PanoPad vs Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PanoPad
View panorama content and documents offline on your iPad or iPhone. Download files from cloud servers for seamless access to VR movies, PDFs, and HTML documents without an internet connection.
- Offline viewing
- Panorama content download
- VR movie playback
- PDF document reader
- HTML document viewer
- Cloud server downloads
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パノラマコンテンツやドキュメントをiPadやiPhoneにダウンロードして、オフライン環境で閲覧することができるビューワーアプリケーションです。 【主な機能】 ・クラウドサーバからのコンテンツダウンロード ・パノラマVRムービーの再生 ・PDF、Htmlドキュメントの閲覧 ・オフライン閲覧
Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player
Experience 360°, 180°, and 3D photos and videos immersively. Explore content by moving your device, and step into your memories with VR mode using a Cardboard-style headset. Capture your own panoramas with guided shooting.
- View 360°, 180°, and 3D media
- Immersive VR mode with head tracking
- Guided panorama capture
- Intuitive gesture controls
- Multiple viewing modes
- On-device processing
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Simple360 is a clean and intuitive way to experience 360°, 180° and 3D photos and videos on iPhone. Open immersive content from your Photo Library and explore it naturally. Move your iPhone to look around, swipe to adjust your view, and pinch to change perspective. Switch seamlessly between standard view, panoramic mode, full 360°, 180°, or VR. Place your iPhone into a Cardboard-style headset and step inside your memories. Head tracking feels smooth and responsive. VR mode removes on-screen controls for a focused, distraction-free experience. Capture your own panoramas with guided shooting built into the app. Follow simple visual cues, take each shot, and save a beautifully stitched panorama directly to Photos. Browse your media in a minimal gallery, adjust how content is displayed, import from other apps, and share effortlessly. Simple360 works entirely on your device. No accounts. No uploads. Just your photos, reimagined in immersive space. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PanoPad at none against Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player's 10. PanoPad also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 33%). Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 8 months) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On price, ads, 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. Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PanoPad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player has 150 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of PanoPad's written reviews are positive against 33% of Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PanoPad ships an update every 8 months, Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PanoPad | Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.4 (150 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 150 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Netin Co.,LTD. | Oleksandr Kazakov |
Customer experience
PanoPad
Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player
In-app purchases
PanoPad
No in-app purchases
Simple 360 Cardboard VR Player
- 50GB$1.991 Month
- Weekly$2.997 Days
- Monthly$5.991 Month
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- Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Yearly1 Year trial$34.991 Year
- Yearly$34.991 Year
- 2TB$39.991 Month
- Custom Brand$24.99
- Lifetime Core$44.99
- Lifetime Core$49.99
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