The app works 20% of the time, if it works at all. Let alone the quality of pictures are not as good as it is advertised. I wish I spent my money on a better hardware with a real working application.
They have made so much progress in this app. It is stable and has added so many key features in under a year. The new star atlas is a huge upgrade in ease of picking your target. The D2 is so much fun, lightweight and easy to use, especially for travel. Can’t wait for the D3!
Before the update my Dwarf 2 worked well. After the update the Dwarf 2 would drop connection after 30 seconds, and refuse to reconnect. I tried all the troubleshooting steps to no avail.
The app is mediocre in every way, but usable. The camera is pretty neat, so one can put up with the app. I hope it gets improved, it wouldn't be hard.
I got the telescope expecting nice things, but I won’t hold the app accountable for my buyer’s remorse. But the app itself was one of the main selling points and this app, by itself, is cancer on my phone. I have to reboot the program after every session if the camera loses the connection. It’s frozen, no features are tappable. It’s also not uncommon for an entire reboot of iOS after a session. That’d be cool if the app was anything more than a glorified 720p selfie stick. It lacks an intuitive viewing mode. Focus never works, it seems unresponsive with no feedback. It may be skill or more reading up, but my iPhone takes better, more detailed pictures. Looking with the naked eye shouldn’t give the most detail while viewing. I don’t know how tied the app team is to their hardware, but it’s been my worst regrettable purchase and worst regrettable app that I’ve downloaded in several years.
Please change all the sliders into drop down. Fat fingers don’t work very well. Thanks.
A good start but software is unhelpful and weird to connect. Software needs to be as good as the hardware.
Raising my review from 1* to 3* for version V2.0.0.B18.
The new App is a fresh take at what should have been from day one using my Dwarf2. It’s keen experience that it brings. Good stuff.
On the other hand, am still finding that saving to photo album on iOS still remains a “hit&miss”. I tried to save an image/photo of the moon I had taken some time back which was on the SD Card to the photo album, and for some reason the save button won’t work.
Tried to save an Astro photo from the SD Card, one of them saved immediately, and the other took forever until i killed the App. Integration with Photo Album is still finicky.
After disconnecting, the Album page is empty. It would be good to have a “tag” used to filter and display what has been locally saved on the device showing there. This should not be hard to fix, or alternatively, provide a “save to” option which can save to iOS Files location, assuming the one step “save” is too challenging to implement moment.
Christmas has come and so has the promised updated app and firmware. The UI has been completely revamped so expect to relearn a lot of the features. It seems the “Restart” option has been removed and only a “Shut Down” option is present. Hope they add that back in.
1. After taking a series of photos/stacking, the settings do not remain and they reset themselves back to a default, so it forces you to redo all your photo settings to return back to the desired shot before you restart
2. IR Cut / Pass is constantly resetting itself to Pass so it blows out any image you have, especially if you’re focusing on the Moon.
More updates to come
Developer Response
The restart option will be reopened in the next updateHad the Dwarf II scope for almost a year now. This app has morphed from buggy to quite polished. A balance between being too simplified and being very capable has been found now in ver 2. I recommend the app on iOS. Partner this app with another like Sky Safari or Observer Pro for a great experience. Reading directions is required, so plan for that before wasting time.
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