Hohem Gimbal

The functionality of this app is misleading and baseline at best. You Will not find any remote control functions because the app is all about facial recognition functions which are finicky and practically useless. Any other company’s gimbal phone app will provide a remote control function. This gimbal, this app is advertising but not delivering. As far as the gimbal go’s, any other brands will yield better results. Hohem has NO business selling any product under a “pro” banner. They don’t make any real pro models. cheap parts, basic functions to mask the lack of Pro features. Pro features like, remote monitoring remote control, fixed positioning, and let’s not forget that these products are just an attempt to recreate successful products made by companies that actually develop these devices. This company brings nothing to the table but bad knockoffs. And still manages to be unable to deliver a functional product.

Got my Hohem gimbal yesterday and spent time with it and the app last night and today. I have to say that all the problems being reported below must have been fixed with one of the numerous updates that have come out. The videos saved directly into my phone (not the app), it didn’t crash once, and the directions and interface is fairly intuitive. Two slight issues that kept me from giving it 5 stars: 1) every time I powered it up I had to calibrate the gimbal, which may or may not be normal? The directions don’t say. 2) sometimes the “double tap” to record didn’t work, so I had to tap the record icon on the phone’s screen. The longest video I took was about 2 1/2 minutes so I don’t know if long videos cause a problem. Stabilization was good, maybe not great but what do you expect out of a $90 gimbal? Anyway, I like it.

The app overall, for my liking, is great. Does everything I would like it to. Though, aside from facial and object tracking, the standard camera app exceeds it. This app would have received at least a 4 stars from me if the save feature wasn’t terrible. The app can save photos, panoramas and videos up to 4 minutes just fine for me. Anything past that and I get the “insufficient memory” issue. I have well over 30GB of free storage on my device. So this may be allotted storage for the app itself? According to the quick pop-up that is visible for a second (at most), it suggests that you go into your files app or connect your phone to a computer to obtain the video. Good luck finding it in your files; so you’re best off plugging it into your computer and dragging it off iTunes (if you’re a Microsoft user). I was able to successfully download my video that way (I needed to get a HEVC extension software to play it). ***A word of warning, it seems the app saves the video in a temporary storage location. Meaning, if you “reload” the app, the video goes “poof.” So be careful of that.