PaliCAD Downloads & RevenuePaliCAD · App Store
35 days old
PaliCAD is #24 in Productivity Paid in United Kingdom and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperBrayden Nilsen
CategoryProductivity
Price6.99 GBP
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (2)
Version1.0.6
Age rating4+
First seen by us
7 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
📦Updated to version 1.0.6📦Updated to version 1.0.5📈Entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Paid All Apps🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 10 events
- 📦PaliCAD updated to version 1.0.61.0.6 (iOS)
- Added support for iPhone and iPhone Duo with a landscape layout with slide-away panels that give you more room to model.
- Follow the new animated beginner tutorial to sketch, extrude and export your first part, or explore the What’s New tour from the title screen.
- Use Revolve to turn a sketch around an axis, or guide a Loft between angled sketches and faces with sketch rails.
- Create linear, grid and circular patterns in sketches and on 3D objects.
- Draw dashed construction geometry, snap to the centre of closed outlines, offset text outlines and add or remove individual sketch dimensions.
- Search, sort and filter the model browser. Use Zoom to to bring a part or sketch into view.
- Set inches as your default unit and enter calculations like 500 mm - 1 in directly on the touch numpad or a connected keyboard.
- Offset the sketch point from your finger or Apple Pencil so you can see exactly where you’re placing it.
- Work more smoothly with curved models, with more reliable Boolean operations, fillets, chamfers and hollowing.… more - 📦PaliCAD updated to version 1.0.51.0.5 (iPad)
- New Text sketching tool with custom font support, precise positioning, and editable sketch outlines
- New Arc sketching tool
- Added support for spline offsets
- Import SVGs as editable sketches
- Open supported CAD files and images directly, or import another PaliCAD projects into your current one
- Improved STEP, STL, and 3MF importing, with progress indicators
- Expanded Fillet, Chamfer, Hollow, and Threads capabilities
- Faster viewport navigation and more responsive selection in complex models
- Measure between points or edges with visual indicators of distances
- Double-tap faces or planes to start sketching
- Improved small-window layouts
- Improved keyboard shortcuts
- The numpad now remembers where you move it
- Added image transparency controls
- Moved STEP/3MF export from settings to a dedicated button
- Improved icons
- Scale independent sizing of the default planes… more - 📦PaliCAD: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦PaliCAD updated to version 1.0.41.0.4 (iPad)
- Added an alignment submenu to the move tool. You can now centre objects at their origin, or align a flat face to a plane selected in the scene
- Improved loft compatibility checks to ensure sketches are parallel
- Ease of use updates to sketch tool
- Added offset distance and draggable arrow to construction plane creation
- Continued improvements to Apple Pencil support… more - 📈PaliCAD entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Paid All AppsNL
- 📦PaliCAD updated to version 1.0.21.0.2 (iPad)
- Added smooth camera transitions when entering and exiting sketches, with an option to disable them.
- Improved sketch alignment and navigation.
- Improved extrusion, union, fillet, and hollowing operations for complex geometry.
- Fixed issues with curved surfaces, polygon extrusions, and overlapping faces.
- Improved STEP file import reliability.
- Added support for opening .pali files directly from the Files app.
- Improved touchscreen number entry, unit handling, and settings persistence.
- Fixed recent-file access and several interface layout issues.
- Various stability improvements and bug fixes.… more - 📦PaliCAD updated to version 1.0.11.0.1 (iPad)
- Improved sketch editing performance in large models by limiting off-screen drawing and preventing continuous input from repeatedly cancelling viewport updates.
- Face projection tool now runs in a cancellable background worker to keep the interface responsive.
- Sketches now have independent placement of planes and can be moved or rotated in 3D. Creating a sketch can now optionally add a construction plane to the browser.
- Older projects upgrade automatically and record the current app version when saved. Files saved in the new project format cannot be opened by older app versions.
- Slice tool can now use a face from another body as its cutting plane.
- Improved large STEP imports and handling of complex curved geometry.
- Fixed spline control adjustments bug.
- Long browser names and project titles can now scroll to reveal the full text.
- Added a confirmation before converting CAD bodies to meshes.
- Automatically revealed default planes can start a sketch with one click.
- Fixed inverse-fillet previews not refreshing when switching modes.
- Improved unions, subtraction and slicing, including touching or mirrored bodies and repeated edits to curved geometry.
- Fixed several edge fillet, inverse fillet, chamfer and hollowing bugs.
- Improved internal and tapered threads capabilities
- Expanded STEP support and improved triangulation of imported, spline and spherical surfaces.
- Fixed incomplete curved-edge outlines bug and improved mesh Boolean reliability.… more - 🆕PaliCAD first spotted by AppInsider#145 in Top Paid · All Apps · France
- 📦PaliCAD version 1.0.0No release notes
- 🆕PaliCAD released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
5.0 ★
2 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#24
Productivity PaidMeasured
PaliCAD on the App Store
App details
App ID
6812409084
Publisher
Brayden Nilsen
On the store since
Oct 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
31 MB
Also listed in
Graphics & Design
PaliCAD downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where PaliCAD's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | ProductivityPaid | #24 |
 United States | ProductivityPaid | #119 |
Apps near PaliCAD on the chart
Productivity Paid, around #24.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
2 ratings
Measured
Ratings
2
Measured
About PaliCAD
PaliCAD is a lightweight 3D CAD app for iPad and iPhone.
Create, edit, and refine 3D models with a straightforward direct-modeling workflow. PaliCAD combines 2D sketching, solid modeling, analysis tools, and support for common CAD file formats in an interface designed to work naturally with touch and supports the Apple Pencil on iPad and iPhone Duo.
PaliCAD is actively developed and growing. Version 1.0 is aimed at makers, hobbyists, and CAD enthusiasts who value an affordable lightweight, offline modelling tool capable of managing simple to moderately complex designs.
PaliCAD is built around a simple idea: CAD software should be capable, cross-platform, lightweight, offline, and financially accessible without requiring an ongoing subscription.
KEY FEATURES
• Non-parametric direct 3D modeling
• 2D sketching with a straightforward sketch-to-extrude workflow
• 3D Boolean operations for combining, subtracting, and intersecting solids
• Fillets and chamfers for refining edges
• Import of image references
• Joints for visualizing basic part movement
• Section analysis for inspecting internal geometry
• Import and export support for common CAD file formats
• Save projects in PaliCAD's native cross-platform .pali project format
• Customizable light and dark themes
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts for faster workflows
One time purchase. No subscriptions.
Models you create with PaliCAD are yours to use, including for personal and commercial purposes. PaliCAD places no additional licensing restrictions on the models you create. As always, third-party files, images, designs, or other material you import remain subject to their respective rights and licenses.
PaliCAD and it’s underlying CAD kernel are actively evolving projects. New modelling tools, workflow improvements, and compatibility enhancements will continue to be developed over time.
OPEN DEVELOPMENT
At its core is Pali Ijo, an open-source CAD kernel released under the permissive MIT License. Pali Ijo is developed as a separate project so its geometry and modelling tools can be shared with everyone.
Create, edit, and refine 3D models with a straightforward direct-modeling workflow. PaliCAD combines 2D sketching, solid modeling, analysis tools, and support for common CAD file formats in an interface designed to work naturally with touch and supports the Apple Pencil on iPad and iPhone Duo.
PaliCAD is actively developed and growing. Version 1.0 is aimed at makers, hobbyists, and CAD enthusiasts who value an affordable lightweight, offline modelling tool capable of managing simple to moderately complex designs.
PaliCAD is built around a simple idea: CAD software should be capable, cross-platform, lightweight, offline, and financially accessible without requiring an ongoing subscription.
KEY FEATURES
• Non-parametric direct 3D modeling
• 2D sketching with a straightforward sketch-to-extrude workflow
• 3D Boolean operations for combining, subtracting, and intersecting solids
• Fillets and chamfers for refining edges
• Import of image references
• Joints for visualizing basic part movement
• Section analysis for inspecting internal geometry
• Import and export support for common CAD file formats
• Save projects in PaliCAD's native cross-platform .pali project format
• Customizable light and dark themes
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts for faster workflows
One time purchase. No subscriptions.
Models you create with PaliCAD are yours to use, including for personal and commercial purposes. PaliCAD places no additional licensing restrictions on the models you create. As always, third-party files, images, designs, or other material you import remain subject to their respective rights and licenses.
PaliCAD and it’s underlying CAD kernel are actively evolving projects. New modelling tools, workflow improvements, and compatibility enhancements will continue to be developed over time.
OPEN DEVELOPMENT
At its core is Pali Ijo, an open-source CAD kernel released under the permissive MIT License. Pali Ijo is developed as a separate project so its geometry and modelling tools can be shared with everyone.
Latest updates
1.0.6
1.0.6 (iOS)
- Added support for iPhone and iPhone Duo with a landscape layout with slide-away panels that give you more room to model.
- Follow the new animated beginner tutorial to sketch, extrude and export your first part, or explore the What’s New tour from the title screen.
- Use Revolve to turn a sketch around an axis, or guide a Loft between angled sketches and faces with sketch rails.
- Create linear, grid and circular patterns in sketches and on 3D objects.
- Draw dashed construction geometry, snap to the centre of closed outlines, offset text outlines and add or remove individual sketch dimensions.
- Search, sort and filter the model browser. Use Zoom to to bring a part or sketch into view.
- Set inches as your default unit and enter calculations like 500 mm - 1 in directly on the touch numpad or a connected keyboard.
- Offset the sketch point from your finger or Apple Pencil so you can see exactly where you’re placing it.
- Work more smoothly with curved models, with more reliable Boolean operations, fillets, chamfers and hollowing.
1.0.5
1.0.5 (iPad)
- New Text sketching tool with custom font support, precise positioning, and editable sketch outlines
- New Arc sketching tool
- Added support for spline offsets
- Import SVGs as editable sketches
- Open supported CAD files and images directly, or import another PaliCAD projects into your current one
- Improved STEP, STL, and 3MF importing, with progress indicators
- Expanded Fillet, Chamfer, Hollow, and Threads capabilities
- Faster viewport navigation and more responsive selection in complex models
- Measure between points or edges with visual indicators of distances
- Double-tap faces or planes to start sketching
- Improved small-window layouts
- Improved keyboard shortcuts
- The numpad now remembers where you move it
- Added image transparency controls
- Moved STEP/3MF export from settings to a dedicated button
- Improved icons
- Scale independent sizing of the default planes
1.0.4
1.0.4 (iPad)
- Added an alignment submenu to the move tool. You can now centre objects at their origin, or align a flat face to a plane selected in the scene
- Improved loft compatibility checks to ensure sketches are parallel
- Ease of use updates to sketch tool
- Added offset distance and draggable arrow to construction plane creation
- Continued improvements to Apple Pencil support