The idea of this app is great. It allows me to view the pictures my camera took without taking out its memory card, download them to my phone, remotely change the camera settings, etc. However, getting it to connect and work as intended is challenging. Most of the time, I have to try connecting to it multiple times before the connection is established, even when I’m standing right next to the camera and my phone is very well within its range. The app itself is buggy, kicks me out often, riddled with typos such as “Please waiting” instead of “Please wait” when downloading the images, the image download is instant sometimes but bugs out a lot too. In all, I wish the app was designed better because I enjoy the camera and love viewing/downloading images remotely.

I am using this app with a CanPark T85 trail camera (has both Bluetooth and WiFi). The app does everything I can think of that would be useful. I can turn on the cameras WiFi (via bluetooth) and then download pictures and videos from it to me iPhone via WiFi. I can adjust the cameras configuration using the app also. The advantage of being able to do this is that I can mount the camara high up in a tree and never need to touch it again (except to change batteries....the app can’t Chang’s the batteries for me! :-). I have had no issues with it at all. It is important to understand the relationship between the Camera and your iPhone. The T85 camera I have does not connect to my home WiFi, rather I need to connect my iPhobe to the cameras WiFi, once you understand that, the app and the relationship between you phone and the camara is perfec.

Campark T86 camera with iOS on both iPhone and iPad. The concept to remember is that first, you create a DIRECT Bluetooth connection between your phone and the camera. You then create a separate DIRECT WiFi connection between your phone and the camera. You are not using your home WiFi. Range is limited. You must remain connected by both methods while accessing the camera. Both connections are used by the app for different things. I have no problem when being within 50 feet, direct line of sight, of the camera. The app does almost everything remotely that you could do if you were at the camera, even changing settings and deleting files from the card. The only thing you need to do at the camera would be to replace batteries. The app could use a few enhancements and those suggestions were submitted to the developer.

I have spent many, many hours trying to make this app do what it is supposed to do. Let’s not forget that this isn’t a stand alone app, it works with specific trail/wildlife cameras, as they are marketed and marked on the box as an incentive of buying the cams. These aren’t $20-special cams and people specifically choose these for their app/wifi/blutooth capabilities. This app maybe 50% worked with my iPhone7. When I traded that in and purchased my iPhone 11 at Christmas (which the cam was a Christmas present I specifically asked for after doing hours of research and seeing good ratings for) it worked even less. I’m talking it comes up on blutooth maybe 30% of the time. When it does it 95% of the time doesn’t connect with the wifi. If I actually get both of those to be picked up by the app it freezes and is worthless. A requirement for the unit I wanted was the ability to use an app with it. This app fails its customers and it has for months now, leading me to believe the company is doing very little to fix this situation.