ThingLink vs Asteroom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ThingLink
Create engaging interactive experiences with images, videos, and 360 media. Add clickable tags to build virtual tours and learning materials. Supports over 80 languages with Immersive Reader integration.
- Create interactive images, videos, and 360 media
- Add clickable tags with text and audio
- Build virtual tours and learning experiences
- Immersive Reader integration for 80+ languages
- Track engagement and learning analytics
- Mobile device camera integration
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The easiest way to create exciting, interactive experiences and virtual tours! Quickly create and share interactive images, videos, 360 media, and 3D models with clickable tags. Build experiences that engage and excite. ThingLink’s Immersive Reader integration makes your materials readable in over 80 languages. Use ThingLink in education • Create personalized, adaptive learning learning experiences that are proven to improve learning outcomes. • Use ThingLink on iPads and tablets in the classroom to develop digital literacy and future-ready skills. • Track engagement on all learning materials, videos and virtual tours, also suitable for educational research. • Make interactive infographics, maps, virtual tours, curriculum organizers, project-based learning presentations, escape rooms and digital breakouts for blended and distance learning. • Ideal for blended and hybrid learning, self-paced online learning in higher education. Use ThingLink for corporate training • Easily recreate local work environments and situations to develop competencies, practical knowledge and skills. • Train employees using virtual learning environments, simulations, and scenarios. • Share instructions and status updates with annotated photos and videos. • Improve productivity, save in logistics, content production and translation costs. • Learning analytics: Automate and scale mandatory training, track completion rate per learner. • Technology integration with existing learning management systems (LMS). Use ThingLink for marketing and communications • Increase time spent and clicks on infographics, floorplans, maps, virtual showrooms, product catalogs, and videos. • Ideal for boosting product marketing, brand engagement, internal communications, company website, social media and customer engagement. • Track engagement and collect data for your next campaign. Easily go back to edit and improve projects any time directly from the mobile app! Trusted by over 8 million creators, teachers, and learners around the world, ThingLink is a must have app in your suite of 21st century digital content creation tools. We’re the pioneer of interactive media, easy virtual tours and immersive scenarios. ThingLink is transforming corporate training, teaching and learning with its innovative interactive media solution. Awards and mentions: The 101 Hottest EdTech Tools According to Education Experts (number 17!), UNESCO ICT in Education Prize. Shoot, snap or upload your media Integrated with your mobile device camera: Capture photos, video and even 360 media with your mobile device, then just select and annotate them with the ThingLink app in minutes! Be inspired Access our professional 360 degree image collection to clone for your own use. Use our integration with Unsplash to get access to unlimited images. Ideal resource for course design, professional development, trainers, curricula planning, homework and documenting assignments. Easy to Use Editor Add text and audio notes, links, quizzes, Google apps, and other embeds from websites, images and video to hotspots. Add transitions from one scene to another, change icons, adjust colors, even record audio directly into a tag or so that it plays when the image is viewed! Organize and share digital learning resources Organize folders and share your interactive media amongst colleagues, easily publish to the web, any learning management system, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Moodle, Moocs, or other platforms. Access your analytics all from within the mobile app. Virtual Reality 360 Scenes / Virtual Tours Use the tour tag to combine one scene with another and create an immersive walk-through or virtual tour. Visualize tours on VR Headsets, Oculus, Class VR, and Google Cardboard. Start creating now! Follow @thinglink on social media for tips. Need help or have a request? support@thinglink.com
Asteroom
Easily create and share immersive 3D virtual tours using just your phone. Capture panoramas, edit them, and share links across various platforms, including real estate sites and social media. Capture leads and store tours in the cloud for seamless access.
- Create 3D virtual tours with phone
- Capture 360-degree panoramas
- Edit and share virtual tours
- Web and mobile viewing
- VR headset compatibility
- Cloud storage and cross-platform access
- Lead capture for business
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Asteroom is the easiest way to create 3D virtual tours. A 2000 sqft home can be completed in 10-15 minutes. Unlike other time-consuming solutions that require you buy expensive and bulky 3D cameras, Asteroom allows you to do everything including shooting, editing, and sharing the tours on your phone. Asteroom was founded in 2018 in Taiwan. In a short amount of time, it has been voted the best technology to help realtors, builders, photographers, and interior designers to streamline their existing workflows and unlock the new business potentials. Applications including but not limited to: 1. Residential and Commercial Real Estate Listings 2. Interior Design 3. Creating immersive experiences for automobile interiors, exhibitions, retail stores…etc Unique Features: 1. Take 360-degree panoramas with your phone 2. Share the virtual tours links to view on web or mobile or experience it on a VR headset. 3. Share the tours in all channels including MLS, Redfin, Zillow, and social media 4. Capture leads to realize business value 5. Store the tours in the cloud and access them from all platforms Contact us: * Website:https://www.asteroom.com/en/ * FB:https://www.facebook.com/asteroom360VRtour/ * Example:https://www.asteroom.com/en/example * Mail:sales_support@asteroom.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Asteroom at 82% against ThingLink's 38%. Asteroom also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.8). ThingLink's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Asteroom sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. ThingLink asks for nothing beyond the download.
Asteroom holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of ThingLink's written reviews are positive against 82% of Asteroom's.
ThingLink ships an update every 3 months, Asteroom every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ThingLink | Asteroom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.7% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 242 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thinglink | Penpower Technology Ltd. |
Customer experience
ThingLink
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Bugs and requests
ThingLink
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes when taking photos or videos
- Icon options fail to download (infinite spinning)
- Login functionality broken or extremely difficult
- Projects deleted unexpectedly
- White screen display on startup
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- Image processing stuck in infinite loop
- Video playback errors with skin loading
- Caption text disappears
- App shuts down immediately after opening
- Signup page appears repeatedly
- 360 image functionality not working
- Incompatibility with VR headsets
Requested features
12 requests- Landscape mode support
- Ability to edit images after publishing
- Reduce size of hotspot symbols
- Longer video duration limits
- Ability to tag images within images
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- Save projects to camera roll
- Dark mode option
- Open In feature for sharing to other apps
- Better icon customization options
- Zoom capability for embedded pictures
- Content filtering for educational use
- Account name change functionality
Asteroom
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ThingLink
No in-app purchases
Asteroom
- 1 month Professional version$24.99
- 3 months Professional version$74.99
- 6 month Professional version$149.99
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- 1 year Professional version$249.99
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