Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
Hi, I couldn't find an answer to this, so I thought I would post it here. I currently have a renters license that expires at the end of this year. Is there a discount to upgrade to the owner's license? I'm enjoying this software and I know I will continue to use it so I thought I might as buy the owner's version.
Hi Scott,
Thanks for using it! 🙂 We don't have an upgrade-path in that sense, it's either renting or a buyers license. We did this because some don't like renting software, others don't mind, so we gave everyone an option there.
To be sure, just send a message to support@astropixelprocessor.com which Mabula can answer.
@vincent-mod Hi, Yes, you are correct. I was hoping maybe a discount for the remainder of my renter's licence, but nope. It doesn't really matter, I'll wait until it expires and then get an upgrade once it expires. Typically, I prefer to own software as I feel this subscription-type model is simply too expensive by the time I get a bunch of software packages. But I like APP a lot. I also use Pixinsight, but I'm finding better results with APP as far as stacking and their TOOLS tab.
I think APP does a better job with stacking than PI, in my opinion. Like a lot of people, I do all of my stacking here & then take the stacked images into PI for processing. A pretty common approach.
