Comparison

Calc Visualizer vs Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2

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

Head to head
About

Calc Visualizer

Features
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Calc Visualizer helps the user better understand some of the most important concepts of calculus. The app includes eight different modules: 1) Descartes' Method, 2) Fermat's Method, 3) Derivatives, 4) Areas under Curves, 5) Fundamental Theorem, 6) Slope Fields, 7) Max-Min problems, and 8) Related rate problems. Highly interactive, but with extensive instructional help screens and animations.

About

Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2

Explore and learn about complex 3D mathematical solids, including star polyhedra and their compounds. Interact with these abstract shapes through intuitive touch gestures, customize their appearance with various colors and patterns, and view them from any angle.

Highlights
  • Interactive 3D model rotation, zoom, and pan
  • Toggle visibility of faces and components
  • Adjustable edge thickness and color
  • Extensive library of polyhedral compounds
  • Customizable face color patterns
  • Access to Wikipedia for related information
  • Save PNG images of models
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Polyhedron and Polyhedra Volume 2 is a collection of 4 kepler-poinsot polyhedra, 53 uniform star polyhedra, their duals and polyhedral compounds of them. This is also an application which helps you to learn about or explore these mathematical solids. Without knowledge of mathematics or polyhedron, you can easily interact with the 3d solids by this application. So, you will become more familiar with the polyhedrons, and you may enjoy these abstract solids as fascinating formative arts. The main advantage of this app is that it offers a large variety of polyhedral compounds of identical uniform star polyhedra and their duals. By choosing a model, and by setting colors and parameters optionally, you will find various types of 3d shapes including wonderful shapes, mysterious artistic shapes, and strange eccentric shapes, which will be interesting for you. Features: - Swipe or touch gesture will rotate, zoom or move the object. So, you can observe it from various angles or positions. (You can observe it even from inside.) - Switches between showing and hiding each face of the polyhedron, and switches between showing and hiding each component of the compound - Function to display the edges of the polyhedra with selectable thickness and color - For each kepler-poinsot polyhedron, each uniform star polyhedron and each dual of uniform star polyhedron, the app can provide the compound from 14 to 22 kinds (more than 1200 in total). - Many color patterns for the faces of the polyhedron. - Functions to display basic informations about the polyhedron, and to access the wikipedia sites about the related items - Slider controllers to reduce z-fighting (screen flicker) - Save PNG images to camera roll

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Calc Visualizer at Free against Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2's $2.99. Calc Visualizer also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On update cadence, ads, 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

Calc Visualizer is free to download; Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calc Visualizer ships an update every 44 months, Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Calc Visualizer versus Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalc VisualizerPolyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating—4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 44 monthsEvery 28 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas BretlMasahiko Fukuyama

In-app purchases

None

Calc Visualizer

No in-app purchases

None

Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calc Visualizer free?
Calc Visualizer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 free?
Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Calc Visualizer or Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 have ads?
Neither Calc Visualizer nor Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calc Visualizer or Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2?
Calc Visualizer ships an update every 44 months, and Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 every 28 months. Most recently, Calc Visualizer was updated on October 13, 2026 and Polyhedron and Polyhedra Vol.2 on October 11, 2026.

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