PanoRyse
Version 3.5 for Windows

Panoramas, photos and the night sky. One app.

PanoRyse stitches panoramas, develops your photos with real layers and masks, and takes astro frames all the way to a finished image. It runs on your computer, works offline, and is built on its own engine written in Rust.

Download: coming early December 2026 Read the docs

No subscription. Free core; Pro segments are AUD 30 each, once, for life, and each has a 14-day trial.

Scenic

Stitch landscapes, cities and interiors, then develop them with the tools you know from a raw editor, in the same window.

  • Stitching you can check. A Pre-stitch Check looks at your photos before you stitch (blur, soft or black borders, dark corners, exposure, overlap). After the stitch, the Stitch Check lists seams, exposure steps, ghosting, misregistration and holes, each with a one-click fix.
  • Control over the geometry. Automatic and manual control points, vertical and horizontal line points, lens groups for mixed lenses, viewpoint correction, and seventeen output projections from cylindrical and spherical to Panini, Mercator, stereographic and Hammer.
  • Round trips with the tools you already use. Open and save PTGui (.pts), Hugin (.pto) and Autopano (.pano) projects with their control points, lens settings and masks; a Lightroom Classic plug-in sends photos to PanoRyse and brings the panorama back as a DNG or TIFF; Photoshop PSD and PSB files keep their layers both ways.
  • Develop with real layers. Basic, white balance, HSL, colour grading, curves, detail and lens corrections; adjustment layers with brush, gradient, radial, sky, subject, depth, colour and luminance masks; picture layers with blend modes and opacity.
  • Large output. HDR bracket merging, the 360 degree wrap, gigapixel tiled TIFF and BigTIFF, PSB, EXR, lossless WebP and an HTML 360 viewer.
PanoRyse Develop tab with a stitched four-frame alpine lake panorama and the Stitch Check open in the inspector
A four-frame panorama with the Stitch Check open.
An alpine lake with pines at golden hour (AI illustration)images/hero/hero-scenic-panorama.jpg

Night & Astro

From lights, darks, flats and bias to a finished picture, with a 3D sky to plan the next night.

  • Calibration and full-resolution stacking. Frames are sorted into lights, darks, flats, bias and dark flats from their FITS headers, their pixels and their names, and you can override any of them. Every light is then read again at full size as linear data, calibrated with master bias, dark, dark flat and flat, registered on the stars and weighted by noise, sharpness and star count; bad frames are left out with a reason. Sigma-clipped or winsorised rejection runs in memory-limited bands in the background, with Cancel: 50 phone raw files of 12.6 megapixels stack in about 19 seconds.
  • Plate solving, offline. The built-in Hipparcos catalogue solves wide fields with no hint; the optional Tycho-2 pack solves telescope fields under 6 degrees around an approximate centre.
  • Stars on their own layer. Star separation puts a Starless layer and a Stars layer in Develop, so you can stretch the nebula and keep the stars small. The optional learned star remover (a data pack) leaves no traces of diffraction spikes.
  • A sky that stays black. Auto colour (astro) removes gradients, neutralises the background, calibrates star colour by scaling only and sets the black point to the level you choose.
  • Plan a shot. A guided planner, one click from the Night & Astro top bar: where you are, a month calendar of good, fair and poor nights (darkness, the Milky Way core and the Moon), the night's timeline, where to point, and camera settings by the NPF and 500 rules. A step-by-step tracker guide shows tonight's pole on the polar-scope clock.
  • The 3D Sky Atlas. The sky over your place and time, then out through the Solar System and the Milky Way to Sagittarius A* and Andromeda. Plan shots against the real terrain skyline and follow satellite passes.
The Sky Atlas Cosmos view close to Sagittarius A*, with the black hole's shadow, photon ring and accretion disc
The Cosmos view at Sagittarius A*.
The Sky Atlas Earth Sky view of the Milky Way core over Sydney on a June evening
Earth Sky: the Milky Way core over Sydney in June.

Coming soon: the learned star remover as the default engine (the classical one stays as a gentler option), automatic mosaics, drizzle, and the full-quality stacked master saved with the project.

Drone / 3D

Aerial panoramas guided by the drone's own telemetry, and 3D views of where and how they were taken.

  • Telemetry-guided stitching. GPS, altitude and gimbal angles from DJI XMP and EXIF guide the matching and place frames that have little detail, such as open sky or water.
  • Flight path, map and terrain. See the flight in 3D over the real place, with OpenStreetMap and terrain heights fetched only when you agree.
  • Orthomosaics for survey flights, and nadir and boundary infill for spheres.
  • 3D views and viewers. Depth and point views of a panorama, a viewer for .splat and .ply files, and an HTML 360 viewer to share a sphere.
An aerial mosaic of a river delta, six overlapping frames stitched in PanoRyse's Drone mode
An aerial mosaic: six overlapping frames stitched in Drone mode.

AI Assist and MCP

Ask in plain words. The built-in assistant runs on your computer; a cloud model is used only when you choose one and press Send.

  • Local first. The built-in model needs no network. It answers from the Stitch Check and the Pre-stitch Check, levels horizons, removes bad control points, selects sky or subject, and plans shots ("when is the best night for Orion").
  • Your own provider if you want one. Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok, or a local server such as Ollama or LM Studio, with your own key.
  • You stay in charge. A cloud model's request to read or write a file waits for your Allow or Deny. Every action is an undo step.
  • MCP server. PanoRyse.exe --mcp lets any MCP client drive the same engine: import, stitch, develop, crop and export.
The AI Assist drawer answering a request to check the stitch
AI Assist answering from the Stitch Check.

Ownership

Your photos stay on your computer, and the licence is yours for good.

Offline

Stitching, developing, stacking and plate solving run on your computer. Online services (maps, terrain, catalogue downloads, satellite data, AI providers) are contacted only when you ask.

Lifetime licences

Pay once per Pro segment, AUD 30, and keep it. Licences are checked on your computer with a signed licence file; there is no subscription.

No cloud uploads

PanoRyse never uploads your photos. The website has no cookies, analytics or trackers either.

Your look

Three themes: PanoRyse Default, Dark and Light. A sun and moon toggle in the title bar switches them, and Settings > Appearance previews each one.

Its own engine

Alignment, blending, plate solving and star separation are PanoRyse's own code, written in Rust. One portable program, no runtimes to install.

What it is for

The kinds of picture PanoRyse is made for. These are AI illustrations made for PanoRyse, not screenshots.

Modern buildings on a waterfront at blue hour (AI illustration)images/gallery/scenic-city-blue-hour.jpg
A jetty on a misty lake at dawn (AI illustration)images/gallery/scenic-360-interior.jpg
A coastal town and harbour from the air (AI illustration)images/gallery/drone-coastline.jpg
Snow mountains at night reflected in still water (AI illustration)images/gallery/planning-night-sky.jpg
The Milky Way over a line of trees (AI illustration)images/gallery/astro-galaxy.jpg

Pricing

The core is free. Add only the Pro segments you need.

Free

AUD 0

  • All three modes with their basic tools
  • Stitching, alignment, projections, crop
  • Develop on the base photo
  • Manual masks (brushes from 20 to 150 px)
  • Exports up to 4K
  • Plate solving, Auto colour (astro), the shot planner and tracker guides
  • AI Assist and the MCP server
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Scenic Pro

AUD 30 once

  • Lens groups, line points, viewpoint
  • Automatic masks, large brushes, HDR merge
  • Adjustment layers and automatic local masks
  • Gigapixel and interchange export
  • Daytime stacking (coming soon)
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Night & Astro Pro

AUD 30 once

  • Full-resolution stacking with calibration frames
  • Star separation and the learned star remover
  • GHS stretch
  • Sky Atlas, terrain skyline, satellites
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Drone / 3D Pro

AUD 30 once

  • Flight path and terrain views
  • Orthomosaics
  • Depth and splat views
  • HTML 360 viewer export
Details

Every Pro segment has its own 14-day free trial, started when you choose. Free exports go up to 4K; larger exports need any one Pro segment.

Ready to try it?

One portable program for 64-bit Windows. No installer needed. Coming early December 2026.

Download: coming early December 2026