Apr 9 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 has been released !
It has a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration, for mosaics even faster! 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. Improved Outlier Rejection with LN 2.0 rejection. macOS CMD+A works now in file chooser ! And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming hours...
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,
After more than 2 years using APP, I think it's time for me to share my little feedback.
First, I really like to thank Mabula for this great software and for the improvements over the years, listening users.
Thanx also Vincent and Wouter for there help and following all the topics !
What I really like in APP :
- it's easy to use, and it's very efficient and robust. From calibration to integration, results are high level, has good or even better than those obtained with other softwares.
- The gradient removal tool is amazing. I especially like the iterative way it works.
- And of course, the mosaic function, that made me know APP. Such an easy way to make seamless mosaic. What a great work here.
What I like less :
- As a MacOS user, when the screen saver or sleep mode starts, APP stops until the computer wakes up.
- The crop function isn't very friendly to use, nether the color calibration (for me at least).
My suggestions for improvements :
1 - Gradient removal tool :
- the ability to manually remove placed boxes
- the ability to apply gradient removal to several images that have been previously registered : it would be useful to remove gradient for Color, Ha and OIII extracted for example, or for different integration results, or to remove gradient before stacking.
2 - Mosaic :
A preview for mosaic projection would be great, working with panel thumbnails for example, before working with full panels.
I haven't tried the comet registration yet, but it's a nice addition.
The coming star reduction tool seems to be great.
Thanx again for this amazing work that makes astrophotography processing more easy.
I can't wait to try the next release !
CS,
David
