Place a point, pull an edge, extrude a face. Paint the surface, light the scene, key the motion, and hand the last step to a real path tracer. It's the whole 3D pipeline, in one app, on the device in your hand.
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Still on the original DGArt? Here's why to move to DGArt:RT.
Scene mode is the stage. Pull in any of 17 primitives, a line of text, a part from your own shelf or a model from another app, then add lights and cameras and arrange the lot.
The layer panel groups and parents, locks and hides. Top, Front, Right and Perspective are one tap each, and the grid steps from 0.1 to 100 as you zoom, with a fainter sub grid inside it if you want one.
Open any object in the Modeler and the tool bar changes with the edit mode. Fifty-four tools in all, numbered as in the manual. Every slider shows its result while you drag, nothing is final until you tap OK, and a single undo takes back the whole adjustment.
The six deformers at the foot of the point list (49–54) are on the edge bar too.
Lay a flat sheet over the object and bend it into a hood, a sail, a canopy or a hillside. Pull it with a net of 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4 control points, or switch to Bézier nodes with handles that the surface passes through. Switch either way and the shape carries over as closely as it can.
Carve a gutter, a groove or a cable slot along the edges you pick, round corners and right round a bent pipe. The walls can be square, rectangular, V, U or sloped.
Union, Subtract or Intersect, inside one mesh. Add the second shape with + while you're in the Modeler, select its faces, and choose.
Run a round, square, rectangular or star-shaped tube along any edges, for railings, frames and wiring. Loops close into rings; open runs get caps.
Twist, Bend, Taper, Stretch, Skew and Vortex reshape a selection around X, Y or Z. Twist winds well past a full turn, for springs and drill bits.
Hold a finger still on the viewport for half a second and eight commands ring your fingertip. Slide onto one and let go: a single movement, with no reaching for the bars. Point, edge and polygon mode each have their own eight.
Start from a preset: gold, chrome, copper, glass, plastic, rubber, neon or clay. Each swatch is a real render, not a guess. When one material isn't enough, paint straight onto the model.
Or light everything from an HDR environment map, and turn it until the highlights land where you want them. A camera starts exactly where your view is, so frame the shot first, then add one. Pick the lens, an output size from square to 4K, and an aperture and focus distance for real depth of field.
RT:Render is a progressive path tracer, written in Metal and built into the app. It follows light the way light behaves: shadows soften with distance, colour spills from one surface onto the next, and glass bends whatever is behind it. Watch the counter. Stop when it's clean, or set a sample count or a time and let it stop by itself.
Faster again on the newest chips. From the A17 Pro and M3 on, Apple's chips carry ray-tracing hardware. Turn on Hardware Ray Tracing in the render settings. Older chips draw the same picture, just over more time.
Straight to Photos. Make the background transparent for a PNG that sits over anything, and keep a Radiance .hdr alongside with the full brightness range.
The whole animation as a video at 12, 24 or 30 fps, or as a numbered PNG sequence. Each frame can be capped by samples or by time.
Light bounces for interiors and glass. Hide from Camera keeps a glowing softbox out of shot, while its light still falls on the scene and it still shows in reflections.
Move the playhead, pose, tap the key. Each key eases in, eases out, does both, or runs linear, which is the difference between a machine moving and something alive. Loop the playback and watch the cycle.
Between keys an object travels in a straight line, until you choose Edit Motion Path. Then drag Bézier handles to curve the way, and tap the path to add a key without changing its shape. Bending the route doesn't change the timing.
Orient Along Path turns an object toward its direction of travel: a car follows the road, a fish follows its swim, a camera looks ahead down a fly-through. It tips up and down slopes but never leans over.
Playback, the render, video export, the AR preview and USD export all take the curved path. Turntable Preview spins the scene once without a single key.
The whole app runs on iPhone, and the newest iPhones are quick renderers: an iPhone 17 finished our test scene in about 15 seconds, where an M1 iPad Air took about 30.
Panels and model side by side, a Mini Number Pad for typing exact values without the full keyboard, and Apple Pencil wherever a finger works.
Move to DGArt:RT. The original is built on SceneKit, which Apple has deprecated in favour of RealityKit, so its road ends there. DGArt:RT is rebuilt on RealityKit and Metal, with an edge mode, texture painting, a full path tracer and USD files, and it's where every tool to come will land. They're separate apps: bring your DGArt work across as OBJ or USDZ.
An iPhone or an iPad with iOS 18 or later.
Yes. RT:Render runs on every device the app runs on. A newer chip clears the noise sooner, and from the A17 Pro and M3 on, Hardware Ray Tracing speeds it up again.
Add a cube, open it in the Modeler, pick a face and try Extrude. Sliders show the result as you drag, and undo takes it back. The manual goes through every tool in the order it sits on screen, each with a picture. Also check out our youtube channel for tutorial for it.
That depends on the device. A newer chip with more memory carries heavier models and bigger scenes. You can raise the polygon limit in Settings ▸ Advanced.
Always. Projects are plain-text USD in the Files app, and any model exports as OBJ, STL, GLB or USDZ for other apps, game engines and 3D printers.
For artists, game designers and makers who'd rather build where they are than wait until they're back at a desk.