DJI Osmo fans are breaking the shackles of its closed-source camera app

Aug 20, 2026 08:30 PM - 1 hour ago 2

Even if you emotion DJI’s drones and cameras, you mightiness not emotion the company’s bloated closed-source apps that telephone location to its unreality servers. But they’re the only measurement to easy review, manage, and wirelessly download your pouch camera’s footage connected the go.

Osmosis, a free open-source app built by DJI watcher Konrad Iturbe (with thief from Claude) is an effort to alteration that. By reverse engineering the protocol DJI’s cameras usage to talk to the charismatic Osmo app, he built his ain — which not only lets you download files, but besides spot thumbnails, watercourse low-res previews, trim clips down to size, group favorites, select retired only photos aliases videos aliases favs, and queue up conscionable the downloads you want.

Here’s the media grid; you tin pat immoderate of those 4 teal buttons to select aliases multi-select. You tin spot my SD paper is mostly full, and I person 85 percent artillery remaining.

I conscionable sewage it moving connected my Osmo Pocket 3 and the Osmo Pocket 4P that I easy bought successful the US; it’s besides been tested connected the Osmo Nano, Osmo Action 5 Pro, Osmo Action 6, and it should activity connected the Xtra versions of those cameras too.

This is simply a unrecorded low-res preview streaming from the camera to the phone. Intriguingly, I tin optionally preview, and/or download files, while signaling connected the camera itself. The pencil fastener takes maine to the edit-and-trim mode.

The app isn’t each that polished yet. While it’s beautiful easy to brace a caller camera — it automatically detects your camera wirelessly and the app tin retrieve much than 1 — it ever takes longer than I’d for illustration to link and statesman paging done my media.

Press a pairing fastener connected the app, past this surface automatically pops up connected my camera.

Osmosis besides doesn’t afloat stow the gimbal connected my Osmo Pocket 3 the measurement it does connected the 4P below, truthful the lens is near exposed unless I manually fold it away. And erstwhile you’re filtering by Faved, you’re filtering the ones that you’ve hearted successful Osmosis, not the ones you’ve hearted connected the camera itself.

Here it is connected to the Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, wherever it does stow the gimbal automatically.

But it mightiness already beryllium bully capable for my Today I’m Toying With videos. I’m ever near wondering if I “got the shot” connected the Osmo Pocket 3’s mini screen, I ne'er want to occurrence up the DJI Mimo app to check, and truthful I ever upwind up overshooting and transferring tons of footage I don’t need. Now, possibly I’ll conscionable reappraisal it all, delete what I don’t want, trim what I do, and make my selects successful Osmosis instead.

Osmosis isn’t the only open-source app coming to switch DJI’s Mimo. I’m looking guardant to trying OpenPocketCine, an eager section show app for the Osmo Pocket lineup that offers civilization LUTs (which I arsenic an amateur don’t use) and things for illustration attraction peaking and zebras (which I perfectly would because it’s reliable to gauge attraction and vulnerability connected the Pocket’s mini screen). It’s from the developer of OpenZCine for Nikon Z cameras, which I besides haven’t tried yet.

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