GoPro (formerly Capture) – Featuring QuikStories

GoPro

- August 8, 2017

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Description

With the GoPro app, your HERO5 footage moves to your phone and automatically transforms into a QuikStory—an awesome video with effects and music. [1] You can also use the app to control your GoPro, check out your shots and create short clips. [2] Then share your favorite moments to Instagram, Facebook and more. [2]

--- Key Features ---

NEW! QUIKSTORIES
Get your HERO5 footage on your phone, then kick back as it transforms into an awesome video with effects, music and more—automatically. [1]

VIEW YOUR PHOTOS + VIDEOS
Check out the shots you’ve captured, right on your phone.

CREATE CLIPS + GRAB PHOTOS
Trim videos to create short clips. Or flip through a video frame by frame and grab a still photo for easy sharing. [2]

SHARE THE SHOT ON THE SPOT
Post your favorite photos and videos right to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Or share them by text or email. [2]

ACCESS ANYWHERE WITH GOPRO PLUS
GoPro Plus subscribers can set up auto upload to the cloud and access their photos and videos in the cloud anytime, anywhere. [3]

PREVIEW SHOTS + CONTROL YOUR GOPRO
Frame the perfect shot with live preview and get full remote control of all camera functions. Easily adjust settings, start and stop recording, and more.

KEEP YOUR GOPRO UP TO DATE
Easily update your camera for new features and optimal performance. [4]

--- Camera Compatibility ---
HERO5
HERO4
HERO Session
HERO3+
HERO3 (requires camera software update, see gopro.com/update)
HERO+

--- System Requirements ---
Android 5.0 or higher

For full compatibility details, visit gopro.com/apps.

[1] Compatible with HERO5 cameras only. Requires the GoPro and Quik mobile apps.
[2] Compatible with videos captured in select modes only.
[3] GoPro Plus is a subscription service available in select territories. Cancel anytime. Cloud access is subject to storage limits. Separate data fees may apply. Visit gopro.com/plus for info and availability.
[4] Compatible with HERO5, HERO4, HERO Session, HERO+ LCD and HERO+ cameras only.

Need help? Contact support at gopro.com/contact.

Reviews

4.0

148,393 total

5 86,812

4 24,470

3 9,613

2 5,656

1 21,842

Mistress Savonia

Worked fine before update now NEEDS to have another app installed to let it run properly. Bloody useless as i dont want my work journey turned into a f*#!ing mini movie, just need to control the camera from the phone. Un-installed

d0od Master

Sadly this experience made me not want to buy GoPro ever again. This is supposed to be the remote control software? I'm not impressed. Don't buy GoPro products until they wise up. Its so poorly made it struggling to not crash. You have to be signed on all the time. The "app" bothers you with notifications all the time and overall it seems really cheap and tasteless.

iNvoolutioN vz

App is well polish and easy to use..... Only when it works. There is a lot of problems with GP3+. There are a lot of wifi hangs and miscommunication with smartphone and the gopro. Examples: connected, but unable to detect current files. Downloading from gopro hangs often. Freezes randomly. Play files off gopro results "unable to playback". A lot of disconnects/reconnect. I think it would work better if I reverted to an earlier version of the goproapp when it did work

Ria Martin

I bought a gopro to replace my cheap Chinese version because I wrongly though the app, connectivity and overall functionality would be better.... I mean it cost me over 10x as much money so you'de think so? No, it's sporadic as and when the app decides to connect, and the cloud functionality simple does not work. Poor show go pro.

Paul Falco

Really gopro? I used to use your app to remote control my camera. It was handy to not have to get an LCD backpack for it, and i use it on a non internet connected device. Why the hell do i now need to sign in to what used to be a handy stand alone app to just control my camera??? I'll be looking for an alternative. Epic fail on your part with this latest app.

Kristopher Zipse

It won't ever connect to my camera. Then when it finally does, it stays connected for me to watch like 2 minutes of a video. Then if I try to cut or do any form of editing on a video, it will save like 4 seconds of the clip. Not sure if it's the device or if it's the app, but at this point I'm no longer going to put any effort into trying to make clips using either app.

User reviews

Mistress Savonia September 16, 2017

d0od Master August 21, 2017

iNvoolutioN vz September 12, 2017

GoPro September 30, 2016

Sorry to hear you feel this way. We feel that we can understand our users better and offer better products by having users create accounts. We understand this creates an inconvenience, but we're working hard to make this as unobtrusive as possible (so you only ever have to login once).

Ria Martin August 26, 2017

Paul Falco September 7, 2017

Kristopher Zipse September 11, 2017

capedmarauder September 13, 2017

Received a GoPro 5 as a birthday present. Really love the device but this app is awful. It's such a memory hog and I'm unable to use the SD card for storage. If I want to use the GoPro (without a computer) then this is the only way to do it. It's eaten up so much storage, I can't review my shots/footage.

Ian Frechette September 20, 2017

Don't care about the new share/social features, and *never* will. Only use app as remote and to check framing after mounting, but can't do that when I'm forced to login, and can't do that because I'm out of cell coverage, you know adventuring in the wild. Idiots. You've forgotten what the point of your cameras is. Last update lost half a dozen previously paired cameras. Poof gone!

Luke Verburgt August 15, 2017

Gopro Hero5 Black, Samsung J1. Totally unable to connect to GoPro. Why not? Done everything possible. Reset GoPro, unistalled and reinstalled this garbage app. Nothing. The old app and my old GoPro connected just fine! This isn't progress. Fix it please. I see I'm one of many that have this problem.

Jacques L September 19, 2017

Please don't make user sign up for accounts to use a remote app, it is very ANNOYING! How consumers use our purchased camera is none of your business. Airplane offline mode work around prevents phone from working. DEFAULT mode should be no login PERIOD. Get rid of accounts or won't be buying another GoPro. Don't be another personal information tracking company. Stop this nonsense, bring the old app back.

Thomas DeBell September 1, 2017

Bug still exists after 6 months. Can't get to camera controls without creating an account. Please fix this bug. And then it gives me a sign-in error once I'm connected to the camera. Like, duh, my WiFi is connected to the GoPro, so no internet! Of course it can't sign in!

Larry Ouellette August 17, 2017

Gopro's apps are just plain awful. They've been busy reinventing wheels that work perfectly well with the apparent intent of cntrolling the process and along with it your video product. Dumbed down, clumsy and counterintuitive at best. Better ofr figuring out how to download the raw footage and get it out of gopro's clutches, then using someone else's editing app to make your film .

Will O'Brien August 12, 2017

The GoPro hero5 Session camera is great. This app is essential for using the camera, and the app is trash. Glitchy. Crashes. Won't connect to camera for no reason half the time. Downloading files to phone take hours. Utter trash. However, you need it, and you have no other options, so you're going to have to use it anyway! Ha!

Robert Longbottom August 25, 2017

This makes it useless to me. I fail to see why I need to sign in to be able to control my go pro. Most of the places I use it I won't have internet access anyway. This is utterly stupid. Stop this nonsense. Despite having notifications off in the app it still regularly pops up pointless notifications. Complaint sent to gopro support (again!)

GoPro August 25, 2017

Hello Robert. We have an offline option now if you find yourself in an area without internet, simply put your device in airplane mode. Please let us know if this feature is not working for you. Also, you should no longer be receiving unwanted notifications from us if you disable notifications in settings.

Siobhán O'Neill August 16, 2017

Does not stay paired to my go pro at all. If I unpair it, it will not pair back up, I have to completely reset everything to get it to pair up again. And that only works sometimes. This used to be so easy to use, what did you do!!!!

Joby Larsen August 20, 2017

I think there is a combination of problems both with this app and the Gopro hardware. Gopro's documentation is very poor and self contradictory, so I'm not sure where the real problem lies. Cannot connect using bluetooth, cannot download media from camera to phone, nothing seems to work right. Avoid Gopro.

David Lovejoy August 13, 2017

No app I use crashes or fails as consistently. Since the update to the terrible name "capture" the most frustrating occurrence has been when the app forgets all the GoPros I've paired, forcing me to re pair during whatever I'm in the middle of. With this new update now I'm forced to hear about their new editing software that I'm not interested in every time I start the app.

Zak September 16, 2017

This is stupid, I have had my go pro hero 3+ black ever since it's been out. The app now is asking me for a password for my go pro... I don't think that's a good feature cause I can't even remember the password let alone remember creating a password.

Gary Carter August 9, 2017

Still forcing us to create yet another account. Was hopeful when it prompted from my Google accounts, but all that does is autofill the email address and ask you to create another password! If you're going to display the Google accounts on the device as an option, just make it SSO. Better yet, give us back the option to just remote view, start and stop our GoPros over their WiFi *without* all this extra cruft. Split it out into its own app (or bring back the older version separately). We don't want social media hooks, we don't want filters, tagging, fancy galleries, and especially not yet *another* account to manage (and worry about spam and privacy breaches from). Just the basic remote control we had before, that works off the camera's own network and doesn't require you to have internet access or cell service where you're shooting, please.

Michael Hack August 8, 2017

Just wrote to the email listed for this company on this page.. Something is seriously wrong with their service.. They say my email is not a valid email to create a new support case with gopro.. I think the company has been taken over by aliens.. If I could give less than one star I would

Chapu Lina August 23, 2017

Create an account? Seriously? If that wasn't bad enough, it keeps failing to login. AND it has a lot of trouble connecting to the camera. GoPro isn't a camera which comes with a phone app anymore, it's just a camera you can connect to your pc, and there's a shady 3rd party social network that tries to connect to it. Stop overengineering what you don't understand, we just want to get our pictures.

Jordan Sills August 20, 2017

I have literally spent the last five hours trying to get a video off of my Session. I have used three different devices. On my Android phone, the download fails everytime (after waiting about half hour). On my mac computer, it won't even let me log in. And on my iPad it can't download it because the video type is "not supported." This is quite possibly the stupidest, and most frustrating thing that GoPro could possibly do, especially because there is no other way to get the video from the camera than this worthless app. Shame on you GoPro.

Nicholas Spaur September 3, 2017

You mean to tell me I have to login with an account before I can use the application? It's a remote control app for crying out loud! I will be seeking alternate methods to control my gopro. Good job 👏

September 8, 2017

Nags me to use the camera at random. Not only requires an account, but forgets login details. Uninstalling until next time I actually need it, and even then will likely use another brand camera.

Basel Lwai August 18, 2017

The app worked on my Sony z5 but when I changed phone to Huawei P10 I got problems: Link between the gopro5 black was successful but the app did not show what was happening on the camera. It keeps failing even after the gopro5 latest update. I can see that other users have the exact same problem with other handheld devices

GoPro August 18, 2017

Hello Basel. Please visit the following page on the gopro.com community forum. This may help solve your connection issues with your Huawei device. https://community.gopro.com/t5/GoPro-Apps-for-Mobile/Hero5-Session-Huawei-P8-lite-2017/td-p/47558/highlight/false

Oliver Brabec August 20, 2017

No longer connects to session 5. Have tried everything according to the help section. When you pay £250 for a camera you expect to be able to connect it to you phone and watch the videos. Unhappy customer

GoPro August 21, 2017

Please visit the following page on the gopro.com community forum. This may help solve your connection issues with your Huawei device. https://community.gopro.com/t5/GoPro-Apps-for-Mobile/Hero5-Session-Huawei-P8-lite-2017/td-p/47558/highlight/false

Gab daG September 23, 2017

DO NOT UPDATE YOUR GOPRO(3+) SO YOU CAN GO TO OLDAPPS AND GET THE OLD VERSION OF THIS, WITHOUT SIGN IN, STORIES AND OTHER SHIITE. This needs to be a simple gopro control app. It's overbloated now asking for account creation and posts to drawer even with notifications off. Its one of the reasons i never use my gopro, its disgusting software.

September 2, 2017

Remove the mandatory sign-in - and do it NOW please! I want to be able to connect to my camera without letting all your servers know about it. Or without putting my phone into Airplane mode and cutting all connectivity (because of Gopro)!! This is a perfect example of how you can turn a great product (the camera itself) into a terrible experience with a bad app! Don't you have internal meetings where someone is supposed to react on user feedback that we're posting?

August 9, 2017

It won't allow you to do anything without first logging in to their website. I do not want to log in so that they can browse through my footage to find something that they can use as part of their promotions, especially without compensation, and/or get ideas from my hard work to create there own version of it.

GoPro August 9, 2017

Hello. You do have the ability to login to the app if you are out of network, or simply by putting your device in Airplane Mode. I can assure you that you are the only one who has access to your content. Thank you.

David Griffiths August 18, 2017

Works great, no issues using the app or my GoPro. I saw the app has been updated, and has been getting awful reviews. The new app description says "it's the same app you know and love." Well, going by the dozen reviews I've read, that is not true. Also, disabling notifications means you still get them. Ugh!

warren mohn August 9, 2017

While GoPro hardware seems like it was designed at MIT Medialab, all of the software seems like it was designed as a class project at a technical high school. It doesnt like to connect, or stay connected to the phone (and I have Gp5 & a late phone), pairing is a NIGHTMARE. GUYS, JUST HIRE SOMEONE FROM A GOOD BLUETOOTH SPEAKER COMPANY and call it a day!

Scott Mawson August 10, 2017

Cannot belive you screwed this app up so much. It used to be quick and simple then I made the mistake of finally letting it update. Now I have to create an account, re-pair my device and update its software just to use something that already worked fine. It wasn't broken, cannot understand why you wanted to "fix it" and I have the sneaking suspicion that any videos I create/record with it will end up in GoPro's archive

Ryan Sommers August 19, 2017

RELEASE an UPDATE for QUIK Please. Quik crashes and freezes alot. I have windows 10 and a computer that is 1 week old. Please resort my faith in GOPRO. It's a great camera no complaints about the hardware. Quik has so many limits.. Anyway to alter the music (like pause it) ?

Χριστος Γεωργιαδης September 7, 2017

For a company that's leading in the action camera business, this app has a lot of issues. Try to fix compatibility with every possible smartphone and make it connect a bit faster. There should be options to keep connected at all times, not asking for password every time, etc. My biggest problem is that on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 QuikStories are not functional. App simply says that it didn't find my GoPro(hero5black) when it is just next to it. Please try to fix these problems, people are getting frustrated. Cheers

GoPro September 7, 2017

Hello, if you keep bluetooth on in your phone you should not get prompted to enter the password for your Hero5 camera when reconnecting to it. Please let us know if this does not help solve your problem. mobilefeedback@gopro.com

Hugo Garcia September 16, 2017

I always have big issues when it comes to update. I simply don't trust updating anymore. It just shouldn't be this difficult to operate. I don't even use gopro anymore thanks to you senseless updates that require you to log in...

Darryl Patrick September 1, 2017

Every update seems to make it worse! Logs you out constantly. Disconnects every time you are trying to do something. Doesn't work with smart switch wifi. This app was good when I first got it 2 years or so ago but now it's just a massive pile of dog poo. You would never think it's run/made by such a big company, more of a primary school project.

Luke J August 20, 2017

Works great but has recently started to pester me to use my GoPro via notifications. Please stop that immediately . It's frustrating, not encouraging.

David Bladen August 22, 2017

How hard is it to get photos and videos from one Bluetooth device to another? Apparently very hard! This app fails to do just that 9 out of 10 tries. The go pro is a decent camera but this app is garbage.

Josue Martell September 10, 2017

Why it's so difficult for GoPro strategic plan teams to understand that we don't want to create a freaking account to access content on our camera? The old app was perfect, but not this. I don't want to put this in airplane mode every time i want to download a photo from my camera. Frustrating.

Max Kotchouro August 17, 2017

It works now without needing to login. Seems to have all the functionality of the old app. I had to re-pair my device on app upgrade, otherwise the app kept crashing. After re-pair, everything was working fine.

What's New

INTRODUCING QUIKSTORIES!

Get a beautifully edited video from your HERO5 footage. Pull down on the all-new home screen; the app will copy your latest footage and automatically transform it into a QuikStory (requires the free Quik app).

NEW + IMPROVED

+ Visit the new Recent Media to view, delete or save the footage used in a QuikStory.

+ We've made sign-in even easier, especially between the GoPro app or Quik.

+ Squashed some bugs so it's easier to share to YouTube and download GoPro Plus media.