Splat Labs vs SuperSplat — Why Professionals Choose Splat Labs

You Captured an Incredible 3D Scene. Now What?

You just walked through a property with your PortalCam, flew a drone over a construction site, or processed your photos through Postshot or Luma AI. You have a stunning Gaussian Splat file sitting on your computer.

Now comes the hard part: How do you actually get it to your client?

You could email a 500 MB file and hope they know how to open it. You could upload it to a community gallery where it sits next to everyone else's experiments. Or you could drop it into a folder on Google Drive and write a paragraph explaining how to download and view it.

Or you could share a single link. Your client clicks it, and they are instantly walking through a photorealistic 3D scene — on their phone, their laptop, or their tablet. No downloads. No plugins. No instructions. They can measure distances, view AI-generated floor plans, explore a guided virtual tour, and share it with their team.

That is what Splat Labs does. And that is the fundamental difference between Splat Labs and SuperSplat.

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The Core Difference

SuperSplat is a free, open-source tool built by PlayCanvas Ltd. It runs in your browser and lets you crop, clean up, and optimize Gaussian Splat files at the file level — deleting individual splats, transforming selections, compressing output. Think of it as raw file prep.

Splat Labs is where you turn that file into a professional deliverable. It is the cloud platform where you host, measure, annotate, stage, curate, and present your Gaussian Splats to clients and stakeholders. And there is a lot of editing involved — building guided walkthroughs, placing AI-staged furniture, adding measurements and annotations, capturing photos for deliverables, restricting navigation to create curated viewer experiences, connecting multiple scans with portals, and tracking changes over time. Splat Labs editing happens at the experience level, not the file level.

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More Than a Pretty Picture — Scene Intelligence

This is one of the biggest differences between Splat Labs and SuperSplat, and it is the one most people do not know about.

A Gaussian Splat on its own is just a visual. It looks stunning — photorealistic, immersive, cinematic — but it has no understanding of the space it represents. It does not know where the floor is. It does not know where the walls are. It cannot tell you the distance between two points. You can orbit and look, but you cannot navigate it like an actual space or measure it like a real scan.

Splat Labs changes that. When you upload a Gaussian Splat to Splat Labs, it can be paired with a companion 3D geometry file — a mesh that provides the scene intelligence layer underneath the visual splat. This geometry file gives the viewer an understanding of the physical space:

• Walkable surfaces — The viewer knows where the floors are, so cameras walk naturally through the space rather than free-flying through empty air. Clients experience the space the way they would in person — walking room to room, not orbiting like a drone.
• Walls and obstructions — The geometry defines boundaries. The camera cannot clip through walls or phase through furniture. Navigation feels real and intuitive.
• Measurement anchors — Because the geometry carries real-world scale, you can click two points and get a precise distance. Measurements are not approximations — they are anchored to actual surfaces.
• Spatial awareness — The system understands what is a floor, what is a wall, what is a ceiling. This is what powers features like AI floor plan generation, interactive mini-maps, and constrained virtual tours.

This is what turns a Gaussian Splat from a "cool 3D visualization" into a useful spatial tool that professionals can actually work with.

SuperSplat has zero support for this. It is purely a splat editor — there is no concept of loading a companion geometry file alongside the splat, no collision meshes, no floor detection, no wall boundaries, and nothing that enables constrained navigation or measurement. In SuperSplat, you are always free-flying through the scene with no spatial awareness.

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What Makes Splat Labs the Professional Choice

Share With a Link — View on Any Device

Every project you upload to Splat Labs gets a unique, shareable URL. Send it to a client, a contractor, or an investor — they click and they are inside your 3D scene instantly. No app to download. No file to open. It works in any browser on any device.

What sets Splat Labs apart from basic viewers is how it delivers that experience:

• Intelligent streaming — Splat Labs streams data progressively so scenes load fast, even on mobile connections. SuperSplat loads the entire file into the browser at once, which means long wait times for large scenes.
• GPU/CPU idle state — When a viewer switches to another tab, Splat Labs automatically suspends rendering. Your device stays cool, your battery lasts, and you can have dozens of tabs open without your fans spinning up. SuperSplat keeps rendering in the background regardless, heating up your device and draining battery.
• Mobile-optimized — The Splat Labs viewer is built for phones and tablets. Smooth performance, touch controls, and efficient memory usage. SuperSplat's browser editor was designed for desktop workflows.

Professional Access Control

Sharing a 3D scene is not just about sending a link — it is about controlling who sees it and what they can do.

With Splat Labs, you can:

• Restrict access by email — Only specific people can view your project. No public links floating around.
• Separate deliverables from raw data — Show clients the polished final product while keeping raw scans private.
• Organize with folders — Group projects by client, property, or phase (Business plans and above).
• Manage team access — Multi-user accounts with role-based permissions (Enterprise plans).
• White-label your viewer — Remove Splat Labs branding entirely and present under your own brand (Enterprise plans).

SuperSplat offers public or unlisted gallery links — but no email restrictions, no access roles, no folder organization, and no white labeling. Every published splat carries SuperSplat/PlayCanvas branding.

Embed Anywhere — One Line of Code

Real estate agents embed splats on Zillow and MLS listings. Construction firms embed progress scans on project dashboards. Architects drop them into client portals. Splat Labs makes this effortless with a single <iframe> embed code that works on any website:

• WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, Wix, Notion
• Zillow, Realtor.com, MLS platforms
• React, Next.js, and custom web apps
• Client portals and internal dashboards

The embed viewer is fully interactive — visitors can rotate, zoom, and explore the 3D scene without leaving your page. And because of the intelligent streaming and idle state technology, embedded viewers are lightweight and performant.

Want to try it yourself? Follow our step-by-step guide: How to Embed a 3D Gaussian Splat Viewer on Your Website.

SuperSplat also supports basic iframe embedding of published gallery splats, but without the streaming optimization, mobile performance, or branding control that professionals need.

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AI Tools That No Other Platform Has

Splat Labs is the only Gaussian Splat platform with built-in AI capabilities powered by Gemini AI. These features transform raw 3D scans into professional deliverables — no design skills required.

AI Floor Plans

Upload a Gaussian Splat of a property and generate a professional floor plan with a single click. The AI analyzes your 3D scene, identifies rooms, walls, and doorways, and produces a clean floor plan that you can use as an interactive mini-map overlay. Clients can click on any room in the floor plan and instantly navigate there in the 3D scene.

AI Virtual Staging

Have an empty property? Type a text prompt — "modern Scandinavian living room with a gray sofa and warm lighting" — and Splat Labs generates a virtually staged version of your space. Need to remove existing furniture or clutter? The AI handles that too. No need to hire a staging company or a 3D designer.

SuperSplat does not offer any AI features — it is limited to manual file-level operations like cropping and transforming individual splats.

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Measure, Annotate, and Document

For professionals in AEC, surveying, and construction, measurements and documentation are non-negotiable.

Splat Labs provides precision measurement tools built directly into the 3D viewer:

• Distance measurements in 3D
• Area calculations for rooms, lots, and surfaces
• Height measurements for walls, ceilings, and structures
• Rich annotations — attach PDFs, video, voice notes, and text to specific locations in your 3D scene
• Saved measurement library — revisit and share measurements anytime

Measurements are anchored to the 3D geometry layer, so every measurement is tied to real-world surfaces in your scene. Professionals rely on these for proposals, progress reports, and documentation.

SuperSplat does not include any measurement or annotation tools — and because it has no scene intelligence layer, there is no foundation to build them on. It is focused on file editing, not documentation.

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Virtual Tours, Portals, and 4D Timelines

Virtual Tours

Set waypoints throughout a 3D scene and Splat Labs automatically generates a guided virtual tour with smooth animated transitions. Clients can follow the tour filmstrip or explore freely. Perfect for real estate walkthroughs, facility tours, and site inspections.

Fly-Through Movies

Create cinematic fly-through videos by placing camera waypoints in your scene. Splat Labs renders a smooth, professional video that you can export and share — great for marketing materials, presentations, and social media.

Portals — Connect Multiple Scans Into One Environment

Real projects are not a single scan. A property has an exterior and an interior. A campus has multiple buildings. A construction site has different floors, different wings, different phases.

With Portals, you connect multiple Gaussian Splat scans into one seamless, navigable environment. Link an exterior walkthrough to the front door. Step inside and continue exploring room by room. Jump to a different building on the same campus. Viewers move between scenes with a single click — no reloading, no separate links, no confusion about which file to open.

Portals work alongside Splat Labs' folder and project organization system. Group all the scans for a single property, client, or phase into a folder. Each scan is its own project with its own measurements and annotations, but they are all connected spatially through portals so the final experience feels like one cohesive environment.

SuperSplat has no concept of connecting multiple splat files into a unified experience. Each file is completely independent.

4D Timelines — Progress Tracking Over Time

This is where Splat Labs becomes indispensable for construction, renovation, and any project that changes over time.

Place multiple scans of the same location taken at different dates into a single project folder. Splat Labs links them into a 4D timeline that lets you scrub through time — toggling between scan dates to see exactly how the site evolved. Watch a foundation get poured, walls go up, and finishes get applied. Compare the as-built against the plan.

What makes this truly powerful is that measurements and annotations carry across time snapshots. Take a distance measurement on the January scan, switch to the March scan, and see how that same dimension changed. Add annotations at different points in the timeline to document progress, flag issues, or record decisions.

This is not just visual progress tracking — it is documented, measurable, annotated progress tracking that you can share with stakeholders via a single link.

SuperSplat supports basic 4D playback of multiple PLY files loaded sequentially, but without measurements, annotations, folder organization, or any of the project management that turns raw temporal data into a professional progress report.

Interactive Floor Plan Navigation

After generating an AI floor plan (or uploading your own), the floor plan becomes an interactive mini-map in the viewer. Clients can click on any room and instantly teleport there in the 3D scene. It gives spatial context to the entire experience.

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Immersive Viewing — VR, AR, and Beyond

Splat Labs supports immersive viewing across devices:

• VR support — Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro
• AR support — Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Android devices
• Browser-based — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge on any device
• Mobile-optimized — Intelligent streaming for smooth performance on phones and tablets
• No app required — Everything runs in the browser

SuperSplat also supports VR and AR viewing for published splats. Both platforms deliver immersive experiences, but Splat Labs' streaming optimization and idle state management make a significant difference for mobile and multi-tab workflows.

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File Format Support

Splat Labs supports all major Gaussian Splat formats:

• PLY (.ply) — The industry-standard point cloud format
• SPLAT (.splat) — Binary splat format
• KSPLAT (.ksplat) — Compressed splat format
• XGRIDS (.xgrids) — XGRIDS capture format
• LCC — Luma Camera Calibration data

SuperSplat supports PLY, SPLAT, compressed PLY, and its own .ssproj project format. It also supports LCC and SOG (legacy) imports. SuperSplat can export to PLY, SPLAT, compressed PLY, and standalone HTML viewers.

Both platforms handle the formats you are most likely working with. If you capture with PortalCam, Lixel L2 Pro, XGRIDS, Postshot, Luma AI, or Kiri Engine, your files will work on Splat Labs.

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What SuperSplat Does Well

SuperSplat is a solid tool for file-level splat editing, and we want to be fair about what it does well. If you need to work on the raw splat data before it goes anywhere, SuperSplat handles that:

• Crop and delete unwanted splats around the edges of your scene
• Select individual splats with rectangle, brush, or point-and-click selection tools
• Transform (move, rotate, scale) scenes or selections
• Optimize and compress files to reduce file size
• Create camera animations with keyframe-based timeline and export videos
• Export to multiple formats including standalone HTML viewers

This is file-level prep work — trimming rough edges and compressing output. It is useful, but it is only one piece of the workflow. The experience-level editing — building tours, staging spaces, adding measurements, curating navigation, connecting scenes, documenting progress — that all happens on Splat Labs.

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Where SuperSplat Falls Short for Professionals

SuperSplat handles file-level splat editing well, but it was not built for the experience-level editing and professional delivery that clients expect. Here is what it does not offer:

• No scene intelligence layer — No companion geometry files, no floor detection, no wall boundaries, no collision meshes. The splat is purely visual with no spatial awareness.
• No cloud hosting with streaming — Files load entirely in the browser. Large scenes are slow and impractical on mobile.
• No GPU/CPU idle management — SuperSplat keeps rendering even when you switch tabs, draining battery and overheating devices.
• No measurement tools — No distance, area, or height measurements. No annotations. Without geometry data, there is nothing to measure against.
• No AI features — No floor plans, no virtual staging, no scene modification.
• No access control — No email-restricted sharing, no role-based permissions, no private links.
• No virtual tours — No guided walkthroughs, no fly-through movies, no portals connecting multiple scans.
• No progress tracking — No 4D timelines with measurements and annotations across time snapshots. No folder-based project organization for managing multiple scans of the same site.
• No team workspaces — No multi-user accounts, no project folders, no deliverables view.
• No white labeling — Published splats carry SuperSplat/PlayCanvas branding.
• No enterprise support — No SLAs, no phone support, no custom storage.
• No API — No programmatic access for automation or integration.
• No hardware ecosystem — No integration with professional capture devices.

These are not criticisms — SuperSplat does file-level editing well. But the work of building a professional 3D deliverable — staging, measuring, annotating, curating the navigation, restricting access, connecting scenes — requires a platform built for that purpose.

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Pricing

SuperSplat is free and open source (MIT license). There are no paid tiers.

Splat Labs offers a free tier with 2 projects — enough to experience the full platform — plus professional plans that scale with your business:

Plan	Projects	Price	Best For
Free	2	$0/mo	Try the full platform
Starter	5–20	$14–$56/mo	Individual professionals
Business	20–150	$69–$429/mo	Teams and agencies
Enterprise	50–500+	$191–$672/mo	Large organizations

Every plan includes AI features, measurements, virtual tours, embedding, and unlimited viewer sharing. See full pricing details.

Bonus: Every PortalCam purchase includes a free 1-year Starter plan ($144 value).

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The Bottom Line

SuperSplat and Splat Labs are not competitors — they handle different levels of editing in the same workflow.

Use SuperSplat when you need to prep the raw file — crop edges, delete artifacts, compress, or transform individual splats.

Use Splat Labs when you need to build the professional deliverable:

• Host and deliver splats to clients with a single shareable link
• Embed interactive 3D viewers on any website
• Measure distances, areas, and heights with precision
• Generate AI floor plans and virtually stage spaces
• Build guided virtual tours and fly-through movies
• Connect multiple scans into one navigable environment with portals
• Track progress over time with 4D timelines, measurements, and annotations across scan dates
• Curate the viewer experience with restricted navigation and controlled access
• Add rich annotations with PDFs, video, voice notes, and photos
• Control who sees your projects with email-restricted sharing
• Organize, brand, and scale your 3D deliverables professionally

Most professionals use SuperSplat to prep their files and Splat Labs to build the final experience. Together, they cover the entire Gaussian Splat workflow from raw capture to client presentation.

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Have questions about which platform is right for your workflow? Contact our team — we are happy to help.