1st Impressions

I’ve reviewed a lot of apps here, but none have impressed me as much recently as AutoStitch Panorama.  The program really blew me away.  I expected it to do what it said it would, but was really impressed with how well it did it.  The single purpose of the program is to take a series of photos from your camera roll and “stitch” them all together into one large panorama.  In my playing around with the app, I stitched as many as 16 or 18 images together.  It didn’t matter what order I selected them in or if they were vertical or horizontal.  The program handled it all.

The final results look like something done with very expensive software on something with a lot more computing power than in iPhone.  I’ll post a small sample of one at the bottom of this review, but the full size image is 2940×736.  You can see it here. Once the image is all “stitched” together, you can save it in the combined screen resolution, and/or crop it into a nice rectangle first.

While the built-in help suggests a 30% overlap with each photo you select, I really pushed it and found it did a really good job with quite a bit less than that.  And, while it really excels with outdoor shots without a lot of movement, it also worked surprising well with “people pictures” as long as the overlap and movement was kept to a minimum.

The dark vertical area in the very center of this image (partially obscuring one of the windows) is actually a person that was standing in the middle of the room in one of the photos. I took some of the area both with and without them there, and the program actually did a surprising job of recognizing the static background and using that instead of what I was expecting to be a real “double-exposed” look.

AutoStitch Panorama is $1.99 in the app store, and definitely makes my Must-Have list. Most of my reviewed apps don’t stay on my iPhone for very long. This is a well-earned exception. If you do much photography with your iPhone, you really need to check this app out.