App Profile: Hohem Joy

Piggykillerforhire

Rating: 2/5

I totally love this thing, almost gave it 5 stars… but! There’s always but somewhere. Sure, it took some time to learn it, get used to it. Filmed a lot of great stuff for my son’s soccer games. Just used it last week for some promo videos. Turned it off, put it away, saw that there was an HOHEM JOY app update, updated the app, and now this thing is going absolutely bananas. The gimbal starts spinning around so violently like it’s trying to throw my phone out of the gimbal clip. Clearly they broke something in this last app update. Tried everything from factory resets, deleting the app and re-installing, reset the Bluetooth connection, etc…. Not good HOHEM! I’m not getting any Joy out of this experience.

Girl1der

Rating: 3/5

Ok the app needs to support autofocus and the gimbal wheel needs to support zooming. Updates needed: 1. -wheel in zoom or any other mode = Autofocus on. 2. -wheel in focus mode needs to allow autofocus then provide manual override once the wheel is turned. 2.1. -Autofocus while wheel mode should be a selectable on-off option under config settings. 3. -active wheel functions (focus, zoom, light control, spin, & tilt) should be selectable under config settings so user can configure to their own use. Most importantly make saving long videos mission critical. Do this by writing to App storage first, then transferring to Photo storage then if there is a problem, saving two photos storage, you have the option to go back and re-export without losing the video. If you want a QA reviewer, I would be happy to do it for name credit only. out of all the gimbal, I’ve tested I like the Hoheim hardware, the best, and the software needs to be severely upgraded to reflect the quality of the hardware. I would like to see that happen and contribute to making that happen.

Anonymous4Rev

Rating: 3/5

Honestly, this app has gotten a lot better That said it definitely needs help with camera focus. It is not as reliable as it needs to be I really like the AI tracking where you can draw on any object, but that needs a little bit of tweaking as well because it does lose track of that item quite easily and doesn’t always work I also experienced issues With the gesture, not working sometimes Other than that, it has better white balance than iPhone camera app Also, I noticed a downgrade in quality via the iPhone camera app Definitely not that far from being one of the best camera apps I’ve used to date Also I would really love to see the ability to pair two different devices at the same time so I can use the camera from the phone mounted to the gimbal and my other phone for the joystick remote That would be an awesome addition Thanks Hohem for continuing to make your products better