Clay Shaper vs FormWright 3D

Clay Shaper is a sculpting app where the clay is actually clay. Most 3D apps hand you a mesh — a fixed cage of triangles that stretches, tangles and tears when you push it too far. Clay Shaper does not. Your sculpture is a volume, the way a real lump of clay is a volume. Push a thumb into it and it dents. Pull a limb out and material follows. Punch a hole straight through and the hole is simply there. Nothing to retopologise, nothing to break. SCULPT WITH FOURTEEN TOOLS Build, carve, smooth, move, inflate, flatten, pinch, crease, smear and roughen. Twist, bend and grow are brushes too — you do them by hand, on the spot, not through a dialog. Mirror across the centre line, or work in radial symmetry up to twelvefold for ornament and rosettes. PAINT INTO THE MATERIAL Colour lives inside the clay, not on a skin stretched over it. Brush, spray or stamp it on, polish it back, pick a colour off the surface. Keep sculpting afterwards and the paint stays where it belongs — carve deep enough and you cut back to bare material, exactly as you would through a glaze. TWELVE FINISHED PIECES TO TAKE APART Open a scanned marble bust, a bronze lion, a rearing horse, a bull's head, procedural coral, a lotus, a Solomonic column and a rose window. Every one arrives as ordinary clay from the first second. Recut the features. Break the nose. Ruin it happily. STAND IT IN YOUR ROOM See any sculpture in AR at real size, on a real floor, through AR Quick Look. Choose 10 cm, 30 cm, a metre or life size, then walk around it. TAKE IT ANYWHERE Export watertight GLB, STL, OBJ or USDZ — ready for a printer, a render, or another tool. Hollow the sculpture out to a set wall thickness first and a resin print costs a fraction of what a solid one would. Render a PNG. Save a .clay project file that stores the field itself, so you can pick the work back up later or move it to another device. BUILT FOR TOUCH One finger sculpts. Two orbit and zoom. Three pan. Apple Pencil pressure where you have it. A landscape layout that keeps the interface out of the way when you turn the phone on its side, and a full-screen mode for when you just want to look at the thing. FREE, AND PRO The sculpting is all free — every tool, every paint mode, every material, every light. Free includes three of the featured pieces, three saved sculptures, resolutions up to 160³, AR, and watermarked renders. Clay Shaper Pro is one payment, not a subscription. It adds: • 192³ and 224³ working resolution • GLB, STL, OBJ and USDZ export • Hollow out for printing • Import your own .glb and .obj models and voxelise them into clay • Import your own textures and bake them in as real relief • All twelve featured pieces • Unlimited saves • Renders without a watermark Nothing you make leaves your device. There is no account, no cloud, no tracking and no advertising.

FormWright 3D brings modeling, sculpting, painting and animation together on iPad and iPhone. Build a mechanical prop, shape a character, paint its surface and bring it to life in the same project. SOLID MODELING Sketch rectangles, circles, polygons and paths made from lines and true circular arcs. Extrude, cut, round or chamfer edges, make insets and pockets, and arrange repeated forms with arrays and radial patterns. Enter dimensions, move bodies with a gizmo and export exact Solid geometry as STEP. Bake a mesh to continue in Sculpt or Paint while retaining the original Solid source. MODEL, SCULPT AND RETOPOLOGIZE Edit points, edges and faces; use modifiers, instances and symmetry. Start from a clay sphere or build an organic character with Branch Forms. Sculpt with brushes, masks and movable transform controls. On regular iPad layouts, Retopo Draw lets you lay out loops and strips, preview fills and refine topology with grab and relax tools. PAINT AND LIGHT Paint on models with texture layers, selection tools and mirror or radial symmetry. Explore live procedural materials. Use the Light workspace for lights, shadows and photo-based environments. Import your own image for an environment and see it in supported Beauty renders. RIG, PERFORM AND ANIMATE Build and pose rigs, save keyframes or enable automatic keying. Record movement in Perform, compare poses with ghosts and trails, layer performances and clean up motion. Frame camera takes, add imported audio or optional voice recordings, and export video. CAMERA AND CAPTURE Use supported hardware for handheld camera control, mixed reality and on-device body, hand or face motion capture. Import footage to estimate camera movement and a placement plane for 3D objects. Footage tracking is a best-effort estimate: blur, occlusion and low-detail shots can drift or lose tracking. YOUR PROJECTS, YOUR FILES Save locally and share editable .fw3d projects with their referenced assets. Import and export supported geometry, materials and animation through formats including USDZ, GLB, OBJ and FBX. Export STL or 3MF for printing. Format support varies; export guidance explains when baking or a simplified result is needed. AR Quick Look is available on supported devices. OPTIONAL WATCH COMPANION Send lightweight model previews from a paired iPhone to Apple Watch, then orbit and zoom on your wrist. Use Watch orientation as a motion controller for the connected iPhone editor. A paired iPhone is required; direct Watch-to-iPad control is not included. ONE PURCHASE One-time purchase with no subscription, in-app purchases or FormWright account. This version includes iPhone, iPad and the optional Watch companion. Existing owners receive version 1.2 as an update. Your own original work can be used in personal or commercial projects; imported third-party assets retain their owners' terms. BEFORE YOU START Apple Pencil is optional; hover needs a compatible Pencil and iPad. Retopo Draw requires a regular iPad layout. Camera/AR and motion capture depend on device capabilities; room scanning needs supported LiDAR hardware. Watch requires watchOS 10 or later and a paired iPhone. Solid is a direct modeling workspace. Its feature record is read-only; editing a retained sketch does not rebuild an existing extrusion. Full sketch constraints, automatic tangency, revolve and shell are not included. Keep a copy before updating important work; older versions cannot open projects containing Solid data. Complex geometry and exports take longer to process. Creative processing stays on your device. No ads or tracking SDKs. Sharing is your choice. Privacy, support and open-source acknowledgments are available in Settings and on the developer website.