Focal (Beta)

Bugs found on Nexus 4 (with Nougat aosp): switching back to camera after video mode makes camera not work. Gallery often shows blank slides. Videos aren't watchable (tried vlc, will post when I analyze with ffmpeg). The capture/picture button is too close to the middle soft button, making the app close some times instead of taking a picture. The flash timing is off, making dark/night pictures black. Still looking through all the features, will update soon.

After taking individual pics long pressing the shutter says Rendering started and then nothing happens. Crashes on start most of the time. "BUT" all other features are amazing. Hope the developers fix these bugs. Can't wait to lay hands on the stable build :)( Moto x runs on Lollipop)

One of the best camera apps I've ever tested. It has all the functions that a good camera has. I found 2 small bugs and 1 more serious. The application is automatically pausing and closing when put in panoramic mode, and when you switch from the front camera to the rear camera, the picture freezes (only sometimes). The biggest bug is that the camera's alignment is outside the edges of the mobile screen. Awesome app! Keep updating

Works pretty smoothly. only issue im having is i can't seem to be able to set my default save location to my SD card as opposed to onboard storage. Also cause Mightytext (app which syncs text messages and photos with chrome extension) to crash.

Looking forward to seeing this beta progress. 2 crashes so far, stopped responding while trying to display the new user hint while trying to take a picsphere (bug report sent), and then an FC after reaching 33% of rendering a picsphere. I imagine when this app is in full swing it will be awesome. Keep up the good work.

4.1.2 Black screen with red focal reticule. I would really like to use this camera app because I used it on my HTC One S with CM 10.2 until my digitizer went bad. Please fix the bug and I'm giving 5 stars because I know you guys will fix it.

I would give this app 2 stars if the devs didn't specify this was a beta program. On SGS5, it will not save images at all. And the interface is buggy, sometimes the left side options are no longer able to slide out. If it worked well, and I were to judge it based solely on simplicity and desired functionality, I would probably give it 4.5 stars. I think there is a lot of potential with this app. Keep up the good work, dev

Looks like an awesome camera, interface works great, love the effects, but will not show any pictures that I take with the app. Using HTC One, does the App not work with this phone? Let me know if there's a work around on my Google Plus account. If this issue get's fixed I'll change my rating to 5 stars.

If it was working it would have been a great app, this is how the stock software should have been. But unfortunately it does not work to my Nexus 5. If i press the shutter to take a photo it just drop downs the last photo in my album. I doubled tap in the screen in order to make it take photos with tapping the screen but this also does not work. I really hope the developer to improve this app and make it work in our devices.

A great camera on my Moto G. Let's me use things like photosphere, which is only available on higher end devices. Also re-enables panoramic, which the new Google Camera removed. To say it's only in beta, I think this app is pretty much flawless. One major bug is my pictures being the wrong orientation sometimes.

Respect, brother! Love what you've done with the menu and review drawers. They make adjustments quick, intuitive, and perfectly one-handed. Had a couple freeze moments, but they were minor. (Galaxy S2) Also like the main / mode button-wheel gizmo. Again, makes it easy to make one-hand changes.

Just a couple issues. I realize its in beta so I just wanted to mention these... switching from video to photo freezes it and on the video screen there's about an eighth of an inch of gray screen on the right side in portrait. Great app except for that. And if they would add storage on SD that would be great too!

Android 4.3.1 on cm10.2 - camera works pretty good for photos. I tested most of the functions and they seem smooth and flawless. The app crashes when I switch to video mode. Can't wait for this to get out of beta, it will likely be my camera of choice once it's stable.

This app is clearly still beta and as such will have bugs so no complaints hence the 5 star rating. Love what your trying to do and I hope you get it right... I'll be buying the donate version any minute to help support development. Thank you! Also if you need a D2VZW tester shoot me an email :)

You should set up a mailing list because I really like this app, but the current lack of features such as swipe left for gallery access makes it a no-no for me. I'd like to be notified when this app gets the features I want! Good job so far.

This is an excellent app.. thr r a few visual bugs though.. Scrolling in the left menu isnt perfect. And a tab for focus settings is very imp.. a touch focus feature should give this app an excellent addon. And video mode fc's a lot on my mb526- rooted to 4.1.2

First try with rooted note 3, used torch setting + a few others it crashed unexpectedly and then couldn't shut off torch. Aside from a 30 second trial and fail, I can already tell this app is top notch, and is well designed. Thanks devs

I have the galaxy gear with null_23 on it and this camera works great on it. The picture doesn't appear stretched like it does on other camera apps. But the video doesn't record correctly and the photosphere doesn't work at all on this device. Regardless, I'm still using it as my camera app on my gear

But just to let the developers know.. The hdr function in galaxy s3 causes multiple pics to be taken endlessly after clicking the shoot button once.. Have to press back to stop it. And taking a pic with flash doesn't work

But I can't record a long video, it seems that doesn't prevent the phone goes sleep, also I glad to see an option to save into external SD. Also when I set to 6mb size, a grey bar appears. Also with video recording. It needs work in the "preview section". Give 5 stars for support. XT925 CM11 kitkat

Works pretty smoothly. only issue im having is i can't seem to be able to set my default save location to my SD card as opposed to onboard storage. Also cause Mightytext (app which syncs text messages and photos with chrome extension) to crash.

I'm running an ATT GS4 with CM 10.2. This app used to crash whenever taking a picture, but that was fixed in the latest update. Now, whenever taking a picture, it saves a blank image file onto the phone. This looks like such a great app, and I look forward to more updates!

I know it's beta and still needs a lot of work, but for some things this already works better than the stock one. And I have tried so many camera apps out there...

Photos work well. Video, not so much. Screen looks skewed (things appear shorter and wider) when video is selected then crashes upon stopping the recording. No file written. Otherwise, very intuitive, attractive and has great potential as an alternative to a stock camera app. Nice job dev(s).

For a person just starting photography as an enthusiast this app is an exhalent choice. The manual settings work great and the auto settings take just as nice a picture. The one thing though is I count the flash didn't work in the moto x hope this gets fixed

Love the fact that it has photosphere, which makes it a more likely replacement app. The viewfinder on the Nexus 5 needs to be fixed. It displays 16:9 yet takes 4:3 images, the same issue that still plagues the stock app. The UI is wonderful however.

I'm using stock Android 4.4 on a moto x and the photo sphere makes my phone get super hot. Not even riptide 2 compares. Also, there is a get bar on the right side of the screen most of the time. A lot of the effects don't work too.... Oh! And 90% of the time it says "unable to connect to camera" <-- that's the biggest issue. . . . . . .I still really like what you guys are doing though! I hope stock KitKat gets some love soon :)

Very handy and fast access to the settings needed. Amazing work! Upd: at some point on cm12/android 5.0.2 Focal began to start INCREDIBLY SLOWLY. I mean, literally, it's a black screen for up to a couple of minutes. Also, panorama mode stopped working. Except for that it's still my camera of choice. A little painful on lollipop, though.

Took a great video of my kid that I wanted to share with my family, but it didn't save anywhere. Lesson learned, I'm staying away from beta for my camera application. Gets two stars for being a legitimate app that isn't just here to mine my data.

, however my only complaint is that it's not geo tagging my photos... And that is a problem. I've given an extra star from my last review due to its features and growth. I hope to see more.

Unreliable. Make camera hardware make popping sound, then have to restart phone 50% of times opening this. And don't allow deleting by swiping. I never like that feature anywhere. I checked the quality vs stock app and this is same or better sometimes.

Would love to use all the features of this (panorama and picsphere) but none of the files save properly on my HTC One Mini 2. They appear in the Android stock gallery as grey files with an exclamation mark, cannot be tapped on, cannot be emailed as an attachment, and don't show in the DCIM folder (or anywhere else obvious) when USB is connected.

Awesome beta but it appears geotagging doesn't work. Also burst mode is really slow to take each photo. I'd like the interval to be configurable or at least a lot less. Pic sphere crashed when I tried it.

I don't understand how this is possible, but the Focal app consistently gives sharper, more realistic pictures than the app that Samsung provides. The interface makes a lot more sense too. Only real gripe is that I can't find information on what some of the settings actually do - is there a help website somewhere? Please continue ongoing support - this is an app I would gladly pay for.

No doubt it has some serious stability issues, but I love where you guys are going with this. It is a one of a kind camera app, with nothing quite like it on Google play. I am using cyanogenmod, like most people downloading this, and this is the only app to attempt to be better than the rest. I am in full support of this app, and if you guys fix the stability issues, I will rate this 5 stars.

The standard camera doesn't work on my phone (galaxy s4) when using cyanogenmod v11, even with the camera fix app. This app, however, works without issue! My only problem is that the image is stretched horizontally. The final taken photo doesn't have this problem, fortunately. Edit: reducing rating because the app takes photos sideways! It looks fine when taking the shot, but afterwards I have to rotate every photo in the gallery!

When I use this app on a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo it works very well. I especially like how I can turn off sharpening (under Colour Adj. - slide the bar next to the staircase icon to zero) and with this it produces near RAW quality. I wish the app also allowed tuning JPEG compression ratio. But on my Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910C with Exynos SoC), the sharpening is not adjustable. It looks like a GUI bug.

Works great on razr maxx hd. However, deleting pictures in the viewer needs either a confirmation (user feedback) or a dedicated button, it is WAY to easy to delete an image and not even realize it happened (I have edited my review and deducted a star for this usability oversight). A couple of features it desperately needs is selecting the image location, those with an sd card cannot save to it; as well as the ability to take widescreen photos...

So far can't switch between photo and video then back to photo without it freezing up. Note 2 verizon running kitkat.

Auto enhance feature failed saved original.. please fix this bug and please add more feature like low light mode, geotag etc...add some special features like jpeg compression low or high.... video bitrate etc...Good Luck and thanks