Software Alternatives & Reviews

3DF Zephyr VS COLMAP

Compare 3DF Zephyr VS COLMAP and see what are their differences

3DF Zephyr logo 3DF Zephyr

Next up in my series of Photogrammetry Software Reviews — after ReMake, PhotoScan & RealityCapture — is 3DF Zephyr (including the Free version).

COLMAP logo COLMAP

Image-based 3D reconstruction pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface
  • 3DF Zephyr Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-04-14
  • COLMAP Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-17

3DF Zephyr videos

3D Scanning Review & Comparison: 3DF Zephyr Vs Autodesk Remake

More videos:

  • Review - 3d Modeling From Reality with 3DF Zephyr
  • Review - 3Dflow Academy - Videotutorial 1 - Basic 3DF Zephyr workflow - photogrammetry basics

COLMAP videos

Free Photogrammetry: Photos to model in 6 minutes with COLMAP

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to 3DF Zephyr and COLMAP)
3D
69 69%
31% 31
Architecture
66 66%
34% 34
Freelance
65 65%
35% 35
Photos & Graphics
76 76%
24% 24

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Social recommendations and mentions

COLMAP might be a bit more popular than 3DF Zephyr. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to 3DF Zephyr. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

3DF Zephyr mentions (1)

  • URGENT! 3D scanning service or someone with a 3D scanner needed today!
    Third link should be: https://3dscanexpert.com/3df-zephyr-photogrammetry-software-review/. Source: over 2 years ago

COLMAP mentions (1)

  • How to do Structure from motion (SfM) from a video in Blender?
    First there's COLMAP that seems to be able to work with SfM data. And then there's Blender-Addon-Photgrammetry-Importer which can take the output of COLMAP and import that into blender. Source: almost 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing 3DF Zephyr and COLMAP, you can also consider the following products

Regard3D - Regard3D is a free, multiplatform, open-source structure-from-motion application.

ContextCapture - Acute3D develops breakthrough photogrammetry software solutions to automatically turn photos into photorealistic high resolution 3D models

Pix4Dmapper - Photogrammetry software for professional drone-based mapping, purely from images.

Meshroom - Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision framework.

RealityCapture - RealityCapture is a software solution which automatically produces high resolution 3D models from photographs or laser-scans.

PhotoModeler - Learn more about the PhotoModeler software for generating 3D data, measurements and models of the real world using just a camera. Based on photogrammetry.