Questions, answered plainly.

Spatial Scenes turn any 2D photo into a 3D scene with real depth, generated entirely on your Vision Pro. Open a photo, choose View menu → View as Spatial Scene, then tap the generate button. Once it converts, lean in and look around the photo like a window into the moment.

No. Generation requires a real Apple Vision Pro — the Simulator shows a message instead. Everything else in Paralux works in the Simulator.

Some images don't give the on-device model enough depth cues — very flat graphics, heavy blur, or abstract patterns convert less reliably. Tap Try Again, or pick a photo with a clear subject and background. Photos with people, landscapes, and objects convert best.

visionOS doesn't let apps save the generated 3D result to a file, so Paralux keeps the source photo and re-converts it on demand. Scenes opened from My Spatial Scenes start generating automatically — no extra tap — and it only takes a few seconds.

Export copies your collection's source photos to any folder you choose (Files, iCloud Drive, anywhere). That keeps all your spatial-scene photos together in one place you control — reopen them in Paralux and they'll convert again on demand.

Yes — grab the corner handle of the volume and drag. The photo scales with the window.

Two steps. First, while viewing a photo in Paralux, open the side toolbar's More (⋯) menu and choose Add to Photo Widget. Then open the system Widgets app, find Paralux Photos, and place a widget on any wall or surface. It stays put between sessions.

The widget's collection is empty. Add at least one photo from the More (⋯) menu while viewing an image. If you've just added photos and a placed widget hasn't caught up, give it a moment — or remove the widget and place a fresh one.

Yes. Long-press a placed widget and choose Edit. The Photo option pins a specific photo to that widget; Shuffle All Photos rotates through your collection. Each widget keeps its own choice, so five widgets can show five different photos.

In the same Edit menu, Shuffle Timing offers every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, hour, 6 hours, or once a day. Note: visionOS manages a refresh budget for all widgets, so the shortest settings may occasionally be spaced out by the system.

Four, chosen per widget in the Edit menu: Full Bleed (edge to edge), Gallery Mat (floated on a dark mat), Circle, and Instant Photo (white border with the photo's name, instant-camera style). The system's own frame width and color options layer on top — your photo stays full color.

Open the Widget Photos button on the welcome screen, then pinch and hold on a photo and choose Remove from Widget. Tapping a photo there views it in Paralux.

Not yet — visionOS widgets are rendered as flat snapshots, so 3D content can't run inside them. Widgets show the 2D photo; tap one to open Paralux, where the spatial version lives.

While viewing a photo, tap the Edit button (pencil icon) on the side toolbar. The editor has four tools: Crop (aspect presets, rotate, and flip), Adjust (exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth), Filters (eight one-tap looks), and Markup (freehand drawing with six colors and three widths). Rotate lives in the Crop tool.

You choose, from the Save menu: Save to Photos adds the edited image to your Apple Photos library (Paralux will ask for add-only permission the first time), Save to Files… opens the system dialog so you pick the folder and filename, and Save Over Original replaces the file in place after a confirmation. Every save renders from the full-resolution original.

Only if you explicitly choose Save Over Original — and Paralux asks you to confirm first, since it can't be undone. Save to Photos and Save to Files always create a new copy and never touch the original.

Images: JPEG, HEIC, PNG, TIFF, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, Photoshop (PSD), spatial photos, and RAW — DNG, Sony ARW, Nikon NEF, Panasonic RW2, Canon CR2 / CR3 / CRW.
Video: MOV, MP4, 3GP.
Export: JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, BMP, JPEG 2000 — with Super Resolution upscaling at 2× or 4×.

Void Mode dims the world around your photo into a pure black environment for cinema-like focus. Immersive Mode fills the space around you, with custom backgrounds — solid colors or your own images. Both live in the View menu.

Automatically. Paralux detects wide shots and offers a curved, wrap-around view — no settings needed. Panoramas from your Photos library work too.

Photos that are "optimized" in iCloud have to download to your device first. Paralux requests them with network access enabled, but very large originals on slow connections can take a moment. Anything unavailable is skipped rather than shown broken; try again once it's downloaded.

The window's ambient glow adapts to the dominant colors of the photo you're viewing, so each image sets its own atmosphere. You can adjust it in Settings.

$4.99, once. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no accounts, no ads. Every update — including 2.0 — is free for existing owners.

Paralux works entirely on your device. Your photos never leave your Vision Pro, there are no accounts, and Spatial Scene generation runs on-device. See the full Privacy Policy.

Purchases are handled by Apple. Request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com — Apple reviews and processes all App Store refunds directly.

In the app: Settings → ⓘ → Submit Feedback or Report Bugs. Or email support@paraluxapp.com. Screenshots or screen recordings help a lot.