Comparison

Matterport vs The3DApp

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

Head to head
About

Matterport

Create immersive 3D digital twins of any space using a smartphone, tablet, or 360 camera. Enhance listings, document projects, manage facilities, and showcase businesses with interactive virtual tours and detailed floor plans. Share and embed your creations easily.

Highlights
  • Effortless 3D Capture
  • Interactive Virtual Tours
  • Automated Measurements & Labels
  • Easy Customization
  • Instant Collaboration
  • Publish and Embed
  • Floor Plans & Marketing Media
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Matterport: The Standard for 3D Space Capture Transform any space into an interactive, immersive and intelligent 3D digital twin–accessible anywhere. Whether you’re marketing real estate, documenting projects, managing facilities, or showcasing your business, Matterport makes capturing and sharing digital spaces easy. Designed for Any Space, Anywhere • Real Estate: Enhance your listings with interactive 3D virtual tours and floor plans that give potential buyers and renters the ability to view your properties from anywhere. • Design & Construction: Capture detailed, accurate site conditions to collaborate with your team and execute projects seamlessly. • Facilities Management: Simplify space planning, maintenance, and operations with up-to-date digital twins of your properties. • Retail & Entertainment: Create engaging virtual experiences for everything from retail stores and shopping malls to museums and event spaces. • Insurance & Restoration: Speed up claims processing and restoration efforts with accurate, high-resolution 3D scans of damaged properties. • Travel & Hospitality: Promote hotels, vacation rentals, and event venues with interactive 3D walkthroughs to attract more guests. • Education: Showcase campuses, classrooms, and learning facilities with immersive digital tours for prospective students and staff. • Homeowners: Digitally document your home and belongings for insurance, remodeling, or personal records. Powerful and Easy-to-Use Features • Effortless 3D Capture: Quickly capture any space using a smartphone, tablet, 360 camera, 360 imagery or Matterport Pro Series cameras. • Interactive Virtual Tours: Build engaging 3D tours for storytelling with collaboration features like tags, notes, and guided navigation. • Automated Measurements & Labels: Use AI Property Intelligence to get accurate room names and dimensions, instantly generated within your 3D models for precise planning. • Easy Customization: Enhance your 3D virtual tours by adding annotations, including labels and multimedia tags. Seamlessly Share and Publish • Instant Collaboration: Share links with clients, teammates, or stakeholders for easy access to your digital twins. • Publish and Embed: Publish directly to Google Street View, real estate MLS—or embed your tours in websites and presentations. File Export and Media • Floor Plans: Get affordable professional-grade schematic floor plans, simply and easily with just the push of a button. • All-In-One Marketing Media Assets: Transform a single Matterport digital twin into immersive 3D experiences, high-quality 2D photography, detailed floor plans, and more. • File Export: Export your digital twins in E57, OBJ, XYZ, and industry-standard formats such as RVT and DWG for use with BIM and CAD applications. Generate ready-to-use Xactimate®-compatible sketches, simplifying insurance claims and restoration planning Extensive Camera Compatibility • Matterport’s advanced Lidar Pro3 3D camera • Matterport’s industry-favorite Pro2 3D camera • Popular 360 cameras from Insta360 and Ricoh, see details at https://support.matterport.com/s/article/Supported-360-Spherical-Cameras? • Smart Phones, see details at https://matterport.com/compatible-mobile-devices. Get Started for Free Join millions of users who trust Matterport to bring their spaces to life in immersive 3D. Download the free app and create your first Matterport today!

About

The3DApp

Easily create immersive 3D property tours using your iPhone or iPad. Generate accurate floorplans, 3D models, and panoramas that can be shared via a web link. Ideal for real estate, design, and renovations.

Highlights
  • Create 3D property tours
  • Generate accurate floorplans
  • Include 3D models and panoramas
  • Measure square footage
  • Shareable via web link
  • Manage and catalog tours
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Using an iPhone 12 or 13 Pro, or iPad Pro with LiDAR, The 3D App can in no time at all create a beautiful, 3D tour of any space that's sharable in any browser with no additional hardware required! Create an unlimited number of tours which include accurate floorplans, 3D models, panoramas, and square footages. The 3D App is the one tool needed for realtors, renters, homeowners, and more to capture their property in high resolution geometry, textures and 360 degree panoramic photos. Whether you are advertising your property for a sale, planning a design project, remodeling and building a home, or archiving a beloved space, The 3D App can accomplish all this and more. Follow The 3D App’s quick and intuitive guides to create your first 3D tour. Scanning your space is as simple as shooting a video. Once you're done, upload your tour. After it’s ready, you’ll have access to a host of new tools and features in our tour viewer. Move through your panoramas or view your tour top-down from our floorplan view. Add measurements, obtain square footages and include labels to each room. Once you're ready, share a link to your tour or embed it in a listing on select platforms. From the app you’ll continue to be able to see, manage, and catalog existing tours. You’ll always have everything you’ll need to create new 3D tours. Create your first one today in no time at all.

Screenshots

Matterport4 screens
The3DApp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: The3DApp at 78% against Matterport's 26%. The3DApp also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Matterport's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (4.2K vs 15). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Matterport holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Matterport has 4.2K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of Matterport's written reviews are positive against 78% of The3DApp's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Matterport ships an update monthly, The3DApp every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Matterport versus The3DApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMatterportThe3DApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4.2K ratings) — better4.5 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews25.5% of reviews77.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.2K — better15
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size827 MB245 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatterport IncLavaMap LLC

Customer experience

Matterport

All ratings4,168 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews239 reviews
Positive25.5%
Neutral10.0%
Negative64.4%

The3DApp

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

Bugs and requests

Matterport

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inability to sign in or create an account
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices
  • Inconsistent scan quality and stitching
  • Frequent app crashes during captures
  • Delayed or failed uploads to Matterport cloud

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to manually realign scans
  • Offline viewing and editing capabilities
  • Integration with more 360 camera models
  • Enhanced analytics and tracking features
  • Improved floor plan generation accuracy

The3DApp

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Matterport

No in-app purchases

None

The3DApp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Matterport free?
Matterport is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The3DApp free?
The3DApp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Matterport or The3DApp?
Matterport is rated higher. Matterport averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4.2K ratings, while The3DApp averages 4.5 from 15 ratings.
Do Matterport or The3DApp have ads?
The3DApp shows ads; Matterport does not.
Which is updated more often, Matterport or The3DApp?
Matterport ships an update monthly, and The3DApp every 3 weeks. Most recently, Matterport was updated on October 21, 2026 and The3DApp on October 8, 2026.

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