Pannellum
Matthew Petroff
π‘ Pick it for a free, lightweight panorama viewer with a mature JavaScript API.
Pannellum is a lightweight, open-source JavaScript panorama viewer for displaying 360-degree images in browsers. It targets developers who want a simple embeddable...
Pros
- Free and permissively licensed for many commercial uses
- Lighter and simpler to deploy than a full 3D framework
- Supports equirectangular, cubemap, and multiresolution panoramas
Cons
- Less feature-rich than commercial SDKs for complex applications
- Requires custom development for advanced tour workflows
- Visual customization is more limited than krpano or Pano2VR
Free, open source