# Pano Owl — Stitch any panorama, in 360

> Professional panorama capture, stitching, and viewing app for iOS. (iPhone/iPad app by Blaine Miller.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pano-owl/id1560273409 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Blaine Miller](https://appshunter.io/developer/1348196068)
- Category: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design
- Price: $9.99
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 2 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 14 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2021-03-26
- Data updated: 2026-09-03
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pano-owl/id1560273409/reviews.md

## What is Pano Owl?

Pano Owl is the one-stop shop for panoramas — capture, stitch, correct, and view in immersive 360°. Rebuilt from the ground up on a modern Metal pipeline, it reliably combines any number of photos into a single seamless panorama while preserving the quality of your originals.

PRO-GRADE CAPTURE
• AR-guided capture anchors a target grid in space around you — pan to each dot and the frame fires automatically when you're locked on.
• Shoot at the full 48 MP of your camera, or pick 24 / 12 MP. Apple ProRAW (DNG) capture keeps true sensor data for every frame.
• HDR bracketing captures 3 exposures per frame; the stitcher blends every exposure layer into one 16-bit panorama.
• A live hold-still meter shows your movement during each shot — and discards the frame if you drift, so soft frames never sneak in.
• Pivot in place for spherical panoramas, or slide along a wall, floor, or ceiling for flat planar mosaics — all six directions.
• Rig Guide mode for camera rigs: the phone rides your DSLR or mirrorless and draws a grid sized to YOUR lens and sensor while you fire the real camera.
• Choose any lens — including telephoto — to capture super-fine detail. On-device blur detection re-shoots soft frames on the spot.

RELIABLE STITCHING
• Planar, cylindrical, and true 360° spherical (equirectangular) projections.
• Partial panoramas and full 360 — stitch whatever arc you shoot.
• Gigapixel-class results: the streaming engine composes and exports panoramas far larger than device memory, with no resolution cap.
• HDR exposure fusion, deghosting for moving subjects, and per-frame exposure matching for seamless blends.
• Detect and stitch multiple separate panoramas from one mixed set of photos.

VIEW & SHARE
• Immersive in-app 360 viewer — look around by dragging or moving your device. Partial panoramas occupy exactly their slice of the sphere.
• Open any panorama from your photo library to view in 360.
• visionOS-ready exports: the complete 360 metadata set (GPano projection, dimensions, and pose) is embedded losslessly with EXIF and GPS intact — Photos, web viewers, and Apple Vision Pro panorama environments recognize every export as a 360.

AUTOMATE WITH SHORTCUTS
• Stitch panoramas straight from the Shortcuts app: photos in, finished panorama file out — with projection, export preset, ghost reduction, and auto-crop options, and live progress while it runs.
• Script your defaults with Get/Set Setting and discover output options with Get Export Presets.

PERFECT IT
• One-tap auto-crop finds the largest clean rectangle — no black edges, ever.
• Straighten the horizon, drag the corners to correct distortion, and fine-tune the crop.
• Turn a video into a panorama — Pano Owl extracts the cleanest frames for you.

Whether you're capturing a sweeping landscape, a full 360 of a room, or a gigapixel cityscape, Pano Owl makes it effortless.

## Key features

- AR-guided panorama capture
- ProRAW and HDR bracketing support
- Gigapixel-class stitching engine
- Immersive 360° viewer
- Automated stitching with Shortcuts
- Video to panorama conversion
- Auto-cropping and distortion correction

## Recent user reviews (2 of 2)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pano-owl/id1560273409/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Crashes while processing

*2022-05-26*

Picked 5-6 photos. And the app crashes while processing.

**Developer response:** It's been fixed and greatly improved. I'd appreciate if you would retry it and see if it works for your needs now

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2022-01-27*

Black screen after selecting images. Please fix!

**Developer response:** It's been fixed and greatly improved. I'd appreciate if you would retry it and see if it works for your needs now

## Frequently asked questions about Pano Owl

### What is Pano Owl?

Pano Owl is a paid application designed for capturing, stitching, and viewing high-resolution panoramas. It offers advanced features for professional-grade results and immersive 360° viewing experiences.

### Does Pano Owl support ProRAW capture?

Yes, Pano Owl supports Apple ProRAW (DNG) capture, allowing you to shoot at the full 48 MP of your camera and retain true sensor data for every frame.

### How does Pano Owl handle moving subjects in panoramas?

Pano Owl includes deghosting technology to address moving subjects within panoramas. It also features a live hold-still meter to discard soft frames and ensures seamless blends.

### Can Pano Owl create 360° spherical panoramas?

Yes, Pano Owl supports true 360° spherical (equirectangular) projections, allowing you to pivot in place for complete spherical panoramas.

### What devices is Pano Owl compatible with?

Pano Owl is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices. It is also visionOS-ready, with exports recognized by Apple Vision Pro panorama environments.

### How often is Pano Owl updated?

The latest version, 2.1.1, was released on June 14, 2026. While specific update frequency isn't detailed, the app has received updates since its release on March 26, 2021.

### What is the price of Pano Owl?

Pano Owl is a paid app with a price of $9.99. There are no in-app purchases mentioned.

### Can Pano Owl automate panorama stitching?

Yes, Pano Owl integrates with the Shortcuts app, allowing you to stitch panoramas directly from Shortcuts with options for projection, export presets, and ghost reduction.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.5.1 — 2026-09-02

Small fixes and refinements under the hood.

### 2.5.0 — 2026-08-09

There is now an About tab.

Pano Owl had a support screen built and shipped — it just had no way in. The tab was missing, so the version and engine diagnostics, the "email the developer" buttons, and the rating link were all sitting there unreachable. The tab is back.

From About you can now:
- Report an issue, suggest a feature, or ask a question — the email arrives with your version, device, and which stitching backend you're on, so I can actually diagnose it.
- Rate Pano Owl, or see the other apps I make.
- Check the stitching engine's status when something looks off.

### 2.4.0 — 2026-08-08

Pano Owl now speaks your language:

• Full localization into eight languages — Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Italian.

• New Feedback & Support: contact the developer and leave a rating right from the app.

• Seam quality is now judged where it matters — measured at the seam itself rather than across the whole overlap — for cleaner joins on tricky scenes.

• Reliability fixes and polish throughout.

### 2.3.1 — 2026-08-06

Faster, cooler, and far more reliable on big panoramas:

• Large stitches finish. The blend used to grow with the number of overlapping frames and could be shut down by the system partway through a big capture. Memory per tile is now bounded, so multi-hundred-megapixel panoramas run to completion.

• Much faster and noticeably cooler. A 16-frame panorama was decoding the same photos over a thousand times; now each is read once. The image engine was also being built unoptimised — that's fixed, which speeds up every stitch on every device.

• "Auto-crop edges" actually crops now. The switch had no effect on the final panorama.

• Adjust edits at full resolution. Corrections used to quietly work on a smaller copy of very large panoramas; now the whole thing is edited at full size, in one resampling pass instead of four, so it also comes out a touch sharper. 16-bit panoramas stay 16-bit.

• Capture tells you how steady to be for the scene you're in. How much a small step matters depends entirely on how close the nearest subject is — a few centimetres is nothing across a valley and a lot in front of a fence. The guide now measures the closest thing in view and shows the drift that scene can tolerate, before it costs you the shot.

Thanks for flying with Pano Owl.

### 2.2.0 — 2026-07-14

Sharper seams and cleaner captures:

• Big alignment upgrade: edges that used to shear or double at seams — cabinets, window frames, chairs, table legs — now line up when you zoom in. The stitcher aligns finer detail along every seam and routes cuts around close objects instead of through them.

• New drift coaching while you capture: because a panorama assumes you pivot in place, the guide now shows how far you've stepped from your starting point and points you back — so you take a cleaner set of photos to begin with.

• Denser capture guide: a few more frames per sweep means smaller gaps between shots and noticeably cleaner joins.

• Rock-solid on big panoramas: fixed a crash and several memory issues on very large, multi-hundred-megapixel stitches, and made results perfectly repeatable from the same photos.

Thanks for flying with Pano Owl.

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