Needle Engine

Build 3D web experiences that work everywhere. From browser to VR headsets, mobile AR to iOS WebXR – create once, deploy anywhere. No app stores, no waiting, no limitations.

Why Needle Engine?

🚀 Deploy Instantly to the Web Build on your machine, deploy anywhere. Share your 3D experiences with a simple URL or QR code. No app stores, no waiting for approval, no installation required.

🌐 True Cross-Platform One codebase runs everywhere – desktop, mobile, VR headsets (Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro), and mobile AR including native iOS WebXR support. When new XR devices launch, your apps work automatically.

🎨 Work in Powerful 3D Editors Use Unity or Blender for modeling, materials, animations, lightmaps, and more. Visual authoring meets web deployment. Perfect for artists and developers collaborating together.

🤝 Multiplayer & XR Built-In Collaboration and XR aren't afterthoughts – they're core features. Add multiplayer or immersive XR with a single component.

⚡️ Optimized for Performance Powerful compression and optimization pipeline ensures your files are small and load fast. Built on the glTF standard for maximum compatibility.

Choose Your Path

🎓 Learning

Start with step-by-step tutorials

Perfect for newcomers who want to learn the fundamentals.

🔧 Problem Solving

Jump straight to practical guides

Get things done with focused how-to instructions.

📚 Understanding

Explore concepts and architecture

Deepen your knowledge of how Needle Engine works.

📖 Reference

Look up specific APIs

Quick reference for components, methods, and configuration.

What Developers Say

Unbelievable Unity editor integration by an order of magnitude, and as straightforward as the docs claim. Wow.

needle.tools is a wonderful showcase of what @NeedleTools contributes to 3D via the web. I just love it.

Played with this a bit this morning 🤯🤯 pretty magical

This is huge for WebXR and shared, immersive 3D experiences! Thank you so much for putting in the work on this @NeedleTools crew! Hoping @Apple sort out their WebXR situation sooner rather than later. The AR part worked flawlessly on my @SamsungMobile S21.

This is the best thing I have seen after cinemachine in unity. Unity should acquire this

Thanks to @NeedleTools, seeing quite a bit of this solution for web-based real time 3d tools - export scenes from Unity, where you can leverage the extensive 3d editor ecosystem & content, and then render them in your own web-based engine

Finally checking out @NeedleTools with Unity. Super easy to get something up and running in the cloud using their integrations

This is amazing and if you are curious about #WebXR with Unity this will help us get there

I am a long time Unity dev and recently started playing with Needle Tools and I love it! It's a great on ramp for Unity devs who want to learn WebXR and three.js. The runtime engine is awesome and it was pretty easy to create my own custom component

We just gotta say WOW 🤩

Spent the last 2.5 months building this game, never built a game/never used unity before, but absolutely loving the whole process with needle tools. So rapid! Would love to make a career building AR experiences!

My workflow has been optimized 10X ever since i started using needle