Polymer: OctoPrint 3D Printing 4+
3D Printing Made Simple
Lachlan Bell
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
(Formerly known as OctoClient for OctoPrint.)
Polymer is the simplest way to manage a 3D printer, right from your mobile device. It works with any 3D printer with OctoPrint. You can start and monitor prints from anywhere*, and manage your printer with its advanced controls. It is built to be at home on iOS, sporting a beautiful, intuitive design.
Here's what some users have to say:
– "Works great. Love it. Wouldn’t own a 3D printer without it."
– "Simple, straightforward, works like a charm."
– "Must have for any 3D printer owner!"
Polymer has an optional Pro upgrade that adds multiple printer support and a bunch of extra features.
Extended feature list:
MONITOR YOUR PRINTS
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• Live camera streaming: watch your print progress remotely.
• Status monitoring: view the print completion, heater temperatures, time elapsed and estimated time remaining.
• GCODE view (iPad only): follow your printer's moves as the print progresses.
CONTROL YOUR PRINTER
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• Start, stop, and pause prints
• Home axes
• Set heater temperatures
• Extrude and retract filament
• Set fan speeds
• Set feed and flow rates
• Disable motors
• Multiple printer support (Pro)
• Add your own custom commands (Pro)
• Send and receive GCODE command messages to your printer (Pro)
• Use OctoPrint system commands (Pro)
• Control your printer's power supply (Pro)
FILE MANAGEMENT
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• File viewer: view all your files and folders. See analysis results for your models (such as estimated print time), and view their print history
• Create folders
• Upload files to OctoPrint or your printer SD card (Pro)
REMOTE ACCESS
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• Integration with the OctoEverywhere service for hassle-free, secure, remote access.
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* Using Polymer outside your local network requires configuring a remote access method. See polymer3d.app/remote for setup guides.
This is an independent app that is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the OctoPrint project or its creator. OctoPrint is a registered trademark owned by Gina Häußge.
What’s New
Version 4.0.10
– Polished a bunch of small interface components
– Made the GCODE command editor auto-resizing
– Fixed a bug with editing custom GCODE commands
Ratings and Reviews
Full-featured and well-supported OctoPrint client
I switched to OctoClient when my other app stopped working. You can control a single printer with the free version but as soon as I had confirmed that it worked well, I paid for the full version so that I can use it to monitor all my printers. I have had a few questions and suggestions and the developer has always responded promptly with helpful answers. My one wish would be for a quicker way of switching between printers but no real complaints at all.
Needs a bit more work but good
Don’t want to leave anything except a 5 star review, the software - and Octoprint server - are free and I have an enormous amount of appreciation for this and wouldn’t dream of leaving a bad review.
That said, there are a few minor annoyances:
- Camera image cannot be viewed fullscreen (not an app fault, it’s in the paid version, and again I want to respect the needs of the developer, of course this is totally reasonable but I’m mentioning it here as the alternative Octopod does allow this)
- Camera settings don’t respect those already set up in Octoprint (eg rotation), although you can set these in the app
- no print ETA (I have an Octoprint plugin for Prusa that provides accurate print time so this would be great)
- no print graphs, at least not in free version
Octopod iPhone app for Octoprint is fab, it’s my preference - try it out - a rising tide floats all boats!
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your thoughtful review, I really appreciate it! If I may address some of your points:
- Regarding the fullscreen camera, it does make sense for that to be a free feature. That's how it is in the version in the new design I'm working on; it will likely remain free when it's released
- I remember when that early on there was a technical issue with loading the camera preferences from OctoPrint, hence the manual settings in the app. I will revisit that decision now, thank you for pointing that out!
- I will look into adding support for the ETA plugin, thank you for the suggestion!
I have been working on a major update that greatly polishes up the app - I hope you'll give it a try 😀
Sorry for the annoyances in the current version!
Excellent app with a responsive developer
A really great addition to Octoprint. Works very well and the developer responds quickly to requests. We’ll worth paying to unlock all features and support the development. No hesitation in recommending this.
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Information
- Provider
- Lachlan Bell
- Size
- 10.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017–2022 Lachlan Bell
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Polymer Pro £9.99
- Kind Tip £0.99
- Incredible Tip £4.99
- Generous Tip £3.99