Campanion

The app is generally useful but there are areas for improvement. Camp stamps needs the most work 1) when a letter gets more than 1 page the text goes underneath the keyboard and you can no longer see it making it impossible to write. 2) the lack of Russian / Cyrillic language support is disappointing. The other area that needs improvement is the pictures. The image quality is really poor due to the compression applied by the app and it makes it difficult to zoom in and find my kids.

this app is my lifeline to connect to my son at sleep away camp. I love that AI helps me search hundreds of photos to find him. and sending him mail is so easy with this app.

I like the app and how it lets me keep up with my kids. It makes registering for camp, communicating with camp and my campers easy. I only wish I could scroll through the photos in the feed and that when I clicked view album from the feed it would take me to the photo I clicked and not the beginning of the album.

Great tool to keep in touch with campers!

never worked

I love seeing pictures and memories from camp chewonki

Helps us stay connected with our kids when they're at camp.

This app generally does what it's supposed to do. one major annoyance is that, for me at least, there seems to be something causing it to not stay logged in. I don't know if it's a short login session, or if logging in on the web is causing it to log out, but I keep getting kicked out every day or so.

Can't get past the login screen. reset password word and it still just loops back to login. Disappointing

I had a 5 star review last year, but like many recent comments, I am not able to add a new camp and can only see one camp my youngest attends. A review commented on the "Oops something went wrong" message, and I continue to get this. Also, I frequently get looged out and just keep my fingers crossed that my credentials will work. I'm not sure what the developers changed that caused this app to become virtually unusable, but it's time to get another sprint going to fix the bugs

I tried using the email/letter feature (extra cost) and used Cyrillic characters. It looked as expected when sending, but showed up as a page full of '?' characters. Poor experience with this feature and unexpected in 2026 this type of app can't handle utf8.

unable to download or share photos

love the way I can connect with my child in camp

It is wonderful to be able to view photos of our family members at the Camp when they are so far from home.

It doesn't work.I can't get into my account. Extremely frustrating, because I want to communicate with my granddaughter.

Great app. love the facial recognition identify

We love seeing all the photos of our granddaughters pop up each day while they're at camp from year to year. As close to a shared experience as you can get without actually being there.

Impossible to add multiple campers for multiple parents/users. Logging out deletes preferences for which camps you want displayed, reverts to displaying camp my kid hasn't been to in years. Image recognition is effective, much easier than scrolling through 1000 photos a week like other apps.

app is not loading. Stuck on home page. when I get to lod in it gives me an error message. login not complete

used the facial recognition feature and I would crack up how well it worked. Id get pics and be like thats not my kid, then realize he way in the background. but also got all the great pics of him. I was pleasantly surprised to find out they had this app.

pages take an unacceptably long time to load, it seems to be with the new version.

concept amazing. when it's working it's great. this is my second year of using this app with frustration. constantly logging me out and then cannot log back in deposit putting the correct credentials. absolutely the most frustrating app.

this app is fine for iPhone but doesn't work right on Android. you can't download the pictures, which is a "known issue" only for Android users, but there seems to be little urgency to fix it.

Campanion is defaulting to my previous phone. It won’t let me download the app to my new phone.

the face recognition features to auto tag pics of my daughter is fantastic

face tagging is nice

not great at recognizing faces

Good would be great with a tweak or two! Love how the feature works and identifying photos. Only wish you could scroll through the specific photos of your child after clicking on them vs having to go back to the original page.

wow! Companion males pictures of my kids at camp so easy to find! What a pleasure! I wish they had this at all camps.

I love the photo and letter features. It helps me feel connected to my kiddos at camp!

Very cool app for parents. The AI tags my son if he's in a picture, so I can see all the photos he's in, even if he's just off in the background. We've been writing back and forth, so I know he feels okay and is having a great time.

Great way to see what is going on at camp!

functional & user friendly

very pleased with companion app

App continues to crash frequently, photos are mis-dated in albums

Can't download pictures. Can only email to myself.

great app, the only suggestion is to enable a function when you can go from a photo to a photo like from a page to a page (especially for tagged pics) without a need to go back to the full list of pictures.

I love it !Awsome

Every single time I open the app, I get a message that says "Oops, something went wrong." So perhaps the developers can fix that... sometime?

Every picture is worth a million to the family. Thank you Camp Cho-yeh for providing pictures

Great to be able to see photos of the kids at camp, and write and receive emails too. highly recommend

this app is absolutely genius 👏

Companion is defaulting to a camp my kid last attended 3 summers ago, and following the prompts to log out of that camp and add a new one just ends up in a loop of logging in again, with the same results each time, and there is nothing helpful in the FAQ and no phone number for support. and yes, I've tried un-installing, restarting phone and reinstalling. kids switch camps; Campanion shouldn't make this so hard

Very useful app!!

This is a great app. No complaints!

great way to keep tabs on the little ones as they soak in the summer fun

The best!

love the quality!

Great way to have a peak at all the fun, amazing activities!

it's a great, easy to use app to review documents, forms, and of course campers pictures! 😁

Great app! Easy to use and it captures all the pictures! This is a one-stop spot to do all things camp!!

I love how it finds the pictures that you want to see.

Inconsistent. For some reason out of nowhere I don't get notifications of pictures of my daughter anymore so now I'm having trouble knowing when to go into the app and look for her. Can someone contact me? Ty!!!!

great app

This app makes finding pics of your kid so easy. The facial recognition is impressive

so easy to use, and I love seeing the pictures of my child having a great time!

Love it!

i love that you can recognize my daughter in photos even if she is in the background

I love the posted pictures. I struggle with note writing part. it freezes up and loses everything typed.

great way to correspond with your camper.

excellent application

I do enjoy the facial recognition and getting real time alerts. I do NOT like that once you open the app, there is no way to see what time the alerts came through. For example, our camp sends notifications when kids leave for trips, arrive, and when they come back. I have no way to look at the time of those messages.

love seeing pics and the tagging is amazing!

I like this app, but I don't love this app. It could have better features and be more accessible for others who are not computer literate or app Savvy to use.

love that I can see pics of my granddaughter.

Facial recognition seems to catch the photos I want to see.

tag photo feature is buggy

really great facial recognition! also love that I can send messages

The Catalina C Camp app has been a fantastic tool for us! Since phones aren't allowed at the camp, we were worried about not being able to stay in touch with our son. However, this app has been a lifesaver. It allows us to see photos and updates of his activities, which helps us feel connected and reassured. The interface is user-friendly and the updates are timely. Highly recommend it for any parents with kids at Catalina C Camp!

best app ever.

pretty good, but photo functionality doesn't work well to click on a photo and then go back to see all the other, it starts you over from beginning.

great pictures. easy to download them. and keep.

easy to use

everything is well organized and easy to use

I love the face finding option! There's no need to look thru photos to find my kids!

Constantly crashing right now

Good for sharing photos among parents and guardians. I haven't tried the face recognition or notifications, but have no complaints regarding the functionality I use.

I love that those app. tags faces! super cool!

A great way to keep up with and manage camp and a camper. Love the photos and stream of updates. Very easy to keep track and update forms and information.

great app for keeping up to date on camp kids. easy to use and I love that the photos use facial recognition to tag my child.

Great way to experience what your kids are doing while they are away. It feels very candid, a glimpse into the fun!

It's really great to get great clear photos of my kids at camp. I can see the smiles and get a peek into their experiences, even when they are too busy having fun to write home! I really enjoy this App!

It's clunky to use. I like how it finds photos of my kid(s) for me, but downloading them takes longer than it should-- no scrolling option.

I love that my baby's images are tagged in every photo her image is captured in! The app helps to aid my anxiety from my baby being away and ensures me she is enjoying herself in real time!

Super cool app!!! Great features!!

Love the app, but it's a pain to download on Android, especially if you can't spend on the new phones yearly... What the heck is L version? I have Samsung Note10... Spending to long last year and now again to get it to work or upload. HELP! 2.5 would be my stars, until it's more universal!

Finds 75% of the photos for a camper. App is sluggish. Difficult to navigate between photos.

nice app. I like the facial recognition of my kid so I can see the pictures they are in

great app to see what the campers are up to - helps tide us by until the next letter arrives! :]

my son had fun and thank you for taking care of him

This app has been helpful with finding my daughters photos during camp. Huge time saver!

awesome app to keep camp info, documents, pics and correspondence!! easy to use!!!

The facial recognition is amazing. My son was a tiny spec in a crowd photo and they tagged him.

Doesn't work

Campanion has been very useful for forms, and the photo tagging option works great! My only complaint is that I have a notification indicator on my homescreen icon that I have 11 alerts, but those alerts are not marked on the app menus (email, tagged photos, etc). I looked at every menu option and could not find my alerts so they are only going up and I can't clear them.

Great app for keeping us updated on our son's camp activities! Easy to use, too.

easy to use

This app is awesome! Love everything about it because it connects me to my daughter while she's away at camp.

Wonderful!

Facial recognition is great! No need to scroll through tons of pictures anymore. Alerts come straight to my phone!

Wonderful app. Photos kept coming in and were crisp and clear. Never felt away from my child with the app uploads. Thanks Camp Champion, you are the best!!😉

Great app. Works amazing. Love the facial recognition.

Great facial recognition. Only annoying thing is that it asks you to rate the app way too often...

Love this app. It creates a constant connection with your child while they are at sleep away camp.

Great way to stay connected to your love one. Campanion has helped me experience the fun while using its app as if I was actually at camp myself. This app put me at ease knowing my child was safe and having fun through active notifications. Photos, notes, updates on events etc,. Thank you so much Campanion for creating a family oriented app. Most definitely given a 5 star rating on everything about this app so far.

This app won't stop asking me to rate it so it's getting only three stars for being annoying. Also annoying is the fact that every time I open it, it prompts me for a new user photo, even though I just uploaded a new photo. The organization and ease of use of the app is merely adequate.

Extremely user friendly and I love that it even sends me notifications when more photos if my child are uploaded. It's nice to see how much fun she's having.

Can't believe how well this App recognizes faces. Looking at the photo stream is such a pleasure!

Sometime dhpotos wouldn't load or they wouldn't let me add favorites. Also, favorites didn't show up in order. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Updated to add: it keeps asking me to rate the app. Again and again. Downgraded one star.

The app continues to close on me. I have uninstalled and reinstalled to see if that will help, but as soon as I log in I get a glimpse of the page and it closes down within a second or two. Disappointing as I would like to view my child's camp pictures.

Lack of photos and inability of our camper to reply to letters significantly degraded our experience with the app. Can't recommend in good conscience.

I don't know what kind of facial recognition software you have but, it picks up my daughter way in the background and out of focus. That's pretty amazing. Now I don't have to scroll through hundreds of photos of other people's kids to find her.

Good feature is face recognition that will tag the photo for you. Bad is that is has logged me out 3-4 times and didn't recognize my existing information. I was looking at pictures and sharing and the return to a login page popped up when I came back.Then I had to contact camp to keep resetting. It asks for security questions but then never used that option to help me log in again. There should be a way to look at pictures and then continue where you looked at instead of having to start over.

Why does everything have to be an app? My child's camp used to just email pictures. Now I have to download an app which takes up too much space on my phone so I delete it during the school year and then when I go to download it again I can't remember my password and get locked out so I try to download it on my computer but it won't download on my computer. So I need to have a smartphone to see pictures? What if I don't have a smartphone? (My phone is only slightly clever.) Augh! Keep it simple

Horrible!!! Impossible to see pictures, it takes more than 10 minutes to load one. They try aggressively to make you load your kid's image, so they can collect data on minors, and sell them, to gods knows whom!

Love it. Easy access to photos, letters from camp etc. Photo recognition pretty accurate also.

If you have more than two children, it is impossible to tag the third in the list. It is not possible to "pull" the tagging box up far enough to do so.

This is the best camp app ever!! It tags my child everytime a picture is take !!

Great tool! It's so amazing that we can see daily pictures of our camper! It's a very reassuring tool for parents.

Great app and idea but crashes frequently. I'll view about 3 pictures and then it crashes. And then I have to relaunch. Maybe because I'm viewing pictures while the camp is uploading photos?

Loving how easy this app is. Facial recognition with notice of my camper's tagged photos is great! Only trouble so far is trying to figure out how to set up secondary accounts for grandparents, more of a user issue (me) than a problem with the app.

Great app! Easy to use. Love the facial recognition!

I am blown away with this app's ability to find my kid in the sea of pictures - even in a mask - even in the background!

Loved seeing pics of my daughter at camp and the face recognition is so accurate! Amazing app!!

Forms were not seamless but you can't beat the face finder. I get notifications when there is a new picture. It is REALLY good at finding my kids tho often misses them when they are masked. I am still impressed.

Works well enough. Wish it let you manually tag photos that the AI missed. Actually, this thing is pretty buggy. Lose a star every time you nag me to rate you when I already have?

I love the face identification scan so I don't have to flip through hundreds of pictures to find ones of my daughter.

Very good at facial recognition and alerting you when your child is tagged

Very good feed & pictures posted are easy to access. Had logout and back in once to fix a minor problem.

Great app. Really like it but keeps shutting down and making me resign in.

It's an awesome app, you can do forms, letters, health screenings AND the photo face recognition is amazing. Love checking in and getting notifications if camp photos

The best thing about this app is it's facial recognition capability. For a camp app, it's really good. My son will be one of 50 or 60 kids in a picture and it still flags him.

I like that photos of my child show up as tagged photos. I still go through them because if it not a head on photo the child isn't tagged but it cuts down on the time it takes to find photos. I also like how simple the health screening is.

The face detection, on this app, to find your kids among all the other campers is amazing.

This app is amazing! The facial recognition is phenomenal. So easy to find your kid and pictures!

So intuitive and easy to use. How can it find my child in the sea of campers? Amazing!

Almost great! Would love to be able to to enlarge/zoom on single photos added to the stream.

Easy to use and a great way to get photos of our kiddo and updates from the camp!

Great to see your kids as they experience camp! The facial recognition is spot on even with masks on. You get tagged photos throughout the day! This is really a fantastic addition to your child's experience - for you!

Love this app. You can take a pic of your child(ren) so the app can do facial recognition and separate those pics from the whole batch. Gives option to either view all the pictures the camp staff upload or just ones with your child in them. I recommend viewing both ways as I have found several of my son in more photographs not separated (not an app mistake, just pics of my son with either partial or no face in the pics, making it difficult for the app to know it's your child). Highly recommend!

Every time I open the feature to take a picture of my camper for the facial recognition feature, the app crashes. Is there a fix for this?

I love the idea but it appears this app doesn't work on Android. I have copied and pasted my password five times and it hasn't worked yet. Meanwhile, my wife's iPhone seems to work properly. I hope this gets fixed! Update on 7/5/19: it works now. Hope it will continue as the premise is a winner!

nice idea. performance is Terrible. so slow it's almost unusable in the photos mode. a developer needs to spend some time in the Android studio profiling tool.... please. if it was responsive, this would be a great app. device is a moto x4, btw.

I like being able to access photos through the app, but the facial recognition feature is not very accurate. My daughter wears glasses, and while some of her photos were recognized, half of the photos tagged for her through the recognition were different campers that were wearing glasses. The shape of the glasses was not even the same for all, the face shapes and fullness, hair color, length, texture and style were different, the skin tone was different, and both boys and girls with glasses were tagged as my camper. So I am not even sure what parameters the facial recognition utilizes because there were no obvious similarities between any of the campers that were incorrectly tagged as my daughter. I still plan to use the app but will turn off facial recognition.