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.
I'm currently using the trial version before deciding if I should purchase. I'm running on a Mac running Catalina 10.15.5. I have a couple of things that are really annoying and wanted to get some feedback.
1.) Every time I start the app I have to navigate to my working folder. As I created my 'base' working folder on another partition, I have to constantly navigate all the back to /Volumes and then down from there. Why can I not select a base working folder that is saved and used on app launch, so I only have to then navigate down to my working folder (i.e. based on object).
2.) I use the Apple Mouse with touch scroll, however the scrolling in the windows is way too sensitive and I keep going back and forth, for example when zooming into an image or scrolling left/right in the list of frames at the bottom.
3.) Say I want to scroll on star density to select which images to keep and which to reject, I have to scroll all the way over to 'star density', then all the way back to deselect. I can move the 'star density' column over next to the select boxes, however as soon as I deselect something, the 'star density' column jumps back to it's original position. This is really frustrating.
Thanks,
Hi Adrian,
I have been using APP on MacOS for over 1,5 years now.
1) This has been requested many times and @mabula-admin has it on his todo list with other configuration items to make permanent.
2) I have noticed this as well. It takes some practice but if you carefully use the touch pad then it is possible to scroll more slowly.
3) I never tried this so no clue.
HTH, Wouter
