Comparison

SpaceSnug vs Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

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

Head to head
About

SpaceSnug

Features
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Standing in a store eyeing a couch, wondering if it'll ever make it through your front door? Moving day, and the wardrobe is stuck halfway up the stairs? SpaceSnug answers the one question that matters: will it fit? Check it before you buy it, before you carry it, before you get stuck. TWO WAYS TO MEASURE - Scan it in 3D. Point your iPhone or iPad Pro at the object, then at the doorway, hallway or stairwell — LiDAR does the measuring for you. Fast and accurate. - Or type it in. Enter the width, height and depth by hand on any device. Free, no scan needed. A CLEAR ANSWER - Fits, Tight, or Doesn't fit. No guessing. - SpaceSnug names the limiting dimension, so you know exactly what's in the way. - Handling tips show you how to carry it: turn it on its side, tilt it back, or rotate it through. IT KNOWS THE WHOLE ROUTE - Narrow hallways, tight corners, stairwells and landings — SpaceSnug accounts for the turns along the way, not just a single opening. So you find out before the heavy lifting, not during it. ROOM MODE - Scan a room and drop items inside to see whether, and where, they actually fit. Plan the layout before you move a thing. EVERYTHING SAVED - Every check and scan lands in your library — come back to it in the store, at home, or on moving day. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Your scans stay on your device. FREE TO START - Entering dimensions by hand and running fit checks is free. In-app "Fits" power the LiDAR scans when you want the phone to do the measuring. Moving house, buying a sofa, fridge or wardrobe, or rearranging a room — measure once, carry once. Know it fits before you lift it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Service Terms: https://spacesnug.com/terms

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Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

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Point Cloud & BIM Viewer opens laser scans and BIM models on your Mac, iPad and iPhone — measure them, cut sections, see where the building differs from the design, and export the results. Everything stays on the device: no account, no upload. A sample project with a guide shows where everything is. FORMATS • E57 with registered scan setups, colour, intensity and spherical photographs • LAS and LAZ 1.0 to 1.4 with colour, intensity and classification, and COPC • PLY, PTS, PTX, and XYZ or TXT with intensity or RGB columns • IFC models, also zipped or gzipped; USDZ, USD, OBJ, STL, glTF and GLB • DXF plans under the scan, with layers to switch off • Several files, a folder or a zip as one project Import never modifies the original, and a hundred million points take tens of megabytes. EVERYTHING IN ONE PROJECT The side panel lists the cloud and each of its scans, every model file, floor plan and saved cut. Show, hide, colour or look at each on its own; colour the scan setups to check the registration. Add scans later, send a project by AirDrop. THE SCAN AGAINST THE MODEL • Every point coloured by its distance to the model, with a tolerance you set • Which elements are built, which are missing, and where the scan never went • The elements built out of tolerance, listed • Place a model by pairs of corners, by the walls in the scan, by matching the floor plans, or where its georeference says • Measure from the scan to a surface of the model SCAN WITH LIDAR On an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR, scan a room into a project, fit it to the other scans, and continue later. For orientation, not millimetres. FLOOR PLAN RoomPlan draws the walls, doors and windows as you scan and divides the floor into rooms with their areas; walls found in any scan make a draft. Correct the plan, then export IFC, DXF, SVG or a PDF to scale. THE PROJECT IN AR On iPhone and iPad, stand the project on a table, or at 1:1 in the building by a few shared points, with a scan's panorama over the walls. ON THE MAP Coordinates as a surveyor writes them: S-JTSK Y and X, or E and N in the system the file or IFC georeference names. See the project on a map with an aerial view under the scan, or place it by hand. The map loads from Apple Maps only when switched on. THE MODEL Browse elements by storey, class or file; find them by name, GlobalId or property. Select, colour and group them, and read every property, inherited ones too. Check a model against IDS: what fails is listed, and each failure can become a note. On an IFC 4.3 alignment, read station and offset, with cross and long sections. MEASURE • Distance with its horizontal and vertical parts, and height • Face to face: wall thickness, clear width, clear height • The shortest distance between two elements, or from an element to the scan • A model's edge length and planar area; polylines, angles and best-fit areas • Notes anchored to a point or an element • Every pick is checked against the cloud at full resolution • Metric or imperial units SECTIONS AND ROOMS A box you move, turn and reshape by dragging, a plane or a slice. The model's solids are hatched where a cut crosses them. Save a cut with its view and return to it. SEEING THE SCAN RGB, intensity, classification, a heatmap, or elevation over the scan or a band of a few centimetres; a grid, six side views, panoramas from the scanner's position. ISSUES IN BCF Notes leave as BCF topics with a viewpoint and the element they are on; BCF files from other tools open as notes. EXPORT The cloud or a single scan as E57 with panoramas, LAS, PLY or XYZ; a section as LAS; CSV, JSON with sections, BCF, a PNG snapshot. FREE AND PRO Free with one project; Pro removes the limit for a single payment, no subscription. Projects you have stay open either way. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Point data is not edited, and tripod scans are registered in the scanner's software. Clouds in two coordinate systems are not brought into one. Models you open are never modified.

Screenshots

SpaceSnug4 screens
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Point Cloud & BIM Viewer at 3 against SpaceSnug's 1. Point Cloud & BIM Viewer also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. SpaceSnug sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Point Cloud & BIM Viewer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
SpaceSnug versus Point Cloud & BIM Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpaceSnugPoint Cloud & BIM Viewer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size242 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuca HoehleinSew Grader by Virtalia

In-app purchases

6 purchases

SpaceSnug

Subscriptions3
  • 10 Fits / Month$4.991 Month
  • 25 Fits / Month$7.991 Month
  • 120 Fits / Year$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • 1 Fit$1.99
  • 3 Fits$2.99
  • 9 Fits$5.99
1 purchases

Point Cloud & BIM Viewer

One-time1
  • Pointclouds Viewer Pro$9.99

Questions

Is SpaceSnug free?
SpaceSnug is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Point Cloud & BIM Viewer free?
Point Cloud & BIM Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SpaceSnug or Point Cloud & BIM Viewer have ads?
Neither SpaceSnug nor Point Cloud & BIM Viewer shows ads.

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