# ARKit Reviews **Vendor:** Apple **Category:** [Augmented Reality (AR) SDK Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/ar-sdk) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 75 ## About ARKit ARKit is Apple's augmented reality (AR) framework that enables developers to create immersive AR experiences for iOS and iPadOS devices. By integrating device motion tracking, advanced scene processing, and camera image analysis, ARKit allows apps to blend digital content seamlessly with the physical world. Key Features and Functionality: - Motion Tracking: Utilizes device sensors to accurately track the position and orientation of the device in real-time, ensuring stable and realistic AR interactions. - Scene Understanding: Recognizes and maps the environment, identifying surfaces like floors and walls, which facilitates the placement of virtual objects in a contextually relevant manner. - Light Estimation: Analyzes ambient lighting conditions to adjust the appearance of virtual objects, making them blend naturally with the real-world environment. - People Occlusion: Allows virtual content to realistically pass behind or in front of people in the scene, enhancing the sense of depth and immersion. - Depth API: Leverages LiDAR scanners on supported devices to obtain precise depth information, enabling instant placement of virtual objects and improved object occlusion. - 4K Video Recording: Supports capturing high-resolution 4K videos during AR sessions, ideal for professional content creation and sharing. Primary Value and User Solutions: ARKit empowers developers to craft engaging and interactive AR applications that enhance user experiences across various domains, including gaming, education, retail, and design. By providing tools to seamlessly integrate virtual content into the real world, ARKit enables users to visualize products in their environment, learn through interactive simulations, and enjoy immersive entertainment, thereby bridging the gap between digital and physical realities. ## ARKit Reviews ### 1. Powerful AR Framework with Room for Broader Device Support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2025 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit offers an impressive suite of tools for building immersive and high-performance AR experiences, especially with its seamless integration into the Apple ecosystem and support for LiDAR-based scene understanding. What I like best is its precision in world tracking and how easily it enables developers to create realistic AR interactions. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** eliance on newer Apple hardware for advanced features limits accessibility and cross-platform reach. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** ARKit solves the challenge of building stable and immersive AR experiences by handling complex sensor data and environment mapping behind the scenes. It benefits me by allowing rapid development of AR features without needing deep expertise in computer vision or 3D graphics. Its integration with tools like RealityKit and Swift makes it easy to create realistic interactions and animations. ### 2. Amazing results with an easy interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** F. Javier P. | Mobile Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2023 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Due to the quality of the hardware that runs on, and the tight integration between hardware and software in Apple, you can get amaz¡ng results with a few lines of code. There are plenty of example code around there **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Honestly, there aren't many things I don't like about this product. I've created a couple of production-ready apps, and so far so good **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I haven't run on any problems while using this SDK ### 3. Apple Arkit, the constant evolutive innovation for the upcoming Metaverse. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thierno Ousmane D. | Administrateur, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2022 **What do you like best about ARKit?** It is an apple software for both developers and simple iPhone users. For the first ones to create and monitor VR (Virtual reality) apps in different domains such as the gaming field, and for the second group to experience VR in different domains such as geolocalization outside while navigating areas, or displaying pieces of information about products that they would like to buy. The things that I like the most about this software are: - The ability to share recordings with collaborators in remote locations. This is a good thing when working on a project where the members are distant from each other. More than ever, working remote keeps gaining pace, and this software perfectly fits the trend; - App clip codes are easy to integrate (App clip code encodes information about an item that can be displayed over screening it by a camera device); - The possibility for the ARKit to decode an App clip code URL, get access to it, and recode it into any other desired information to be displayed. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** - The device must have an A12 Bionic processor or higher for the geo-localization system to function correctly. This is a huge disadvantage for the coders that can't necessarily upgrade to the latest iPhone devices; - Some features are not available worldwide yet, but efforts are being made to expand the full features of the software worldwide; - It would be good to find means to reduce the errors in decoding the App clip, plus some bugs to be fixed. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** So far, this app has helped me a lot in localizing myself through real-time information displays. It is just phenomenal! You need to experience it personally to see it: The maps with all the physical components (roads, buildings, or traffic signs) from where you are pop up right on your screen, with lines to give you the shortest path to reach your destination. ### 4. AR development made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mani G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about ARKit?** - Easy to follow Tutorials and available demos **What do you dislike about ARKit?** - Limitations with non Lidar equipped devices **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing location and pose information ### 5. Better tracking than other SDKs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Tracking quality and stability Images based 3D model tracking Fast and easy to use SDKs available to game engines like Unity LiDAR based tracking **What do you dislike about ARKit?** We can not push CAD data and do the 3D model tracking like Vuforia do. ARKit is available on only iOS device and not android devices which are more popular **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Spatial tracking to augment Servers/hardware and do 3D simulation instead of carrying the actual machine. It helps the learner to access the content anytime and anywhere. ### 6. Best SDK for IOS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Awal R. | Unity Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit is an SDK that combines with Unity Engine to create immersive experiences in Augmented Reality for IOS users. It could be used to create various types of experiences as Ground Plane Detection or Image detection. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Being only compatible with IOS you have to use AR core for android which isn't very much feasible for developers like me. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating experiences for HealthCare, edTech and Fintech has greatly benefitted me and ARkit is great for that matter. ### 7. ARKit is on solution when it comes to real world app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avijit M. | iOS Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about ARKit?** I had personally used ARkit when building a camera and location app; this SDK's documentation is superb. And the best thing is easy to implement in Swift also. As an iOS developer, the skill would be preferable nowadays. If you do an ARKit project, you will be a hero to get the job easily. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Nothing to dislike about ARKit. They are improving their code and adding extra feature etc. which is good. but their update is come little late. If any bug there they will fixed it some later. If updates come frequently then it will far better. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Till the works I had, there is no problem so far. But sometimes Xcode is a little bit laggy, although this is not the problem of ARKit, this is the part of cocoa and this tool based SDK then apple need to modify the Xcode problem speedy and reasonable manner. ### 8. Neutral Product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** draciel k. | Game Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about ARKit?** I think if someone is looking to work in the field of Augmented Reality in IOS, this is the go to SDK **What do you dislike about ARKit?** I don't get why they do not integrate a similar SDK for Android. It is a pain for us developers. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** ARkit solves the problem of developing Apps for Iphones and Ipads which was earlier difficult. ### 9. ARKit: the future of Augmemted Reality development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshat J. | Advocate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Ease of use. ARKit allowed developers to build apps that are out of this world. It enables developers to build apps that diminishes the line between reality and imagination. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Only available for apple ecosystem. To develop apps, developer needs mac os, which many developers can't afford. Also, target platforms are Apple products, which constitute less market share as compared to the competitors share. Apple products are expensive, that's why less people own it, which leads to lesser audience. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** One should consider ARKit if one's target audience is people that are in Apple ecosystem. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm solving many different kind of problems. I'm solving problems of medically disabled people, working professionals, and students. And I've realized multiple benefits like helping medical professionals to diagonose and analyze medical conditions of patients, creating educational apps to help children learn stuffs by interacting with them in real world. ### 10. ARKit user experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashin Marin T. | Software Development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Can build augmented reality experiences for iOS devices. Has supported with Barracuda, so can easily import it in Unity. Can build 3D models and its implementation is similar to AR Foundation. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Due to ARKit's recent release, we are not able to access the iOS device camera, so not able to get the augmented reality effect. We need some customer support related to this issue. Sometimes, it gives integration issues when trying to combine ARKit and placing the prefab script. It takes time to build the project on Mac. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using ARKit for our augmented reality-based solar inverter parts detection mobile application project. It's easy to integrate and has usage similar to AR foundation. So, switching projects between Android and iOS is easy. A lot of tutorials are available online for use. ### 11. Best AR Framework with Hardware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilker U. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit is the best Augmented Reality Framework. It works very well with my hardware. It can find horizontal and vertical surfaces perfectly. For devices with LIDAR, the situation is beyond perfect. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** It does not support old devices and it uses high power. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to easily create augmented reality applications. it can find horizontal and vertical surfaces ### 12. One of the Best in class for iOS development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maulik D. | iOS | Flutter Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** It is helpful for creating augmented reality for iOS Devices and can make 3D models **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Integration is not quite easy on it and also with vuforia it is not something we want to try developing **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were developing social media kind of app where we can see posts hanging in real world with AR camera which is one of the best and new experience ### 13. ARKit Framework **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harini S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** It is helping to develop an augmented reality application in iOS and having different features like capture and sensor things based on the movement of the device. It allows for simultaneous front and back camera tracking. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** It doesn't support all iOS devices. As a developer, I need to think about supporting devices. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** While developing AR applications, we need to satisfy different requirements. It is needful for the functions like motion capture, face tracking, and changing head position perfectly. ### 14. AR floor detection apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash S. | Game Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** AR Kit is definitely the fastest and most stable plugin today. Ground plane and point cloud is one of the best algorithm which comes with this plugin **What do you dislike about ARKit?** AR Kit functionality along with Vuforia is not that great **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Use this plug-in **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am making AR piping app that is helpful for construction workers to understand a factory and see and rotate and scale different floors individually and as a whole model also along with measuring tool and navigation feature with third person view using a joystick. ### 15. cheese burger **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali H. | Reactnative Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** i was able to implement 3d model made in unity **What do you dislike about ARKit?** none i guess, because all looks good i used cheese burger model and it all looks good **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** yes its great tool to create real life experience **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** it can be used to create a real life experience ### 16. Arkit is very good framework for argumemted reality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varun T. | sr iOS App Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** It help people place objects... placing objects in real world **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Objects places re render every time app launched **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Its good to use easy to implement try it for sure **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Place marker,location tracking, navigation app ### 17. Its an awesome experience using ARKit **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishna Datt S. | iOS Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Its very fast and easy to render 3D objects in realtime world. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Rendering multiple 3D objects sometimes makes it slow. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am rendering Jewellery items by analysing body points. ### 18. By ARKit many difficult things are explained in simple way. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** We can play a game like real world experience. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** It’s not supported in old version devices so I think some trick to involve them also. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can explain difficult things in simple ways. We have developed a demo for the medical student to understand the different part of bodies. ### 19. Very useful kit from Apple **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit is very great framework provided by Apple. Its implementation is very light and easy. Recommend every developer to atleast get an experience of using it. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Supported iOS device is mandator to run and test **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I faced problem for fetching size of objects to track. ### 20. A mature platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Good documentation and architecture. Mature platform. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Apple only API, so not ideal for cross devices development **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Consider using ARFoundation if using Unity and also considering developing for Android or other AR platforms **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementing AR Solutions. ### 21. ARkit: Ace in AR Market **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek K. | Vivek Kumar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Apple has created a very big impact and has been doing so much in the field of Augmented Reality ARkit is the best exam[le to depict what future holds for us. ARKIt is one of the best AR SDK available with so many features to offer World Tracking is one of the features that I personally like apart from this, face tracking, object tracking, image tracking, orientation, and position tracking are the features offered in ARKit SDK. Apple devices have hardware configuration behold in such a way that devices hold capabilities to offer and engage user into Immersive experience which is one step better than ARCore. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Even being the best, and providing various tracking ARKIts physics anatomy is not that precise. The obstruction could be detected easily, though low light environment sensing is good but leaves an impact when the scene slowly fades. The placement of anchors is precise but could quite default on planes with vibrant colors. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** ARKit is developing fast and apple is putting so much into the evolution of ARKit the last big release ARKit 3 changes the whole idea of immersive experiences. Apple sees AR as a promising area and features provided by ARKIt can be easily integrated into an existing application or building a new application. AR itself is user engaging where we overlay a virtual world on the top of the existing world which could be used in existing business sectors. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating an Anatomy and Autopsy application that will help doctors to understand the process of surgery and human anatomy without facing cadavers or humans and animals. this will significantly reduce the number of cadavers to be kept in hospitals and would provide many details and deep hierarchy to understand the anatomy which could not be possible with cadaver itself. ### 22. An ARKit that is well versed with the needs of the developers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suyash J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Coming from a company that has total power of making decisions about the software and the hardware of their products,this is great product. The interface is highly friendly and makes using it and helping the world fun and easy. Being one of the most hot topic right now, AR can not be developed in an efficient way other than ARKit. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Not a lot to dislike about this. The only problem I had with this is it sometimes fails to recognize objects and also takes times to understand few things. But once you are familiar with these things, then it is a fairly nice tool to work and maneuver with. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** It is a great tool, give it some time and it will start growing upon you. it has tremendous potential and once you understand that, you will start loving it and will create miracles. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** AR is the future, from the games we used to play in 2D to seeing them happen in real life is something every one dreams about. I am not solving any problems as of now, i am just using it by my self to understand and explore the potential in order to make apps in AR ### 23. It was a good experience, Really liked the overall user ability and ease of access for the users **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The best thing was efficency of this product. It was very easy to use and i think according to me anyone can use this very easily in day to day life. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** It should be realesed and optimised for all devices. Right now it is not available for every devices like a low end phone. But if it will be available for every user, it will have increased market. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can be used in public as a navigator or looking at buildings for getting information ### 24. ARKit, the most promising SDK **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suriya P. | Technical Developer (Augmented and Virtual Reality), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** World tracking, the future of Augmented Reality as I envision is to be inclusive and shareable among peers, Apple has an advantage over other SDK's in Augmented Reality as they stand by their motto of making the hardware and software in such a way that it is an even exchange. Notably, visual-inertial odometry, is something that stands out. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Object recognition is the not the best, the compile time is a lot and it is at times unreliable, the algorithm used for this compares images captured by the device's camera with the PNG and the 3D object data which is stored using the .arobject file extension. And the result that is returned by it is not validated using any artificial intelligence or learning, which might raises a few eyebrows. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** It is a great kickstart to the AR world, as it has a great future and being an Apple product the amount tof potential it has is tremendous. As Apple has been investing in AR for quite sometime, I also believe Apple will reach a point where they would push spatial computing even more. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** ARKit does a great job in expressing ideas, and showing data in a fun way. The possibilities are endless with it going in the right path, for me the iOS devices have the power to render the best models, with heavy textures, as Apple's chips are fast enough to handle the rendering at that scale. ### 25. Consider well the design for the iPhone and iPad by using ARKit. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jackline w. | Television Presenter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The most pleasing and adorable features in ARKit are the interface that helps in the delivery of information and its ease of customization into the required designs and features. ARKit allows you to design matchless augmented reality experiences for iPad and iPhone. The software helps in incorporating information and objects with the surroundings around us. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** So far, my experience with ARKit has been very pleasing, and I don't regret using it frequently. Therefore, consider it for the overall operation of the company's performance. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Conversely, having used the ARKit for more than three years now, I have developed many software services on iPhones and iPads, thus making work easier on KTN TV. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** ARKit is a cloud-based software that helps in creating endless, unparalleled augmented reality experiences for the services and goods we offer for designing iPad and iPhone. The ARKit assists in integrating objects and information for designing special features on iPhone and iPads. Other services like game engine and AR SDK, and finally AR game engine, are well supported with this tool. ### 26. AR KIT Focuses On IOS Devices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish B. R. | Human Resources Information System Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Provides support to IOS devises, As ARCore focuses on Android devices on the other hand ARKIT is focuses on AR application which help in developing exquisite AR Experience for IOS Devices. So for developers and Designer ARKIT made target detection, Mapping and object detection easy for IOS applications. It Supports IOS 11 and above and even IPad and IPhones can be used as Window Screening to detect objects and Images in the Real Environment. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** The dislikes which I have for AR KIT is Virtual models cannot be calculated before launching the application and Anchoring of Images don't Provide stability while triggering image recognition and Lock #D models. Limitation for just being available for IOS Devices is also a drawback in ARKIT so If a Developer is Developing AR application just IOS devices, ARKIT is the best option other wise VUFORIA could be used from my personal experience. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Blokes working Upon AR applications mainly for IOS devices I highly recommend AR KIT because this is the best option to develop in the Technology market. Proper Demo and Documentation are provided, so their will not be any issue from there side as per Environment and Services. Everyone should look at for at least demo to get the look and feel of ARKIT, I'm sure you would love it. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm Using ARKIT basically to develop 3D models by triggering Image recognition and Object detection for IOS devices only, to detect object in the real environment by the camera. This application will only be running on IPads and IPhones for Android I used Vuforia . ### 27. Developing AR applications for IOS devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu D. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** AR kit enabling developers to achieve interaction with the outside surrounding with help of IOS camera and Sensors. Apple Developer Site based on the AR kit helps in providing such valuable resources and information about building AR apps, Which makes it more interesting and sample codes could be downloaded for reference so Individual who is not aware how to use ARKIT could easily use it and learn it from scratch. It is introduces for IOS 11 or later and supports both front and rear camera. Use of Visual Inertial Odometry in ARKIT makes it sense the room environment for IPad and IPhones so even apple users can use it as a window onscreen viewer . **What do you dislike about ARKit?** In comparison to AR core the only dislike for me the mapping and managing of larger maps, though ARcore and ARKIT use scattered maps and takes the outside world as a whole but ARKIT apps are less extensive compared to AR core. AR kit stores the latest captured location, so basically the area which is mapped by the camera In AR core Expands fast as Compared to AR KIT . **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** For AR apps for IOS and IPad best option if you want achieve something in the field of AR. All the documentation are available with DEMO provided by the ARKIT community and ARKIT has come recently which is attracting companies and Vendors to hire individuals working on AR so Colleges students have the best Opportunity to Explore it and Start working upon it, motion capture, Tracking Face and other Immersive applications can be build. Great Opportunity for the undergraduate to work upon **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am Using AR KIT for developing applications for Ipads and Iphones, which is basically checking the cleanliness of the room. Whenever we run the app and scan it through the room it will check and show whether the room is clean or not just by moving through the camera. ### 28. Using ARKit to b2b app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francesco G. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit is a very robust system with continuous performance updates and very integrated with Unity3D which is the framework I use develop our apps. Excellent system that allows you to track plans and calculate ambient lighting. Facetracking is also very well done and allows you to develop applications in a short time and with excellent results. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** I am not very happy with the system adopted by Unity3D for the realization of two-dimensional Markers, for example photos from the camera, especially realized at runtime to be able to archive sessions of augmented reality. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** I recommend ARKit because it is a system very much followed by its developers and very integrated and compatible with the most modern development frameworks. Many tutorials and development examples are available to make applications as quick as possible. Compatibility with all the latest hardware and performance leveling between the various devices even if they are older as long as they are always in the compatibility list **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** the opportunity to remove third-party plugins such as vuforia or the like Vuforia. The possibility of creating applications in a short time and with excellent performance and performance results. ### 29. It's about the value behind SLAM - simultaneous location and mapping- **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xavier E. | 3D Design & Vizualisation Artist, Animation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** apple makes tools that goes to the point regarding what most people will do with it, and how that will emerge more markets, and they do it really well. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** USDZ file format is not good enough, too basic. It should fully support .gltf which is vastly better and is from Khronos group, so there's no excuse not to. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Whenever using these kind of tools, make sure the artistic value, such as the 3D and all media, is of good quality. No one empathises with bad GUIs or low visual appeal. You might have a great product code wise, but with a lazy expression of it. Work with the people that are good at this, and put a decent effort at getting that right. I've seen great tools behind horrible interfaces and appeal. If it is hard to get this in 2D, is harder in 3D. It will reflect on your product success immediately. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I bring services similar to BIM, but with affordable and practical every day technology like ARKit. Previz/Archviz/project management in 3D, VR and AR. ### 30. The Amazing ARKit **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yashwanth (Ash) M. | Research Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The tracking, ease of use and the option to use via Scene Kit or Unity, Unreal, the latest Quick look option from the Safari browser the list goes on. C'mon this is a product of Apple xD **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Well from what I heard, the image recognition can be improved a lil more but it is already doing a remarkable job. I wish they'd support Quick look feature in other browsers or release something like Google's new AR Scene viewer that leverages ARCore installed on the phone right from the browser. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Don't think anything. If a lot of your target customers use iOS devices or you want to provide an option of quality SLAM based experiences powered by Apple itself then go with it. They are adding new features every now and then. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** The list is huge. Apple is one of the biggest game changers in the industry. Anything they do, leaves a huge footprint which others in the industry are following. We have used ARKit to make Portal experiences (if you don't know this or haven't tried you definitely should), AR instruction manuals, Indoor Navigation, Usual AR eXpeRiences like furniture. I'll let you guess the rest. ### 31. It's a great application that helps to build augmented reality apps for clients. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janet M. | Programmer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** It helps to build unparalleled augmented Reality experience for many users on IOS. It can track human movement as input to the AR scene. It delivers an incredible awareness of people with people Occlusion. ARKit knows where people and AR objects are and properly occludes the scene. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** I have no feature that I dislike about ARKit. It has really worked for us to create high level augmented reality frameworks which have helped us in a great way. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** I would recommend ARKit because it has seamless tools that let's you create stunning and complex AR experiences on devices that works best for you. It has scalable performance. Its easy to use yet incredibly powerful. With reality composer for IOS, you can record sensor and camera data in the location where the AR experience will take place and then replay it later on your IOS device while building your app. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reality composer let's us build animations and experiences on IOS and Mac to enrich our 3D content. It has helped us in a great way to quickly prototype and produce content for AR experiences that are ready to integrate into apps using Xcode or export to AR Quick Look. ### 32. It's an apple augmented reality development platform for IOS mobile devices. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John W. | Pharmacist , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Environment captured through the device can have animated 3D virtual text, objects and characters added to them. With iPhone X, ARKit can perform real-time face scanning and use this data to drive facial expressions of 3D characters. It has a camera that is used to determine light sources by which AR objects are lit. Its compatible with millions of IOS devices. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** I really enjoy working with ARKit to do our environmental mapping and context awareness in a great way. I have no feature that I dislike about it. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** I would recommend ARKit because it's great with mapping and augmented reality applications. Its simple to use. It provides excellent project scaling. It helps to make iPhone and iPad tracking capabilities available to a wider number of developers. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** ARKit allows developers to to build high detailed AR experience for ipads and iphones. Users can place anchors to mark creations they want to save. This helps in a great way in mapping and creating context awareness in a great way ### 33. Good Object positioning and surface recognition **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The best feature of ARkit that differentiates it from the market is the light estimation, 3D models can be updated in real time based on their illumination. As no placeholder is required it can be deployed on any surface and are no longer bound to a confined space as such. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** What I dislike is the compatibility with only iOS devices. However ARCore is an alternative for android but we have to develop the same application again on another platform then. One big flaw is that the models cannot be calibrated before launch. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are developing a virtual model for real estate visualization. ### 34. Augment localised data - add AR to location based data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William P. | Senior Mobile Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** I like the simplicity of using it as it allows to set up an AR experience in a short time. I remember one of my first experiments implementing a solar system with planets moving around the sun: not too complex even if it were a newbie in AR. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** I need to find a way to streamline the 3d model creation, probably because I need more 3d modeling experience. Still, haven't. explored the iOS 13 ARkit but I hope to find a better way to interact with 3d object **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Working on mobile it's better to use the tool provided by the mobile os vendor (for Apple is ARKit) **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my opinion, using AR opens new opportunities in communicating information. In my project, I'm going to use AR to provide insights about data geo-localized. ### 35. ARKit Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jackline m. | Project Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The software has simple interface and very easy to get thus create compatibility. In adition the software help in creating the augmented reality application in iPhones and iPads thus improving the efficiency of the tool. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** The tool is very expensive in maintaining and thus make it hard for the small companies to integrate it in their system thus its quite hard for them. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** I would recommend other firm to use the software for the development of new features in iPhones and iPad thus improving the efficiency of the companies. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** ARKit help a lot in creating and designing a new features in iPad and iPhone for the unequalled reality experiences with those electronics. This is enhanced through the incorporating information and objects with the surrounding around us. The tool help in game engine, AR SDK, and AR game engine. ### 36. Great technology for our future **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stanislav K. | Game Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit is a very powerful tool for using it in augmented reality. High level of optimization in different cases. A lot of devices are supported. Online approaches. High quality of creating games and applications for different purposes. I think it has a big growth in the future. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** There are things that need to be improved related to positioning in world space, lags in detecting images with small size. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Documentation is the right choice to use ARKit, a lot of questions are solved on StackOverflow, so community is growing. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked with Unity with ARKit support, developed detecting images and positioning objects in world space. ### 37. ARKit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gurkaran S. | Business Intelligence Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The most helpful about ARKit is the ability to detect horizontal and vertical planes by using the device's camera. There is an algorithm which gets this point and returns the information as an object known as ARPLaneAnchor object. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** The ugly part of using ARKit is the hardware requirement which requires IOS with an A9 processor(iPhone 6 or later version) and there is an effect on the battery percentage as well. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was looking for a solution of image recognition in order to add the virtual object, ARKit has built-in image recognition and to which we can input out images for them to be detected. ### 38. My Experience with the ARKit **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** I think the over user design and experience make the most sense out of the current AR kits on the market, there is not an overwhelming amount of information up front and the workflow is pretty seamless with seeing what your changes are doing. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** I think that the prebuilt tracks for certain projects you are building on are half cooked. That means that they really don't care about the free material made available and that in the end the creators are still only out for profit versus helping the user. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used ARKit for many different projects, I just used it to create an interactive art mural that allows users to point there phones at the wall then a display will come to life on their phone. The geo location based AR has been great to use within the ARKit. ### 39. Augmented Reality Made Easier. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** martin k. | Data Analyst/Programmer , Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The ARKit is easy to use and meets all the requirements. The ARkit customer support team is available for 24 hours throughout the year. It is also very easy to start and its light. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** When i was using the ARKIt i found that it can not run on other platform apart from the iOS version 11 and above. Thus you need to own an apple device for you to use the ARKit. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** The ARKit is worth the investment. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to view different objects during the research period. ### 40. ARKit Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** paul k. | Corporate Lawyer, Legal Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit has a very able staff who help in responding to issues affecting the clients. This tool is great in meeting the requirements of the companies. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** so far i have not experienced any issues with the software however the software cannot run on other version apart from iOS only. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** I would recommend other companies to use the software for the above running operation of the companies. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ARKit has helped alot in AR SDK, Game Engine and AR Game Engine services thus consider using it. ### 41. easy to develop simple sdk to develop ar applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** how well it integrates with the unity game engine allowing you to develop AR applications without knowing about swift and scene kit. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** Nothing as such, sometimes the tracking doesn't work right off the bat when a scene is loaded. this makes it difficult to develop applications that need accurate object placement right after starting the application **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have mostly been creating tech demos to illustrate some sample use cases of AR and trying to develop personal projects and games. personally I find it very useful to create interesting experiences ### 42. Augmented Reality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carol N. | Event Organizer, Events Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** With ARKit you are able to see images in augmented reality. It is easy to use and meets all the requirements. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** You will need to own a phone with iOS version 10.1 and above to use the ARKit. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** If you own a phone wiith iOS version 10.1 and above i would highly recommend the ARKit for augmented reality. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the ARKit to view images and play games in 3D and augmented reality. ### 43. I like ARkit it is easy and sweet to implement. I create some Apps like that - https://youtu.be/jTOo **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** TVI S. | Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Data Science Specialist, iOS SWIFT developer, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Easy implementation, immediately result, clean code. You can implement AR with couple string of code. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** I need implement 3d model which is hard to find. Hard to find good and free models, also model conversion is a big problem because AR not support many 3d model formats. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Model scaling and model conversion from one format to another. This is two main problem. ### 44. ARKit Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tylor P. | Director of IT, Civil Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** I have used ARKit and I like its capabilities. It is easy to setup and use and comes with powerful features.I like every bit of the tool. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** So far I cannot complain. The tool is super cool. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** It is powerful enough and a must have. Try ARKit. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** With ARKit, it is easy to understand and handle Ar game engine as well as AR SDk among other functionalities ### 45. Great for team collaboration with ease of use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jane N. | Accountant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** Efficient and great for the team. It's so great with animations. It's so reliable for AI control **What do you dislike about ARKit?** No bad thing to say about the software and easy to use **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** Yes it's easy to use and reliable with animations. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very great and convinient for animations. So nice interface and does not require training. Great for rendering quality ### 46. Best Augmented Reality provider out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David S. | Konsult, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** It is the best way to get Augmented Reality into your application. I also like that it has a plugin with Unity. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** It requires a Mac and Xcode to use ARKit. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm adding Augmented Reality to an application. ### 47. Improvement by leaps and bounds **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** The ease of use with the API for our developers. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** The hardware that we have to use is a phone or tablet, I would like to see a wearable to interact with the world with ARKit. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** For Edu applications, the options are vast because of the defined space of the classroom. **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Educational visualizations. It's allowed use to show students concepts visually on their device ### 48. ARKit Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oliva M. | Senior Database Administrator, Banking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** I have used the tool and I like that it's effortless to setup and use. I also like that it's very resourceful with different powerful and effective features. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** No flaws at all. ARKit is very effective. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** I recommend ARKit **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this tool as for AR SDK among other uses. ### 49. Arkit helped us **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush T. | Lead Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** I like that i can augment any object without marker images. **What do you dislike about ARKit?** There is nothing about disliking, its a good sdk **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can not augment things in real world without marker and object are more stabilised now ### 50. ARKit is overhyped **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about ARKit?** ARKit works hand in hand with Xcode so AR in IOS AR apps can be made easily **What do you dislike about ARKit?** ARKit has low support on android phones only 21 phones supported. **Recommendations to others considering ARKit:** I would not recommend ARkit to anybody doing android but for ios apps is very good **What problems is ARKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use ARKit sometimes to make games for iphones. 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