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24 alternatives to Torch

Mobile AR Platform for Experience Designers ✨

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Torch launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Shader▲315
New self-expression with AI
2023 · its alternatives →
2
wiARframe▲143
Effortless AR Prototyping
2018 · wiarframe.com · its alternatives →
3
Craft Prototype, from InVision▲660
Design, prototype, and collaborate seamlessly
2017 · miro.com · its alternatives →
4
Spline for iOS▲282
Native 3D for the Apple ecosystem
2023 · spline.design · its alternatives →
5
Platforma for iOS▲262
The ultimate wireframe kit for app prototyping
2016 · platforma.ws · its alternatives →
6
UX Flow Wireframe Prototyping System▲453
Create beautiful user flows prototypes for your next project
2017 · its alternatives →
7
Marvel (mobile)▲293
Turn sketches into prototypes (new iOS & Android apps)
2014 · marvelapp.com · its alternatives →
8
Whimsical Wireframes▲612
Lightning fast wireframing with real-time collaboration.
2018 · whimsical.com · its alternatives →
9
Mobile Wireframe Kit▲153
Speed up app design with a beautiful kit of UI elements
2015 · tombutterfield.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
10
Marvel for iOS▲278
Rapid design and prototyping for the iPhone and iPad
2016 · marvelapp.com · its alternatives →
11
ReactVision Studio▲273
Build AR/VR Apps in React Native + ship directly to devices
May 2026 · reactvision.xyz · its alternatives →
12
Play▲415
The first native iOS design tool
2022 · its alternatives →
13
Just a Line▲325
Make simple drawings in AR, by Google
2018 · experiments.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →
14
Lightform▲190
The design tool for projected AR
2018 · lightform.com · its alternatives →
15
Supernova▲572
Turn Sketch designs into native mobile apps in minutes
2017 · supernova.studio · its alternatives →
16
iOS Wireframing UX Kit▲200
An easy, speedy way to wireframe for iOS
2018 · its alternatives →
17
Craft by InVision▲358
Sketch and PS plugins to pull live data into your designs
2016 · its alternatives →
18
Angle▲443
200+ Android & iOS vector device mockups for Sketch
2016 · designcode.io · its alternatives →
19
Stage▲127
The all-new online wireframing app
2021 · stage.so · its alternatives →
20
Torch Lens Maker – Differentiable Geometric Optics in PyTorch▲179
Hello HN! For the past 6 months I've been working on an open source python library that implements differentiable geometric optics in PyTorch. It's very experimental still, but eventually the goal is to use it to design optical systems with a state of the art optimization framework and a beautiful code based API. Think OpenSCAD, but for optical systems. Not only is PyTorch's autograd an amazing general purpose optimizer, but torch.nn (the neural network building blocks) can be used pretty much out of the box to model an optical system. This is because there is a strong analogy to be made…
2025 · victorpoughon.github.io · its alternatives →
21
Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React▲334
Your wireframe should be easy to share with any developer on your team. Design fast with iPhone and iPad collaboration. Precursor is productive prototyping.
2015 · precursorapp.com · its alternatives →
22
Artyline▲359
Sketch-to-screen AR converter
2019 · artyline.co · its alternatives →
23
Based▲205
Sketch UI kit for feeds on iOS, Android and web
2016 · getstream.io · its alternatives →
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Platforma Wireframe Kit▲341
The ultimate wireframe kit for prototyping
2016 · platforma.ws · its alternatives →

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