Comparison

TFTPad vs Cadaclysm

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

Head to head
About

TFTPad

View and interact with 3D models on your mobile device. Upload your own CAD files to a private gallery for visualization and sharing, or explore public galleries. Supports various CAD formats and offers intuitive touch controls for zooming, rotating, and panning.

Highlights
  • 3D model visualization
  • Intuitive touch controls
  • Private JSON3D Gallery
  • CAD file conversion
  • Supports multiple CAD formats
  • Model sharing
Features
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TFTPad is a free 3D viewer that visualizes 3D models from TFTLabs JSON3D Gallery. Within TFTPad, interact with 3D models using the intuitive touch interface. Select a model in the public JSON3D Gallery (or among the 3 sample models installed with the application) and load it. Pinch to zoom, single finger drag to rotate, two finger drag to pan and double tap on the screen to fit all the model. To visualize your own 3D models on your device with TFTPad : - create your free account at http://json3d.tftlabs.com to get your own JSON3D Private Gallery, - upload your 3D files which will be converted to JSON3D and become ready for visualization and sharing from a Web browser or from a Mobile/Tablet with TFTPad. - whenever you are ready, transfer to public JSON3D Gallery for unrestricted sharing. As a free application, JSON3D Gallery supports only following CAD formats (up to their latest revision): - CATIA V5 / Dassault Systemes - SolidWorks / Dassault Systemes - JT / Siemens - Pro/Engineer - Creo Parametric / Parametric Technology Corporation Upload size in free JSON3D Gallery is limited to 10 Mb. TFTPad and JSON3D Gallery are part of TFTLabs line of products and technologies, focused on 3D communication and interoperability on the Web and mobile. TFTLabs products work directly on 3D data from all native or generic CAD formats (more than 20 formats) up to their latest revision. The whole technology for import and visualization is owned by TFTLabs and built upon the JSON3D file format. TFTLabs choosed JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), part of ECMAScript/Javascript ISO Standard which is the only standard for HTML5/Web applications, to build up 3D Web technology upon so-called JSON3D format. As such, JSON3D is open (textual), customizable, optimized for compressed Web transmission/usage and compatible with Mobile/Tablet. Join us on Facebook TFTLabs page: http://www.facebook.com/TFTLabs For any request, contact us: http://tftlabs.com/contact.html For further information: http://tftlabs.com All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About

Cadaclysm

Features
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Cadaclysm opens real CAD files on your iPhone and iPad: the exact B-rep geometry inside a STEP, IFC, 3DM, IGES, SAT or BREP file, read and meshed on the device itself. Nothing is uploaded, no account is needed, and it works with no network at all. FORMATS โ€ข STEP (.step, .stp) โ€” AP203, AP214, AP242 and the other schemas ship inside the app โ€ข IFC (.ifc) โ€” IFC2x3, IFC4 and IFC4x3, with every element's property sets โ€ข 3DM (.3dm) โ€ข IGES (.iges, .igs) โ€ข ACIS (.sat) โ€ข BREP (.brep, .brp), as written by OCCT โ€ข OpenSCAD (.scad) โ€” evaluated on the device OPEN A FILE FROM ANYWHERE Pick a file from the Files app, including iCloud Drive and other cloud storage, or send it to Cadaclysm from the Share sheet of Mail, Messages, WhatsApp or any other app. A model someone sends you is two taps away. BUILT FOR BIG MODELS The reader is written in Rust and runs natively on your device. Assemblies with thousands of parts open with a live progress bar, and a memory budget keeps the largest ones on screen at reduced detail instead of running out of memory. Level of detail follows the camera: fine where you look, coarse where you don't. A TOUCH CAMERA THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY One finger orbits. Two fingers pan and pinch at the same time. Double-tap frames the whole model. Tap an axis on the triad for a front, top or side view in parallel projection, tap it again for the far side. BROWSE THE PARTS A translucent parts tree slides over the model without hiding it. Expand assemblies, tap a part to select it, frame it, isolate it, or hide whole subtrees with one tap. Search with plain names or with filter expressions (name, type, layer, properties). Every part opens a details panel with its properties โ€” for IFC, the full property sets from the file. SEE THE GEOMETRY, NOT JUST THE SHADING Toggle four layers independently: shapes, edges, curves and isocurves. Give each wire kind its own colour or let it follow the part's colour. Pick a background, turn the grid on or off, and switch a Y-up model (a game-engine export) to show the right way up. TUNE IT FOR YOUR DEVICE Render scale, anti-aliasing, half-precision geometry and detail-while-moving are all adjustable, so an older iPhone stays smooth and an iPad Pro shows everything. SHARE A PICTURE Export the current view as a high-resolution PNG with a transparent background, rendered well beyond the screen's size with crisp edges, and share it from the Share sheet to any app. KNOW WHAT YOU OPENED The document panel lists the file, its reader, what it contains, what the scene was built from, the file's own properties and the reader's diagnostics โ€” the same words the desktop tools use, so a problem can be reported precisely. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Cadaclysm never sends your files anywhere. There are no accounts, no ads and no analytics, and it collects no data. The models on your device stay on your device. Cadaclysm is built on the Cadaclysm geometry library, the same readers, mesher and B-rep kernel that power its desktop, web and game-engine integrations. Questions, models that will not open, ideas: join the Discord from the About screen. Screenshots show a quadcopter assembly built with the Cadaclysm kernel, sample models from NIST's MBE PMI test cases, and the OpenSCAD examples (CC0). ACIS is a trademark of Spatial Corp. and Open CASCADE (OCCT) of Open Cascade SAS; other product names belong to their owners. Cadaclysm is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them: the names only say which files it reads.

Screenshots

TFTPad4 screens
Cadaclysm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TFTPad at 6.0 against Cadaclysm's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
TFTPad versus Cadaclysm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTFTPadCadaclysm
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size20 MB11 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTFTLabsBlitter

In-app purchases

None

TFTPad

No in-app purchases

None

Cadaclysm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TFTPad free?
TFTPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cadaclysm free?
Cadaclysm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TFTPad or Cadaclysm have ads?
Neither TFTPad nor Cadaclysm shows ads.

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