MAY 4 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta44 has been released !
New improved internal memory controls should now work on all computers
May 1 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta43 has been released !
Improved internal memory controls (much more stable and faster on big datasets), fixed CPU image viewer, fixed Narrowband extraction demosaic algortihms.
Apr 29 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta42 has been released !
New improved Normalization engine, Fixed random crashes in integration, fixed RGB Combine & Calibrate Star Colors, fixed Narrowband extraction algorithms, new development platform with performance gains, bug fixes in the tools, etc...
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.
Hi,
Why whole stacking process in APP is very slow on mac-os? I have the latest Macbook Pro M1 (2020) and Macbook Air M2, 2022 (8-core CPU, 10-Core GPU). Its speed is the same even on my older MacBook pro (2015) and almost no improvement can be seen among all three. While windows version is a lot faster and even on my 10-year-old laptop which has outdated specs and its RAM is half and SSD speed is 4x less than the latest MacBook.
I wanted to use my latest MacBook for all the workflow but it's disappointing to see that I have to use my older windows laptop just for stacking. Simple background extraction took a lot more time on the Mac version as compared to the Windows version.
I am using a stable version of APP (1.083.2), not beta. Any fix? Any tweaks?
Please let me know.
Thanks
Yes, the beta version has addressed this, so if you could download and test the latest beta that would be nice to see. Download links are on top of the forum.
@vincent-mod Thanks for the reply. I downloaded Beta Version (both M1 and x86_64 2.0.0-beta 6). After installation as you can see in the attached picture, I am stuck here for an infinite time. Nothing is happening. It's not quitting normally until I do a force quit from the activity monitor menu.
I have no idea what's going on.
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Thanks for the reply, that is indeed odd. I'll ask Mabula to test this more on his Mac as well, I'll report back.
Silly question, but did you try a restart? The M1 installation is the one you do need.
Besides that, did you fully remove APP first and then reinstall the new version? That's also a good thing to do, remove APP completely and then use the M1 installer again.
Yes! I removed completely and then installed. I did not use any M1 installseparatly. I will try that. Although my Macbook is latest M2, but i think M1 installer should work.
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Thanks for your replies
