Mersive Solstice vs Panopto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mersive Solstice
Enhance meeting and learning spaces with a collaboration platform that allows wireless content sharing, control, and markup from any device. Drive efficiency and engagement with intuitive tools for team collaboration.
- Wireless content sharing
- Screen, video, and app sharing
- Drag-and-drop layout control
- Touchless annotation and markup
- Pinch-to-zoom shared content
- Integration with conferencing solutions
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Mersive Solstice is a high-performance teamspace collaboration platform that improves the usability and productivity of meeting and learning spaces. The Solstice App enables users on any device to wirelessly share, control, and mark up unlimited content on a Solstice-enabled display to drive more efficient, engaging, and collaborative meetings. Key Features: • Share your device screen, 4K videos and images, and application or web content such as YouTube • Easy to use drag-and-drop layout control • Touchless annotation and markup using your mobile device • Pinch-to-zoom shared content on touch-enabled devices • Integrates with web and video conferencing solutions (hosting capabilities supported on laptops only) Don’t have a Solstice-enabled display? Visit www.mersive.com to learn more.
Panopto
Access and view all of your organization's video content, including presentations, lectures, and training. Search within videos for keywords, navigate using slides or transcripts, and record or upload your own videos. Ideal for learning and presenting on the go.
- Access organizational video content
- Search within videos
- Record and upload videos
- View lectures and presentations
- Navigate by slides and transcript
- Closed captioning
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Panopto Mobile lets you access all of your organization’s video content from your iPhone or iPad. View HD video presentations, lectures, training courses and events. Search inside your videos to find any keyword or topic. And upload or record videos using your device's camera app. Learn anywhere • Watch a lecture, presentation, or training session from your iPhone or iPad • Search within a video to jump right where you need to be • Read closed captions as you watch the video • Navigate videos by tapping on slides, chapters, or transcript • Listen to videos while you are interacting with other apps or while your screen is off Present and teach anywhere • Record a presentation or lecture with the built-in camera • Record meetings or classes in rooms equipped with Panopto Remote Recorder With Panopto’s Video Platform, you can transform how your organization learns and communicates: • Sales and Marketing can record and webcast presentations, demos, and events. • Corporate Communications can deliver recorded or live messages from executives. • Human Resources can deliver online training to employees around the world. • Engineering teams can record meetings and share best practices. • Support teams can record tutorials and visually demonstrate solutions to customers. • Faculty can record lectures, lab demonstrations, medical simulations, and more. • Students can view lectures on the go and take notes that get saved with the recording. • Students can record their own videos and securely submit them for instructor review. • IT staff can integrate Panopto with existing LMS, CMS and identity systems. About Panopto Panopto creates software that enables organizations to record, webcast, search, and share all of their video content and presentations. Panopto's video platform is currently in use at Fortune 500 companies around the world, and is the fastest growing lecture capture solution at leading universities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mersive Solstice at 2.4 against Panopto's 1.7. Mersive Solstice also leads on review sentiment (34% vs 9%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Panopto's advantage is ratings volume (258 vs 65). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mersive Solstice holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 65 and 258 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Mersive Solstice's written reviews are positive against 9% of Panopto's.
Mersive Solstice ships an update every 2 months, Panopto every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mersive Solstice | Panopto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (65 ratings) — better | 1.7 (258 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.2% of reviews — better | 8.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 65 | 258 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mersive Technologies Inc. | Panopto |
Customer experience
Mersive Solstice
Panopto
Bugs and requests
Mersive Solstice
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Panopto
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues
- Video playback problems
- Syncing issues between audio and video
- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add split-screen/picture-in-picture mode
- Improve video organization and search
- Add Airplay support
- Implement landscape mode on iPad
- Allow offline video access
In-app purchases
Mersive Solstice
No in-app purchases
Panopto
No in-app purchases
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