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Polycam 3D Scanner & Measuring

Monetization rage Self-contained

Polycam Inc. · Photo & Video · Free · v7.0.6

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Review-rating drop
1.32

2025-Q2 3.66 → last 90 days 2.34, text reviews

Peak quarter
3.66

2025-Q2, text reviews

Last 90 days
2.34

text reviews

Store rating
4.65

all 43832 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
2.31

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$138k

#77 top-grossing, Photo & Video

store 4.65 · reviews 3.66 → 2.34 · gap 2.31 store 4.65 reviews 2.34

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2025-Q2: 3.66★ from 122 reviews 3.66 2025-Q2 2025-Q3: 3.64★ from 109 reviews 2025-Q4: 2.39★ from 67 reviews 2026-Q1: 1.97★ from 68 reviews 2026-Q2: 2.34★ from 71 reviews 2026-Q3: 2.47★ from 55 reviews 2026-Q4: 3.25★ from 8 reviews 3.25 2026-Q4
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
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QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2025-Q23.66 122
2025-Q33.64 109
2025-Q42.39 67
2026-Q11.97 68
2026-Q22.34 71
2026-Q32.47 55
2026-Q43.25 8

Recent 1–2 star reviews

It looks cool but it always disappoints

★★ · v7.0.5 · Oct 10, 2026

This app always disappoints me. I might need to give it up and just get a proper lidar camera system

Downhill

★★ · v7.0.4 · Oct 5, 2026

This app used to be phenomenal. I’ve had it for years. I’ve used it for a very long time. I’ve used it for a lot of stuff around my house. I’ve used it for a lot of stuff around families houses, and stuff like that. I used to have so many features when I paid by the year, I was a premium user. It was cheap and I’ve had the same subscription since I signed up for this app, but for some reason I keep losing features. I keep not being able to do things. The price keeps going higher. Losing my subscription and then having to pay more to get the next subscription I’ve lost the ability to see floor plans now except once a month for free without paying for a business subscription what are y’all doing? Besides running out the people who have been using this app for years

Stingy

★ · v7.0.4 · Oct 3, 2026

Some features used to be reasonably free, then everything became locked behind a paywall, might as well charge to download the app at this point, no point in making it free to download.

Scam

★ · v7.0.4 · Oct 3, 2026

Do not do the free trial. They auto bill for a year after it’s done.

Unusable

★ · v7.0.3 · Sep 30, 2026

Crashes on launch every time I open

Subscription scam

★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 28, 2026

They automatically subscribed me to the $400/yr business plan after my 7-day trial period. Obviously many companies do this on purpose to mislead anyone who wants to test the app but not commit to the subscription. Pathetic company policy and won’t be using it nor recommending to my colleagues when there are cheaper and less predatory alternative options for 3D scanning.

Awful

★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 27, 2026

Impossible to use. All measurements are very inaccurate, quality is very bad, floor plans are poor. Nothing is right with this app.

Not worth in 2026

★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 27, 2026

Monetized and made worse as all great apps inevitably do

This app is adware

★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 26, 2026

Wouldn’t process my object and stopped working after I closed it. It only took my email.

Was great til forced updates

★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 26, 2026

Cant use anymore 🤷‍♂️

Terrible UX

★★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 20, 2026

I can't believe I pay money for this. How did this get past any real UX team? Scans drop, I can't rename a scan, and clicking on a draft scan gets you no way to get out of it except closing the app and restarting. Get the coders out of their free massages and pedicures, fire your UX team and replace them with actual users. This thing sucks.

Only paid options

★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 18, 2026

Trying to test the app before I’m forced to pay for it but like a lot of these apps, they’ll give you a free seven days but only if you put in your credit card information or link it to your Apple account terrible

Great app, poor user experience

★ · v7.0.2 · Sep 17, 2026

Polycam is an awesome tool, but I am extremely annoyed by the constant interstitial upsell modals and upgrade buttons littering the UI. Mind you, I am a paying subscriber… the app has become an absolute displeasure to use over the last couple of years. it is only getting worse by the day.

Без бизнес подписки бесполезная программа

★ · v7.0.0 · Sep 8, 2026

А сканировать целая история через это приложение

Greedy

★ · v7.0.0 · Sep 5, 2026

Why when i got the app 3sum years ago it was better than now. Literally paid hundreds for the last year to get features that are super basic. Planning on moving on from this soon. Wouldn’t recommend in 2026.

Needs more time

★ · v6.0.21 · Sep 2, 2026

Does not really work to well

Quality

★ · v6.0.21 · Sep 2, 2026

Trying to video home and doesn’t keep full plan uploaded. Have to keep starting over.

Account required

★ · v6.0.21 · Sep 1, 2026

I've subscribed in the past, but it now requires account sign up?

Epic fail. And it has a subscription

★ · v6.0.21 · Sep 1, 2026

If only I could show you how this app thinks my grand piano loos. It is so bad it falls under the “nobody even knows what you were trying to do there” category. Thoughts. This app is substantially limited by reflective surfaces. Pianos sometimes contain glossy mirror like surfaces. The app cannot successfully stitch these images together. So don’t pay to use this app if you have a shiny object that you are scanning. Good luck!

Subscription Charges after Cancellation

★ · v6.0.21 · Aug 28, 2026

I was charged $400 after I cancelled. My case has been submitted but would warn anyone that does a free trial to assume you will be charged $400 and have to fight for or it dispute it with your credit card.

Slow

★ · v6.0.21 · Aug 26, 2026

Not useful for large commercial renovations

Lost 80% of my scans

★ · v6.0.20 · Aug 19, 2026

Updated the app and lost 80% of my scans.

Not great for objects, mandatory subscription

★ · v6.0.19 · Aug 17, 2026

I wanted this to get measurements and blueprints for a couple of objects. Not rooms or floor plans. It required a non-refundable subscription just to scan, and then when the results were extremely underwhelming and impossible to use, it then wanted even more money for a business account for that. I deleted the app but am unfortunately out $30.

Waste of time

★★ · v6.0.19 · Aug 16, 2026

Scanned 6 times trying to get an object with “scan object”, every time came out looking horrible, only scanning the background instead of the thing right in front of it. Gave 2 stars bc it had a free trial so I didn’t waste my money, but definitely wasted my time.

Confusing initial login

★ · v1.4 · Aug 9, 2026

A cobnfusing initial login has a skip option resulting in the app permanently deadlocked even on reinstall😖

The opportunity

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