Hugin vs Panoweaver

Hugin is a free, open-source toolchain for stitching overlapping photographs into panoramas, including immersive panoramic images. Its automated Assistant can assemble multi-row photos, while control points support perspective correction. The tutorials also address lens calibration, blend masks, and exposure fusion. Hugin uses Enblend to blend seams and Enfuse to combine bracketed exposures. It supports RAW input, HDR or exposure blending, control-point editing, and batch stitching, and is listed for both panorama types. Hugin runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Windows downloads include a 64-bit installer; 32-bit support is limited to versions through Hugin 2017.0. The listed Mac bundle targets macOS 10.9 and newer but does not run on newer arm64 Macs. Linux users can use distribution package managers, Flatpak, or AppImage builds. The project offers a manual, tutorials, FAQs, and the PanoTools wiki, with discussion on its mailing list and bug reports through Launchpad. It is free to use, modify, and share.

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.