Spherium User Reviews

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Very limited features, do not purchase

I purchased expecting to do more than just simply view flat 360 and 360 photos. Just download Ricoh Theta+ instead. Much better app with WAY more features and free. Wish i could get a refund… DO NOT BUY you will be disappointed.

Nice but limited

The best way I’ve found to look at 360 photos taken with my Insta360 X4. It is very basic, though. It hasn’t been updated in a year, so I guess there won’t be any improvements coming…

Best Viewer for my DJI Panorama shots!!!

I love this! So simple, smooth, and fast!

You can use it to capture a photo from a panorama or just show off the panorama!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Nice app but basic !

This app is pretty good but basic - it’s nice that it can find your 360 panos in your photo app automatically - there are a few things that would be a great addition

The ability to resize the thumb nails as it can be hard to distinguish which photo you are choosing
The ability to add text to the thumbnails to easily identify the photo you want
The ability to scroll to the next photo without having to go back to the thumbnails
Hiding the ui by a tap on the screen to turn it on and off

There has been no updates for over a year on the app - hopefully the developer will get app updated and bring it in line with other apps out there
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Barely functional

For $5 it’s extremely limited and temperamental.

Great 360 photo viewer

Does a great job of finding and viewing my Ricoh Theta and DJI drone 360 photos.

Useful additions would be:
In thumbnail view:
Slider to control the size of the thumbnails (it can be difficult to distinguish them sometimes).
Toggle (in settings, perhaps) to switch between showing the whole image or a section of the image as the thumbnail - a square from the “front” section would be a good start. Maybe the ability to select part of an image for its thumbnail.
Ability to manually add photos that are missed when scanning (being able to “open in” the app from the Photos app, perhaps).
Highlight the image that was just viewed and closed.

In image view:
Buttons to switch to the next and previous images without having to close the image, remember which was it was, and select the next one.
Ability to zoom in and out in the map (with a pin or indicator showing the photo’s location).

It would also be great for the app to be usable on Apple TV. Being able to view 360 images on a large TV would be awesome!
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Great app…I’d love more features

Spherium is an excellent option for viewing panoramic images from the iOS Photos app. It provides the option to share the entire image or a select section (a snapshot) via an iOS share sheet. It does exactly what it promises with a simple, elegant interface.

The app could be made even more useful (to me, at least) by adding the ability to search for specific images using titles, keywords, locations, or dates. In my library, it’s tough to differentiate among the many aerial images shown through the interface. Short of that, the inclusion of more information fields (title, keywords, caption) on the info page could help to identify images. Even the option to show larger thumbnails would help.

Despite my specific use case desires, Spherium remains the best 360 panorama viewer I have found for the iPhone and iPad.
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Good as far s it goes

Works as described by the developer. Would be great to add iPad/iPhone movement activation in future update.

So, so close.

This does better than the other 360 photo viewers available, except for one very major problem: it doesn't recognize all of them, and doesn't let me import any that it doesn't auto-detect. In particular, it tends to skip over shots of fictional environments, ones manually put through photo stitching software, or ones that went through Photoshop in some way. I can only view shots taken through Google Street View. If this were to be fixed, I would change my rating to five stars in an instant, but right now it's too much of a shortcoming to overlook.
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Exactly what I needed.

Does what it describes. A more modern styling for buttons and icon would be nice.

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