Comparison

STLLens vs OpenShape3D

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

Head to head
About

STLLens

Features
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Meshlet is a fast local 3D file viewer for STL and OBJ models on iPhone and iPad. Open files from the Files app, inspect mesh structure, switch display modes, and save snapshots for sharing. Built for quick viewing, not heavy CAD editing. Key features: • Open STL and OBJ files from Files • Solid, Wireframe, and X-Ray display modes • Camera presets for top, front, side, and isometric views • Mesh stats and bounds preview • Save and share model snapshots • Reopen models from Recents Year VIP: $14.99. Monthly VIP: $7.99. Lifetime : $19.99. YearLy VIP,Monthly VIP supports Family Sharing. ELUA: https://alluring-cornucopia-e64.notion.site/EULA-1b93a026438880b2b7bff9c491893917?pvs=74 Email: personalbum@outlook.com

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

STLLens4 screens
OpenShape3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: OpenShape3D at Free against STLLens's $0.99. OpenShape3D also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). On update cadence, 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

OpenShape3D is free to download; STLLens costs $0.99 up front. STLLens sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. OpenShape3D asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

STLLens ships an update fortnightly, OpenShape3D every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
STLLens versus OpenShape3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSTLLensOpenShape3D
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer楠楠 李Laan Labs

In-app purchases

3 purchases

STLLens

Subscriptions2
  • Month Vip$7.991 Month
  • Year Vip$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • LifeTime$19.99
None

OpenShape3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is STLLens free?
STLLens costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is OpenShape3D free?
OpenShape3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do STLLens or OpenShape3D have ads?
Neither STLLens nor OpenShape3D shows ads.
Which is updated more often, STLLens or OpenShape3D?
STLLens ships an update fortnightly, and OpenShape3D every 3 weeks. Most recently, STLLens was updated on October 15, 2026 and OpenShape3D on October 29, 2026.

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