world distances. A watertight check tells you when a model is ready to 3D print. Every edit is saved as a new version, so your original is always safe. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your scans and photos never leave your iPhone — no accounts, no cloud. The app sends only a few anonymous usage counters (like which export formats get used) to help us improve it; they contain nothing from your scans and nothing that identifies you. HONEST ABOUT THE LIMITS Realform uses Apple's on-device LiDAR and photogrammetry. Scans, dimensions, and floor plans are excellent estimates for planning and creative work — but not survey-, engineering-, or medical-grade. Shiny, transparent, and very dark surfaces are hard to scan; the built-in tips help you get the best results. Realform requires an iPhone Pro or iPad Pro with LiDAR. Free to use, with ads. Realform Pro — a one-time purchase, never a subscription — removes ads and unlocks the professional export formats. Scanning, editing, measuring, and 3D-print export stay free for everyone. Requires an iPhone or iPad Pro with a LiDAR Scanner: iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro models, or iPad Pro (2020 or later). Object and person scanning on iPad needs an iPad Pro with M1 or later. Realform's 3D capture uses Apple's Object Capture and RoomPlan, which need the LiDAR sensor.

ScanForged turns the LiDAR in your iPhone or iPad into a precision 3D scanner. Capture dense, true-scale point clouds of objects, or map a whole building, floor by floor, into editable floor plans — then measure, clean up, and export. Every feature is free. OBJECT MODE • Capture millions of camera-colored 3D points with LiDAR • Photo-real scans: a textured 3D model made with Apple's Object Capture, on an iPhone or iPad that supports it • See a scan as Gaussian splats that blend into smooth surfaces (iOS 27 and later) • Measure distances, angles, closed areas, and diameters with a tap • Clean up scans: erase stray points, isolate an object, crop with a box — and undo a delete • Weigh a scanned object in any material, and cut a section through it • Make a CAD model: find flat surfaces, pick layers, and generate an OpenSCAD model • Export to PLY, OBJ, STL, and USDZ in color, Gaussian splats as PLY, or a model ready to 3D print • LAS and E57 point clouds for survey software ROOM MODE • Scan several rooms and floors in one go with guided capture (Apple RoomPlan): each floor at its real height, each room named • Instant 2D floor plan with wall lengths and door/window placement, one floor at a time • Explore a 3D model and read a full room report • Paint and materials estimates and a cost quote PDF for each room, in your currency • Edit walls, doors, windows, and furniture on every floor • Square Up turns walls to right angles; type any wall's exact length • Export floor plans to PDF, SVG, DXF, and CSV, and a drawing of every wall ENGINEERING TOOLS No scan needed: a unit converter with exact definitions, a materials library, and weight, strength, and beam checks. Type values in any unit you like, such as "2 in" or "50 mm". BUILT FOR REAL WORK • True-scale, LiDAR-accurate measurements, in metric or imperial • Siri and Shortcuts: "Scan a room with ScanForged"; find saved scans in Spotlight • In English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese • Your scans stay on your device — back up privately to your own iCloud, no account required LOOKS AND COINS Earn coins each day you use ScanForged, or buy a pack, and spend them on 50 looks: accent colors, app icons, 3D backgrounds, scan palettes, and floor-plan styles. Your coins work in every Invader Studio app. Scans are most precise with a LiDAR sensor (iPhone and iPad Pro models). Without one, object scans read depth from the camera (rougher sizes) and rooms are mapped from their floor corners; a sample house shows every room tool.