Metascan - 3D Scanner 4+

Super 3D capture app.

After the exploring all the 3D capture apps I could, a few years back when the iPhone 13pro came out, I decided that Metascan produced the best results.

Since then I’ve happily purchased the app for a few years now, with only one snag being that if the subject is quite large, (such as a fishing trawler, or railway station) the photogrammetry output is sometimes reduced in scale.

Presumably this is a limitation which many people will not run into and I have always found the LiDAR based outputs to be to scale and with only a few cm error when using the measurement tool. Also I found opening the output scans in Blender was a good idea for cleaning up “blobs” which sometimes occur when capturing with LiDAR.

Recently Polycam have upped their game and I may well start using their app as well, mainly for the floor plan outputs which Metascan are yet to make part of their offering.

If you are looking for an excellent app to start your 3D capture journey, you can’t go wrong with Metascan and hopefully the app developers will soon bring out some new features, such floor plans, to bring it up to par with its competitors, making it a very powerful tool.

Thank you Metascan, I have enjoyed this app a lot!

A Great All Rounder

Metascan has allowed me to take home entire cathedrals, thatched cottages, standing stones. These have been very clean meshes and processed in minutes.

The details of all of my scans with this app have made it my go to for photogrammetry and LiDAR and more recently I have tested the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) processing with astonishment at the photorealistic results. I can’t say if it’s available outside beta atm.
The developer is friendly and quick to help with technical details too.
You can’t go wrong with any of this apps capture modes.

Update to previous review

Now being a beta tester for this app it will become better especially identifying certain iOS related bugs.

After being in contact with the founder and exchanging emails, the problem has been identified and should be included in a further update shortly. Cheers Tim for your help and support.

With constant beta testing this app has a lot of potential and I am privileged to be a beta tester.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your help, Gavin. Update should be available this week.