3DVista Stitcher vs Xpano

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.

Xpano imports a directory of images, finds groups that can be stitched into panoramas, and exports the computed results. Before export, users can preview panoramas, zoom and pan around them, crop, fill boundaries automatically, choose projection types, and adjust pitch, yaw, and roll. The app uses OpenCV and its stitching module for image processing, and exports full-resolution panoramas with EXIF metadata. It also supports automatic command-line processing, with a --gui flag to launch the graphical interface. The maximum panorama size is selectable and defaults to 100 MPx. Xpano is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and is distributed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. The listed Xpano plan is free, with no price or usage limits stated. The project names Tomas Krupka as maintainer and contact. Its release page says build logs can be used to verify the source commit hash and SHA-256 checksum.