VR Maker vs 360° VR Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VR Maker
Create immersive VR tours from panoramas captured on your smartphone. Easily assemble virtual tours in under 30 minutes and share them via a web link on social media, MLS, or embed them on websites.
- Capture panoramas
- Create VR tours
- 30-minute tour assembly
- Shareable web links
- Embeddable tours
- VR viewing support
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With VR Maker, capture panoramas of real estate, retail, events and turn them into VR tours. You can put a complete virtual tour together within 30 minutes right from your smartphone. You get a web link for each tour which you can easily share on social media, view in virtual reality, add to a multiple listing service (MLS), or embed in a web page.
360° VR Player
Watch 360 VR videos on your iPhone or iPod. Transfer videos from your Mac/PC or download them, then add them to the app's folder in the Files app to play.
- Watch 360 VR videos
- Transfer videos from Mac/PC
- Download videos from websites
- Use iCloud Drive for transfer
- Add videos to Files app folder
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This is a VR player app. You can use this app to watch 360 & 180 VR videos. You need to transfer a VR video between your iPhone and Mac(PC) or download it from a website. You can also use iCloud Drive.Then past videos to this app folder in your Files app. Open this app and close it -> Open your Files app -> Past a VR video to this app folder in your Files app -> Tap the reload button and play the video.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: VR Maker at none against 360° VR Player's shown. VR Maker also leads on rating (1.9 vs 1.5) and review sentiment (26% vs 13%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
VR Maker holds the better App Store score, 1.9 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of VR Maker's written reviews are positive against 13% of 360° VR Player's.
VR Maker ships an update every 3 weeks, 360° VR Player fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VR Maker | 360° VR Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (28 ratings) — better | 1.5 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.9% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iStaging Corp. | Yuichi HARA |
Customer experience
VR Maker
360° VR Player
In-app purchases
VR Maker
No in-app purchases
360° VR Player
No in-app purchases
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