3D CAD that fits in your hands

Bright CAD is a touch-first modeller for iPad. Sketch with Apple Pencil, pull it into a solid, and export a file your printer or your CAD suite understands — without an account, a subscription, or a round trip to the cloud.

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Screenshot goes here iPad Pro 13" capture — the editor with a sketch and a solid

What it does

Sketch, then pull

Draw lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, splines, polygons and slots on any face or plane. Constraints and dimensions keep the profile honest, then extrude, revolve, sweep or loft it into a solid.

Real solid modelling

Union, subtract and intersect. Fillet and chamfer the edges you pick. Offset, shell, mirror and scale. It runs on Open CASCADE, the same B-rep kernel behind desktop CAD.

Pencil draws, fingers fly

Apple Pencil is the pen: it only ever draws and drags geometry. Your fingers orbit, pan and zoom. No mode switching, no toolbar hunting for the thing you just put down.

Print-ready output

Export STL for the slicer, STEP for CAD exchange, or OBJ for everything else. Import STEP files and keep modelling on top of them.

Your files, your iPad

Projects are ordinary documents in the Files app. Rename them, move them, back them up, put them in iCloud Drive if you want to. Nothing is locked in an app-only vault.

Nothing phones home

No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Bright CAD makes no network requests at all — which is why its App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.

Requirements

Device: iPad. The layout, the gestures and the Pencil work are built for it — there is no phone version.
System: iPadOS 17 or later.
Pencil: Optional, but sketching is noticeably better with one.
Formats: Reads STEP. Writes STL, STEP and OBJ. Projects use the .brightcad document format.
Price: To be announced at launch.