Free guide · Oct 4, 2026

Turn your photos or video into a 3D scan

Set up Spirula Studio, capture your photos or video, and create your first 3D scene.

The short version

Spirula Studio is a free, open source app that turns ordinary photos or a phone video into a 3D Gaussian splat: a scene you can fly around in, render to video or turn into a textured mesh. Everything happens in one app. No Python, no PyTorch, no separate COLMAP install.

•What you need: a Windows, Linux or Mac computer with a GPU that supports Vulkan. NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and Apple Silicon all work.

•What you get: a 3D scan of a room, object or outdoor scene, viewable in the app or in a browser, plus image and video renders and an optional mesh.

•How to start: look at finished scans in the browser first (free, nothing to install), then download the app (under 60 MB) and try a short video of one object.

What's in the full guide

  1. 01From photos to a scan, in one app
  2. 02What hardware you need
  3. 03Step 1: Look before you download
  4. 04Step 2: Download and open the app
  5. 05Step 3: Capture your photos or video
  6. 06Step 4: Run your first scan
  7. 07Step 5: View, render and export
  8. 08Honest limits
  9. 09Where to go next

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