3DVista Stitcher vs Panoweaver

3DVista Stitcher 4 turns groups of photographs into panoramas through a guided, one-click workflow. It accepts standard, wide-angle, fisheye, and one-shot lenses and most popular camera types. Outputs can be full or partial panoramas in cubic, spherical, or small-planet forms, with 18 projection types including equirectangular, rectilinear, cylindrical, and small-planet. Automatic control-point detection helps align images, and you can add, move, change, or delete those points. One-click standard HDR and Adaptive HDR stitching are included, as is batch stitching for multiple panoramas. Stitcher can process 3DVista Live Panoramas and Adaptive HDR Panoramas; publishing those as immersive virtual tours requires Virtual Tour Pro. The software runs on macOS and Windows, supports HDR blending and control-point editing, and does not support RAW input. A free trial is available.

Panoweaver stitches source images into panoramas and can publish panoramic tours. It automatically detects fisheye regions, matches corresponding points, optimizes stitching settings, then remaps and blends the images. Panorama formats include spherical, cubic, cylindrical, gigapixel, and Little Planet. Inputs include JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF, Camera RAW, and 16-bit images. Professional Edition supports batch stitching and HDR stitching for 300 groups of images; HDR processing combines 2–10 stops per group and can output JPEG, PNG, BMP, EXR, TIFF, and HDR files. Published panoramas can be HTML5, Flash VR, or SWF content for PCs, mobile devices, and glasses. The interface supports English, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. The listed starting price is $149.95 one-time, and a free trial is available, but trial publications carry a watermark. The product is listed for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.