If you record any videos, you definitely need to buy this!! it works great and can seriously upgrade your quality!! Love using this to shoot videos of the kids playing, running and have end done some riding bikes together! Very cool! Thank you for a quality product!!

This one is promising. It does exactly as they said. Very nice lighting, very stable.BUTI was Only able to use it 2 times before the circle button thing snapped off and fell (and i couldn’t find it) . 🥲

Let me get the sad part out of the way, first. Even with the smallest of cases on my Samsung S22 Ultra, I can't simultaneously BALANCE the gimbal while using all the features. So just know this in advance. For me, personally, it's not a pain that I can't spin my phone in circles. That's not really the kind of shooting I do. But it does cause the gimbal to hang up now and then when I want to "shoot low," and invert the whole gimbal. I have to be careful about my wrist angle, so that the corners of the phone will clear the handle altogether.This is disappointing, because I did not expect clearance to be an issue with a supported phone. That is the reason I can't rate the product a full 5-stars. And I can't really rate sturdiness yet. I worry a little about the coiled cable connecting the AI tracking camera/light to the unit. We'll see if that's a failure point.But I can't get to picky about build quality. I have other gimbals with great build quality, but this Hohem V2s has three standout features that make up for the less robust build.First, you might wonder why Hohem would claim compatibility with so many automation features and so many devices. Now I know: The control app comes with its own camera!! This is a mixed bag. Yes, I get zoom features, and some cool shooting "looks," that the app enables by blending the gimbal and camera functions. THAT, in and of itself, is really cool and somewhat innovative. The downside is that my S22 Ultra has VERY nice video shooting, and the Hohem app does not take advantage of nearly all the hardware features my device has.But between the gimbal features the Hohem cam app enables, and the additional suite of "AI Tracking" features, the V2S fills in a LOT of solo shooter gaps. No wonder it's pitched at content makers. You could credibly get a lot of shooting done with this thing, without the need for a second shooter. Very hard to complain about that!!And if I want my camera's full feature set, I can use it. I can still access the V2S's core feature set with the button controls, or just quickly open the app and readjust the features I can't access without it. It's nearly as functional as the other gimbal I use for shooting with my phone (a Zhiyun Crane M3). So, in the end, no harm no foul. It's just a matter of getting the whole feature set under your fingers--like any other gimbal.Second--this thing is LIGHT. The Zhiyun M3 is, itself, a light gimbal compared to my beefier DJI Ronin S. But the Hohem V2S is truly a featherweight. I could see it being a GREAT vacation gimbal.And third--the "iSteady 7.0" control software is quite smooth and has a very "floaty" algorithm. Particularly after "forcing" the camera to quick pan, the gimbal softens the landing and gives a really controlled result on-screen.For $130 bucks, it is VERY hard to argue against this product. I'm impressed, and want to reiterate that the only reason I didn't give it a full five stars was the impossibility of using ALL of the features with my ginormous S22 Ultra. If I were looking to do a lot of the more gimmicky shots that the software/camera combo can pull off, I'd be more disappointed. But I'm not heartbroken over that, when there are so many compelling reasons to love this thing at the price.Pretty impressive. I would probably have opted for the black one had I gotten the choice. I like to be as low key as possible, and the white does call a certain amount of attention to the device, small as it is. But again, it's hardly a dealbreaker. If you consider this a five-star review, with a deduction for the few features I can't access with the ginormous phone, I think that's the spirit of the review.

I’m astounded by how well this gimbal with its accompanying app works. It teamed with a decent smartphone can do the work of cameras costing much more.The learning curve for me was long until I discovered that the app can do a good deal of phone control. With the iPhone 14 and I expect all phones, attach the phone to the spring loaded holder with the lenses facing out and to the left. I slid the phone left and right until it was maybe 90% balanced and then turned the gimbal on. The motor in the gimbal is easily strong enough to right the phone to 100% and control it from there. It takes no calibration so is ready to use almost instantly.The Quick Start got me to the app paired to my iPhone and the gimbal working but what got me somewhat adept operationally was the tutorial videos included with the app. I was somewhat let down due to the gimbal shown in the tutorials dissimilar to the V2 but using them combined with the short paper manual sorted things out for me.I tried all the features finding all worked. The one which surprised me the most was face tracking. Put the phone on the supplied mini-tripod or any stand with the standard ¼ x 20 threads, start the tracking by a button push, optionally add fill lighting and then gesture the AI to start face tracking. It tracked me perfectly in both the pan and tilt axes.Add this gimbal to a smartphone and the combination is a decent vlogging camera. Attach the gimbal to a selfie stick and have a camera that will produce high quality steadycam videos for any sort of personal or professional production one has in mind. It can even switch the phone to macro mode.In sum, this is a well-thought out app that controls a phone holding gimbal. The combination of app, gimbal and phone can vlog with much better results than a phone alone plus create as many productions all looking great that one’s imagination can create.This is one excellent tool. I wish I could award more than five stars.