PanoPainter vs HoloKit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PanoPainter
Create immersive 360° illustrations and animations with a panoramic canvas. This software supports VR headsets, offering intuitive tools for sketching, painting, and animating in a full spherical environment.
- Immersive 360° panoramic canvas
- VR Painting support
- High-Performance GPU Accelerated Paint Engine
- Massive resolution up to 8K panorama
- Highly customizable brushes
- Layers and Timelapse
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PanoPainter is the first software ever made to enable an immersive experience for artists that want to sketch, paint, and animate on a full 360° panoramic canvas. Its native workflow allows artists to work in an intuitive environment and create amazing illustrations that can also be viewed using any virtual reality headset and be immersed inside the artwork. These are the main features you will find: - Import regular images and place them in the scene - Share across Apple devices using AirDrop - Copy/paste and transform the selection - Immersive 360° panoramic canvas - High-Performance GPU Accelerated Paint Engine - Intuitive gestures to navigate - Dynamic cross-platform User Interface - Native Apple Pencil support - Native Sonar Pen support - Massive resolution up to 8K panorama - Highly customizable brushes - Cloud Storage for device interoperability - Timelapse - Layers - Side panel for quick access to brush settings. - Popup panels. - Height-map tool for landscapes generation. - Ray-traced shadows generation. - Multi-threading for faster computation. - Overall performance optimized. - Import Photoshop Brushes ABR file. - Improved color picker. - Layer blending modes. - Improved Brush Engine with Dual-Brush and Patterns. - VR Painting - High DPI display support More features will be added as the software evolves.
HoloKit
Experience stereoscopic AR with an affordable accessory and app. Explore immersive art, battle dragons, and play with friends in shared realities. Control your experience with an Apple Watch and track fitness goals.
- Stereoscopic AR experiences
- Face-to-face multiplayer battles
- Spectator mode for real-time viewing
- Apple Watch motion controls
- Health app integration for fitness tracking
- Switch between realities with simple controls
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HoloKit X is a simple, affordable accessory for iPhone that unlocks the world of stereoscopic AR and allows people to Dream Together in new realities. Download the HoloKit X app, follow the simple instructions to pair iPhone, try out a few of the included realities, and then get ready to transport into a new reality to become a wizard or dragon hunter and play with friends. The HoloKit X app includes all content, a series of realities, to demonstrate the capabilities and wonder of stereoscopic AR, experience immersive art dreams created by world-renewed digital artists, and battles with wizards and dragons by casting spells. HoloKit X’s killer feature is face-to-face multiplayer, which allows friends to battle together or against each other as wizards, by casting spells, and hunt down and battle dragons together. This has never been done before with AR and is now available for anybody to use. The HoloKit X app also enables others, with their own iPhone or iPad, to Dream Together with their friends using a unique spectator mode feature where battles, dragon hunts, and immersive art experiences can be viewed in real-time from a second screen. Simply download the app and await a pair request from a friend or friends with HoloKit X (using AirDrop). The HoloKit X app, once iPhone is docked and paired, includes simple controls to switch between realities. The included Apple Watch app enables motion control within HoloKit X realities with any object and using the built-in gyroscope. Now any object you want can be your wand to cast spells in these new worlds and shared experiences. The app also integrates with the Health app on iPhone and Apple Watch, allowing dreamers to track their activity and achieve fitness goals through individual battles and with their friends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HoloKit at Free against PanoPainter's $14.99. HoloKit also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 57%). PanoPainter's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On rating, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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
HoloKit is free to download; PanoPainter costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for PanoPainter against 3.8 for HoloKit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of PanoPainter's written reviews are positive against 67% of HoloKit's.
PanoPainter ships an update every 2 months, HoloKit every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PanoPainter | HoloKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) — better | 3.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 9.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 884 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OmixLab ltd | Holo Interactive |
Customer experience
PanoPainter
HoloKit
In-app purchases
PanoPainter
No in-app purchases
HoloKit
No in-app purchases









