HDReye vs Bimostitch Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HDReye
Create custom 360° HDRi images for realistic 3D lighting and compositing directly from your phone. Capture bracketed panoramas and generate 32-bit EXR files for seamless integration with 3D software and AR development.
- Create 360° HDRi images
- Shoot bracketed multi-exposure panoramas
- Generate 32-bit .EXR files
- Realistic 3D lighting and compositing
- Image-based lighting solution
- Access to crowdsourced HDRi collection
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Finally, an app to shoot 360° HDRis with your phone. HDReye is the first and only iOS app for creating custom 360° HDRi images for realistic 3D lighting and compositing. Just select your desired dynamic range, follow the prompts to shoot a bracketed multi-exposure panorama of your location, and HDReye will stitch and generate a 32-bit (.EXR format) HDRi of your location. HDReye is an essential app for combining 3D animation realistically with footage or capturing lightmaps of any location. What used to require an expensive 360° camera or chrome ball light probe, now can be done conveniently on your phone with HDReye. Whether you are an independent 3D artist, VFX studio, AR developer, NFT artist, content creator, or just a hobbyist - HDReye is here to make your workflow simpler and renders more realistic. HDReye is your image-based lighting solution. Compatible with all 3D packages and render engines including Cinema 4D, Blender, Houdini, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Adobe After Effects, Element 3D, OTOY Octane Render, Redshift, V-ray, Arnold, Unreal Engine, Unity, Spark AR, and more. HDReye users also have access to the largest crowdsourced collection of HDRi images in the world. HDReye also works well for capturing 360° panoramas similar to the Google Street View app. Terms of Use: http://hdreye.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: http://hdreye.app/privacy/
Bimostitch Lite
Effortlessly create high-resolution panoramas from overlapping photos directly on your device. This app automatically stitches images into impressive wide-view panoramas, supporting various formats like 360° and photospheres. Share your creations instantly or save them in high quality.
- Stitch single-row, multi-row, vertical, horizontal, 360° panoramas
- Combine 2 to 200+ overlapping photos
- Automatic cropping and straightening
- High-resolution output up to 100 MP
- Automatic exposure balancing
- Offline functionality
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Automatically stitch high quality, high-res panoramas on-device, right in the palm of your hands. This is a fully automated panorama stitcher app that enables you to easily stitch individual overlapping photos, into high-quality, hi-res panoramas. Features: +Stitch hi-res single-row, multi-row, vertical, horizontal, 360° panoramas or photospheres. +Stitch 2 to 200+ overlapping photos into impressive wide-view panoramas. +Simple and intuitive yet powerful panorama stitcher app. +Share your awesome panos with family and friends via Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and many more. +Automatic cropping of panoramas with minimal reduction in resolution. +Hi-res output panos, up to 100 MP. +Automatic exposure balancing. +Automatic straightening of panorama. For extra powerful features & Ad free, get the Pro version: https://apps.apple.com/tt/app/bimostitch/id1598709872 How it works? Simply select/get photos in one of the following ways: > Use the apps built-in photo-picker by pressing the gallery icon, select an album, select photos then confirm. > Use your favourite camera app to snap overlapping photos then open this app to select the shots. > Use a drone to capture aerial shots. Bimostitch will then automatically match, align and blend together the selected images into a wonderful panorama using advanced on-device image stitching algorithms. NOTE: You get multiple panorama outputs at once if more than one group of overlapping photos are detected in your selection. All this takes just a few minutes depending on your choice of maximum output resolution and your device’s computational power. You can visit the apps settings page to change properties such as the output album name, maximum resolution and many more choices to suit your needs. NOTE: At least 2GB RAM required for 100 MP. Why use this app? – Works with photos from any source such as DSLR cameras, downloaded from the web or drones. – Merge vertical, horizontal, multiple rows or a grid of overlapping photos into awesome panoramic images. – Lightweight on your device and will make PC quality panoramic photographs right in the palm of your hand. – Create panos conveniently while on the go like on a tour and get immediate high quality results, no need to carry all that equipment anymore and it’s fully an offline app too, no Internet? no problem. – No gyroscope or special sensors needed. It doesn’t matter whether you are a professional or newbie panoramic photographer, this app will work great for you. Tips on stitching great panos • Photos that are plain or clear in the area of overlap will fail to stitch. • Non overlapping photos will be automatically ignored. • Use your favorite camera app to capture overlapping images. • Make sure there is enough overlap area between photos. • Use the camera lens as the rotation axis and not your body when capturing photos for stitching. Keep the lens or device at the same point as much as possible but rotate it in any direction to capture overlapping photos. • Keep the lens or camera still when snapping to avoid motion blur. • To help capture good overlapping shots keep track of the center of the previous shot and snap another when it reaches the edge. • Avoid capturing photos in direct sunlight. • Don’t merge photos with severe differences in lighting conditions. • Avoid moving objects in the area of overlap. Hope you enjoy using this panoramic app and that you will make memorable pano shots with it. Thank you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HDReye at 4.5 against Bimostitch Lite's 3.5. HDReye also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (770 vs 15). Bimostitch Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. HDReye sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Bimostitch Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
HDReye holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HDReye has 770 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of HDReye's written reviews are positive against 48% of Bimostitch Lite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HDReye ships an update monthly, Bimostitch Lite every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HDReye | Bimostitch Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (770 ratings) — better | 3.5 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | 47.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 770 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HDReye Technologies Inc. | Chomba Bupe |
Customer experience
HDReye
Bimostitch Lite
Bugs and requests
HDReye
Reported bugs
3 issues- Account deletion issues
- Stuck on processing/uploading
- Disappearing credits
Requested features
4 requests- Free trial or preview option
- Ability to stitch locally on device
- One-time purchase option
- Improved stitching algorithm
Bimostitch Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HDReye
- HDReye Pro$6.991 Month
- HDReye Pro3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- HDReye Pro$39.991 Year
- Asset unlock$2.99
Bimostitch Lite
No in-app purchases









