DefenderApp-Browning Trail Cam Reviews

by Caeverjim

Browning Defender camera will not connect to iPhone. Very disappointing. Picture quality great. Hope this will be updated/upgraded

by Lovmyvette

The most recent update has been a nightmare drops signal ALL the time it takes 10 times longer to finally connect to all my trail cams. Very frustrating considering i need to be in and out of all my hunting areas. Def a step backwards with this new update. Unfortunately now it’s a lot faster to unlock and exchange SD cards.

by Ensduck

This is one of the worst Apps I have ever used.
It is difficult to connect to the camera even when you have the camera and device within a few feet. DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam crashes regularly! Videos do not always play then the Apps freezes! There has been no support for over two years. Browning needs to do something about this issue. The camera takes great pics and video. It’s all the issues with DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam that make this camera useless. This would be a simple fix if they just put the right people on it to make the fixes.

by Jangst6716

Rarely able to connect to WiFi or Bluetooth to check settings or playback.

by Bvcjutrfhjj

Camera is good. App is frustrating and ill conceived. Signal is so weak as to be virtually useless unless standing next to camera. Do not use this if expecting true wireless connectivity.

by Crashintomee

App won’t connect, crashes constantly. Could use multiple trail cams and bought this one to try it out. Won’t buy another

by Ed3g

A bit clunky to connect with iPhone, but does work if there’s no other WiFi or Bluetooth signals available to the phone. Completely dysfunctional with any iPad I’ve attempted to connect. A good idea with poor execution.

by Ca$e.

DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam properly connect to Wi-Fi once. Then if you go back a couple hours later and try to connect to Wi-Fi again it consistently fails. The only way I found to do this is to delete DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam and re-download it each time I want to connect, which is obviously not ideal. I hope this gets fixed eventually.

by Money Struggler

DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam is decent but won't let you download pics to the iPhone 6S. Fairly useless without that feature. Connectivity to the cam is spotty

by TexasRob

Need a better way to establish the initial mobile connection. Currently you need to walk up to the camera, within 20 feet or so, the switch to Wi-Fi and reconnect. I imagine that the help preserve battery life, however is is awkward and inconvenient.

Needs a better way to bulk select and transfer photos/videos, currently you have to tap each file, 1 by 1.

During file transfer, needs a progress indicator.

Very much needs that ability to select active motion detection areas, in order to avoid the false positive photos from trees moving in the wind.

by TCB Ranger

Cannot playback pictures. If the bugs in DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam are not corrected in 30 days, I will return the product. Bought this model for the WiFi playback feature...I don’t feel like climbing a tree, pulling card, etc. every time I need to check.

by Greatsmky

Spotty performance. Seems when it fails and DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam doesn’t recognize the camera, only recourse is to climb up tree to restart camera and pair camera from scratch with DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam . Annoying.

by Michele536

All of a sudden, I cannot get DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam to work. It just does nothing when I try to open it, just the “front” page.

by TN37882

Switching from Bluetooth to WiFi is very hit or miss. It is not always due to distance. Also, it would be even better if it had some indicator of the remaining battery life of the camera. I have to wait until the camera dies before knowing it is time to replace the batteries.

by BearPawDome

I like the ability to connect to the trail cam by Wi-Fi, however playback is very inconsistent. Need to work out this bug!

by Oakandsage

I previously gave DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam a one star review. I am updating my review to 3 stars due to the recent update, which did fix some issues, but not all. Having an app in active maintenance counts for a lot.

There are still frequent crashes. The one that I experience most often is when deleting photos.

DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam is still hard to use.

Even with all this, now that there has been an update (previously it had not been updated in many years) it provides some hope that the issues might actually be fixed some day.

by KBEllison

App crashes frequently, Wi-Fi range limited to 20 yards, cannot select multiple items to download, you can delete files and then a minute later they seem to be back? DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam has not been updated in two years? It is what it is. However the camera is outstanding in quality and battery life for what it does.

by Naterbug89

PLEASE for the sake of simplicity make a “download all” and a “delete all” feature on DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam . Drives me crazy clicking on each individual one.
I just one to walk up download all
Clear the card
And walk out

by :) ;) :p

This is a great app it works great except for the fact that whenever I select alot of pictures from playback mode to download the photos onto my phone DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam will crash. When deleting photos it works fine if you could fix that, then DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam will be perfect

by Kurt.zeiler

Update to my previous poor review per update to DefenderAppBrowningTrailCam approximately 1 week ago. Much improved! So far Bluetooth and WiFi connections work without the previous issues and hassles. During downloads there is now a progress bar so you know what’s happening rather than a pinwheel that makes you wonder if things are progressing ok or not.