DahlierStudio for Windows

A folder in.
A tour out. No rent.

Drop 360° photos into a €10 Windows app. Get a tour you host anywhere with a URL and keep for good.

See what it does

One payment. No account. No "we've updated our pricing" email, ever. Not happy inside 30 days, email me and the money comes back.

Room Living Room

The tour could not start here. Open it on its own page.
Living RoomVilla Adele · schematic

A real exported tour of a real villa, running from a real folder. Drag to look around. Click an arrow on the floor, or a room on the plan, and pretend you are there.

Your photos, before and after therapy

Real photos, straight from the camera, put through the app. Every state below is real output. No mock-ups were harmed.

A 360° photo straight from the camera: flat, grey, underexposed snow The same photo after the automatic colour pass: white snow, blue sky From the cameraAfter one click

Every photo in the folder gets the same pass: white balance, exposure, contrast. There are sliders too, if you enjoy fiddling.

Before The bottom band of a 360° photo with the tripod visible under the camera
After The same band with the tripod erased and the floor filled in

The bottom of every 360° photo is the tripod you were standing on. One click erases it from every shot and fills the floor back in. There is also a brush, for the ladder somebody left in the hallway.

Inside the living room of the demo tour: a chevron lying flat on the wooden floor, pointing through the doorway to the entrance

Rooms are linked with arrows that lie on the floor and point where you are going. Not billboards hovering at eye level like a lost drone.

A lone house at night with a single warm lit window, under a teal sky and bare trees
The window is where every tour starts.
  • An optional helper that does the whole build

    It reads the photos, names the rooms, links them, aims the arrows, picks a starting view. It runs on your own Anthropic key, so it costs you pennies and me nothing, which is how a €10 app stays €10.
  • One folder out

    An index.html, a tour.json, your photos. Host it on your site, a client's site, a free Cloudflare page, or a memory stick you will lose in a drawer.
  • Works with the camera you already own

    Insta360, Ricoh Theta, DJI Osmo 360, the one you bought in 2019 and used twice. No stitching step, no plug-in, no cloud upload.
  • No account

    Nothing to sign in to, nothing that expires, no company that can switch your work off because two bigger companies disagreed about an API.
Near: lies flat on the floor Mid: aimed at the doorway Far: the one pointing back The same drawn object at every distance, in perspective

The arrow: small, flat, and the reason nobody gets lost

Most tools stick a flat icon in the air. People stop and squint at it. A chevron drawn on the floor in perspective reads as a path, and visitors walk it without a second thought.

Three steps. One of them is waiting.

The whole job, drawn to scale. You do the first step. The app does the middle one. The last one is a folder appearing on your disk.

01 · your photos 02 · colour, tripod, arrows 03 · the tour Drop a folder. Get a folder. Nothing lives in between.
  1. Drop the folder inyou · 10 seconds

    The 360° photos straight from the camera. Nothing renamed, nothing stitched, nothing uploaded anywhere.

  2. The app builds the tourit · a few minutes

    Colour and exposure fixed, the tripod erased from every floor, rooms named and linked, arrows laid on the floor. The optional helper does the naming and linking on its own.

  3. A folder comes outyours · forever

    index.html, tour.json, your photos. Put it on any host, embed it with one line, hand it to the client. It works with the app closed, the laptop off, and the company gone.

It is a folder. That is the product.

This is the exact export running at the top of the page. Nothing is hidden on a server, because there is no server.

FileSizeWhat it is
index.html64,930 BThe viewer. Self-contained, runs in any browser, including the one your client has not updated since 2021.
tour.json5,583 BRooms, arrows, starting views, music. Human-readable, if you are into that.
assets/pano/10 files · 13.9 MBYour photos, colour-fixed, tripod gone.
assets/thumbs/10 files · 83 kBThumbnails for the room list.
assets/lib/1.7 MBThe WebGL engine, vendored, so nothing phones home.
assets/icons/42 kBArrow, ring, pin. The whole icon budget.
assets/music.mp34.5 MBBackground music, optional. Mute button included, for the love of everyone.
_headers277 BCache rules if you host it on Cloudflare Pages. Otherwise decorative.

Copy the folder anywhere and it works. Embed it with one iframe. Hand it to a client and it is theirs. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, the app on your disk keeps working and every tour you ever exported keeps working, because there is no server in the middle to feel sorry for.

Revision note, October 2025. Zillow removed every Matterport tour from its listings after the two companies could not agree on a contract. Thousands of people watched tours they had paid for vanish overnight. Nobody who kept their tours as plain files lost a thing. Funny how that works. Inman, 20 Oct 2025

Built for places like this

Cabins, villas, rentals, listings. Anywhere a flat photo does not do the job, and a monthly bill should not be the price of showing it.

Every interior here is a real Dahlier tour of a Hawkhill villa. The aerial is not ours: Sergey Guk, on Pexels.

Ten euros. Once.

What three years of making tours costs with each tool, measured on one line. Some lines needed more room than others.

MatterportStarter from $10 a month, plus about $20 a month per active space. Spaces, plural, obviously.
$1,080and rising with every space
Pano2VR 8€300 a year since May 2026. Version 7 was a one-time €499. Was.
€900
Kuula Pro$20 a month billed yearly, $24 monthly. Tours cannot be exported. At all.
$720
3DVista VT ProOne-time desktop licence. Respect.
$499
Dahlier StudioOne-time. Unlimited tours. Yours to keep, sell, or forget about.
€10

Sources: kuula.co/page/pricing, ggnome.com, Pano2VR 8 release, 3dvista.com/en/store, travvir.com, Matterport pricing explained. Prices as published in August 2026, in the currency each vendor quotes. Matterport drawn at the Starter plan with one active space; most people run more.

€10one time

That is the whole price. No tiers, no upsell, no subscription later, no "founder's plan". I am not going to change my mind about that, and it is in the terms, so I could not if I tried.

Windows 10 or 11. The installer is about 75 MB and the download starts the moment you pay. Checkout is a Stripe page; cards and the usual wallets work. The optional AI helper uses your own Anthropic key. Windows may warn about a new publisher the first time you run it; that is the signing certificate still in the post.

Not happy? Email me inside 30 days and I send the money back. No form, no hoops, no survey about why.

General notes

Really one time?

Really. Ten euros, no subscription, no account, no upsell. I know. Sit down.

What do I need?

A Windows 10 or 11 machine and some 360° photos. Any camera that saves equirectangular JPGs: an Insta360, a Ricoh Theta, an Osmo 360, whatever is in the drawer.

Does the AI helper cost extra?

It is optional and runs on your own Anthropic key, so you pay Anthropic directly for what you use, usually pennies per tour. The rest of the app has never heard of the internet.

Where do my tours live?

Wherever you put the folder. There is a one-click deploy to a free Cloudflare page built in, or hand the folder to a client and make it their problem.

Is the download safe?

It is a normal Windows installer. Windows may warn about a new publisher the first time, the way it does with anything not made by Microsoft. A signing certificate is in progress, along with the paperwork.

Mac?

Windows only for now. That is the honest answer, and I would rather give you that than a roadmap.

€10one time · keep it forever