What's new in Swyvl

This release brings drawings and documents into the site alongside the scans, and makes large photogrammetry models look as good up close as they do in the software that made them.

PDFs

PDFs now open in a full viewer: page thumbnails, the PDF’s own bookmarks, text search, working links, and printing of the original. Pin notes, areas and sketches on any page, or select text to comment on it.

• Scale and measuring. Set a drawing’s scale by typing the ratio printed on it or, more reliably, by measuring something of known length. Use it for every page or one at a time, then measure distances and areas on the drawing.
• Fill & sign (paid plans). Fill in form fields, add text, drawing and highlights, and sign. Draw, type or upload your signature; a photo of your signature on paper has the background removed, and you can keep it for next time, privately. Download the result, save it as a new file, or save it into the same file with the original kept and one click to reset.
• Organize pages (paid plans). Rotate, reorder by dragging, delete or pick pages. Save over the original and notes, measurements and scales move with their pages.

On the Free plan you can view, search, print and download PDFs, add notes and links, and measure. PDF now has its own card in Upload by type.

Links between files

Link a spot in one file to another file in the site: a plan to the scan of a room, one 360 photo to the next, a drawing to its point cloud. Choose Add to the viewer → Link to a file, pick the file, and click where the link goes. In the workspace the linked file opens beside the one you’re in. Links work on share links that include both files, and the link offers to add a missing file to a share link for you.

Sharper 3D models up close

Large photogrammetry 3D Tiles, from DJI Terra and others, now load their finest detail as you zoom in.

• Detail opens at High on computers and Medium on phones and tablets. Max is new, for close inspection of things like cracks in a wall.
• Terrain has a new Flat option for models at the coast or below the ground, where the globe’s land and sea could cover parts of the model.
• Save your Detail and Terrain choices on a file and it opens that way for everyone.

Source photos from DJI Terra

Zip a whole DJI Terra project folder and upload it. Swyvl finds the model, the photos and where each was taken, so every photo shows as a dot on the model; click one to see the original beside it. No camera export needed. The photo filter (straight down, angled, camera direction) now lives in the photo panel, and closing a photo gives the model the full width again.

3D models

• Upright. Drone and photogrammetry models that load lying on their side now stand upright automatically, and View → File setup → Stand upright fixes any we miss.
• Big sites open framed, instead of starting blank.
• Tiled exports become one model. Zip a DJI Terra or ContextCapture export that’s split into blocks and every block is joined into one model.
• Models sent as loose files now stop at upload with a prompt to zip them first, so textures and parts aren’t lost.

Measuring on drawings

• Hold Shift to lock a line to 15° steps for square corners and straight runs, on PDFs, photos and video.
• A distance shows its length in the middle of the line, and an area its value in the middle of the shape.

Smaller changes

• The thumbnail strip along the bottom of the viewer shows by default for photos and 360s only. Switch it on for any file in View → File setup.
• Deleting from the Trash asks before removing files for good.
• 360 video from DJI’s Osmo 360 and Avata 360 opens in the 360 viewer even when the camera leaves out the 360 tag.
• Files Swyvl can’t open in the browser now say what they are and what to upload instead, and their cards say “No preview”.
• Sketch notes exported to PDF include their drawing.
• Logos must be PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF images.

More in the docs.

This release is about getting more of your data in, in the right place, and looking at it closely.

Place 3D models in your scans

Put a design model, a piece of equipment or a proposed structure into the scan of the site. Open an XGRIDS scene, a point cloud or a 3D Tiles set, choose 3D model from the place menu on the bar at the bottom of the viewer, pick a model from the site, and move it with the handles: drag the arrows to slide it, the ring to turn it, the white cubes to scale it, or the center ball to move it freely. Save, and the model stays where you put it the next time anyone opens the scan.

More 3D model formats

DAE (Collada), 3DS, USD and USDZ, Blender (.blend), Rhino (.3dm), STL, OFF and 3MF files now convert to a model that opens in the browser, alongside the formats Swyvl already read. Swyvl records each model’s units, so an STL drawn in millimeters comes in at the right size. SketchUp files can’t be read directly yet; export them as DAE, FBX or glTF and upload that.

A guided way to upload

A new site now shows what Swyvl does with each type of data, from drone photos and 360 video to point clouds, orthomosaics and CAD. Once a site has files, Upload by type sits beside Upload files.

Pick a type and the upload asks for the files that belong together, then checks them before anything uploads:

• Drone video with its flight log, so the video plays on the map along its flight path.
• 360 photos or video with a GPS track, with a check that the GPX times match the photos, and a map preview of where each one will land. The track is optional when the photos or video carry their own GPS.
• An orthomosaic or 3D model with its source photos and camera export.

Inspection views

Upload an orthomosaic or a photogrammetry model together with the photos it was made from and the camera export from Metashape or RealityScan (RealityCapture), and Swyvl places every photo where it was taken. Open the inspection view and click any camera position to see the original photo beside the model.

The source photos fold into the orthomosaic or model in the Files list, behind a Photos × N badge, so a capture of several hundred photos doesn’t bury the deliverable. Share links that include the orthomosaic or model now include its photos too.

Pin a note on a photo and it lands on the orthomosaic or 3D model at that spot, then shows in every other photo that sees it. 3D Tiles exported in a local grid are placed on the map using the photos’ positions.

Uploads

• The upload list marks every finished file as done, and Clear finished empties it.
• 360 photos placed from a GPX track have their navigation arrows switched on.
• Photos placed from a CSV flight log recorded in UTC now land in the right place when the photos are in local time.
• Every .srt flight log in a zip pairs with its video, not just the first.
• 360 video from cameras that record their own GPS track, such as the Ricoh Theta X, is placed from that track directly, which is faster for large files.

Smaller changes

• Teams working from one office connection no longer share a rate limit; limits now apply per person.
• A new file types page lists everything Swyvl opens and what to upload for each.

This release follows a site through time. Notes made on one scan now appear on the next one, clients can mark up a view when they reply, and big scans are handled with more care.

Notes carry over to later scans

A note pinned on one scan of a site now shows at the same spot on the site’s other scans: in the point cloud, and in the 360 photos of an E57. Notes made on maps, orthos and 3D Tiles travel the same way. Each one shows as a hollow pin, labeled with the file and capture it came from, so you can see what was found in June while you look at September’s scan.

This works between scans that have a coordinate system (a projected EPSG code). Scans exported in a local frame don’t carry notes over yet, and carried-over notes show in the hub for now, not on share links. Both are on the roadmap.

Sketch on a reply

The pencil next to the reply box lets you draw on the current view and send the sketch with your reply. View markup on a reply flies to that view and shows the drawing. Clients invited to a share link can reply with a sketch too.

Scans

• Millimeter precision. E57, PTX, PTS, XYZ and PLY point clouds are now converted at 1 mm instead of 1 cm, so measurements keep the detail your scanner captured. LAS and LAZ keep their own precision, as before.
• Big E57s go where they fit. Dense E57 scans are now sent to our large-file processing by point count as well as file size. We’ve tested E57s of over 450 million points.
• Incomplete files explained. If an E57 or LAZ arrives shorter than the file says it should be, after an interrupted download or export, Swyvl tells you how much is missing and what to do, instead of showing a technical error.
• Point clouds with coordinates now measure in their coordinate system in the viewer.

Uploads

• A new collection is named after the date your files were captured, now including E57 scans. Type your own name and it’s kept.
• When an upload finishes, the Files tab scrolls to it.

Roadmap

The roadmap moves to Settings › Roadmap, next to About, on paid plans. Switch between cards and a list, vote features up or down, and tick Notify me when released to get one email when a feature ships. Recently released now shows the last 90 days.

Smaller changes

• Set this view as the start view is now at the top of the View menu for every file type.
• The reply box and its buttons line up properly.

More on the notes page, and step by step in the docs.

A release built from a week of testing notes on real jobs. Sharing gets simpler, sketches get proper drawing tools, and E57 scans with 360 photos get much easier to move around.

Share from the file, at this view

Share in the top-right corner of any file now has two tabs: Links, the share links the file is already on, and New link. Copy a link that opens on this file, preview it as a client sees it, or make a new one without leaving the file.

Tick Open at this view and the address you copy opens exactly where you are: the camera, the lists and filters in your Notes panel, the notes you’ve hidden, and how pins and areas display. On an E57 it keeps the Split, 360° or Cloud layout and the photo you’re in. The view belongs to the address, not the link, so you can send a different view on the same delivery without changing it for anyone who already has it. Clients can still clear the filter or show a hidden note for themselves.

Manage share links in the site opens the Sharing tab showing only the links with this file, and the Sharing tab now has a search box.

Sketch tools

The sketch toolbar has been rebuilt along the lines of Google Drawings:

• Shapes: rectangle, ellipse and polygon, with a fill color and opacity.
• Lines with a choice of ends: plain, arrow, open arrow, dot or square.
• Select to move, resize and restyle anything you’ve drawn, with corner and end handles.
• Line color, weight and dash, set while you draw or afterward. The next shape, and your next sketch, starts with the same style.
• Download on a sketch note saves the picture with your drawing on it.

E57 scans with 360 photos

• Walk inside the photo. The ring that follows your cursor in the point cloud now works in the 360 photo too: point at the ground and click to hop to the next photo, still facing the same way.
• Start view. Set where an E57 opens from any layout: straight into a 360 photo facing a chosen way, side by side, or the point cloud at a chosen camera.
• Sketch what you see. A sketch captures the point cloud, the 360 photo, or both side by side, and reopens in the same layout and photo.
• Hide the 360 photo locations in the point cloud from the View menu, for a cleaner cloud.
• Leica and Matterport 360s. Leica Cyclone REGISTER 360, Leica Cyclone FIELD 360 and Matterport store each 360 photo as six cube faces. Swyvl now stitches them into proper 360 photos.

Notes

• Show several lists at once in a file’s Notes panel, and filter by kind (measurements included), who sees it, author and each of your fields.
• Group a file’s notes by Type, Trade or any of your fields.
• Hide a single note, or a whole kind such as all sketches, from the viewer.
• Fields take several values, so a note can be both Electrical and Mechanical. Bulk add or remove a value on the Notes tab, and fields now come through in CSV, JSON and PDF exports.
• Note areas can show always, faded or only when selected. Hover a pin to see its area.
• Duplicate a list, move a pin after it’s saved, and add or remove attachments when editing a note.
• @mentions read as names while you type.
• New Site hazards icons: asbestos, lead, silica, confined space, live services, excavation, incomplete scaffold and working at heights, alongside more ISO 7010 safety signs.

More on the notes page, and step by step in the docs.

Many terrestrial scanners save a 360° photo at every scan position, inside the E57 itself. Until now those photos sat in the file unseen. Swyvl now pulls them out when you upload the E57 and shows them right beside the scan.

One file, all its photos

The E57 stays one file in your list, with a 360° × N badge showing how many photos it holds. Only the E57 you uploaded counts toward your storage, and deleting or restoring the E57 takes its photos with it.

Side by side

• Scan positions show as discs in the point cloud. Click one to open that 360° photo.
• Each photo opens next to its point cloud. Switch between Split, 360° and Cloud, and swap sides in Split.
• Sync view links the two both ways: turn the photo and the cloud turns with it, and the other way round. Move through the cloud and the nearest photo opens.
• Click to walk: in Walk mode, a ring follows your cursor across the floor and a smaller ring marks the photo you’ll land at. Click to go there.

Notes and measurements in both

Notes and measurements on these files live on the point cloud and show in the 360° photos too, lines and areas included. Click in a photo to add a note and it lands on the 3D point the photo shows, so it appears in every other photo that can see it.

On the map, or not

If the E57 has a coordinate system, its photos are also placed on the map as a tour. If it doesn’t, the side by side view still works from the scan positions in the file.

Also fixed

• E57s from newer scanner software (written with libE57Format 3.2 or later) failed with an “E57 exception”. They now process. If one of yours failed, open it and click Reprocess.
• An E57 that holds 360° photos but no readable scan points now opens as its photos rather than failing.

It all works the same on share links. Step by step in the docs.

The biggest release since measuring: notes that live on the data itself. A note sits on the exact spot in the point cloud, orthomosaic, scan or photo it’s about, and keeps the view it was made from, so anyone who opens it later sees what you saw.

Notes

Open a file, expand the pill at the bottom of the viewer and choose Note:

• Pin a spot, trace an Area, or make a Volume (an outline plus a height).
• Sketch: capture the current view and draw on it.
• Attach photos, documents and links, pick a color and icon, and set who sees it: Just me, Team, or Shared with clients.
• On video, a note can apply to a time window.

Measurements can now be saved too. Save measurement keeps one with the file as a note, with its value and view, and it reads in whoever is looking’s units.

Working through them as a team

• Replies with photos and checklists, @mentions, and Assign to.
• A notifications bell for mentions, assignments and replies, with emails grouped so a busy thread doesn’t flood your inbox.
• Resolve notes as they’re done.
• Here: on maps, orthomosaics and 3D Tiles, see notes made in other files that cover the same ground, not just the file you’re in.
• Optional tags and fields such as Trade or Priority, switched on per workspace.

Lists and walkthroughs

Gather notes into lists: a snag list, an inspection round, a walkthrough for a client. Drag to reorder, export a list as a PDF with a page per note, or share it on its own as a list link. A list link opens on the first note and steps through the list across files, with a simple step bar on phones.

The site Notes tab

Every note on a site, from every file, in one place: scopes for what’s assigned to you or mentions you, filters, saved views, bulk actions, and exports to CSV, GeoJSON, JSON, a ZIP with attachments, or a PDF.

Share links

• Clients can reply. People you invite to an Invite only link can reply to your shared notes, with photos. They’re guests, so they never take a seat. Invite links now last 7 days, keep clients signed in on their device, and clients can find every link they’ve been sent at their inbox page.
• Branding from the start. When you create a link you can now set its header, accent color, opening view and a client logo straight away, starting from your workspace’s branding.

Also new

• Your viewer settings follow you. Units, coordinates and how notes look are saved to your account and apply on every file. Each workspace sets the units its people and share-link visitors start with.
• One View menu in every viewer for what you see.
• AI file editing has been retired. Files edited with it still open, and Reset to original still works. Session summaries are now made when you ask for one.

Notes are on every plan. Free organizations can keep 10 saved notes and measurements; paid plans have no limit. More on the notes page, and step by step in the docs.

Two things people kept asking for: measure what they are looking at, and walk through a scan the way they would walk the site. Both are in, on the hub and on client share links.

Measurement tools

Open any 3D or map file and there is a small pill along the bottom of the viewer. Expand it and you get four tools:

• Point for a coordinate
• Distance, point to point or along a path
• Area, click the corners
• Height, the vertical difference between two points

They work on orthomosaics and other TIFFs, 3D Tiles, LAS/LAZ/E57 point clouds, XGRIDS LCC scans, Gaussian splats, and GeoJSON, shapefile and GPX files.

A few things worth knowing:

• Every measurement says how much to trust it. A georeferenced file is labeled Georeferenced, a file with true meters but no map position is True scale, and anything without a verified scale, such as a splat, is Indicative. Click the label and it explains why.
• Simple or Advanced. Simple gives you the number. Advanced adds the horizontal and vertical components drawn on the model, the deltas, slope, bearing, perimeter and edge lengths.
• Your units, your grid. Metric or imperial, with the unit chosen automatically or fixed. Coordinates can be read in WGS84, degrees-minutes-seconds, the file’s own grid, or the UTM zone. Files in US survey feet are handled properly.
• Click any number to copy it. The card can be dragged out of the way and stays where you put it.
• Measurements are for the session. They are not saved to the file, so you can measure freely on a client’s share link without changing anything. Update, October 2026: a measurement can now be saved as a note.

Walk through XGRIDS scans

XGRIDS LCC and LCC2 scans now open with a Walk mode that behaves like being there:

• Collisions keep you at eye level and out of walls, on any capture that includes a mesh. On by default, with a switch on the rail if you’d rather fly.
• Click the ground to walk there. A ring marks where you will land.
• Walking pace. 1× is a real walking speed. The slider goes down to a tenth of that for inspecting detail, and up to ten times for crossing a site. Hold Shift to move faster.
• Set up lets the file owner choose whether a scan opens in Orbit or Walk, the starting walk speed, and whether collisions start on.

The same controls on every viewer

Every 3D and map viewer now has the same layout, so nothing needs relearning between a point cloud and a tileset:

• A rail in the top-left with Reset view, Orbit and Walk, and a help pill that shows the navigation hints for that viewer.
• A View menu in the top-right for what you see: point coloring, size and quality on point clouds; backdrop, brightness and lens on splats; basemap on maps.
• 3D Tiles get a Detail level. Medium is the default. High streams finer tiles and renders at your screen’s full resolution, which is the difference between soft and sharp on a Retina display. The file owner sets the starting level in Set up.
• Point clouds: scroll to zoom works again in every browser, and Shift runs in Walk mode.
• Splats: a fresh Reset view after you save a start view, and measurements stay in place if you flip a file.

Custom base maps were meant to show up everywhere a map does. In practice a few surfaces were still falling back to a plain street map, and the most visible one was the map your clients see. That is fixed, along with a batch of viewer improvements that came out of customer feedback.

Your base maps now show on every map

If you’ve designated a site base map, a drone orthomosaic or a georeferenced site plan, it now draws underneath your markers on every map surface:

• The 360° tour map, in minimap, split and full view
• The GPS minimap beside a geolocated photo, a video with a GPS track, or a flight path
• All of the above on client share links, not just in your workspace

Hide street/satellite imagery now carries through to those maps too, so your own imagery really does become the whole background rather than drawing on top of a street map. And the color you pick for a collection now reaches your clients, instead of them seeing the default.

If you set a base map before today and wondered why your client’s tour looked different to yours, this is why.

360° video works with the map, not beside it

Three changes from feedback on 360° video paired with a GPS track:

• Click the track to scrub. Click anywhere on the flight path and the video jumps to the moment you were at that point.
• The marker shows where you’re looking. The cone on the map now turns as you look around, rather than only pointing along the direction of travel.
• Switching layout no longer restarts playback. Moving between minimap and split view keeps the video running where it was.

Bigger 3D Tiles

3D Tiles archives now extract up to 50 GB, up from 2 GB. Large city and site tilesets that previously stopped at the old cap will now come through.

Files tell you when something goes wrong

Previously, a file whose conversion failed could still be marked ready and then open to nothing. Now a failed conversion fails the file properly and shows you the reason, so a broken file looks broken instead of looking fine. Combined with the Reprocess button, a file that fails is something you can see and retry rather than something you discover later.

CAD drawings: DXF opens in the browser, DWG downloads

We had listed DWG as being converted to DXF automatically for browser viewing. That conversion was never reliable, so rather than leave the claim standing we’ve removed it. DXF files open in the CAD viewer with layers preserved, exactly as before. DWG files can still be uploaded, stored, shared and downloaded, they just don’t open in the browser. If you want a drawing viewable online, export DXF from your CAD application.

Update, October 2026: DWG files now open in the browser too.

A batch of viewer and download improvements, led by a much better way to explore 3D Gaussian splat scans.

Explore 3D scans in Orbit or Walk

Gaussian splat scans (SPZ and PLY) now open properly framed on the scene instead of parked far away, and there are two ways to move around:

• Orbit spins the scene in front of you: drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, double-click to focus on a point.
• Walk puts you inside it: drag to look, WASD to move, Space and C for up and down, Shift to go faster.

Switch between them with the Orbit / Walk toggle, and press Reset view to jump back to the start at any time. Both are available to your clients on a share link too.

You can also set how the scene looks and save it for everyone who opens the file:

• Backdrop color behind the scan (Dark, Charcoal, Light or White)
• Brightness to lift or darken the whole capture
• Field of view, Standard for truer geometry or Wide for roomier interiors

Your clients see the polished result without needing to touch any of the controls.

Downloaded 360° video stays 360°

When you download the 4K or 1080p version of a 360° video, it now keeps its spherical metadata. That means it opens as a proper 360° video in external players like VLC or YouTube, instead of a flat, stretched image.

Pick which version you download

When a file has more than one version available, for example the original plus a 4K or 1080p rendition, the Download button now always opens a short menu so you and your clients can choose exactly which version to grab. No more downloading the wrong one by accident.

Retry a file that didn’t process

On the rare occasion a file fails to process, it now shows a Reprocess button in its detail panel. One click re-runs it, no need to delete and re-upload.

When you connect 360° photos into a walkable tour, Swyvl draws a line between each stop in the order they were captured. Usually that is exactly what you want. Sometimes a long gap between two groups of photos leaves a stray line stretched across the map.

Hide the lines you don’t want

Open a 360° photo, bring up the tour map, and click any connecting line to hide it. The line disappears for everyone you share the tour with, and the matching on-the-ground arrow inside the 360° view goes with it.

• Hidden lines stay visible to you as faint “ghost” lines, so you can click one to bring it back whenever you like.
• Clients only ever see the tidy result.

Zoom in closer

The site map now lets you zoom in a couple of levels further, so it is easier to line up and click the exact connection you want.

This release is all about the map: getting your data onto imagery that actually reflects the site, drawing your survey tracks, and giving you more control over the links you send to clients.

Custom base maps

Turn a georeferenced GeoTIFF — an orthomosaic, aerial, or site plan — into the background of your site’s map. Your photos, scans and tracks now sit on top of your own imagery instead of a generic street map.

• Add multiple base maps per site, drag to reorder them, and set the opacity of each.
• Toggle “Hide street/satellite imagery” so your orthomosaic becomes the whole background.
• Choose whether a base map also appears as a downloadable file, or stays as map furniture only.
• Base maps show everywhere the map does — in your workspace, on client share links, and in the viewer.

GPX tracks on the map

Upload a GPX track alongside your photos and Swyvl will:

• Draw the route as a line on the map.
• Place your 360° photos along the track by their capture time — and the GPX now takes priority over a camera’s built-in GPS, so a weak or missing camera fix no longer leaves a photo stranded off the line.

A rebuilt map experience

• A “Map content” panel to switch layers on and off, cluster or separate your markers, and color-code collections.
• Connected 360° tours — step through a walk street-view style, with a synced mini-map, split view, or full-screen map.
• Faster photo-to-photo navigation, and a full-width, map-first layout for client share links.

Editable share links

You can now change a share link after you’ve created it — no need to delete and start over:

• Change who can access it — public, password, or invite-only.
• Change which files are shared, and whether new uploads are included automatically.
• See the password you set, with a copy button — not just set it and forget it.

A polish release for the two moments that matter most: looking at your data, and handing it to a client.

Crisper, deeper imagery

Orthomosaics and GeoTIFFs are now rendered and streamed from our servers rather than assembled in your browser:

• Sharper tiles at every zoom level, with none of the seams or gray patches on big imagery.
• Zoom in further — inspect the detail your drone actually captured.
• Large orthomosaics open faster, on any device.

3D that appears as it arrives

Gaussian splats now load progressively — the scene starts rendering while the file is still downloading, with a real progress bar instead of a blank screen. Big photorealistic captures feel dramatically quicker to open.

Share links that carry your client’s brand too

With custom branding you can now go further than your own logo:

• Add your client’s logo to a share link — ideal when you’re delivering under their banner.
• Choose the landing view clients see first — the map, a card gallery, or a list.
• Fine-tune your accent color so the whole page matches your brand.

Big captures deserve a platform that doesn’t flinch. This release raises the ceiling — a lot.

Files up to 100 GB

The upload limit is now 100 GB per file. That city-block point cloud, the full-resolution orthomosaic of an entire mine site, the uncut 8K flight — upload it as-is.

A new engine for very large files

Behind the scenes, the biggest files now run through dedicated heavy-duty processing built specifically for them. Multi-gigabyte point clouds and orthomosaics that previously could stall now convert reliably, every time — in every data region.

Swyvl in your pocket

The whole app has been redesigned for mobile. Check a site from the field, review a client’s feedback from the ute, or open a share link on your phone — everything now fits and works on a small screen, for you and for your clients.

A smoother first day

New team members get a cleaner start: a simpler sign-up, a short checklist that walks them from first site to first share link, and a proper welcome to the platform.

Two of the heaviest things you upload — video and 3D model packages — just got dramatically better to work with.

Video that streams like it should

• Every video you upload now gets a smooth web version that starts playing immediately, with a quality toggle up to 4K when the source supports it.
• 360° videos are detected automatically and open in an immersive viewer you can look around in.
• Clients get the same experience on share links — no more waiting for a multi-gigabyte file to download before they can watch it.

Zip in, 3D model out

Upload a zipped 3D model package — the model plus its texture files — and Swyvl unpacks it and builds a single interactive, fully textured 3D model you can orbit in the browser and share with a link.

Easier file organization

• Move files between collections with multi-select — reorganize a messy upload in seconds.
• Share-link downloads can now include the web-friendly versions of your files, so clients aren’t forced to pull the full-size originals.

Swyvl already recognizes what you upload. Now it can explain it — and change it — for you.

AI site briefs and session summaries

Get an instant, readable brief of any site — what’s been captured, when, and what’s in it — and a summary of each capture session. Perfect for catching up on a project you haven’t touched in a month, or writing the email that goes with a deliverable.

Ask for the file you actually need

Open a file and ask in plain English: convert this to a different format, make this image black and white, brighten it up. Swyvl produces a new version alongside the original — the source file is never touched.

Full version history for every file

• Replace a file with an updated capture while keeping its share links and feedback intact.
• Every file now has a history panel — see what changed and restore any previous version with one click.
• Download either the original file or the lighter web version, whichever you need.

A simpler way in

• Uploading now happens in a tidy progress sheet that you can minimize and keep working — with per-file processing status so you always know what’s ready.
• Signing in is now passwordless: we email you a secure link, you click it, you’re in. Nothing to remember, nothing to leak.

This release is about keeping large projects tidy and making everything feel quicker.

Collections

Group related files into collections within a site — a set of 360° photos from one walkthrough, all the deliverables for a milestone, or every capture from a single flight. Collections carry through to share links, so clients see your files organized the way you intended.

A rebuilt viewing experience

• Gaussian splats now open in a new, purpose-built viewer — smoother navigation and more reliable loading for photorealistic 3D captures.
• Moving between files no longer rebuilds the whole viewer — switching from one deliverable to the next is instant and stable, in your workspace and on client share links.

Everything got faster

• Pages, thumbnails and file lists load noticeably quicker, especially on sites with hundreds of files.
• Files are now processed in the same region where they’re stored, so uploads become viewable sooner wherever you are in the world.

Account security

You can now protect your account with two-factor authentication.

Swyvl is officially live. If you capture the physical world — drone surveys, laser scans, 360° walkthroughs, site photos — this is the home for all of it.

Organized by site, not by folder

Create a site for each physical location you work on, and Swyvl keeps every capture session, file and conversation in one place. No more hunting through project folders or three different cloud drives to find last month’s flight.

Drop files in — Swyvl figures out the rest

Upload straight from your browser. Swyvl recognizes what each file is — point cloud, orthomosaic, 360° photo, video, 3D model, CAD drawing and more — and automatically sets up the right interactive viewer, so anything you upload is instantly viewable online. No plugins, no downloads, no “can you send that in a different format?”

Share links your clients will actually open

Send clients a branded share link — your logo, your colors — with exactly the files you choose:

• Clients view everything in the browser: spin a point cloud, pan an orthomosaic, step through 360° photos.
• They can leave feedback directly on deliverables — no email chains.
• No account or software required on their end.

Built for teams, from day one

• Invite your team to your workspace and work on sites together.
• A full activity trail shows who uploaded, viewed and shared what, and when.
• Choose where your data lives at sign-up — eight regions across Australia, the US, UK, Europe, Canada, Japan and Singapore.