Comparison

Lensculpt vs DM Scanner 3D

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

Head to head
About

Lensculpt

Create 3D models from iPhone camera captures locally on your device. Build textured USDZ assets, adjust them non-destructively, and export in various formats. Offers manual camera controls for consistent results.

Highlights
  • Local 3D asset creation
  • Textured USDZ model building
  • Non-destructive texture adjustments
  • Multiple export formats (USDZ, OBJ, FBX)
  • Manual camera controls
  • LiDAR room scanning
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Lensculpt turns overlapping iPhone camera views into local 3D assets. Capture rigid, textured objects from multiple distances and heights, scan a room on a supported LiDAR iPhone, or try the experimental Building Exterior workflow without a prescribed circular route. Build textured USDZ models on the device, preview their geometry in shaded or wireframe form, apply non-destructive texture and cleanup adjustments, and open the USDZ in a full-screen 3D viewer. Export completed meshes as USDZ, OBJ, or FBX, and share experimental Gaussian results as SPZ. Manual exposure, white-balance, and focus controls help keep texture captures consistent on supported cameras. On iOS 26, accepted system-managed continued-processing tasks may continue model generation while you use another app; the app clearly reports when processing must remain in the foreground. Lensculpt has no account, ads, analytics, or automatic cloud upload. Captures and models stay in the app container until you explicitly share them. Results depend on the device, lighting, subject, coverage, and available resources. Reflective, transparent, moving, flexible, and low-texture subjects may fail or produce incomplete models. Gaussian training and Building Exterior capture are experimental. Lensculpt does not claim certified measurements, exact scale, or complete unseen surfaces.

About

DM Scanner 3D

Features
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DM Scanner 3D turns an iPhone into a 3D capture tool built for people who finish their work in Blender. SCAN A SCENE Sweep a room or venue with the LiDAR sensor and watch the mesh build live, coloured from the camera as you go. CAPTURE AN OBJECT Guided photogrammetry builds a fully textured model on the device. SCAN A FACE The TrueDepth camera captures a textured face mesh with the same topology every time, ready for rigging, plus the surrounding head fused from depth. MADE FOR BLENDER Every export is Z-up and in metres, so models arrive the right way round at real-world scale. Scene scans export as OBJ, PLY or USDZ; object captures as USDZ. Share by AirDrop or find your scans in the Files app. BUILT FOR ACCURACY • Tap-to-measure checks a scan against a real tape measure • A printable control marker gives separate scans a shared origin, so they merge without alignment • Register a scan to a standard 400 m running track by tapping painted landmarks, and export the exact rulebook track alongside it VIEW AND ORGANISE Orbit any scan in full colour, as bare clay to judge the shape, or as wireframe. Search your library by name, type or date. Your scans stay on your device unless you choose to share them. No account, no ads, no tracking. Scene scanning requires an iPhone with a LiDAR scanner (Pro models). Face scanning requires a TrueDepth (Face ID) camera.

Screenshots

Lensculpt4 screens
DM Scanner 3D4 screens

Verdict

The call

Lensculpt and DM Scanner 3D are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Lensculpt versus DM Scanner 3D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLensculptDM Scanner 3D
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGarrett TemplarJOSHUA CHARLES JORDAN

In-app purchases

None

Lensculpt

No in-app purchases

None

DM Scanner 3D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lensculpt free?
Lensculpt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DM Scanner 3D free?
DM Scanner 3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lensculpt or DM Scanner 3D have ads?
Neither Lensculpt nor DM Scanner 3D shows ads.

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