# Spatial Media Toolkit — user reviews > 74 indexed App Store user reviews of Spatial Media Toolkit by Strange Mesa, rated 4.50/5 from 145 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spatial-media-toolkit/id6477903679/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spatial-media-toolkit/id6477903679.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 120 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Spatial Media Toolkit? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✨ Impressive 2D to 3D conversion quality - 🎬 Converts both photos and videos to spatial format - ⚡ Fast rendering performance (recent updates) - 🔄 Batch conversion capability - 👨‍💻 Responsive and active developer - 🎨 Works with various image sources and formats - 📱 Cross-device compatibility (Vision Pro, Quest 3, Mac) - 🎯 Intuitive user interface for most users - 💾 Preserves original image quality - 🔧 Customizable output formats (side-by-side, cross-eye, wiggle) **Cons** - 💰 High price point ($59.99 perpetual license) - 🔐 Aggressive paywall and subscription model - 📱 Limited free trial functionality - ⚠️ Visual artifacts and motion sickness reported - 🐢 Single-threaded processing on multi-core systems - 🎥 Poor video conversion reliability - ⚙️ Inconsistent performance across devices - 🚫 Deceptive trial period practices - 📢 Excessive review request pop-ups - ❌ Incompatibility with newer OS versions **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes during video conversion - Rendering fails for longer videos (5+ minutes) - Side-by-side video conversion fails - Zero-byte files created on conversion failure - App force closes on certain OS versions (Sequoia beta) - Rendering stops when user walks behind video - Videos get stuck in loading state indefinitely - Converted videos won't play properly - Photos/panoramas not viewable in visionOS 2.0 - Depth slider has no effect - Cross-eye/Wiggle settings not remembered on timeline - Saved videos convert to 2D instead of 3D - Hidden folder save functionality broken - Performance issues on Mac Pro despite high core count - Restore purchases required repeatedly **Most requested features** - Batch processing for multiple files - Default output type setting to avoid manual changes - MPO stereo image format support - 2D to VR 180/360 degree conversion - Manual depth adjustment (select regions to adjust depth) - Video trimming capability - Full video preview without rendering - Auto-rename files when saving - Preserve original file dates - Larger preview window - Phone rotation capability in preview - Multi-threaded/multi-core processing optimization - Error messaging for failed conversions - Background conversion processing - Load images from file system (not just Photos library) ## Newest reviews (11 of 74) ### 4/5 — Great with bugs *2026-04-18, version 3.17* Video editor cannot save or share. Otherwise great effort! ### 3/5 — No MPO stereo image support *2026-01-04, version 3.14* MPO is a standard 3D format for jpg images. The app will open one eye, but not the other. 5 stars if this app could convert MPO to spatial ### 3/5 — Visual Artifacts and Motion Sickness *2025-12-20, version 3.14* Kudos to the developer for trying to make this work. Unfortunately there are visual artifacts around objects that seem to shimmer with different distances and the net effect is eye strain and motion sickness. ### 3/5 — Poor CPU/GPU usage *2025-12-13* While the application is doing the job pretty well, it uses poorly (to none) multiple cores. Max CPU usage is 100% with the remaining cores with no workload. The end result is a very slow conversion while the silicon CPU’s can handle much more. This is definitively a track of improvement. ### 4/5 — Need 2D to VR 180/360 support *2025-11-05, version 3.08* I would give 5/5 and the absolute most needed VR app if it supported a 2D to VR180 or 360 ### 2/5 — Instant one star for three consecutive pop-ups, asking for reviews after three actions *2025-10-17, version 3.07* Title ### 3/5 — First time using app *2025-09-29, version 3.04* Very confusing , Couldn’t find how to instructions. Suddenly the photo showed as side by side. Amazing!!! ### 4/5 — 👍🏾 *2025-04-27, version 2.12* I’m not sure what else to say. It’s spectacular. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t work properly *2025-04-12, version 2.10* When I create a parallel or cross eye video the result is just a single video, not a left and right stitched video (resulting in the same as the one I’m trying to convert to 3D). Sometimes photos do the same. Sometimes photos do work, but videos have never worked. When photos do work the results are amazing. But it’s a shame videos never work even though the settings are set correctly for output. ### 4/5 — Impressed So Far *2025-04-12, version 2.09* I found this app on the official Vision Pro list and already filming spatial video with Canon I wondered if it could convert older 2D videos well, so far I’m impressed! Hopefully they will keep progressing, adapting and updating to make it even better! ### 2/5 — Not usable on sequoagbeta 3 *2025-01-11, version 2.09* App force closes on any video you try to convert to spatial video. Sequoia 15.3 Beta. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Problems *2026-06-22, version 3.14* It crashes every time ### 1/5 — $59.99?! No, thanks. *2026-03-17, version 3.15* I don’t know about others, but I’m tired of all these subscriptions to use software instead of being able to purchase a perpetual license. But, almost more insulting is when developers offer a perpetual license at a prohibitively steep price. $59.99 for a piece of iOS software is absolutely beyond the pale for me. I have far more useful, versatile, and powerful apps that have never cost anywhere near that much, and I say that as a longtime professional photographer and graphic designer. So, to charge such an enormous price for such a niche app that has such limited use is a nonstarter. And the only software subscription I’ve ever paid for and will ever pay for is Adobe’s desktop suite, and even that is barely justifiable despite all it can do. This iOS app, though? No, thanks. ### 1/5 — Instant one star for three consecutive pop-ups, asking for reviews after three actions *2025-12-31, version 3.17* Pay walled previously free features ### 1/5 — Requires payment after 1 export *2025-11-16, version 3.11* Shows fake reviews in app, too. The full app costs 60 dollars💀 ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-07-28, version 2.09* App won’t convert video, crashes instead ### 1/5 — Not worth at all *2025-07-12, version 2.18* It only converts those photos which apple vision pro can convert. Others look very bad and distorted. It can convert videos but looks terrible at some points. Videos conversion Takes very long time and doesn't work in the background. So, you can't really anything else while converting ### 1/5 — Fake trial AVOID *2025-06-06, version 2.09* Description said “Free 3 day trial” but then charged immediately for subscription. Submitting a claim to Apple just got a “Subscription Confirmed” message. Dishonest selling practices have to be called out, I would advise to avoid this app because what other sneaky tricks might there be around renewals or subscriptions? Vision Pro can convert photos to spatial for free anyway so skipping this app is really no loss to users. ### 1/5 — Headache *2025-04-08, version 2.09* Doesn’t look good and gives a headache. ### 1/5 — Headache *2025-04-08, version 2.10* Doesn’t look good and gives a headache. ### 1/5 — Difficult to figure out with Meta Quest *2025-01-03, version 2.10* Only allowed a few files to save without having to pay. Difficult to figure out how to use with Meta Quest 3, and only being allowed a few files makes it hard to trial and error. 👎 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent Program *2026-02-20, version 3.15* I would suggest to the developers to allow the user to set the default output type so that I don’t have to keep changing it for every conversion that I do. Great app! Thanks ### 5/5 — Better Than, Apple settings *2025-11-08* Manu ### 5/5 — Alternative to OWL3D *2025-10-26, version 3.04* Convert 2D images into stunning stereoscopic ones with one click. Conversion quality is impressing. The preview window could be a bit larger and it would be nice to be able to rotate the phone. But besides that it’s a nice little tool for 3d enthusiasts. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-09-10, version 3.02* Absolutely love the update. And glad to see the dedication to keep the world relevant. One of the best apps on Vision Pro. ### 5/5 — They added the side-by-side features! *2025-08-26, version 3.0* I’m so excited that they added the side-by-side features I was looking for when I purchased this. I was surprised they were not included. Great stuff! ### 5/5 — Love this app. Money well spent. *2025-06-15, version 2.14* This app converts pics to spatial that Vision Pro won’t/can’t for some reason. And it converts vids pretty well too, though there are a select few that, when converted, won’t play - it gets stuck in that “think circle” (or whatever it’s called) for a while until I get frustrated waiting and just give up. Don’t know if it’s the video file itself or something else entirely. But I have success with about 98% of the vids I try to convert. I’m getting way more than my money’s worth. Way more. This app has breathed new life into the use of my Apple Vision Pro. The Vision Pro has gone from being a novelty to being a near-indispensable part of my recreation habits thanks to this app. ### 5/5 — Paul *2025-04-12, version 2.09* Applitcation exlent ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-01-22, version 2.12* It would be greater if we could select portions of an image to bring forward or push back to correct depth. ### 5/5 — Excellent feature *2024-12-15, version 2.10* On a modern iPhone, you are always capturing spatial data. Now you can actually take advantage of it to create 3-D media or my favorite, “wigglegrams” effortlessly. ### 5/5 — This App is a Must if You Like Editing/Creating Spatial Media! *2024-11-25, version 2.11* This app does get consistent improvements as well. Very nice developer. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*