WebODM is now an Independent Project 🎉

by Piero Toffanin - April 6th 2026

Some relationships are made to last. Sometimes others just don't work out. Due to some irreconcilable differences with the OpenDroneMap board, WebODM will continue and accelerate its mission of providing the most awesome open source drone mapping software as an independent project going forward.

I invite existing users, developers and contributors to join me in this exciting new chapter. We'll build something beautiful, together.

How Does This Affect You

  • If you're an existing user of WebODM, you can continue to use the software as normal. Just make sure you are downloading from the correct source. To avoid confusion, I have asked OpenDroneMap to stop using the WebODM name to identify their software, but this might take a while. I apologize for any confusion in the interim.
  • Expect more frequent release cycles, bug fixes and features.
  • You can now download and install the latest version of WebODM free of charge on all platforms.

Roadmap and Call for Partecipants

In the short term focus will be on:

  • Migrating existing infrastructure, builds and repositories to the new organization
  • Fixing GPU support on Windows
  • Adding support for checkpoints
  • Updating and expanding the documentation at docs.webodm.org
  • Setup a community directory and social media channels

If you want to help and be part of this new chapter in WebODM history, you can join discord and provide your ideas and feedback for where the project should go. You can also help improve the documentation, the code, the translations or start a WebODM community on your favorite platform (if one does not exist already). For the latter, once you do ping me on discord and I can add it to our directory. Foreign language speakers are most welcome to start regional chapters of WebODM communities in their own language.

If you'd like to help WebODM have a voice on social media, also please get in touch on discord. For personal reasons I don't spend much time on social media, but with your help it would be cool for the project to have a more active social media presence.

Welcome to this new chapter. There's lots of work to do. Let's build something beautiful, together.

-Piero