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How to View 360° Photos on Your PC

The problem: your PC does not understand 360° photos

You shot great panoramas with an Insta360, GoPro Max or Ricoh Theta, copied them to your computer — and the default image viewer shows a weirdly stretched, distorted strip. That is because 360° cameras export equirectangular images: the full sphere around the camera unwrapped into a flat 2:1 rectangle, like a world map. To look around inside the photo, you need a viewer that wraps that rectangle back onto a sphere.

The fast way: view it in your browser

You do not need to install software. Open the free Picsorta 360° Panorama Viewer in any modern browser, then drag your 360° photo onto the page (or click "Open files"). You can load a whole batch at once and switch between panoramas in the thumbnail sidebar.

Everything runs locally in your browser. Your panoramas are never uploaded to a server.

Fixing a tilted horizon

Handheld 360° shots often come out slightly tilted. The viewer's Horizon tool fixes this in seconds: show the alignment line, place its two handles on any horizontal edge at eye level in your photo — a window sill, tile joint or table edge — and click Align. Pitch and roll are calculated automatically, with sliders for fine-tuning. The correction is remembered per image while your session is open.

What about 360° videos and camera raw files?

360° videos work too: MP4 with H.264, monoscopic equirectangular, up to roughly 4K–5.7K depending on your hardware, with normal play/seek/mute controls. Camera raw formats such as .insv or .lrv are proprietary and need one export step first: open them in your vendor's software (e.g. Insta360 Studio) and export as MP4, then drop that file into the viewer.

Supported formats at a glance

Once you have culled the best panoramas, you can organize the whole shoot with our Photo Sorter — assign folders to your arrow keys and file every image with one keypress. Both tools are free and private by design.