Move 3D models and the mouse with your bare hand. Raise your hand in front of the webcam, or of your phone, and turn, pan and zoom a 3D scan without touching anything: useful when your hands are busy, gloved or not clean. The hand is tracked on your device and the video is never recorded or sent anywhere.
Try it now in the browser: https://vladpereverzyev.github.io/leviate/
| Where | How |
|---|---|
| Browser (computer or phone) | Nothing to install: open https://vladpereverzyev.github.io/leviate/ |
| Windows | Microsoft Store, or leviate-<version>-windows-x64.exe from the latest release |
| macOS (signed and notarized) | -macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel) from the latest release |
| Ubuntu and Linux with snap | Snap Store: sudo snap install leviate |
| Linux | -linux-x64.AppImage or -linux-x64.flatpak from the latest release |
| Chrome, Edge | Chrome Web Store |
| Blender 4.2 or later | Blender Extensions, or in Blender Get Extensions and search Leviate |
| Dentra Viewer | the Plugin panel of the Viewer, see integrations/dentra |
All downloads, with a guide for each system: https://vladpereverzyev.github.io/leviate/download
| Hand pose | 3D view | Mouse (Leviate for Desktop and Chrome) |
|---|---|---|
| Open hand | rotate | move the cursor |
| Fist | pan | |
| Thumb and index | spread to zoom in, close to zoom out | |
| One finger held still | left click, keep still for a double click | |
| Two fingers held still | right click |
Gloves work too, nitrile and latex in any color. Ctrl+Alt+M (Ctrl+Option+M on macOS) turns the hand off and on from any program in Leviate for Desktop.
- Web app: opens STL, PLY, OBJ, GLB, GLTF, 3MF, FBX and more, several scans at once and in color, on a computer or a phone. Guide
- Your phone as a webcam: scan a QR code, no app to install. How it works
- Leviate for Desktop: the hand on any program, with a 3D module for your 3D or CAD program and a Mouse module. Guide
- Leviate for Chrome: the 3D and Mouse modes inside the pages of the browser. Guide
- Leviate for Blender: the view or the selected objects follow your hand. Guide
- Leviate for Dentra Viewer: turns, pans and zooms the models of the Viewer. Guide
How it is made, how to run your own copy and how to build it: docs/development.md. What changed in each version: CHANGELOG.md. Help and questions: SUPPORT.md.
Leviate is a 3D viewer. It is not a medical device and it is not meant for diagnosis, treatment planning or any other clinical decision. Always check scans in the software approved for that purpose.
The video stream and your scans are processed only inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded, there is no tracking and no account. The only outside services are the ones of Use phone (the PeerJS broker and a STUN server of Google), which see the connection details but never the video. Leviate for Chrome and the Dentra plugin keep the video on the computer in the same way. Full details in the privacy policy.
The downloads are built from this repository by the Build & Release workflow. The macOS dmg is signed with the Developer ID of the author and notarized by Apple; the Windows installer is not signed yet. The copies from the Mac App Store, the Microsoft Store and the Snap Store are signed by those stores.
Parts of Leviate, its code, its documentation and its packaging for the app stores (among them
the Linux files in desktop/packaging/linux/: the desktop entry, the AppStream metainfo and the Flatpak
manifest, and the snap recipe in snap/), were written with the help of generative AI tools. Every part was reviewed, tried
and is maintained by the author, who is responsible for it.
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md and the Code of Conduct first. Every contribution needs the Contributor License Agreement: the CLA Assistant bot asks you to sign it with one comment on your first pull request. Integrations for other CAD and 3D programs are the most welcome: see Bring Leviate to your CAD. Security problems go to the security policy, not to a public issue.
If Leviate is useful to you, you can support its development on GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi.
Copyright (C) 2026 Vladyslav Pereverzyev
Leviate is dual licensed.
- Open source: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. You can use, study, modify and share it for free. If you distribute a modified version or offer it to users over a network you must publish your source code under the same license.
- Commercial: if you want to include Leviate in a closed source product or a service without the AGPL obligations, a commercial license is available. Open an issue titled "Commercial license" or contact @vladpereverzyev on GitHub.
The name "Leviate" and its logo are not covered by the AGPL-3.0 and may not be used for modified versions without permission.
Other product names and trademarks belong to their owners. They are used only to say which programs Leviate works with. Leviate is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
The integrations in integrations/ carry their own license file. Leviate for Blender is
GPL-3.0-or-later, as Blender asks for its add-ons.
Third-party components keep their own licenses. See NOTICE and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.