# Colony-Counter

> Colony-Counter (iPhone/iPad app by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/colony-counter/id1637863972 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1433646231)
- Category: Photo & Video, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 11 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2022-08-27
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/colony-counter/id1637863972/reviews.md

## What is Colony?

The Colony Counter App is a tool, which allows taking and scanning pictures of bacterial colonies, by the inbuilt camera of the smartphone or tablet. Thanks to an image-processing algorithm, providing digital picture analysis, the app counts and determines the amount of captured colonies, enabling lab work to be more easy. 
Key Features: (to be appended)
- Camera Page: Autofocus is available. Click on the shutter button to take a photo.
- Analysis Page: The user can stop the scanning process by tapping the Cancel button. Then back to the camera page. If analysis successful, the photo will be saved to a specific album on the device (e.g., album "Colony Counter").
- Result Page: Display Number of all colonies, Single colonies, Colonies in clusters, Single colonies at the edge, and Calculation time.

Note: The original image-processing algorithm has been developed by the Institute of Technical Chemistry (TCI) of the Leibniz University Hannover. MPDL is operating the app.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.1 — 2022-10-05

Changes were made to the description of app.

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