Comparison

ThingLink vs Panorama

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Panorama

Easily stitch multiple overlapping photos into high-resolution panoramic images. This app uses advanced AI and machine vision for seamless merging, offering ultra-large range and original resolution output. It processes all images locally for enhanced privacy and flexibility.

Highlights
  • Ultra-large range panoramic stitching (horizontal & vertical)
  • Direct shooting or select existing photos
  • High-resolution output without compression
  • Free use with no forced cropping
  • Local processing for privacy
  • Wide range of use cases
Features
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《Panorama - Photo Stitcher》 is a simple powerful and easy-to-use application for panoramic image stitching developed based on machine vision, AI, image comparison, object recognition and other technologies. This program can help you easily stitch multiple overlapping photos into high-quality, high-resolution, and ultra-large visual range panoramic photos. Thanks to users who have provided feedback and suggestions. It is your feedback and suggestions that make our app more and more perfect. We will continue to provide more convenient and practical functions and applications. 1. Features ● Ultra-large range: panoramic photos can be taken and stitched automatically in both horizontal and vertical directions ● Simple and convenient: shoot directly through this App without frequently switching system cameras; or directly select the photos to be stitched, and you can stitch them quickly to 360° panorama with one click ● High resolution: panoramic photos with original resolution can be output without any compression ● Free use: no forced automatic cropping, retain the original panoramic photos after stitching, and let the user decide how to use them, reducing the inconvenience caused by incorrect cropping ● Widely used: perfect for remote adventures, landscape, architecture, oil painting, murals, large posters, newspapers, maps, aerial photography, astronomical photography, satellite photos, remote sensing, scanning, microscopic photography, macro, screenshots, etc. ● Local processing: The entire process of photo stitching is completed in your mobile phone, without relying on any server capabilities, so there is no need to worry about any personal privacy leakage 2. The system already has a panoramic photo function, why should I use this application? The panoramic photo function provided by the system only provides one-way expansion in the horizontal or vertical direction, while our App provides completely unrestricted panoramic photo shooting capabilities. You can expand the content you want to shoot in both the horizontal and vertical directions, and achieve ultra-wide space shooting that the system cannot provide at all. At the same time, it is more tolerant in use. The panoramic photo function of the system requires the stability of the mobile phone during shooting, while our App only needs to ensure the overlap of the shooting content, which can greatly improve the success rate of your panoramic photo shooting. Or, if you need to splice any other source of photos or pictures that already have been taken, such as making long screenshots, you can only use our App. 3. Principle Through machine vision, AI, image comparison, object recognition and other technologies, compare the received photos, determine the overlapping relationship between the photos, determine the final position of each photo in the final panoramic photo, and then splice all the photos into the final panoramic photo according to the positioning. After the splicing is completed, determine the unified exposure parameters according to the content of the synthesized photos, adjust the light and shadow of the whole picture, and eliminate the light and shadow differences caused by inconsistent exposure of different photos. Finally, according to the content of the synthesized photo, the distortion is repaired to obtain the final, uncropped panoramic photo. We hope you like our application and use it to take satisfactory and memorable panoramic photos. If you are satisfied with our App, please share our application with your friends and family. Please provide us with your valuable feedback, ratings and comments. Your opinions are very important to us. We appreciate your feedback and will use it to evaluate changes and improve our application. Thank you! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://photo-stitcher.com/privacy/ More: https://photo-stitcher.com/

Screenshots

ThingLink4 screens
Panorama4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ThingLink at none against Panorama's 4. ThingLink also leads on review sentiment (38% vs 25%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Panorama's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (42 vs 11). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Panorama sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ThingLink asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Panorama holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 42 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of ThingLink's written reviews are positive against 25% of Panorama's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ThingLink ships an update every 3 months, Panorama every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ThingLink versus Panorama: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThingLinkPanorama
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (11 ratings)4.1 (42 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.7% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1142 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB32 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperThinglinkEnjoy More Tech Limited

Customer experience

ThingLink

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive37.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative56.6%

Panorama

All ratings42 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral11.9%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative62.5%

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

Panorama

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ThingLink

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Panorama

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
  • Yearly Special Offer$88.001 Year
One-time1
  • One-Time Purchase$19.99

Questions

Is ThingLink free?
ThingLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Panorama free?
Panorama is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ThingLink or Panorama?
Panorama is rated higher. ThingLink averages 3.9 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Panorama averages 4.1 from 42 ratings.
Do ThingLink or Panorama have ads?
Neither ThingLink nor Panorama shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ThingLink or Panorama?
ThingLink ships an update every 3 months, and Panorama every 3 weeks. Most recently, ThingLink was updated on October 23, 2026 and Panorama on October 15, 2026.

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