Adobe Substance 3D Collection vs. Shapelab

Adobe Substance 3D Collection

7 Reviews and Ratings

Shapelab

3 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Substance 3D Collection	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Substance 3D is a suite of apps that support 3D design, including texture assets and rendering tools. Workflows can connect to Adobe Creative Cloud apps.	N/A
Shapelab	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Shapelab is a VR 3D modeling application. The polygon-based engine and feature set helps users to create high-quality props, characters, and concepts for applications, games, and virtual worlds, as well as digital concept art and storyboards, and for 3D printing. Shapelab’s usage of polygons instead of voxels separates it from other products in the creative VR tools market. Polygonal mesh modeling gives the users the ability to sculpt detailed and realistic 3D assets and allows users to…	$29.99 per year

Pricing

Adobe Substance 3D Collection

Shapelab

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Annual Subscription: $29.99
per year per user
Annual Subscription: $49.99
per year per user
Shapelab 2025 Perpetual (updates for a calendar year): $64.99
one-time fee per user

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Substance 3D Collection	Shapelab
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Educational licensing also available.

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User Ratings
	Adobe Substance 3D Collection	Shapelab
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Substance 3D Collection	Shapelab
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe Big and mid-sized firms can really leverage the flexibility and value using the different tools all available at one place in the collection and also the integration with Adobe apps like photoshop, really makes it a seamless experience especially in fast paced production environments like advertising. For many film and game studios the whole collection might not be that much helpful as only painter will be of much use. For the small and indie studio it might be a costlier option and they can consider similar free or cheaper alternatives. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Leopoly No answers on this topic
Pros	Adobe Great performance Excellent Adobe support Fast and easy Yaco Lioi Cofundador Read full review	Leopoly No answers on this topic
Cons	Adobe The substance painter is easy to use but its interface could be improved to be a bit more user friendly. More assets can be added to stager, so visualize products better. Also AI workflow can be added for backplates. Substance designer learning curve is very tough. Many people not able to grab it. It could be simplified. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Leopoly No answers on this topic
Usability	Adobe The overall usability of substance stager and painter is quite easy. Many people will be able to use it without much prior experience. But designer is very complicated to learn and not many resources available for that. I think if they integrate the AI and provide better resources in the general interface, it could be a 10 on 10 in usability. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Leopoly No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Adobe For texturing, Adobe Substance 3D is much better than the other options. In other fields, it's another story. I find it excellent for game engines and realistic renders, but it only solves textures. We, then, move to Blender because it has more compatibility with exports, and we can import them into our preferred render engine. We mostly use Unreal Engine, but also Blender3D to do the final rendering. Yaco Lioi Cofundador Read full review	Leopoly No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Adobe We saved time when texturing models With better looking assets, it's more money in the bank Less time testing, more time doing Yaco Lioi Cofundador Read full review	Leopoly No answers on this topic
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