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DJI Osmo fans are breaking the shackles of its closed-source camera app

The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro and Pocket 3, flanking my phone with the Osmosis app. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

Even if you love DJI's drones and cameras, you might not love the company's bloated closed-source apps that phone home to its cloud servers. But they're the only way to easily review, manage, and wirelessly download your pocket camera's footage on the go.

Osmosis, a free open-source app built by DJI watcher Konrad Iturbe (with help from Claude) is an attempt to change that. By reverse engineering the protocol DJI's cameras use to talk to the official Osmo app, he built his own - which not only lets you download files, but also see thumbnails, stream low-res previews, trim clips down to size, set favorites, filter out only photos or videos o …

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