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.
I would like the ability to save custom mixes in the combine RGB tool. I know it isn't a big deal to move the sliders around, but I wanted to possibly get it on the radar for the future. I've attached a screenshot of a Hubble Palette one I use. This is the mix I used to get the attached image.
Great stuff. This will definitely be possible when we add settings to APP. I don't know if that will be (specifically this setting) in the upcoming release, but it makes a ton of sense to make that possible yes. @mabula-admin
ps. stunning result there!
Thanks! APP is a really solid go-to tool for this stuff. Between the sliders on combine RGB and the selective color tool it is hard to beat the results you can get with it. I've actually done multiple tutorials on APP for the Telescope Live community. For this kind of stuff I'd run it up against any tool, and for stacking nothing out there touches it.
