As the Wikipedia “Comparison of photogrammetry software” article is somewhat overwhelming, I thought it would be useful to have an up-to-date and curated list of free or inexpensive1 photogrammetry solutions readily available for easy comparison:
| Platform | Price | Open Source | Creator | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VisualSFM | OS X, Linux, Windows | Free | No | Changchang Wu | |
| ReCap 360 | Web | Free, $55/yr premium | No | Autodesk | |
| 123D Catch | iOS, Android, Windows | Free, $9.99/mo premium | No | Autodesk | |
| PhotoScan Standard 2 | OS X, Linux, Windows | $179, $59 educational | No | Agisoft | |
| OpenDroneMap | Linux | Free | Yes | OpenDroneMap | |
| Python Photogrammetry Toolbox 3 | Linux, Windows | Free | Yes | Arc-Team |
Footnotes
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Here I take “inexpensive” to mean <$200/yr. I also am uninterested in Windows-only solutions. ↩
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See http://www.agisoft.com/features/compare/ to check features against the considerably more expensive “Professional” version ($3499, $549 educational). ↩
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The “Python Photogrammetry Toolbox” seems to be a term used somewhat interchangeably for various things: osm-bundler (a Python processing pipeline around Bundler/PMVS/CMVS), a Python GUI for this pipeline, and the ArcheOS Linux distribution which aggregates all these together. ↩
