SeaLife Micro Cam 4+

Great Camera, Terrible App

The camera is incredible. The quality is awesome, it is easy to use and has a great price tag. However, the app is impossible to use. It took me nearly 2 hours to go through 50 photos because they take forever to load and the videos won't even delete half the time. Considering the camera has a finite amount of space this is a big issue. SeaLife, I love your camera but please fix your app.

Awful app for a great camera

It is so frustrating to be able to take awesome underwater photos with my SeaLife Micro 2.0 & then be let down by this clunky, out-of-date app. When on a dive trip I like to download my dive photos to my iPad daily for viewing on a hi-res screen. This app makes it time consuming & difficult. The WiFi connection takes several tries due to the app freezing, requiring reboots. Then once the connection is made it is necessary to manually select each new photo from that day to upload- otherwise the app will upload the previous day’s photos as well, creating many duplicates. It is hard for me to understand how SeaLife can design such an easy-to-use underwater camera, and then tolerate an app as awkward as this one. I can tell from other reviews I’m far from alone. Please get some new developers and start over.

This app is very frustrating

The camera takes pretty great video but just ok photos. Not having a strobe leaves the pictures grainy and soft focused. The best results come from screenshots while shooting video.

The App is super slow, unreliable, crashes, doesn’t work the see way each time... sometimes you can delete pics and videos from the camera, sometimes it takes multiple attempts. If you let your phone or iPad sit idle while downloading the screen will close then you have to start over again. I find myself having to keep wiggling my thumb on the screen while downloading in order to keep it “alive”. It’s a time killer. Sometimes the pics and videos download rather quick, other times they go very slow. I even put the camera right next to my phone and get different results all the time. It’s really finicky.

The camera needs to be set up each time you use it too. The best part of this system is the spotlight that came with it.

The app developers really should fix some of the bugs. I have not seen any updates.

Developer Response ,

Hi Doug, Thank you for your review and comments. We can help overcome the issues you describe. For WiFi app connection speed and reliability, it can take time to download larger 4K videos and a high quantity of photos. Have you considered making a wired connection between the camera and your phone? It is very fast. Check out section 9 of the online troubleshooting. https://www.sealife-cameras.com/micro3-0-troubleshooting-and-technical-updates/.
We can also help improve the photo sharpness. Please email us a few photo examples and we will follow up with you at info@sealife-cameras.com. Thank you.