Features

Everything Panosphera does.

Library

It finds what is already there.

Your 360° photos, 360° videos, and panoramas, already sorted out from the rest of your library. No setup.

  • Search by date, place, or what is in the picture, all on the device.
  • A featured moment each day, and a row of top picks.
  • Your iPhone panoramas count: they open on the same sphere, and you turn to see the rest.
  • Shooting on a 360° camera? Import the files, or drop them on the Mac window.
The Library on iPad: a sidebar of scopes and albums beside the Featured moment, shown as a glass globe of the coast at Cape Town, above a grid of 360° photos and videos grouped by month
Orbit

Your own moments, as a feed.

A feed built from your own library, not a social network. It brings back the moments you forgot you had, 360° or not, one at a time.

  • Flick up for the next moment. Drag or tilt to look around.
  • Favors your favorites and what you haven't seen in a while, and leads with what happened on this day in years past.
  • Ask Siri to “Open Orbit” or “Show on this day,” or tap the Home Screen widget, which opens Orbit on one of your own moments.
Share

It shows you what they will get.

Sent as a file, a 360° arrives as a stretched rectangle nobody can look around. So the share screen asks what they should get, keep it 360° or make it flat, and shows you the result before you send it.

  • Link. Anyone can open it in a web browser and look around, no app needed. The copy lives in your own iCloud, never with us, and the link stops after 30 days or whenever you say.
  • Photo. Frame the part you want and send it flat, in the shape you need.
  • Video. Moves through the scene on its own, settling on the people and landmarks it finds.
  • Little Planet. The whole place in one round picture, still or turning.
  • Under More options: the original file, with its location and camera details taken out, and a Guided Clip, a video of the scene that follows wherever you turned while it played.
The share screen on iPhone: the picture at the top, then Keep it 360° with Link, Make it flat with Photo, Video, and Little Planet, and More options with Original File and Guided Clip The share screen's Little Planet options on iPhone: a Cape Town promenade at sunset wrapped into a small round world, with Zoom, Motion, and Length controls and a Render button under it
Share as Video

Clips that know where to look.

Finds the people and landmarks in a 360° photo or video and cuts a clip that moves from one to the next. Here the waterfront in Shanghai at night becomes ten seconds that turn from the skyline across the river to the lit buildings of the Bund.

  • Tall for stories, square, or wide for a TV, as long as you like.
  • Or record the path yourself by looking around as it plays.
Explore

A library to fill, and places to fill it from.

No 360° camera yet? Add openly licensed 360° scenes from around the world — national parks, mountain observatories, city squares, and more — in one tap, after looking around them full screen.

  • Search the whole catalog, not just the rows on screen, or tap one of the search ideas.
  • Ten places around the world to stand in each day, with the weather and the daylight there right now.
  • See where each scene was taken on a map, and open it in Maps.
The Explore tab on iPhone: the full-screen tile at the top, with one of its places shown as a glass globe, search ideas under it, then Around the world, with Orbit in the center of the tab bar A scene's page in Explore on iPhone: Venice Sunset, with its description, author, date, and license, a map of where it was taken, and the button to add it
iPad and Mac

The same sphere, bigger.

Nearly everything is on all three. Captions, the widget, and sharing as a link are iPhone and iPad only.

  • iPad. A sidebar for your albums, Split View, and the keyboard and trackpad: arrow keys turn the sphere.
  • Mac. Orbit, the viewer, and Explore's full screen get windows of their own, with the keyboard, Quick Look, and drag-out you would expect.
  • Apple Vision Pro. In development.
The viewer on iPad in landscape: a 360° photo of the sun setting over the lagoon in Venice, with its place and date at the lower left and the rail of controls down the right The viewer window on the Mac: a sunset over the sea wall in Cape Town on the sphere, its place and date bottom-left, with Re-center, Favorite, Share, and a More menu along the bottom
iPhone Duo

It bends with the phone.

Closed, it is Panosphera on a phone, with Library, Orbit, and Explore in Apple's side strip. Open it, and the picture takes one page, your library the other. Shown on Apple's simulator.

  • The book. Tap a photo or video and it fills the left page, live, with the list on the right, lit by a reflection of the picture. Close the phone and the same screen carries on, one page wide.
  • The fold. Bent sideways, each half gets its own camera on the scene, and the view widens as the phone closes.
  • Stood up. Like a laptop: the picture stands on the top half, and the whole scene lies flat on the bottom with your view outlined on it. Drag the map, tap a spot, pinch to zoom. In Orbit, a 360° card lays its scene flat below it the same way, and any other card has the next moment waiting there.
  • Tent mode. Prop it on a table, press and hold a moment in Orbit, and choose Tent Mode: a picture frame that turns slowly through your moments, with the time and date.
  • Share. The share screen slides in beside the picture, and the picture becomes what you pick: the flat photo, the little planet, or the stretched file.
The folding iPhone's inside screen, bent in landscape: a 360° sunset over the Venice waterfront wrapping across both halves, the rail of controls down the left edge, “2 years ago” and the date at its foot. The inside screen as a book: a 360° street scene in London fills the left page as the Featured moment, with its buttons, and the Library's chips and month grid stand on the right page, lit by the picture's reflection, with Library, Orbit, and Explore in the side strip. The inside screen stood up like a laptop: the Venice sunset standing on the top half, and the whole 360° laid flat on the bottom half with the view outlined on it. Tent mode: a 360° street in London fills the screen as a picture frame, with the time and date in the corner, the place and date at its foot, and three quiet buttons: heart, next, and close.

Little Planet

The whole place in one round picture: turn it, tilt it, and share it as a still or a turning clip.

Explore full screen on iPhone: Spruit Sunrise, a golden tree in morning mist across a field, with its name and credit at the lower left and a rail down the right: the zoom glass, Add, Not for Me, and Close

Explore, full screen

Orbit is your own library; this is the rest of the world. Openly licensed 360° places, full screen, one after another, with a tap to keep any of them.

Events on iPhone: cards titled Crossrail Place Roof Garden, Oct 3, 2025 and Cape Town, Mar 15, 2025

Events

Your moments grouped into events, named by place and date, with a filter for the 360° ones.

Captions

A video with speech, 360° or not, is captioned as it plays, on the device. iPhone and iPad.