App Profile: Time Lapse with HDR

Euronymouse

Rating: 3/5

To the extent that it works, it's great. Here's the problem: as it shoots, it apparently stores the working timelapse in memory. If it is interrupted for any reason, including a low battery system message (keeping in mind that the app drains your battery with a quickness—use a battery pack if you're planning on taking an extended shot) or exhausted disc space, you lose everything it's shot. This would be bad enough, but if you lose a working timelapse in this manner, there is apparently no way to regain the space on your device other than deleting the app and reinstalling it from the App Store. The first time this happened to me I was bewildered as to why my phone was always full, until I looked in the Storage tab in Settings and saw that the app had been holding onto over a gig worth of inaccessible-to-me images for a couple of weeks. So that's annoying. You're basically taking a gamble any time you set it up for a long timelapse, and the risk increases the longer you leave it running. Oh, well.

Braddock_MIA

Rating: 1/5

I have .4 acres of backyard with tons of leaves to rake by myself. My only motivation was to time lapse it and sit back and watch the vid when finished. Well first attempt of me raking for hours didn't work. When I got back the iPhone was off for some reason. I assumed it was interrupted and the vid up to that point was saved. So I turned it on and looked for the vid. Nothing. So I recorded a quick clip to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong. At that point the message "app wants to access camera roll" came up. I was furious. I thought man, if I'd have known that before I started it woulda saved it before shutting down. Okay a couple of weeks later I was going to do the other half of the yard so I made sure it was in airplane mode, do not disturb and plugged in to power on a tripod. I kept checking every 30-40 mins and it was recording just fine. But after over 4 hours of work and finally finishing I went to check an my phone was off! Why? No idea but again I thought surely it saved the vid this time before interruption. Negative. Nothing. The hours and hours of recording just isn't there. I can't even put in words how frustrated I am right now. So ZERO stars from me.

GigaPan

Rating: 5/5

UPDATE: the developers certainly stayed on top of this problem, which I am most appreciative of. The solution for me, based on their suggestion, was to simply upgrade to IOS 8.1.1, so the rating goes from one star to a well deserved five-star accomplishment. ORIGINAL: At the moment, the three control buttons do not function on my 6+ and IOS 8.02. Tomorrow, will go to the Apple Store to see if there is a problem with my iPhone and report back. Actually, this app may have a memory problem. I'll wait for an update.