Your customer points their phone at the wall, and your painting hangs there at its real size. ArtInAR adds a “View on your wall” button to your WooCommerce product pages. One tap opens real augmented reality on the visitor’s phone, right in the browser, with no app to install.

Free for your first 5 artworks. No account, no credit card, no time limit. Activate the plugin, approve the connection once, and your artwork appears in AR. Paid plans only start when your catalogue outgrows the free plan.

The problem it solves

“Will it fit above my sofa?” “Is 80 cm too big for this wall?” Buyers of art online hesitate over size and atmosphere more than anything else, and a product photo can’t answer that. Some of them email you to ask. Most just leave, and a few buy and send it back.

ArtInAR answers the question before they ask it. The artwork appears on their own wall, at true scale, with the depth and shadow of a real canvas. They can walk up to it, step back and look at it from the side.

Real AR, not a photo mockup

Many “view on wall” tools paste a flat image onto a photo of a room. ArtInAR builds a real 3D model of every artwork and places it in the live camera view:

True scale. The size comes from the dimensions of your WooCommerce product, so 80 × 60 cm looks like 80 × 60 cm.
A real canvas. Your 2D image becomes a 3D canvas with depth, edges and a shadow on the wall. From the side it looks like an object, not a sticker.
Native AR on the phone. AR Quick Look on iPhone and iPad, Scene Viewer on Android. These are the AR viewers built into the phone itself, so placement is stable and the result looks sharp.
No 3D skills needed. The conversion is fully automatic. You upload a photo of the work, as you already do.

How it works

Install and activate the plugin. The setup wizard opens by itself.
Tick the product categories that hold your artwork and approve the connection on WooCommerce’s own approval screen.
ArtInAR turns each artwork photo into a 3D model. The AR column in your Products list shows the progress.
A “View on your wall” button appears on every product whose model is ready.
On a phone, the visitor taps the button and sees the work on their wall. On a computer, they scan the QR code and continue on their phone.

New products and changed photos are picked up automatically.

Who it is for

Artists selling originals or prints from their own WooCommerce shop
Galleries and art dealers with a larger collection online
Art lending and rental services, where customers choose for a specific wall
Photographers and print shops selling canvas prints, posters and wall art
Canvas and wall-decoration stores that sell framed or stretched work

See it live

ArtInAR runs on real art shops, including Amersfoort Art (art lending and gallery) and Center Art (exclusive art collections). Open a product page on your phone and tap the AR button.

Features

For your customers

“View on your wall” button on the product page, in the visitor’s own language
Native AR in the mobile browser on iPhone, iPad and Android, with no app
A short guided preview page that explains the three steps before the camera opens
A 3D preview to rotate on devices without AR
A QR code on desktop that opens the same preview on the visitor’s phone
Works from Facebook and Instagram in-app browsers: visitors are guided to their normal browser, where AR works

For you

Setup in one click, with no account and no API keys to copy
Automatic 2D-to-3D conversion of your existing product photos
Choose which product categories get AR
Choose which product photo the 3D model is built from, or let the plugin pick the photo that matches the artwork’s proportions
Variable products supported, with AR per variation (for example per size)
An AR status column in the Products list and a status indicator in the product editor
The button matches your shop: follow your theme, or pick a style, accent colour, width and icon
A fully styleable QR card: shape, size, colours, gradient, logo in the middle and card design, with a live preview in the settings
[art_in_ar_buttons] shortcode to place the button anywhere, with per-placement attributes
Five filters for developers to change what is shown and how
Lightweight: no 3D model is loaded on your product page. The model only loads when a visitor opens the preview.
No tracking, no ads and no third-party CDN on your product page

Pricing

The free plan covers 5 artworks, has no end date and needs no credit card. The AR previews stay live in your shop. No account and no email address are needed to start. An email address is optional and only needed to sign in to the ArtInAR dashboard from elsewhere, to upload artwork by hand, or to move to a paid plan.

Paid plans cover larger catalogues, from 25 up to 1,000 artworks. See artinar.app for current plans and prices.

Languages

The plugin is fully translated into Dutch (nl_NL, nl_BE), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (pt_PT, pt_BR), Japanese, Polish, Swedish, Danish and Russian. The AR preview page your customers see is available in 23 languages and follows the visitor’s browser language. More translations are welcome at translate.wordpress.org.

External services

This plugin connects to the ArtInAR service (https://artinar.app), run by Roesware, which turns your artwork photos into 3D models and hosts the AR preview pages. Without it the plugin cannot show AR. Nothing is sent before you start the connection in the setup wizard.

What is sent, and when:

When you connect your store (setup wizard): your store URL, your site title, a connection secret generated for your store, the product categories you selected and, only if you enter one, your email address. WooCommerce then shows its own approval screen; once you approve, WooCommerce creates an API key and hands it to ArtInAR. With that key ArtInAR reads your products (titles, dimensions, photos, categories) and writes the AR preview URL and status back to the product. You can revoke the key at any time under WooCommerce Settings Advanced REST API.
When you open the Products list or the product editor: the IDs of the products on screen, to fetch their AR status.
When you open the setup wizard: a request for your plan and conversion progress. Saving a new category selection sends the selected category IDs.
When you open the ArtInAR dashboard from WordPress: a request for a one-time sign-in link.

On your product pages the plugin loads nothing from ArtInAR and sends nothing. The button and QR code only link to the AR preview page on artinar.app. When a visitor opens that page, their browser loads the page and the 3D model from artinar.app, and the phone’s own AR viewer (AR Quick Look on iOS, Scene Viewer on Android) shows it.

The QR-code library (qr-code-styling) is bundled with the plugin and served from your own site.

ArtInAR terms of use: https://artinar.app/terms
ArtInAR privacy policy: https://artinar.app/privacy

AR for WooCommerce – Augmented Reality & 3D Product Viewer for Art (ArtInAR)

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