Cupix vs CloudPano: Which is a better fit?

Gary: Hi, my name's Gary. I'm a freelance photographer. I am self-employed, and it's just me with my company. Although I do work with other photographers from time to time when we have larger events, we need covered. And I would give CloudPano a five star rating. Before I was using CloudPano, I started to use Matterport. I didn't use it very long though, just because I had some issues with not being able to edit the photos after you take them. With Matterport, you have to do all of that in-house. You can't edit the photos, what you shoot is what you get. I needed a particular option to be able to edit those photos for a job that I was working on where there was a lot of repetitive areas in the building. And it was confusing the Matterport system when it put the mesh together, so it was easier to go in manually. I switched over to CloudPano. It was easier to go in manually and edit those photos and really make sure that the quality was where we needed it to be. I liked CloudPano because I was able to go in and edit the photos after I shot them and really get the quality higher than some of the other products that are out there that you just shoot and whatever you get, you get. I also liked how CloudPano would adapt to things down the road. They've added some features recently that I'm using right now, and they're really open-minded when you send them suggestions to really take those at heart. So the community surrounding CloudPano is pretty cool, pretty easy to get started. With CloudPano, it's not very difficult. Obviously if you're using that program, you're already some sort of a photographer or videographer, so you're probably pretty well versed in most of the editing suites. It's pretty intuitive to be able to figure out what you're doing in putting a tour together and then also putting in the hotspots and the navigation points. So that's another key benefit I think of that software is because I can really edit and put together a virtual tour relatively quickly for large spaces. And I don't have a ton of production time on the backend if I don't really want to go into super detail on adding links and hot links and adding additional media. My recommendation for anybody that's considering CloudPano would be to do it and to do the lifetime license. That's my only regret is that when I signed up at the time, I wasn't sure how much work I'd be doing with 360 virtual tours and how many clients I'd have. So I just did the year to year plan, which I don't remember the cost of it. But essentially you can get the lifetime license for what amounts, I think three years of subscription when they have it discounted and then you don't have to pay anymore and then you're in forever. I like the fact with CloudPano that I can also, I charge my clients a hosting fee every year. So if you set it up right from the get-go, having the software and the cost that it takes for you to get the software will pay for itself once you have a few clients in.