Comparison of photo stitching software
# Comparison of photo stitching software

Photo stitching software produce panoramic pictures and VR photographs. The other method involves using panoramic cameras or panoramic mirror lenses (i.e. one-shot lenses).

## General

| Name | Developer(s) | Operating system(s) | License | Price | WWW | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Affinity Photo | Serif | Windows, Mac OS, or iOS | Proprietary | $69.99 for desktop, $19.99 for iOS | affinity.serif.com | |
| Adobe Lightroom | Adobe Inc. | Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, TvOS | Proprietary | $9.99 a month | www.adobe.com/photoshop-lightroom-classic | There is Lightroom CC which doesn't store data to the desktop Lightroom Classic which stores data locally on the desktop. |
| Panoweaver Standard / Professional | Easypano Holdings Inc. | Windows XP/7/8; Mac OS X 10.4 or later | Proprietary | Standard: $99 / Professional: $299 | easypano.com | Branding free, trial version works will be watermarked. |
| WidsMob Panorama | WidsMob Technology Ltd. | Mac OS X 10.8 or later | Proprietary | $19.99 | widsmob.com | Branding free, trial version works will be watermarked. |
| i2Align Std / Pro | DualAlign LLC | Windows 7 or higher; Mac OS X 10.2 or higher | Proprietary | Express: $50 / Pro: $100 | dualalign.com | Express is limited to four images per panorama |
| Pixtra OmniStitcher | Pixtra Corp. | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $49 | Pixtra.com | Designed for 360x180 degree omniramas. |
| Pixtra PanoStitcher | Pixtra Corp. | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $30 | Pixtra.com | Includes virtual tool authoring package. |
| QuickPHOTO | PROMICRA | Windows 7 or later | Proprietary | Trial Available | promicra.com | Stitching together fields of view from microscope. |
| Dermandar | Dermandar | Browser based (Adobe Flash player required), Apple iOS4 | Proprietary | Free | Dermandar.com | Panoramas are uploaded on the Dermandar server and they can be viewed with the provided Flash viewer. |
| PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | Tekmate, Inc. | Windows 98 or later | Proprietary | Harmony: $52 / Premium: $277 | PhotoFit4Panorama.com | Premium has bigger output size limits (12 vs. 1200 Mpix) and more output projections. |
| PanoramaPlus X4 | Serif (Europe) Ltd. | Windows XP or later | Proprietary | £20 | Serif.com | Video input. |
| PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | 3cim, Inc. | Windows ?? | Proprietary | $199 / Pro: $499 + annual $199 | PanoBuilder.com | Price incl. hosting for virtual tours. |
| Pixloo VT Builder | Pixloo | Windows and Mac | Proprietary | $9 Month | Pixloo | Unlimited hosting of virtual tours. |
| 360 Panorama Professional | 360 Degrees of Freedom | Windows only | Proprietary | $99 | 360dof.com | Includes virtual tool authoring package. |
| VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | 360 Degrees of Freedom | Windows only | Proprietary | $499 | 360dof.com | Includes virtual tool authoring package. specifically designed for fisheye lenses. |
| COOL 360 | Ulead / Corel Corp. | Windows, up to XP only | Proprietary | $40 | Corel.com | Support discontinued. |
| The Panorama Factory v5 | Smoky City Design, LLC | Windows 98 or later; Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later | Proprietary | $80 | panoramafactory.com | |
| PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | ? | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | Lite: Free / Home: $20 / Business: $349 | Singnet.com | |
| PTAssembler | Max Lyons | Windows only | Proprietary | $49 / $299 | Tawbaware.com | Based on Panorama Tools |
| PTgui / PTgui Pro | New House Internet Services BV | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | €79 (personal) / €180 (company); Pro: €149 (personal / €349 (company) (+taxes) | ptgui.com | Based on Panorama Tools. |
| Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Kolor | Windows 2000 or later; Mac OS X 10.5 or later with Intel processor; Linux 2.6 or later | Proprietary | Ceased trading September 2018 | www.kolor.com | Free trial version (watermarked) |
| Autostitch | Matthew Brown & David Lowe | Windows; Mac OS X; Android 4.0.3 and up | Proprietary | Time limited demo only | Autostitch home page | |
| Calico Panorama | Kekus | Mac only | Proprietary | $39 | kekus.com | Based on Autostitch. |
| Hugin | Pablo d'Angelo et al. | Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD | GPL | Free | hugin.sf.net | Based on Panorama Tools. |
| Stitcher 4 | 3DVista | Windows & Mac | Proprietary | €99 | | |
| D Joiner | D Vision Works, Ltd. | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | £300 | d-vw.com | |
| Panorama Maker 6 | Arcsoft, Inc. | Windows XP/Vista/7; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $79.99 | arcsoft.com | Video input, 3D output |
| Photovista Panorama | iseemedia, inc. | Windows 98 SE or later; Mac OS 9.1 or later | Proprietary | $250 | iseephotovista.com | |
| PanoramaStudio / Pro | Tobias Hüllmandel Software | Windows 2000 or later | Proprietary | €35/€70 | tshsoft.de | RAW file support. Multirow stitching only with Pro version. |
| Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | Autodesk | Windows Vista SP2 or later; Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later | Proprietary | $400 | autodesk.com | Export to Flash, VRML, QTVR. |
| ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | Albatross Design Group | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $40 / $99 | albatrossdesign.com | Pro version has ability to create hot spots for virtual tours. |
| Panorama Composer 3 | FirmTools | Windows 95 or later | Proprietary | $30 | Panorama.FirmTools.com | Includes Flash, ActiveX and Java based viewers for web. |
| Image Composite Editor | Microsoft | Windows Vista SP2 or later | Proprietary | Free for non-commercial use | research.microsoft.com | Video input (Windows 7+) |
| Panorama Perfect | Michal Pohanka | Windows 2000 or later | Proprietary | $29 | volny.cz | |
| Photoshop CS5 | Adobe Systems | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $699 | adobe.com | |
| Photoshop CS6 | Adobe Systems | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $699 | adobe.com | Can do auto stitching |
| AIPR Lite 1 | Mayachitra, Inc. | Windows*; Mac OS X 10.6+* | Proprietary | $29.95 | AIPR Lite | (*) both 32 and 64 bit versions available. |
| Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Gigapan Systems | Windows; Mac OS X 10.4 or later | Proprietary | $79 | Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Assumes images form approximate grid. Works well on large numbers of images ( hundreds, thousands ) |
| PanoramaMaker | STOIK Imaging | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | €39 | STOIK.com | Requires all images to be the same size |
| Montage Image Mosaic | Caltech/IPAC, JPL, CACR, ISI | Unix | 3-Clause BSD | Free | official Web site | Produces science-grade mosaics for astronomical research |
| Panorama Stitcher | Alexander Boltnev, Olga Kacher | Mac OS X | Proprietary | $15 | Panorama Stitcher | Automatic stitching, exposure leveling. Interactive projection editor. |
| PhotoStitcher | Maxim Gapchenko | Windows; Mac OS X | Proprietary | $19.99 | www.photostitcher.com | Stitch panoramic images in one click without any preferences |
| SharpStitch | Libor Tinka | Windows | Proprietary | Full: $995.00; Source code: $4995.00 | www.imagingshop.com | Image alignment and stitching library for .NET |
| StitchUp | Michel Mürner | Mac OS X | Proprietary | $6.99 | www.stitchup.ch | |
| Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro | Garden Gnome Software | Windows; Mac OS X; Linux | Proprietary | regular: €99; pro: €299 (+taxes) | ggnome.com/pano2vr | Free trial version (watermarked) |

## HDR, tonemapping and exposure fusion

| Name | HDR input (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Merging to HDR from LDR images | HDR output (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Tonemapping | Exposure fusion | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panoweaver Standard / Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| i2Align Quickage Express / Pro | No | Yes* | Yes* | No | No | *) Pro version only. |
| Pixtra PanoStitcher | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Pixtra OmniStitcher | No | No | No | No | No | |
| QuickPHOTO | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaPlus X4 | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | No | No | No | No | No | |
| 360 Panorama Professional | No | No | No | No | No | |
| VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | No | No | No | No | No | |
| COOL 360 | No | No | No | No | No | |
| The Panorama Factory v5 | No | No | No | No | No |
| PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PTAssembler | No | No | No | No | Yes | Exposure fusion with TuFuse or enfuse. Automatic detection of image stacks. |
| PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | Exposure fusion with infuse or TuFuse. *) Pro version only. |
| Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ceased trading September 2018 |
| Autostitch | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Calico Panorama | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Hugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Exposure fusion with enfuse, automatic detection of image stacks. |
| 3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | No | No | No | No | No | |
| D Joiner | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Panorama Maker 6 | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Photovista Panorama | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaStudio | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Panorama Composer 3 | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Image Composite Editor | No | No | No | No | No | Supports 16-bit camera raw input via WIC plugins |
| Panorama Perfect | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Photoshop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| AIPR Lite 1 | No | No | No | Yes* | No | (*) color mapping around the seams allows to preserve the original photometric properties of the images |
| Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaMaker | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Panorama Stitcher | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| SharpStitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Name | HDR input (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Merging to HDR from LDR images | HDR output (EXR, HDR, Logluv, etc.) | Tonemapping | Exposure fusion | Notes |

## Image corrections

| Name | Panorama leveling | Vignetting correction | Lens distortion correcting | White balance correction | Exposure correction | Viewpoint adjustment | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panoweaver Standard / Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Dermandar | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| i2Align Quickage Express / Pro | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
| Pixtra PanoStitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Also chromatic aberration correction if correction parameters provided |
| Pixtra OmniStitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Also chromatic aberration correction if correction parameters provided |
| QuickPHOTO | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
| PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | |
| PanoramaPlus X4 | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| 360 Panorama Professional | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | |
| COOL 360 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| PanaVue ImageAssembler Std. / Pro. / Ent. | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | |
| The Panorama Factory v5 | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | |
| PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| PTAssembler | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes* | (*) Giga only. |
| Autostitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Calico Panorama | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| Hugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| D Joiner | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Panorama Maker 6 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| Photovista Panorama | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaStudio / Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
| Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | |
| ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | |
| Panorama Composer 3 | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| Image Composite Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| Panorama Perfect | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Photoshop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| AIPR Lite 1 | No | Yes* | Yes | No | No | No | (*) color mapping about the seams greatly mitigates the effects of vignetting |
| Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| PanoramaMaker | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No |
| Panorama Stitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes* | No | Yes | Yes | (*) Only for rectilinear lenses |
| SharpStitch | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| Name | Panorama leveling | Vignetting correction | Lens distortion correcting | White balance correction | Exposure correction | Viewpoint adjustment | Notes |

## Export options

| Name | Raster images (JPEG, TIFF, etc.) | Flash viewer | Java viewer | QTVR | HTML 5* | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panoweaver Standard / Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Includes free Flash and HTML5 viewer. |
| Dermandar | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Includes free Flash and HTML5 viewer. |
| i2Align Quickage Express / Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Pixtra PanoStitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Includes ActiveX viewer & export. |
| Pixtra OmniStitcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Includes ActiveX viewer & export. |
| QuickPHOTO | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | |
| PanoramaPlus X4 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Flickr export. |
| PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | Yes | Yes* | No | No | No | (*) Planar viewer. |
| 360 Panorama Professional | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
| VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | |
| COOL 360 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Embedding of panoramas into executables (.exe) and Microsoft Office files. ActiveX viewer. |
| PanaVue ImageAssembler Std. / Pro. / Ent. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| The Panorama Factory v5 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
| PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | |
| PTAssembler | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Autostitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Calico | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | |
| Hugin | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| 3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| D Joiner | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | |
| Panorama Maker 6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Photovista Panorama | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | IVR export. |
| PanoramaStudio / pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | VRML export. |
| ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Panorama Composer 3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Includes ActiveX viewer & export. |
| Image Composite Editor | Yes | No | No | No | No | Publish to Photosynth website, Silverlight based viewer. |
| Panorama Perfect | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Photoshop | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| AIPR Lite 1 | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 3D viewer in stitcher / Publishing to gigapan.org 2D flash viewer / Embeddable flash viewer |
| PanoramaMaker | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoEdit | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| SharpStitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Pano2VR / Pano2VR pro | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Name | Raster images (JPEG, TIFF, etc.) | Flash viewer | Java viewer | QTVR | HTML 5* | Notes |

(*) Export to HTML 5 usually means WebGL based viewer application.

## Compatible equipment

| Name | Rectilinear lenses (i.e. normal camera lenses) | Fish eye lenses | Partial or full (spherical) panoramas or images from panoramic cameras | Different focal lengths in single panorama | Different lens types in single panorama | Perspective correction lenses | Other/Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Panoweaver Standard / Professional | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| i2Align Quickage Express / Pro | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | No | |
| Pixtra PanoStitcher | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Pixtra OmniStitcher | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
| QuickPHOTO | No | No | No | No | No | No | PROMICAM microscope camera needed |
| PhotoFit Harmony / Premium | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaPlus X4 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaBuilder 7.0 / PanoramaBuilder 7.0 Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| 360 Panorama Professional | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| VRstitcher Fisheye Pro | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| COOL 360 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanaVue ImageAssembler Std. / Pro. / Ent. | Yes | Yes* | No | No | No | ? | *) Circular fish eyes not supported, diagonal fish eyes up to 180 degree field of view. |
| The Panorama Factory v5 | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| PixMaker Lite / Home / Business | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PTAssembler | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| PTgui / PTgui Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Autopano Pro / Giga / Server | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also supports motorized panoramic heads, in Giga & Pro versions. |
| Autostitch | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | |
| Calico Panorama | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Hugin | Yes | Yes* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | * As of v2010.2 onwards, all known fish eye projections are supported (equisolid, orthographic, stereographic) |
| 3DVista Stitcher 3.0 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | "One shot" i.e. panoramic mirror lenses also supported. |
| D Joiner | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Panorama Maker 6 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Photovista Panorama | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaStudio / Pro | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Stitcher Unlimited 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | |
| ADG Panorama Tools / Pro | Yes | No | Yes* | No | No | No | *) Cylindrical only |
| Panorama Composer 3 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Image Composite Editor | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Panorama Perfect | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Photoshop | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| AIPR Lite 1 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes* | (*) homographic model compensates for these type of lenses |
| Gigapan Stitch 1.0 | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| PanoramaMaker | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | |
| PanoEdit | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? |
| SharpStitch | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Name | Rectilinear lenses (i.e. normal camera lenses) | Fish eye lenses | Partial or full (spherical) panoramas or images from panoramic cameras | Different focal lengths in single panorama | Different lens types in single panorama | Perspective correction lenses | Other/Notes |
