Defender App

Browning Trail Cameras

About this app

The Defender App is the app companion for Browning Defender Series of cameras.
Utilizing BLE and WiFi to connect to the camera, you can now preview and download crisp 20MP images and full HD quality videos to the mobile phone or tablet without disturbing the camera in the field.
You can also change camera settings, and have a live preview image from the camera, right in the palm of your hand.

Ratings and reviews

Beware. This app is so bad it renders the cameras nearly useless. Sometimes it fails outright and just simply won't work no matter how many times you close the app and restart. Even when it works, it is very hard to get it to connect, buggy as hell, clumsy and confusing. And the range is pitiful. You have to be on top of the camera in any case, so you might as well read the SD card directly. Pulling it out of the camera would be faster. But worst of all, the cameras themselves largely depend on this terrible app to adjust settings, so it isn't even like the app and wifi are useless. The cameras themselves are too. Don't buy these cameras, and if you do, don't say you weren't warned.

I use a Pixel 3 XL. I followed the video set-up instructions on the Browning web site and it works fine. This is my second Browning Trail Cam and the first that I can access remotely, so I'm really enjoying that aspect of it. Easy peasy to check the cam action from my phone! I knocked off a star for a few little niggling details like the slowness, lack of truly intuitive set-up/use, etc. NOTE: If you are running in "Battery Saver" mode, the app likely will not work until you turn that off.

The heading titles are in poor English. Ex. "No Connected" It is difficult to understand if the device is connected or not due to the improper use of terms. My phone shows wifi connection to the camera, but the app doesn't recognize it being connected. The tabs used when connected via WiFi stay locked, ie unable to access. The heading at the top reads "Disconnect". Are you asking me too or do you mean "Disconnected"? Browning, fire the guy that used the cheap third world app developers.

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Fix Android 10 issue