Comparison

Wax vs Itinerant Rig

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

Head to head
About

Wax

Create 3D models, characters, and scenes on your mobile device. Sculpt, paint, and animate your creations with intuitive tools and modifiers. Save and share your projects in editable formats.

Highlights
  • 3D modeling with vertex, edge, and face editing
  • Sculpting and painting tools with symmetry
  • Keyframe animation with timeline and curve editor
  • Editable project files for cross-device work
  • Import OBJ and GLB/glTF models
  • Export to OBJ, STL, PNG, MP4, GLB, and USDZ
Features
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Make 3D props, characters and scenes on iPhone and iPad. Start with a shape, import a model, or open one of five editable examples. MODEL Edit vertices, edges and faces. Extrude faces, inset details, bevel edges and add loop cuts. Mirror, Subdivision Surface, Array and Smooth modifiers stay editable. SCULPT AND PAINT Push, pull and smooth a mesh with brushes, symmetry and masks. Paint vertex colors on separate layers with Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay and Add blend modes. Adjust opacity, lock coverage with Alpha Lock, and hide or reveal paint with editable layer masks. Sample colors with the eyedropper, reorder layers, and merge visible paint while keeping hidden layers. Visible-surface painting protects the far side of thin models. Subdivide for finer vertex detail; this is not UV texture painting. Add image textures and reference images. Apple Pencil pressure can control brush size and strength. ANIMATE Keyframe position, rotation and scale. Adjust timing on the timeline and motion in the curve editor. Add cameras to frame your scene. KEEP YOUR PROJECT EDITABLE Save and share .waxproject files with the full scene, including paint layers, layer masks, materials, textures, modifiers and animation. Open them on another device to keep working. Older .wax projects still open, and importing a project creates a separate copy. Import OBJ and self-contained GLB or glTF models. GLB/glTF files must contain their own mesh data and textures; separate buffer and image files are not supported. Model import does not bring in animation. Use Wax project files to transfer an editable Wax scene. FREE TO USE Modeling, sculpting, painting, animation, modifiers, model import and unlimited projects are free. Export editable Wax projects, OBJ, STL, SDS and PNG images without buying Pro. WAX PRO • Combine shapes, cut holes and find intersections with booleans. • Rebuild a mesh for sculpting with voxel remesh. • Export animations and turntables as MP4 videos. • Export GLB files with materials and animation for use in other 3D apps, games and the web. • Export USDZ files to view your models in AR. Wax Pro is a one-time purchase with Family Sharing. No subscription. LEARN BY EDITING Open a robot, spacecraft, painted creature, speaker or animated example and change it yourself. Guided modeling and paint-layer tours, gesture help, keyboard shortcuts and a left-handed layout are included. No account is required. Projects are stored on your device and are available in Files.

About

Itinerant Rig

Features
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Itinerant Rig is a touch-first 3D character animation tool built for creators on the go, with a focus on game development. Import or model from scratch & rig a character, pose it with your fingers, key full animations, and export a ready-to-use file — all without ever touching a mouse or keyboard. Bring in a character built in Blender (or any tool that exports .glb, .gltf, .fbx, or .obj) — complete with bones, weights, and shape keys — and start animating immediately. No importing pipelines, no desktop-only software. Just your model and your hands. FEATURES Touch-Native Posing Tap a bone to select it, drag the on-screen rings and arrows to rotate and move it — gizmos built from the ground up for fingers, not cursors. Orbit, pan, and zoom the camera with familiar touch gestures. Full 3D Modeling & Layered Texture Painting Create, model, sculpt, weight paint, and texture paint in a full 3d Modeling pipeline. Includes simple layer texture painting & many brilliant tools to bring your characters to life! Full Animation Timeline Keyframe any pose, scrub the timeline, loop clips, and fine-tune motion with a graph mode for per-bone curves and easing. Manage multiple named clips per character. Inverse Kinematics & Spring Bones Import your own or use the built-in biped and quadruped base skeletons. Pose limbs naturally with IK chains, pole targets, and planted/pinned feet. Automatic Finger Curl & Toe Roll controls. Add jiggle and secondary motion with spring bones and colliders — hair, tails, and accessories that move on their own. Eye Look-At Rig Give your character a draggable gaze target that both eyes track automatically as the head moves. Shape Keys & Facial Animation Create & animate blend shapes by hand, drive them automatically from a bone (great for corrective shapes), or set up automatic blinking. Custom Shaders & Materials Build layered material stacks per mesh, including your own custom Godot shaders with live-editable parameters. Save a shader setup once and apply it to other meshes or other projects in a couple of taps. Multi-Character Scenes Add multiple characters to a single scene, each with its own rig, clips, Cutscene Mode Sequence whole animation clips, sounds, and a dedicated keyable camera into a full cutscene — then render it out as an image sequence with mixed audio for editing in any video tool. Audio & Lip-Sync Import sound clips and line them up against your animation with a visual waveform. Export Your Way Export a portable, editable Godot project folder, or a standalone .glb/.gltf file with baked animations — ready to drop into a game engine or open in another 3D tool. Undo/Redo, Autosave, and a full in-app help reference are built in, so you can experiment freely and never lose your work. Whether you're a solo animator, a game developer prototyping character motion, or an artist who wants to pose and shoot ideas away from a desk, Itinerant Rig puts a real animation workflow in your pocket. LANGUAGES SUPPORTED ------------------------------------------------------------------ English (default), Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese

Screenshots

Wax4 screens
Itinerant Rig4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wax at Free against Itinerant Rig's $9.99. Itinerant Rig's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Wax is free to download; Itinerant Rig costs $9.99 up front. Wax sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Itinerant Rig asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wax ships an update every 3 weeks, Itinerant Rig every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Wax versus Itinerant Rig: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaxItinerant Rig
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB102 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperJohn HaasAnime wife Inc

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wax

One-time1
  • Wax Pro$14.99
None

Itinerant Rig

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wax free?
Wax is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Itinerant Rig free?
Itinerant Rig costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wax or Itinerant Rig have ads?
Neither Wax nor Itinerant Rig shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wax or Itinerant Rig?
Wax ships an update every 3 weeks, and Itinerant Rig every 4 days. Most recently, Wax was updated on November 6, 2026 and Itinerant Rig on November 12, 2026.

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