--- title: ARToolKit Reviews meta_title: 'ARToolKit Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how ARToolKit works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: AR Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ar-development --- # ARToolKit Reviews **Vendor:** Daqri **Category:** [Augmented Reality (AR) SDK Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/ar-sdk) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About ARToolKit ARToolKit is a tracking library for augmented reality and 100% open source. ## ARToolKit Reviews ### 1. AR **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Asmohammad K. | Unity 3d Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2022 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** This is very easy and useful information in side we make to perfect learning purpose . everyone like it and use to very easy . This is functional part is well **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** Loading time is more plz may be need to optimise . **Recommendations to others considering ARToolKit:** Education system **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is learn plateform and make to essay over business and study. ### 2. Lead Unity3D Developer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen S. | Lead Unity Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** It has so many prebuilt functionality that helps developer to create any AR experience application. Also, it is a cross-platform SDK for both ANDROID and IOS platforms. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** Some of their updates are not properly tested when it comes to developer use. At that time, developers have to spend time figuring out their SDK issues, which is not fine. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to create cross-platform AR applications. Also, prebuilt functionality saves developer time. They are also updating it with more prebuilt functionality. ### 3. augmented reality app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish R. | Shift Incharge, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** Reality visuals helps me best to see the exact components of digital board. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** It's picture quality is not good sometimes which gives less useful results. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to feel visual effects of the digital components.which reduces my work ### 4. ARToolKit application review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2022 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** ARToolKit is one of the best actions to VR advance AI conversion tool compared to other competitions in the market currently. In addition to this, it is also an open-source tool that, as a result, brings lot more ideas into action and also provides knowledge and experience-based improvements. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** Being an open-source tool, it also has a lot of stability issues compared to its competitors. It is a challenging task to map it with different applications like the android studio. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** ARToolKit is one of the best actions to VR advance AI conversion tool compared to other competitions in the market currently. In addition to this, it is also an open-source tool that, as a result, brings lot more ideas into action and also provides knowledge and experience-based improvements. Our organization uses this application to translate human activities to comparable AR actions. ### 5. Ar ToolKit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayush R. | Unity Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2022 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** Its easy setup and use case with Unity was the best thing **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** Documentation and tutorial videos quantity can increase **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Ar implementation for a android game, Is easily incorporated with my project ### 6. Good but not great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakib J. | Game Developer and Game Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2021 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** The augmentation on the surface seems pretty cool. The fake lighting works like a charm and really brings the cool out **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** Unexpected glitches, objects going inside grounds sometimes. A long time to scan the environment **Recommendations to others considering ARToolKit:** Neat tool. There's a solid learning curve. If you can get creative you can make great things **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** A long time to set up and testing is cumbersome. Glitches happen sometimes. Overall the tool is neat but a long way to go to make it perfect ### 7. Open Source AR Library **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harini S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** We used this framework to develop an Object Tracking with Marker Detection AR App. It went well so I would like to share a few things about the library. It has multi-platform support. It has a lot of features to make our App innovative. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** Every open-source product has a limitation, so this also has, but still, it has its potential. **Recommendations to others considering ARToolKit:** It's an easy-go framework, so give it a try and see. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used this AR Toolkit for few projects, and it saved our time. APIs are self-explanatory and easily accessible. It provides us necessary features to create an AR App. ### 8. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2022 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** I love the UI and how easy it was to use. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** There's really not much to dislike. Since it's my first time using it. **Recommendations to others considering ARToolKit:** Try it once and judge it for yourself. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly it helped me troubleshoot issues with my personal project. ### 9. Ease of use ! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijay S. | Senior Software Developer - Advanced Engineering Applications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** It is very helpful for us to create an AR mobile App. Since it is open source, it breaks the barrier to getting deeply involved in AR app development. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** There are some limitations, but it still has a lot of features. **Recommendations to others considering ARToolKit:** There is some limitation in the object tracking feature. But it does the job for us. We will find it very useful once we start creating our AR apps. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using this framework for a lot of our projects. We are using marker-based AR with Android camera apps. Our clients are very much satisfied with the performance and features. ### 10. Neat library for building augmented relaity applications on mobile **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** It was pretty easy to use, and test, best thing was apk size wont increase much. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** They could furthur add more library functions for animations. **Recommendations to others considering ARToolKit:** Follow the toolkit documentation, and keep performance in mind from the start. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** To make AR applications on mobile ### 11. Rich, fast and compact library **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2021 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** It's an open-source library which is free of cost and support for all type of requirements. Libraries provided are very fast and easily ported on various systems. **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** More documentation should be provided on how to use libraries provided and new features added **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proof of concepts for solving various customer problems ### 12. ARtoolKit review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ABHISHEK PARTAP S. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2020 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** The easiness of implementing Augmented Reality in your App **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** The rendering and precision of the Augmented objects. **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything has Abstracted the developer just need to work on the dimensions of the App. It is both boon and bane. ### 13. Review of ar tool kit **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben H. | Manager, Restaurants, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2019 **What do you like best about ARToolKit?** Being able to re arrange things to the way I like them **What do you dislike about ARToolKit?** Not being able to save certain functions for quick access **What problems is ARToolKit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization and time management ## ARToolKit Discussions - [e](https://www.g2.com/discussions/artoolkit-e) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View ARToolKit pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/artoolkit/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-09-29+23%3A45%3A10+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b4a50e8c-fba7-4fc1-8d55-c48c3f4e4a1a&secure%5Btoken%5D=49a62d9ba95e4bd4e917f1ca4051e7a427fe7741018f75cc71b65a61be32ed9f&format=llm_user) ## Top ARToolKit Alternatives - [ARCore](https://www.g2.com/products/arcore/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (68 reviews) - [Vuforia Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/vuforia-engine/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (52 reviews) - [ARKit](https://www.g2.com/products/arkit/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (73 reviews)