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Klapty vs Moorea 2026: who bills the views
Klapty publishes fast and free, but its model charges for audience. This comparison costs the gap: unlimited views, analytics behind no tier, white label and domain at €19 excl. VAT.
Klapty and Moorea both put an aerial virtual tour online in a few minutes. One difference of model will decide your invoice in three years: Klapty counts your visitors’ views, we do not.
This page is signed Moorea, it is dated, and every Klapty price it quotes comes from its official pricing page, recorded 17 August 2026. Check them before deciding: these grids move every quarter.
What Klapty does better, and we may as well say it now. Three things, and they count.
- Getting in is free and immediate: an account, a panorama uploaded, a tour that exists, with no card.
- It has been multilingual from the start - interface, help, communication - which is still rare on this market.
- It is quicker to pick up than we are, because there is less to set: we take on image editing, projections and the custom map, which serve large sites but cost ten minutes of learning.
Add price. If your audience stays small and perfectly predictable, Klapty’s first tier at €14.90 a month (recorded August 2026) costs less than ours. That is the concession; the rest of this page explains why the decision is not made there.
The table
| Criterion | Klapty | Moorea |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 1 tour, 100 views a month | 3 active tours, 5 panoramas each, no expiry |
| Views included | monthly quota per tier, from 100 to 20,000 depending on the price | unlimited, on all four plans |
| View overage | billed at €6.99 to €9.99 per 1,000 | does not exist: the counter triggers no invoice |
| Bandwidth and lifespan | bandwidth not published | unlimited bandwidth, no tour expiry |
| Analytics | Advanced tier, €29.90 | from the free plan up, full version on the paid plans |
| Removing the badge | watermark on the first paid tier, branding at €29.90 | Moorea badge on Place, removed from Pilot up |
| Full white label | top tier, €99.90 | €19 excl. VAT on the public grid |
| The tour's address | platform subdomain on the €59.90 tier | your own domain, certificate issued and renewed on its own |
| What the tour brings back | a link to your website, on the paid tiers | a persistent action button, or lead capture inside the tour |
| Structure specific to the trade | no equivalent in its public grid | industry templates: holes, zones, pontoons, sites |
A methodological reminder before the detail. A platform subscription is under 10 % of the price of a delivered tour, the rest being the flight, the shooting and the build.
The full breakdown is in our cost guide, and it changes how to read that table. A few euros of subscription should not decide on their own; a counter that runs away in high season should.
Views: the one counter that can move your invoice
Of the sixteen platforms we track, only two charge for a tour being watched: Klapty bills views, Panoraven bills bandwidth (recorded 17 August 2026). At Klapty the model is explicit and perfectly readable: each tier carries its quota, and overage is billed at €6.99 to €9.99 per 1,000 views.
Views included per month
Klapty
1,000
on the €14.90 tier, then €6.99 to €9.99 per additional 1,000 views
Moorea
unlimited
on all four plans, free one included, bandwidth too
The arithmetic of a quota
That logic defends itself: it charges more to those who get more. It also has an arithmetic, and that is where the problem is.
A golf club that puts the link in its newsletter, a campsite that prints a QR code on its welcome sign, a town council that shares the tour on its social channels: a thousand views go in a few weeks of high season.
Put another way, the month the tour works best is the month it costs most. A distribution budget turns into a hosting budget, which is exactly the opposite of what you were after.
The free plan: what you can actually do before paying
The market’s free plan is almost always a demonstration. Klapty, like Matterport, caps it at one tour; visite360.immo closes the account after six months; Panoraven bars it to companies and associations (recorded 17 August 2026).
Tours you can publish on the free plan
Klapty
1 tour
and 100 views a month, a quota that refills monthly
Moorea
3 tours
5 panoramas each, no expiry, no view cap
Our free plan is for trying, not for delivering. Five panoramas allow no professional deliverable - a 9-hole golf course needs twenty-two - but they are enough to publish a real tour and let it play.
In practice: a drone pilot can build three pitch mock-ups on it; a council can test three sites before picking one.
Analytics: measuring is not a paid option
This is the market’s most consensual gating point: analytics arrive on the first or second paid tier, at €29.90 on Klapty, at €29 on Panoraven (recorded 17 August 2026).
In plain terms: at €14.90 your tour is online but you do not know what it does.
Your brand, your domain, and at what price
Klapty opens up customisation floor by floor, and the staircase is legible: watermark removed on the first paid tier, branding removed at €29.90, custom subdomain at €59.90, full white label at €99.90 (recorded August 2026).
That is in fact the sector norm: across our sixteen platforms, full white label sits on the top tier or as a one-off add-on, up to €699 on 3DVista.
A platform subdomain, or a domain of your own
Two differences, and the second is the one people underestimate until they have printed a leaflet. A custom subdomain carries your name but stays attached to the platform’s domain.
At Moorea you wire in your own domain: a CNAME record at your registrar, the
certificate is issued and renewed automatically, and the public player and the iframe both
answer on tour.your-domain.com. The editing application stays on my.moorea.app: that is
your workshop, not your shop window.
What your search visibility gains
A consequence that is often decisive for a winery or a marina: a public tour served on your domain is indexed on your domain. What the tour gains in visibility, your website keeps.
An engineering detail that protects you: origin iframes never redirect, and the canonical redirect to your domain is a 302, never a 301 - a 301 caches for life and would trap a client who later removes their domain. The embed page covers the rest.
The industry template: navigation that speaks the language of the place
A generic 360 tour gives you a thumbnail strip and arrows. That is enough for a flat, and not enough for a site spread over forty hectares. Moorea’s industry templates add a level between the tour and the panoramas, the group, and the trade’s own word changes with it:
- Hole on a golf course: par and distance on the card, guided mode from tee to green.
- Zone on a campsite: the map becomes the navigation, with capacities and a booking link.
- Pontoon at a marina: berths, maximum length and draught.
- Site for a council or a construction progress tour: the map navigates, and each site is placed from the GPS of its first shot.
Five navigation shapes cover the course, the map, the territory, the timeline and the list. Applying a template removes no capability, removing it destroys neither groups nor cards, and switching trade keeps the order and the cards: whatever the new shape cannot read is ignored, never deleted.
No platform in our panel of sixteen announces an equivalent in its public grid (recorded 17 August 2026).
The Atelier: client sign-off happens inside the tour
The painful part of a delivered tour is not putting it online, it is the back-and-forth: “the view on hole 7 is too high”, “you cannot see the clubhouse”, all of it by email with annotated screenshots.
Moorea’s Atelier moves that conversation into the tour itself. A note is anchored to the scene and to the viewing angle: opening it puts your client exactly where the comment was left, looking at what they were looking at.
A layer, not a hotspot
Guests need no account: a token link of their own, revocable, independent of the tour’s visibility - a private tour can have an active Atelier. You talk in threads, attach images, resolve.
Above all: a note is not a hotspot. The Atelier is a layer, switched on to work and closed to deliver; the published tour keeps no trace of it, neither in the public player nor in the embed. Klapty announces no equivalent in its public grid (recorded 17 August 2026).
Aerial first, interiors included
Klapty largely addresses 360 tour photographers, and therefore ground-level panoramas (recorded August 2026). Let us clear a common confusion: Moorea’s engine displays any 2:1 equirectangular panorama, wherever it comes from, tripod-mounted 360 cameras included.
JPEG, PNG, TIFF and AVIF, up to 32,000 pixels wide; an approximate ratio is corrected automatically, and an oversized image is downscaled rather than refused.
Aerial is our speciality, not our limit. The mixed tour is in fact the normal case: the drone viewpoints tell the story of the site, and a few ground-level panoramas show reception, the function room or a sample lodge. When the satellite map is not right, the interactive map takes any image you like, a site plan or a drawn map, on which the points are placed by hand.
One last point before saying when Klapty is enough: here is what its public grid does not cover, recorded on the same date.
When Klapty is enough
Three specific situations, and we would rather name them than hide them.
You are testing the idea, tonight, for one tour. No budget, nothing to decide, just wanting to see what it looks like before talking about it. Klapty’s free tier is made for that moment and asks for nothing.
Your audience is small, predictable, and your brand is not in play. Three hundred views a year, a link passed hand to hand, no need for a logo or a domain: the quota will never cost you anything and the €14.90 tier stays below our first paid tier (recorded August 2026).
You are after directory visibility. Klapty presents itself as a network and lists providers. That is a real acquisition channel for a drone pilot starting out. We publish no directory and are not building one: on that point, they give something we do not.
If your place makes sense from the sky
The moment the tour has to live under your brand, on your domain, survive a season without a counter running away, and hand you back leads, the comparison stops being about a few euros of subscription.
The product page sets out what the platform makes, the pricing grid fits on one screen, and the free plan opens three tours with no card. If you are still hesitating about the category itself, Matterport vs Moorea covers the measured-3D case and our survey of the alternatives places the rest of the market. But if your place tells its story from the sky and has to stay online for years without a counter, Moorea is written for that.
Développeur et télépilote de drone. Construit Moorea au sein d’Elvn Studio.
A place worth showing from above?
The free plan is enough to publish a first tour and show it around.