Stand still and follow the dots
Phone close to your face. Orange arrows lead you around the room, then up and to the floor. The shutter fires when you hold still. Walking gets a warning — it blurs the stitch.
Look-around photos. A link.
Stand in a room, follow the orange dots, and the iPhone stitches an 8K photosphere. Tap Publish. Anyone with the URL can look around in a browser. No 360 camera. No desktop stitcher.
iPhone 11 or later, iOS 17. One room per link. Capture, stitch, look around, save, share, or go live.
A live link
One standing spot, published from an iPhone. This is the page a buyer, guest, or client opens — no app, no login.
The wedge
Capture, stitch, and publish are one sitting. That is the product.
A look-around of a space should not require a $400 camera, a desktop stitcher, or a scanner appointment. The phone in your pocket already has a camera and a gyroscope.
360 Photo is the Street View ritual on iPhone — then an unlisted URL. One spot in the room. People drag to look around. You do not book a cart.
Who it’s for
Each link is one photosphere from one standing spot — not a connected 3D dollhouse. That is enough when the job is “look around this space.”
Listings
Walk the house, publish a look-around, drop the URL in the listing. Buyers look. You skip the Matterport invoice.
For agents →Stays
Let guests spin the loft and the kitchen before they book. Fewer “not as pictured” messages. No scanner for a cabin.
For hosts →Jobs
The kitchen is done. Text a look-around instead of a photo dump — or another Saturday drive-by.
For trades →How it works
Phone close to your face. Orange arrows lead you around the room, then up and to the floor. The shutter fires when you hold still. Walking gets a warning — it blurs the stitch.
Finish a room, you’re back in the library. The sphere builds on-device as an 8K × 4K JPEG. Open it and drag, or flip on gyro and turn the phone.
Tap Publish for an unlisted 360photo.app link. Save to Photos. Share the original JPEG. Unpublish later and the URL 404s — republish reuses the same address.
What’s live
This is the current app, not a roadmap slide. If it is not on this list, do not count on it yet.
Thirty targets: equator, upper, lower, zenith, nadir. Auto-shutter when the reticle settles. Undo the last shot. Finish early if you have to.
An 8K × 4K JPEG written on-device, tagged as a photosphere so other viewers can open it. No desktop export step.
In the app, drag the sphere or switch to gyro and turn the phone. On the published page, people drag and pinch — no app install.
One tap uploads the sphere. The page is unlisted, kept out of search, and shows a look count. Unpublish takes it down; publish again keeps the same URL.
Save the original file to Photos, or hand it to Messages, Mail, or Files. Facebook 360 needs that original JPEG, not a re-saved camera-roll copy.
The app registers the device on first publish. There is no dashboard and no password yet — the live loop is capture to link.
Two surfaces
Instead of
| 360 camera + web host | Matterport-style scan | 360 Photo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gear | Dedicated camera | Operator or kit | The iPhone you have |
| Time to a link | Stitch, export, upload | Appointment + processing | Before you lock the door |
| What they get | Look-around photo | Mesh dollhouse | Look-around web page |
| Your job | Photographer + webmaster | Schedule a scan | Stand still and tap Publish |
This is a photosphere, not a 3D mesh. Say “look around the room,” not “3D tour,” and you will not be compared to a $400 scan.
Pricing
There is no checkout in the app yet. Testers can capture, stitch, and publish. When we start billing, it will look like this — live links, not a generic SaaS seat.
One live link. Fourteen days.
Twenty-five live links. No badge. Look counts.
If you hate subscriptions. Publish when you need the URL.
Objections
No. Matterport builds a mesh dollhouse you walk through. We capture a spherical photo from one spot — the Street View / Photo Sphere ritual — and host a look-around page. Faster, cheaper, phone-only. Not a floorplan model.
Not yet. Each published URL is one sphere from one standing spot. Shoot the living room, then the loft, as two links. If you need a clickable dollhouse, this is the wrong tool.
Open rooms shot from the center look good. Tight hallways and shooting over a desk will ghost. Stand in the middle, keep the phone close to your face, do not walk. If you drift, the capture screen warns you — walking is what kills the stitch.
No. The link is a webpage. Phone or laptop. Drag to look, pinch to zoom. Unlisted and kept out of search by default.
Not yet. Each page increments a look count. We are not tracking time-on-page or showing an analytics screen in this beta.
Yes. Unpublish from the sphere in the app. Anyone with the old URL gets a 404. Publish again and it comes back on the same URL.
iPhone beta
Early access is the capture app on your iPhone. Stitch a room, tap Publish, and anyone gets a look-around link on 360photo.app.
iPhone 11+, iOS 17. We’ll email a TestFlight link. Beta publishing is free.
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