Polyhedra 3D vs Hexaflexagons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polyhedra 3D
Explore and create intricate geometric shapes with ease. Apply various transformations and color schemes to generate unique visual designs. Experience your creations in augmented reality.
- Create and manipulate polyhedrons
- Apply Conway's transformations
- Thousands of visual combinations
- Save as still or animated images
- Augmented Reality experience
- No math knowledge required
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Create and manipulate beautiful polyhedrons without any mathematical knowledge needed. With many patterns, transformations, and color schemes to combine, you can create thousands of stunning visual combinations you may save as still or animated images. Best, see your creations alive around you thanks to Augmented Reality. Polyhedra is an application to represent and manipulate polyhedrons using Conway’s notation. You can apply Conway’s transformations to a seed polyhedron chosen from the Platonic solids (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron), prisms, and antiprisms. Supported transformations are: ambo, bevel, chamfer, dual, expand, gyro, join, kis, lace, loft, meta, ortho, propellor, quinto, snub, stake, subdivide, triangulate, and truncate. Most important of all, no mathematics knowledge is needed to enjoy.
Hexaflexagons
Design and create unique paper puzzles with hidden sides. Personalize them with your own designs or use templates for secret messages, photo gifts, or custom cards.
- Design custom hexaflexagons
- Use pre-made designs
- Create secret messages
- Make photo gifts
- Design birthday cards
- Printable designs
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Hexaflexagons are the ultimate paper puzzle, and this app helps you design and make them. What is a hexaflexagon, you ask? It's a paper puzzle that has a front side, a back side, plus hidden sides. It's fun to give them to your friends to see if they can find the hidden sides. Hexaflexagons are great for sending secret messages. Or as photo gifts. Or birthday cards. You can customize your own hexaflexagon or start from one of our designs. Please note that after a limited trial, a $3.99 unlimited use upgrade is required in order to have the app send you designs that you can print and fold at home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hexaflexagons at Free against Polyhedra 3D's $1.99. Hexaflexagons also leads on review sentiment (98% vs 75%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Polyhedra 3D's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, ads 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
Hexaflexagons is free to download; Polyhedra 3D costs $1.99 up front. Hexaflexagons sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Polyhedra 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Polyhedra 3D against 5.0 for Hexaflexagons. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hexaflexagons has 27 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Polyhedra 3D's written reviews are positive against 98% of Hexaflexagons's.
Polyhedra 3D ships an update every 4 months, Hexaflexagons monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and June 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polyhedra 3D | Hexaflexagons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 97.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laurent Rodier | VUXO I, CORP. |
Customer experience
Polyhedra 3D
Hexaflexagons
In-app purchases
Polyhedra 3D
No in-app purchases
Hexaflexagons
- Make unlimited hexaflexagons$3.99
- Make unlimited hexaflexagons$4.99
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