RŌV Motion Reviews

I tried connecting my brand new iPhone 12 max pro and received this error: rotate phone 90 degrees. Nothing happens no matter what I did because if you click the “X” it closes RŌVMotion .

After searching for hours I found the problem. You have to drag from the upper right corner to the middle of the iPhone screen. There is a “landscape lock” that you’ll need to uncheck. Once you do that the product works great!

I really like RŌVMotion because it provides manual control over time lapses similar to working with an actual camera, and it yields a great result.

The shutter speed options especially are extremely useful, making my iPhone the easiest way to make a nice looking time lapse, even though I have thousands of dollars worth of camera gear.

Plus, RŌVMotion is entirely free! Most other apps have less features and cost money. There is just no down side to downloading this.

I bought the slider on a whim because these ROV motion devices appear to be on clearance. That said, RŌVMotion makes the hardware close to unusable. When I tried to access the camera on myiPhone 11 Pro, I heard this weird buzzing from phone that I’ve never heard before. As it turns out, it was the optical image stabilizer going crazy in the phones wide angle camera. The resultant video was just this vibrating blurry mess. I only spent $70 on the slider when a year ago they were over 300. But even at that price it seems to be money wasted.

The intro video takes too long when it's a fresh start, so that's kind of annoying.

The functionality is awesome and the fidelity of the controls when you're setting up a shot are perfect. Unfortunately, RŌVMotion crashes way too often. I had around 4 crashes in my 6 attempts and one of those was an hour long timelapse that looked like it was working but when I looked at the video again, it was under a second instead of a 1hr long 10sec timelapse.

All the features are cool with shooting and stuff. I like the intuitive manual brightness and focus. However, all my footage from outside RŌVMotion is unreachable I’m account of RŌVMotion crashing after I tap the plus sign. Kind of frustrating. Not quite unusable, but the regular stock iPhone camera is quicker to reach and if I can’t use that, then it’s a hassle. I have an 8 plus and would love to be able to use this more.

Deleted RŌVMotion. It has awkward controls. If you like to take quality videos quickly this would not be in my top 50. Touching on the image to focus has a delayed response. And Do you want a video recording app and doesn’t open in camera mode automatically? If so maybe this is for you. Swiping up and down or left and right for focus or exposure is really loose. Give it a look and see what I mean and I think you’ll delete it like me.

If I start a time lapse with my camera, I start it tells me I can disconnect. So I disconnect, if you reconnect it adds random number of hours, sometimes as long as 36! UI is poor on time lapse, you set shutter but you cannot set interval between shots, or duration only clips length. The clip length is the least important, interval and duration are far more important, the clip length is what it is, and edit it in post anyways. Very poor design. Giant boat anchor.

Controls the slider fine, but the timelapse fester (which is headlined in RŌVMotion Store photos) doesn’t work. After time lapses RŌVMotion crashes. This has led to wasted hours. Support says the features aren’t supported despite being advertised in RŌVMotion Store.

The hardware slider has been great but the software support for it has been really disappointing.

Kind of a pain to get into RŌVMotion if you don’t have a slider. But once your into RŌVMotion it works good. Easy to use.

I don’t understand why you still force users to turn horizontally. It’s creatively limiting. The new update brought a slightly faster start up time, but the whole “connecting to RŌV” when just using an iPhone on a gorilla pod is confusing

The iPhone connects to the slider, but suddenly I have a black screen which affects all the other camera apps on my phone! RŌVMotion works great with small camera but not so much with the iPhone. Why does it take 38 seconds on FAST to go from one end to the other on the iPhone side of RŌVMotion , but 15 seconds on the small camera side?

This slider dose not allow us to select the particular a to b positions, instead we need to run the full length of slider... which is point less .. i was mailing rhino gear for so long to implement this feature but no use ...at this point i will never invest in rhino gear...

Not a bad app. App closes when I try to change the FPS in slow motion. I have an iPhone 7 Plus.

I love this Slider, amazing heavy duty and smooth. But recently had issue with RŌVMotion , crashes non stop and can’t control the slider. Pls update RŌVMotion .

Thank you

I really like the simplicity in building an edited video on the fly. The layout is easy to work with. I would like to see transitions and less bugs in future versions. I am getting sounds even after sound is turned off. It would be nice to have a remove all audio option. I have had RŌVMotion crash out several times during recording of video clips on iPhone 7plus. I use RŌVMotion with a dji osmo mobile gimbal.

No zoom on the time lapse, no .5 camera option , no long exposure— not fully using what this phone is capable of.

For some reason RŌVMotion won't let you do anything without connecting to bluetooth. RŌVMotion is junk now since it's unusable and expects me to use it with some glider

IPhone 8 Plus. When starting a time lapse, the screen goes black and nothing happens. RŌVMotion is slow to respond in general and doesn't inspire confidence.

No exposure ramping feature when using with dslr/mirrorless. So best for time lapses where exposure isn’t changing.

Can't get RŌVMotion to recognize when I turn my phone to landscape. And that is the first thing you have to do!! So it won't let me progress any further.