GemHub

Picup Media

About this app

Welcome to the GemHub App made the GemLightbox and Picup Media family!

The GemHub App is created to be used with GemLightbox and allows you to capture studio quality images and videos in just one click.

Features and functions:

1. Connect to your GemLightbox Turntable wirelessly via Bluetooth. This will allow you to control the turntable wirelessly.

2. Take studio quality images; tap to focus on your item and control the brightness using our brightness bar. The brightness bar is made for jewelry and helps achieve a complete white background.

3. Capture studio quality videos: Take videos in just one click. We have different modes for 45 degrees, 90 degrees and also 360 degrees. The brightness bar is made for jewelry and helps achieve a complete white background.

4. A built in gallery separate from your native smartphone gallery. The GemHub gallery allows you to keep all images and videos in one place. Simply select the image/video you need and export to anywhere you wish.

Ratings and reviews

One of the worst apps I've literally ever used. Almost impossible just to connect your camera to the actual gembox, Bluetooth signals just won't show up. On a random day when it does decide to work none of the settings will load, so you just have a blown out image that you can't adjust, and one day those might decide to appear but your camera settings will just decide not to sync with the app so your image will never be in focus, or will be stuck in the wrong focus mode. Unusable.

The app has an easy interface as well as ease of use. It really falls behind on how limited the live view editing comes. Most apps you can manipulate the saturation, hue, shadows, highlights, etc. I find it incredibly frustrating to get certain colored stones to their exact color when the app only lets you control brightness, sharpness and tone. I expected more out of the photo taking from paying a great deal for this lightbox. Having to edit the photo/video in another app defeats the purpose.

The Android update of 8/4/24 is terrible. Takes twice as long to get videos of pictures to camera roll because you cannot download selected files, only one at a time. The automatic bells and whistles just get in the way of collecting images, the auto focus is twitchy and the whoke experience is frustrating. I only use it with the $300 turntable, so when my free year is up, that will be a paper weight, cuz this app isn't worth the time to install much less $299 a month!

What’s new

Bug fixes and other improvements