May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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.
I really dislike how long it took to post-process image, especially the calibration and stacking and I was about to give up on astrophotography because of it. APP has made all that so easy now and with even better results, has made me excited and motivated to do astrophotography again. APP is very close to providing an end to end solution and one of the missing pieces is noise reduction but I've seen in the forum, that this coming. The results I get with the automatic stretching are as good as one gets from manually stretching plus the color calibration also produces excellent results. I used to have to work very hard on getting the right color balance with Startools but now it's easy when using an APP stacked image as it's already nearly perfect. Here are a few images including a 2 frame mosaic which was easy to do with APP. APP used to create the LRGB stack and Startools for stretching, deconv/sharpening, and noise reduction. Thanks so much, Mabula!
https://www.astrobin.com/357188/B/
https://www.astrobin.com/354196/?nc=user
https://www.astrobin.com/353846/D/
Edit by mabula: inserted the image URLs from astrobin for embedded images 😉
Thank you @leuthold for sharing these awesome images 😎 😍 !
(Apologies for not replying sooner, I had a technical glitch on my forum software I am afraid, should be sorted now )
I am very glad that APP contributes to your enjoyment of astrophotography, that makes it all worth it if someone produces images like this ;-), really !
Your images are awesome, keep it up !
Mabula
