Free converter

Convert PLY to glTF web-ready JSON.

Drop a .ply below and download it as glTF 2.0 JSON — the standard 3D format of the web, with the scan's vertex colors preserved. Converted locally in your browser. Want a smaller single binary instead? The PLY to GLB converter writes a .glb.

Drop your PLY file here
or click to browse — converted in your browser, never uploaded
.ply

Converted locally · never uploaded · no signup

Why this tool

Free, private, in the browser.

Standards-based scan delivery

glTF 2.0 loads natively in three.js, Babylon, <model-viewer> and every modern engine — no plugins.

Vertex colors carried over

Per-vertex color from photogrammetry survives the conversion, since glTF supports it natively.

Local and private

The scan converts in browser memory and downloads directly — nothing is uploaded.

How it works

Three steps, no setup.

01
Drop your PLY

Drag the .ply in and confirm the mesh in the live preview.

02
Convert to glTF

The mesh is re-exported as glTF 2.0 JSON with embedded buffers.

03
Load it anywhere

Use the .gltf in web viewers, engines or glTF-based toolchains.

glTF or GLB for your scan?

Both carry identical glTF 2.0 data, vertex colors included. Choose .gltf (this tool) when a pipeline expects JSON or you want to inspect the file as text; choose .glb for publishing — it's roughly a third smaller. Converting between them later is lossless, and both converters are free here.

From capture format to delivery format

PLY is where scans are born and processed; glTF is where they get seen. Once converted, the scan drops into any web viewer, a <model-viewer> embed, or a game engine without importer plugins. The mesh must be triangulated — a points-only PLY needs surface reconstruction (e.g. in MeshLab) before converting.

Questions

Answered, plainly.

Is the PLY to glTF converter free?+

Yes — free, unlimited and signup-free.

Is my scan uploaded?+

No. Everything happens in your browser's memory; the file downloads directly.

Do vertex colors survive?+

Yes — glTF supports per-vertex color, so the scan's colors carry through, unlike conversions to STL or OBJ.

Why is the .gltf file fairly large?+

Geometry is embedded as base64 text to keep the file self-contained. For a compact deployable, use the PLY to GLB converter — same data, binary container.

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