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 Mabula, Vincent and Wouter,
I know, it's a lot of work you have done and you're still going.
Great work till now.
I realy like APP, caused by it's Mosaik-skills and the whole rest.
Just a thought for the future changes, is it possible to full process Night-Landscape-Picture?
Like manuel mark the forground Objects and register the star background seperatly.
Till now I fight with Sequator and precorrected frames out of APP.
But the stacking in Sequator is.... just okay.
It would be nice to stack right in APP.
This would be a single marker to APP, cause most astrophoto programs can only do full sky or Landscape.
Just a thought.
Go on like this, Sven
It is an area I know Mabula wants to look at as well, but not a high priority. What you can always do is to stack in APP, then in PS for instance replace the blurry foreground with the foreground of a well lit and sharp image.
