Developer builds open-source alternative to DJI's Mimo camera app
DJI watcher Konrad Iturbe has created Osmosis, a free open-source app that lets users manage DJI Osmo camera footage without the company's closed-source software. The app is still rough around the edges but already offers several useful features.
Owners of DJI cameras and drones have long complained about the company's official apps being bulky, closed-source, and constantly phoning home to DJI's cloud servers. Yet these apps remain the easiest way to review, manage, and wirelessly transfer footage from pocket cameras.
DJI watcher Konrad Iturbe has now offered an alternative: Osmosis, a free open-source app built with help from the AI tool Claude. Iturbe created it by reverse engineering the protocol DJI's cameras use to communicate with the official Osmo app.
What Osmosis offers
Beyond simple file downloads, Osmosis lets users view thumbnails, stream low-resolution previews, trim clips, mark favorites, filter content by photos, videos, or favorites, and queue up specific downloads.
The app has already been tested on several DJI models, including the Osmo Pocket 3, Osmo Pocket 4P, Osmo Nano, Osmo Action 5 Pro, and Osmo Action 6, and it should also work with the Xtra versions of those cameras.
Still a work in progress
Osmosis isn't fully polished yet. While pairing a new camera is relatively simple — the app automatically detects cameras wirelessly and can remember multiple devices — connecting and loading media still takes longer than ideal.
The app also doesn't fully stow the gimbal on some models, leaving the lens exposed unless folded away manually. Additionally, filtering by favorites only recognizes items marked as favorites within Osmosis itself, not ones tagged directly on the camera.
Osmosis isn't the only effort to replace DJI Mimo. Another open-source app in development, OpenPocketCine, is designed for the Osmo Pocket lineup and aims to offer features such as custom LUTs, focus peaking, and exposure zebras.
