Campanion 4+

The face recognition for photos is an absolute game changer for sad parents! I used to spend hours every day scrolling and clamoring for photos of my child, but now with the face recognition, I don’t have to!! I get notified when my child's face is spotted in candid camp photos so I can go back to living my best life for the month when my kid is at camp. It is CRAZY how good it is spotting her in the middle of a crowd of hundreds of other girls, even if its at a distance or just a portion of her face. I never write app reviews but this one deserves it! It has given me back hours out of every day she’s gone and this is just ONE of its features!!!! Wow!

The app is wonderful, it’s lovely to have camper email and photos in one place, and the facial recognition is a game changer. That said, it feels a bit buggy. It does not seem to work at all when the phone is in low power mode. It has been slowing down lately, and crashing. I haven’t even been able to get past the splash screen for the past two days. Prior to that, I noticed the following issues: The photo stream isn’t very useful, and feels like a less good version of the photos tab, that doesn’t let you scroll easily from photo to photo. Usually, it stops communicating correctly with autocorrect about half way through an email, making touch screen typing very difficult. Additionally, when you tap on a notification to see a photo or letter, it doesn’t always go to the right place, and sometimes you get stuck or the app crashes.

I used to love this app to check out my kids’ photos while they have been away at camp, and for the last week it has been too buggy to open, it completely crashes, it won’t get past the splash screen with logo. Extremely frustrated. I also feel as though the facial recognition quality has gone done. Last summer, the app could spot my child a mile away in the largest of crowds. This summer, I’m getting tagged in pics of other people’s kids, and many of my own kids’ photo appearances are missed — despite using the camera to take a photo of their faces head on or changing out their profile photos with other pics. Lately I’ve had to go to my kids’ camp website photo gallery and sift through the old way, and I really miss the convenience and functionality of the Campanion app. I hope the app will work better soon!