RadianceKit is the first native macOS app for 3D Gaussian Splatting. Drop in photos or video of any object or scene — it aligns the cameras, trains the model, and renders a photorealistic 3D reconstruction, all locally on your Mac's GPU. No Python, no CUDA, no cloud. Simple Mode for one-click results, Scene-Class Presets (Render/Outdoor/Indoor), and full Expert control. Export to 6 formats, orbit videos, and web viewers. M1+, $7.99 one-time, 3-day trial.
Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Björn, a solo developer from Germany. I built RadianceKit because I was fascinated by 3D Gaussian Splatting but frustrated by the workflow: install Python, set up CUDA, run COLMAP, fiddle with command-line scripts... all on a Linux box or a beefy NVIDIA rig.
I thought: this should just be an app. Drop in photos, get a 3D scene back.
So I rewrote the entire pipeline in Metal for Apple Silicon. No external dependencies, no cloud — everything runs locally on your Mac. In the latest version even the camera alignment (Structure-from-Motion) is native, so there's no COLMAP to install anymore. And there's a live 3D preview while training, so you can watch your scene come to life in real time.
Some things I'm proud of:
- Simple Mode that genuinely works with one click
- Scene-Class Presets (Render / Outdoor / Indoor) that tune the pipeline for what you're actually capturing
- Native on-device SfM — the whole pipeline, photos to splat, runs sandboxed on your Mac
- Export to pretty much every Gaussian Splatting format out there
- Localized in 18 languages, in-app guide included
I'm also working on an iPhone companion app — capture with LiDAR + ARKit on the phone, train on the Mac.
I'd love to hear what you think. If you have photos of something you'd like to turn into 3D, give it a shot — the trial is free for 3 days. And if you're curious about performance on your specific Mac model, let me know — I'm collecting data points across different Apple Silicon chips.
Happy to answer any questions here!
native metal splatting with no python/cuda is wild — the step that always bit me was camera alignment on low-overlap captures. did you roll your own sfm or lean on a colmap-equivalent underneath?
About RadianceKit on Product Hunt
“Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac”
RadianceKit launched on Product Hunt on June 3rd, 2026 and earned 90 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. RadianceKit is the first native macOS app for 3D Gaussian Splatting. Drop in photos or video of any object or scene — it aligns the cameras, trains the model, and renders a photorealistic 3D reconstruction, all locally on your Mac's GPU. No Python, no CUDA, no cloud. Simple Mode for one-click results, Scene-Class Presets (Render/Outdoor/Indoor), and full Expert control. Export to 6 formats, orbit videos, and web viewers. M1+, $7.99 one-time, 3-day trial.
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