Software Alternatives & Reviews

MicMac VS COLMAP

Compare MicMac VS COLMAP and see what are their differences

MicMac logo MicMac

Open source Photogrammetric suite compatible with close range, aerial and satellite data.

COLMAP logo COLMAP

Image-based 3D reconstruction pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface
  • MicMac Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-08-09
  • COLMAP Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-09-17

MicMac videos

Basic steps : how to use MicMac with Windows [English subtitle]

COLMAP videos

Free Photogrammetry: Photos to model in 6 minutes with COLMAP

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to MicMac and COLMAP)
3D
52 52%
48% 48
Architecture
55 55%
45% 45
Freelance
56 56%
44% 44
Photos & Graphics
39 39%
61% 61

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, COLMAP seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. 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.

MicMac mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of MicMac yet. Tracking of MicMac recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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 MicMac and COLMAP, you can also consider the following products

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

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

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

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

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

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