Meshy is a capable cloud tool with strong texturing. It also runs in a browser: you make an account, upload your photo, and spend credits on a subscription. 3D Mate does image-to-3D locally on your Mac instead, offline, with a choice of engines and a one-time price.
Short answer: if you want the work to stay on your own machine, keep your photos private, and avoid a credit meter, 3D Mate is the local Meshy alternative. It runs image-to-3D AI engines on Apple Silicon fully offline, and you pick the engine per job.
| 3D Mate | Meshy | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On your Mac, on-device | Cloud (web app) |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Account and photo upload | Not needed | Required |
| Pricing | One-time or yearly license, no credits | Subscription and credits |
| Engine choice | 9 engines, pick per job | One hosted pipeline |
| Texturing | Local, via TripoSG / SF3D / SPAR3D | Cloud, polished |
| Exports | GLB, USDZ, OBJ, STL, PLY, 3MF | GLB, FBX, OBJ, USDZ, STL |
| Privacy | Files stay on your Mac | Photos processed in the cloud |
Meshy's cloud texturing is genuinely strong, it runs on any device with a browser, and there is nothing to install. If those are your priorities and metered cloud billing is fine, it is a reasonable choice.
3D Mate trades the browser for ownership. Generation happens on your Mac's own GPU, so your photos never upload, there is no queue, and there are no credits to run out of. You also are not locked to one pipeline: use TRELLIS.2 4B for balanced results, TripoSG for the sharpest geometry, or Stable Fast 3D for a fast UV-unwrapped textured mesh, all from the same app.
Yes. Once the app and an engine are installed, every generation runs on-device on Apple Silicon with no internet connection and no account. You can switch off Wi-Fi and keep working.
Free to try on any Apple Silicon Mac. Compare all the engines on the comparison page.
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